What is a child theme?
Since Ashford is a great content management (CMS) theme for WordPress web sites. The easiest way for a non-technical owner to customize their site is by modifying the Theme Options.
However, to create an remarkable web site, Ashford can be used as a theme framework. The idea is that online professionals and developers can use Ashford as their parent theme and then customize it using a child theme.
Using Ashford as your parent theme has the following benefits:
- Instant ability to “wireframe” your site before you customize the look and feel. This is great for projects where the content is fluid and the information architecture is not clear. It is also great for clients who do not really “get” a web site by looking at comps; live wire frames allow them to validate there decisions.
- Ability to upgrade when Ashford is improved or gets new features. Unlike many other free themes or frameworks, Ashford evolves and gets better over time.
- Increase your productivity. With Ashford, you do not have to start from scratch every time you start a new project. You will know that comments, archives, search, media, etc all work and have been tested out of the box.
- Deliver a better product to your clients. With Ashford, it is like adding 200 hours of development and quality testing to every project.