When the GFI websites were originally developed, the website’s theme codebase was installed for each affiliate site.
When feature requests were made for a site, a code edit was made to that specific theme instance. As a result, the three themes slowly became their own versions and drifted from being sync from the original theme.
As a result, the web team has worked to create the GFI theme which will be consistent across the three different websites. It is a consolidated version of all three themes back into one theme without losing any features or affecting what makes each site unique.
With this approach, new features developed for the GFI theme will be provided to all three websites and future affiliate websites. For example, if Europe’s team requests a new feature like an interactive map, the APAC team will have access to utilizing that feature as well on their site.
With this new theme, all changes will be privately tracked within Github to allow for internal version control. When new notable versions or features of the theme are released, a changelog entry will be created.