New fav: Camel Groove - Carnival (PROMO) by the_bard on #SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/the_bard/camel-groove-carnival-promo

I’m starting to get into WordPress child themes. I have a lot of themes are they are all based on one theme. Until now, I have been using Subversion to merge the changes across themes. But this is getting to be painful.

When I make a change in one theme I have to integrate all the rest and it just doesn’t happen when I’m busy. After a while some themes get totally left out and then it turns into this big production to bring them up to date. The base theme often contains plugin dependencies and so the themes that haven’t been updated can’t use my latest plugins.

Using child themes will help me so much. All I have to do is a Subversion update on the base theme when I make changes to the core functionality, which is often all I do. It will also help my organization not to have so many files that are different on purpose.

I know it sounds obvious, but you really have to have a need for child themes to become worthwhile, and now I have that need.

Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion

After a long time of installing WordPress manually on my test machines, I have finally switched to using subversion. It is so much easier.

It wouldn’t be, except that for some reason WordPress will not update properly if your site is not on the open internet. I don’t know what their deal is with that, but this gets around it easily. If you use subversion for other things and are familiar with it, but don’t yet use it for your local WordPress installations, I highly recommend making the switch.

That was my main feedback on eurogamer's survey http://tinyurl.com/33qvhb