Weekly WordPress News: No More Child Themes? + Theme Repository Drama
There’s been some drama with the official WordPress theme repository after GoDaddy managed to get their theme approved surprisingly fast.
There’s also a chance child themes will go away as WordPress mulls adding custom CSS to the Customizer. I sure hope so!
You can also check out two cool interviews. One with Kim Doyal, the WordPress Chick, and one with Carrie Dils. Tom McFarlin also has an AMA going on at ManageWP.org.
Let’s get to all of this week’s news…
WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES
- GoDaddy Gets WordPress Theme Approved On WordPress.org In Same Day – some people are questioning how GoDaddy managed to get their theme approved so quickly.
- Kinsta Kingpin: Interview With Kim Doyal – an interview with Kim Doyal, aka The WordPress Chick.
- Tom McFarlin AMA – check out the Tom McFarlin ama (ask me anything) at ManageWP.org
- The Days of Creating Child Themes for Simple CSS Changes May Soon Be Over – this would definitely be a big improvement!
- Growing a WordPress business by working 4 days/week (Fridays OFF) – can you grow a WordPress business by working four days per week? Apparently, yes!
- Creating an online course with Carrie Dils – great Matt Report episode for people interested in launching an online course.
TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS
- Extend the WordPress Media Library With These Plugins – how to add some much-needed functionality to the WordPress Media Library.
- How To Make A Multilingual WordPress Site – helpful if you need to make your site multilingual.
- WordPress Theme and Plugin conflicts – a guide to troubleshooting WordPress theme and plugin conflicts.
- How to Backup a WordPress Site: A Step-By-Step Guide – you always need a backup. Don’t lose your site.
- Making Your WordPress Website Fly: A Performance Optimization Tutorial – this topic has certainly been covered a lot, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important!
- How to Use apply_filters() and do_action() to Create Extensible WordPress Plugins – for the devs.
RESOURCES & FREEBIES
- 25 Best WordPress Themes for Sports Clubs – our list of the 25 best themes for sports teams.
- WordPress Security Scanner – WPLoop just released a free security scanner which can help scan for potential vulnerabilities in your WordPress site.
- SumoMe Plugin: Everything You Need to Know – everything you need to know about the feature-packed SumoMe plugin.
- The Best Cookie Consent Plugins to Stay Legal – if you’re in the EU, you’ll definitely want to check out our list of the best cookie consent plugins.
- 30% Off ThemeIsle Treasure Chest Plan – some nice savings if you’ve been thinking of buying it.
- WordPress Management Tools Compared – a good comparison of WordPress management tools at CodeInWP
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Hey Daan,
How could you miss my article on going 100% GPL? I am sad now :(
Just joking, here is the link for anyone interested in: https://www.proteusthemes.com/blog/licensing-pros-and-cons-of-100-gpl-and-why-we-made-a-switch/
Keep it up here on wplift, I am your regular reader, this weekly news report is great!
btw, child themes are not going anywhere, CSS is not everything and everyone who will need to override and functionality beyond changing simple styles should still have to go with a WP child theme (to override templates, add/remove actions, filters, etc).
Thanks Primoz for the contribution. Nice article – with an everlasting interesting topic. I did indeed miss it before… Have just shared it on twitter.
the purpose of child theme is to edit templates or add new functions not just css.
no need for child themes again after adding custom css options in customizer didn’t fully fullfill the ‘no need child theme’ conditions.