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.

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Not everything here is a winner or will appeal to every taste, but there is plenty of great work to be had here. If WordPress is your CMS (it’s mine), even if you are a designer, you may ask yourself if you really need to perform that next site redesign from scratch.

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