[theme-reviewers] WP default widgets generate php notices

[Yulian Yordanov]

OK.
If it's so, I can set the version as approved because this was the only 
obstacle.

Yulian Yordanov (Fingli)

On 02.12.2010 г. 22:36, Otto wrote:
> WP itself is not free of debug notice errors. I tend to ignore them.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Ivan Milaev<vatuma at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I've created the Clear Line theme
>> (http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2203).
>> The theme uses default widgets in the way like this:
>>> the_widget('WP_Widget_Categories', '',
>>> 'before_title=<h5>&after_title=</h5>');
>> Such  function call generates php notices:
>>> Notice: Undefined index: count in
>>> Z:\home\wp\www\wp-includes\default-widgets.php on line 430
>>> Notice: Undefined index: hierarchical in
>>> Z:\home\wp\www\wp-includes\default-widgets.php on line 431
>>> Notice: Undefined index: dropdown in
>>> Z:\home\wp\www\wp-includes\default-widgets.php on line 432
>> So the notices are generated in WP core file in such lines:
>>> $c = $instance['count'] ? '1' : '0';
>>> $h = $instance['hierarchical'] ? '1' : '0';
>>> $d = $instance['dropdown'] ? '1' : '0';
>> I.e. if I don't set parameters (that are not required) these indexes do not
>> exist and the notices appear.
>> I can avoid appearing these notices by setting the parameters but if I call:
>>> the_widget('WP_Widget_Recent_Posts', '',
>>> 'before_title=<h5>&after_title=</h5>');
>> the notices are:
>>> Notice: Undefined index: widget_id in
>>> Z:\home\wp\www\wp-includes\default-widgets.php on line 529
>>> Notice: Undefined index: number in
>>> Z:\home\wp\www\wp-includes\default-widgets.php on line 538
>> One of these notices is generated by this line:
>>> if ( isset($cache[$args['widget_id']]) ) {
>>    That means that I cannot avoid this notice...
>>
>> The question are:
>> Should the theme be approved with such notices?
>> Should WP team fix these notices?
>> Or should I?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ivan
>>
>>
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