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WordPress

Posted by naz
naz
857 Points

Is the all of the WordPress theme in the Theme folder

Hello

I have been watching the new WordPress theme development videos which are really good. I have a question though, if i create a theme in the manner described and then say I want to move the theme or sell it, is it a case of just needing the theme folder, and if so what happens to the custom fields as I thought they are stored in the database?

All help is appreciated.

Naz

2 Answers

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

This is actually a bit trickier point that we wouldn't cover until a more advanced series.

From a best practice perspective, you shouldn't build custom posts and fields into your themes. If a user changes their theme then they loose access to their custom post types in the admin area, although the data still exists in the database.

You can technically have a theme require the user to install (or you possibly automatically install with the theme) a plugin and setup the content yourself from the theme functions.php if it doesn't already exist.