How to take credit for child themes

[joshsmith01]

What is the ethical way to take credit for websites that I build for people? I mean I don’t make the theme, I make the child theme. I haven’t seen anyone explicitly state that this is a child theme. Now, I put something in the footer stating that this is built by Josh at Efficiency of Movement. I wonder if I should state something like, “This is a child theme of xyz theme by xyz theme makers made by Josh at Efficiency of Movement” That seems verbose and it uses industry jargon.

I want to do it right and I don’t want to answer for anything unethical that I may inadvertently be doing.

[TheDoc]

An interesting question. You should definitely be giving credit to the original theme, though it’s certainly up to the client whether or not that should be appearing in the footer. Generally, a ‘custom’ site shouldn’t really be based off another theme (hopefully you’re letting the client know that!).

[joshsmith01]

Ok. That is what I’ll do. I was giving credit to the theme makers and then I stopped and only cited my own company. Now I will give both shops credit, it is just going to have to be verbose.

I always tell people that I am building a site for that I am going to use a theme and then customize that. I don’t tell them that it is a custom theme. I tell them that I am going to build a child theme. I don’t think they really care to know the difference. They just want a website.

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