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Hi Chris,

Thanks for your note. I think Emil is trying to give child themers a bit of a boost in saving them some time with child themes. My plugin can’t really be that broad, since I wanted it to work with pretty much any theme in the repo. My plugin gets you a starting point to work from, but unfortunately can’t do any of that work for you, because there’s no way to do so for more than one theme.

Regarding the thumbnail, it’s true. I have plans for adding files that will get added, copied over, etc., for version 2.0. I go back and forth on the thumbnail: although when first created, the theme should look the same as its parent, the idea of creating a child theme is that you can then tweak it and change it into something other than the parent. Part of me wants to copy the thumbnail so people recognize it as the child theme they just created, but the other part of me wants to leave it out because the thumbnail will almost never be what the child theme ends up looking like.

-John

Hi Lori,

My plugin doesn’t switch the themes. If you check on your themes page (I’m guessing it would be https://www.loritheauthor.com/wp-admin/themes.php), It should be listed underneath your current theme as an inactive theme. As of now, my plugin also doesn’t create a thumbnail, so you should be able to find the theme by the name you used when creating it.

I decided it would be better to let the user switch the theme manually. Because of the power of the theme customizer, you’ll be able to make any changes you want to your theme, make sure it looks good, etc. all before ever changing the theme. If a particular theme isn’t well suited to being child-themed, auto-activating the child theme could break the design, if not the functionality behind the site.

I hope this helped answer your question.

-John

That’s a good point. I’ll have to make sure to get that into the next release.

Hmmm… no idea. I don’t have a copy of ubermenu to play with; maybe ping their support?

The best guess I have as to what could be causing it is that they may be registering a custom walker for the admin menu page just like menu tamer does, thus overriding menu tamer’s code.

We’ve added screenshots. They should show up on the plugin page shortly.

It adds collapse/expand links to the navigation menu items in your site’s Menus page (example.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php). We’ll add some screenshots to make it clearer what it is doing.

Thanks for your feedback!

In addition to what everybody else here is saying, don’t track your .htaccess file in version control. Those overrides are meant to be directory specific for that machine’s exact setup. For example, I don’t want the caching rules from W3TC coming down into my dev and test environments.

Also, learn to write a virtual host entry and use some more descriptive hostnames. You’ll save yourself a world of pain if you’re using similar names for production and dev (e.g. example.com and example.dev).

LOL! Pwnd.

As someone who develops plugins and releases them FOR FREE, I can personally say that if I came across a support request attitude like yours I would not be inclined to help you. Mr. Ott put a lot of effort into this plugin and was simply asking you a question to better understand your issue. You responded with bitter sarcasm and by insulting his intelligence.

Would you want to help someone who seemed to be entirely ungrateful to your free contributions to the WordPress community, and instead petulantly demanded both your attention, and your time?

I know I wouldn’t.

Well, Den999, with that attitude, maybe you don’t want to be helped? Maybe you should ask for a refund.

Oh.. Wait…

You can’t put categories first on CPTs. Like I keep saying: you have to differentiate your permalinks with a non-wildcard (post type, year, month, day, or non-rewrite-tag plain text) beginning. WordPress’ rewrite engine, for better or worse, does not support what you are trying to do. Period.

The plugin is marked as compatible up to 3.0.5, not 3.1. I haven’t had a chance to do any testing on 3.1 yet, so for all I know it fails spectacularly.

That is beyond the scope of the plugin. It is theoretically possible, but I have never tried it. The difficult part would be getting the rewrite tag for the meta field to process within WordPress’ normal operations.

When you register the listings content type, make sure to set rewrite['with_front'] to false (it’s true by default).

No problem!