Comment on WordPress Nav Menu with Images by SEO Dave.

Responsive Nav Menu No the Stallion Child Theme options are independent of the main Stallion Theme options.

When you first activate the Example Stallion Child Theme it’s not like activating Stallion for the first time, your current Stallion options aren’t changed.

Only Custom Menus under Appearance >> Menus are no longer set, they still exist so it’s just a case of going to Appearance >> Menus and selecting menus for Primary etc… (if you ever set any). This is what happens when a new theme is activated even if it is a child theme.

Everything else is left like it was before you activated the example child theme since the child theme adds to Stallion, doesn’t replace it.

What happens is the Stallion Child Theme Options page has new options you can set the other Stallion options pages remain the same.

All the example child theme options are set to use the original Stallion options (you’ll understand when you see it in action), as this was an example child theme I created an example banner set, header image, 2011 header set, thumbnail set, one layout and one colour scheme from main Stallion files: just randomly grabbed images to make up image sets and copied over a couple of css files and renamed them example so users can change the settings and get different images etc… but they aren’t new images. The examples are there for developers to get a feel for creating Stallion Child Themes and if a theme user have basic PHP/CSS skills will find it much easier to understand how to create new option on the Child Options page.

If all you are looking to do is avoid having to change the cache folder permissions every update, add some custom image sets via the custom image set options, maybe make some minor css or PHP code changes using the Example Child Theme is ideal. You wouldn’t even change a single option on the child theme options page, you’d change permissions on the child themes cache folder, copy over any images/files from main Stallion you wanted to modify or add your own images to the child theme folder and select them like with main Stallion.

Really cool how it works.

David