Themes & plugins Intro
Template hierarchy: finding the file that renders this screen
Every child theme task starts with the same question: which file is drawing this screen? There is a way to confirm it instead of guessing.
Technote
Child theme development in practice
Building the screens you want without touching the parent theme — template hierarchy, asset loading and build pipeline, as a real project setup.
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Themes & plugins Intro
Load order: declare a dependency instead of reaching for !important
Most "my CSS does not apply" cases are a child stylesheet loading before the parent. Declaring a dependency guarantees the order and removes the need to force anything.
Themes & plugins Practical
Template parts: give shared markup a single owner
Duplicated markup always drifts. You fix one copy, the other stays wrong, and nobody notices until the two screens disagree.
Development workflow Practical
Adding an SCSS build, and whether to commit the output
WordPress themes are expected to deploy without a build step, which leads to the opposite conclusion from ordinary application code — and to its own costs.