Do I need the Cwicly theme?

[StrangeTech]

Hi @zagency,

@zagency

Please could you clarify what you mean when you say you use the Cwicly Theme “blank slate” for your sites.

I mean that the Cwicly theme itself is barebones and doesn’t add lots of styles or templates that you have to overwrite, so it is great as a “blank slate” to create custom themes from.

Also see @Araminta’s explanation:

Do I need the Cwicly theme?

Hi @Michael_Thomas, Welcome to the community It’s great to hear that you’re exploring Cwicly and considering your approach for building. Your question is a good one, which often depends on your specific needs and preferences. Essentially, the Cwicly theme is meant to be a “blank slate” for you to build your own theme from scratch with all the flexibility and customisation you could possibly need, within the Full Site Editing experience. As mentioned by @StrangeTech, this allo…

@zagency

Do you customize the theme, by changing the name screenshot etc, so it has the name of your client and branded for them etc?

Yes.

@zagency

If i want to do this, how do I stop the theme from updating and do you think the cwicly theme gets updates such that I will fill left out, okay get my site broken if i don’t get updates since I have changed the entire theme name etc.

Use the Cwicly child theme:

cwicly-child.zip

Also, please be aware of these standard considerations if installing a child theme to an already developed website:

Templates & Template Parts disappear when changing theme

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