Most of my designs are based on the excellent WordPress theme K2. K2 is (of course) in continual development which poses a problem for my styles. A style is a set of instructions (usually a css style sheet and images) that is simply dropped into the K2 style folder to change the look of the theme. While this makes changing the look very easy it does pose a problem when K2 is updated. The style may or may not work correctly without modifications. For instance K2 was recently updated to include support for 1 and 3 columns in addition to the original 2 columns. This is a very welcome addition but does mean that my original styles won’t work for the updated version of K2. So there are two solutions to this.
1) Update all my styles every time K2 changes drastically
2) produce ‘themes’ instead
A theme would include ALL the files neccessary to run K2.
Advantages of using themes instead of styles
- ALL the K2 files would be included so it will always work
- Only 1 download needed (no need to download K2 separately)
- no need to update K2
Disadvantages of using themes instead of styles
- If you want to use another style a new K2 theme would have to be installed
- new features of K2 not available
- larger download size
So over to you! Give me your thoughts on how I should proceed.
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