Child theme support has landed in the Carrington core framework. We’d love to get some additional real-world testing on this before we tag the next core version.
You can grab the latest from SVN on Google Code. Then simply replace the carrington-core directory in your theme with new version you have checked out from:
http://carrington.googlecode.com/svn/framework/trunk
and that should do it.
Note that the way child theme support is implemented, your child theme can add new templates to your theme as well as overriding existing templates. I think this is necessary for Carrington – it allows you to create custom templates for your specific site and have them upgrade cleanly via the child theme.
Feedback welcome.
UPDATE:
The steps to test if you want to make a child theme for a Carrington theme (before this support is rolled out in new releases):
- Download the framework from SVN using the URL above and replace the carrington-core directory in your parent theme.
- Create your child theme (which can include new Carrington templates).
That’s it.
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