JT Child Theme
Child Theme
JT Child is the professional-site child theme paired with the Freelance addon. It marks the move from the older direct-override style toward metadata-driven template packages with declared contexts, assets, removals, shortcode overrides, partial overrides, and header/footer replacements.
- Child Theme
- Site Addon
Problem
The first child theme approach worked, but it mixed too much direct override logic into the child theme. A professional portfolio site needed strong visual control without turning every override into global PHP glue.
Solution
JT Child introduced the cleaner template package model. Each context can have its own folder and `meta.php`, describing the assets to load, the handles to remove, and the template/shortcode/partial overrides that belong to that page type.
Results
JT Child became the bridge into the modern child-theme convention later reused by Musi Sereni, Passione Gatti, Comics, and Showcase.
