Is the result of stretching the layout on vp and creating a theme on vp the same?

Question

Layout

The process is different, but the result, as I understand it, is the same?
Those. the client will still be able to change the info on the site both in the first option and in the second one?

Answer 1

There is no difference in the stretch or in the creation of the theme. This is the same!

Why might there be a difference?

Because some unscrupulous developers, out of laziness, instead of creating a normal theme that can be fully edited from the admin panel (no matter how, even with a visual editor, even with custom fields, even with a framework, for example, Redux, even with standard WP tools), create templates, in which cram all the html code. By the way, styles and scripts are not even bothered to connect normally using functions.php (according to the WP code), but everything is poured through header.php. More than once I dealt with such sites and more than once I lost a lot of time to enable the client to edit the pages of the site from the admin panel.
So...there is no difference in stretching or creating a theme if you are doing your job conscientiously.t

Answer 2

In my understanding, the stretch on WP is based on the fact that the site looks normal, the paths are correct and the site loads well. For example: you can pull a ready-made landing page, just for example, you need to have a blog there.
Creating a topic is already the discretion of all the files that may be in the topic from posts to pages, etc.
Here you already need to start from the tasks of the client - if he says, you can edit the information here and there.
And the topic, for example: this is already a multi-page site where there is some kind of logic, although the topic can also be a landing page.

Answer 3

It seems to me that the creation of a theme is something more global than just stretching the layout. The theme should provide for the design of all possible pages that the user wants to create, whether it is a blog post, blog archive, just a page, 404, etc. Depending on the focus of the topic, custom post types, such as reviews, can be created. Theme settings again, so that the user can change fonts, backgrounds, etc. Some design for standard elements, for example, several types of buttons.
If the theme is for sale, then it must also comply with the code and be validated.
And stretching the site to the engine is most often when there is already an approved design that will not change much and there are exactly as many settings as needed for the design. No one will make 4 footer options with just a stretch, but the theme may provide for this. When landing a landing (although I never understood why a landing needs an admin panel), you can generally limit yourself to one page, display what you need for editing through meta fields, well, another 404. The rest of the templates will never be used.
Something like this. This is more my IMHO, maybe I'm wrong