[theme-reviewers] Draft Theme Development Checklist

Joseph Scott joseph at josephscott.org
Sat Jul 10 16:12:44 UTC 2010


I had the same thought.  I suppose there might be themes that could
make use of those file name features, if so I'd be curious to hear
what those authors thought.

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> But, I believe the reasoning is that such files are intended for private
> themes (or private/individual modification of themes), not publicly
> distributed themes - that the author would have no idea what "foobar" any
> given user would need/want, so such files would needlessly clutter the theme.
>
> (For example: in the private version of my theme, I have a file called page-
> missions.php, with corresponding sidebar-left-missions.php and sidebar-right-
> missions.php. The public version of my theme has none of these files, because
> they are specific to my use of the theme.)
>
> Joseph et al, any further clarification?



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