Full fledged subthemes
Posted by jjeff on February 6, 2007 at 5:24pm
Don't know if everyone is aware of this yet, but I've recently committed some changes that allow Zen subthemes to have their own node.tpl.php, node-type.tpl.php, page-path.tpl.php, comment.tpl.php block.tpl.php, etc... Subthemes can also now have their own template.php files!!!
This means that you could create a subtheme that is primarily CSS based, but also modifies the way that comments are displayed, or overrides some theme functions.
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