If you think the idea of customizing a WordPress theme sounds painful you need to read this detailed, easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make a WordPress Child Theme.
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ThemeShaper 
Well that’s an ok read… however, some parent-child items do not resolve correctly unless Im missing something. Namely, image paths in what I’d expect to be the CSS.
Here’s an example. I make the following child theme and put it in a dir called “moo”. I’ll call on the WP default theme. I dont want to style it from scratch so I add the @import to pull the parent CSS. So we have…
/*
Theme Name: Moo
Theme URI: http: //example.com/
Description: Testing WordPress Child Themes
Author: mrexample
Author URI: http: //example.com/
Template: default
Version: 1.0
*/
@import url(“../default/style.css”);
But it seems as though the background image is not showing up. Here we get a call for… http: //www.example.com/wp-content/themes/moo/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg
Why? Because as I see it the “kubrickbgwide.jpg ” image is not called via the CSS, but instead through the PHP file, “header.php” Hmm… so in this case I’m not sure “any” theme could, or rather, should be a parent theme. So this might be an easy one to fix of course, but what of all the other more complex themes?
That would be one of the reasons I wouldn’t use Kubrick as a theme framework.
@ian Right on. Just odd that the Default WP theme has so many peculiarities. back when WP was new and shiny to me, that was the theme I always used as research for tags etc.
Thanks for the mention, Ian! 🙂
Kubrick is the theme I wanted to use in the examples –so that people wouldn’t have to download and then upload a theme just to follow the tutorial– but I run into the issue Kel describes…