Better parent->child theme handling and display

Hi,

There are a few ways MainWP could better work with parent and child themes.

1) When I open a site and there is a dashboard widget for the theme. All it shows me is a list of deactivated themes. This is not very useful. Since I am on the dashboard of my site, I want to see everything about the theme; the active theme, the parent theme, and any other deactivated themes. I want to see the theme’s version numbers (parent and child) if there are any, and even the links provided by the theme for the maker.

2) Oxygen Builder is a plugin that disables the theme system. Whenever I built a site with Oxygen, I uploaded a totally blank empty theme as a “placeholder” even though it’s not used. MainWP reports this theme as the active theme. Or, even worse, there can be ANY theme installed, Oxygen still disables it, and MainWP will report that theme as the active theme. This is just a special case and I hope MainWP could make a rule or exception to try and detect if Oxygen is installed so that Oxygen becomes the actual theme, and not whatever was installed when Oxygen disabled it.

3) When I use the Manage Themes feature and select some sites and view them, once again it will show the active child themes but nothing about the fact they are a child and show what the parent is. Often the child theme just says “Child Theme” or it’s the company name or “Placeholder” or whatever it might be. Without context of the parent theme, we can’t tell what the real theme is that is running.

4) Also on the Manage Themes feature, if I select ALL sites and want to find a theme like “Beaver” or “Bricks”, it will only return child themes that happen to use those names in the child theme’s title. But if the child theme is “Walmart 2025” and I search for “Bricks”, it won’t find it even though that website is actually running Bricks. This needs to be a little more helpful in searching both the parent and child themes and being smarter about what the “real” theme is, even if it’s given an alternate display name.

Hopefully some improvements can be made along these lines!