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Are custom inner theme folders in any way overridable by child themes?

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Basically, I’m trying to override some files of the Uncode theme. But this is not a theme-specific question: it can be applied to any theme. The Uncode theme has a custom dir 'partials' (/uncode/partials/) that contains some layout elements. On my child theme I created a ‘partials’ folder as well (my-child-theme/partials), but the inner files seem not to be overridden. Is it normal? WP docs say that any file of the same name should be overridable, but is seems that’s not true. Am I doing something wrong?

How to Link External jQuery/Javascript files with WordPress

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So I’m using Starkers to base my next WP theme on and I’ve run into a small issue, I was including my own version of jQuery in the header.php file but when inspecting my site using Firebug I noticed jquery was being downloaded twice, I did a bit of digging and noticed that not only was I including the file but so was the wp_head() function.

Show different theme for admin?

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I’d like to test some theme changes on my live site, but I obviously don’t want regular users seeing any errors that may arise from it. I’d like to just duplicate my theme folder and if I’m logged in as admin, then that theme is shown to me, otherwise, the old theme is shown to my users.

Opinions and recommendations on the best barebones base theme

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Preamble I’m finding myself building more and more WP sites “from scratch” as it were (ie: ignoring any theme designs out there and just creating a design wireframe purely on the needs of the client. Then I go out and either shop around a theme that has the right basic structure, or I start with … Read more

How to move page template files like page-{slug}.php to a sub-directory?

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I want to move page template files like page-{slug}.php to a sub-directory within my theme, in a way that WordPress will recognize them automatically. If the page templates of the said form doesn’t exist within the sub-directory, then WordPress should fall back to the default template loading rules. How can I achieve that?

Theme Customizer : how to create multiple-level panel

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Is there a way to create deep-level sub Panel in Theme Customizer(like roots of plants) ? My theme that I have been developing seem to be more complicated. I think that if we can create deep-level sub Panel, our Customizer Page won’t look messy, our user will customize our theme easier and we will be able to make much more complicated WordPress theme easier. Images below describe what my idea is…