wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php:3326Creates a site theme from an existing theme.
$theme_namestring$templatestringboolfunction make_site_theme_from_oldschool( $theme_name, $template ) { $home_path = get_home_path(); $site_dir = WP_CONTENT_DIR . "/themes/$template"; $default_dir = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/themes/' . WP_DEFAULT_THEME; if ( ! file_exists( "$home_path/index.php" ) ) { return false; } /* * Copy files from the old locations to the site theme. * TODO: This does not copy arbitrary include dependencies. Only the standard WP files are copied. */ $files = array( 'index.php' => 'index.php', 'wp-layout.css' => 'style.css', 'wp-comments.php' => 'comments.php', 'wp-comments-popup.php' => 'comments-popup.php', ); foreach ( $files as $oldfile => $newfile ) { if ( 'index.php' === $oldfile ) { $oldpath = $home_path; } else { $oldpath = ABSPATH; } // Check to make sure it's not a new index. if ( 'index.php' === $oldfile ) { $index = implode( '', file( "$oldpath/$oldfile" ) ); if ( str_contains( $index, 'WP_USE_THEMES' ) ) { if ( ! copy( "$default_dir/$oldfile", "$site_dir/$newfile" ) ) { return false; } // Don't copy anything. continue; } } if ( ! copy( "$oldpath/$oldfile", "$site_dir/$newfile" ) ) { return false; } chmod( "$site_dir/$newfile", 0777 ); // Update the blog header include in each file. $lines = explode( "\n", implode( '', file( "$site_dir/$newfile" ) ) ); if ( $lines ) { $f = fopen( "$site_dir/$newfile", 'w' ); foreach ( $lines as $line ) { if ( preg_match( '/require.*wp-blog-header/', $line ) ) { $line = '//' . $line; } // Update stylesheet references. $line = str_replace( "<?php echo __get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-layout.css", "<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>", $line ); // Update comments template inclusion. $line = str_replace( "<?php include(ABSPATH . 'wp-comments.php'); ?>", '<?php comments_template(); ?>', $line ); fwrite( $f, "{$line}\n" ); } fclose( $f ); } } // Add a theme header. $header = "/*\n" . "Theme Name: $theme_name\n" . 'Theme URI: ' . __get_option( 'siteurl' ) . "\n" .Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.