Grab array of child themes WordPress
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Hi,
I need a PHP script which can hunt through the themes directory and return an array of the meta data (ie: child theme name, child theme slug etc) for child themes of a particular parent theme.
Background info ...
This will be incorporated into the admin panel of a parent theme so that users can see a short list of what child themes are available for it on the current installation.
Answers (3)
John Cotton answers:
Pop this where you need it and you'll get all the info you need:
if(!function_exists('get_allowed_themes')){
require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/theme.php' );
}
$themes = get_allowed_themes();
foreach( $themes as $theme ) {
if( $theme['Parent Theme'] == 'whatever you want' ) {
// do something
}
}
Ryan Hellyer comments:
Lol, that looks WAYYY too simple :)
I'll go test to confirm it works. But it looks like just hit the nail on the head!
I didn't realise there would be built in functions in core for this.
John Cotton comments:
Hi Ryan
<blockquote>I didn't realise there would be built in functions in core for this.</blockquote>
If you think about it, WordPress has to do pretty much what you want for the themes page on the Appearance tab.
If you have a look in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-themes-list-table.php you can see this function at work. But basically, you're getting an array with all the theme info therein so you can do whatever you need.... :) Neat eh?
John
Ryan Hellyer comments:
Awesome. That did the trick.
I did need to include ms.php too for it to support multisite, but otherwise it worked flawlessly.
ej_emman answers:
Maybe you can also try this:
<?php
$themes = get_themes();
foreach($themes as $listheme)
{
$listheme['Name'];
// and etc. anything you want display
}
?>