The following features are still being worked on
Theme development info
One base theme extended with different layout patterns turned on via child themes.
All child themes share the base theme’s colors, typography, and patterns/parts. Each child just calls different variants of these as their default but those defaults can be swapped to make a hybrid of what’s provided or to create something new.
Predefined typography and colors sets are provided in the site editor (shown below) but you can set your own as well
Why child themes then instead of just one theme and multiple cloneable sites?
It’s faster to switch themes if you want to make sweeping layout changes. It’s best to work from the child theme closest to the template style you want to work with and change things from that point.
Why utilize child themes at all instead of just making multiple base themes?
Cuts down on code. Plus updates on the parent theme push out to the children should we add extended features in the future.
The colors look a bit extreme
This is by design for accessibility contrast purposes. While I love bright colors and pastels with whites, these don’t pass accessibility guidelines https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
There is a system in how the colors should be used for all the palettes which I will outline in the future. People can make their own palettes as well, whether they follow the system or not is up to them, but patterns provided will be designed to work best within this system.
To do:
• Minor quirks need to be ironed out
• Side nav child theme needs to be developed – this will take longer due to code needed to handle side nav themes in mobile view
• More tests need to be done with the existing Kadence patterns
• Theme thumbnails for theme switcher screen
Current and planned theme variations:
• Side nav – planned. This requires special code
• Blog
• Portfolio
• Writing focused
• Image portfolio – planned, might rely on other themes for this because the implementation is a bit different for a good looking image portfolio
• General purpose website
• TRU website-like
All can have TRU branding colors and similar fonts turned on. the TRU website-like one (the parent base theme in our theme set) is just templated the most like the direction the TRU website is heading in the last I heard from marcom.
Any child theme can be used for any purpose as well. The chosen layouts for each are just best suited for their titled purpose.
Default templates for all of the theme variants
Base theme standard page, post, and archive:
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/tru-theme-test/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/tru-theme-test/2025/06/10/hello-world/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/tru-theme-test/category/uncategorized/
General website
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/general-base-theme/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/general-base-theme/2025/06/10/hello-world/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/general-base-theme/category/uncategorized/
Writer
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/writer-base-theme/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/writer-base-theme/2025/06/10/hello-world/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/writer-base-theme/category/uncategorized/
Portfolio
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/portfolio-base-theme/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/portfolio-base-theme/2025/06/10/hello-world/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/portfolio-base-theme/category/uncategorized/
Blog
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/blog-base-theme/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/blog-base-theme/2025/06/10/hello-world/
https://openetcwp.ca.reclaim.cloud/blog-base-theme/category/uncategorized/