[theme-reviewers] Theme Scan Failing

Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) philip at frumph.net
Sun Nov 28 13:39:41 UTC 2010


Hrm.. probably the fopen in the paypal transaction IPN then. /shrug nothing 
I can do about that, at least it still pushed it through.

- Phil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Cave" <jon at lionsgoroar.co.uk>
To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme Scan Failing


> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
> <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>> Soo Otto what exactly are you caring about here that it causes a fail?
>
> My guess (based on the last themecheck code I've seen) is that it's
> the warning of suspicious code that's failing it. The other two are
> just notifications but don't cause a fail.
>
>> What specific 'malicious' code? .. I dont use base64 anywhere, at all.
>> Everything necessary is protected with evaluators and nonce's.
>
> I think that warning is for file_get_contents(__FILE__) or fopen,
> again based on the last I saw of the theme checks.
>
>> Don't care about editor styles, at all; won't create one.
>
> It's a recommended guideline so the check is just highlighting it,
> doubt it's a cause of failure.
>
>> I use includes & get_template_parts() in appropriate places, I won't use
>> get_template_part because of the performance of checking both the child
>> theme and root theme and it always needs to just load the parent themes
>> functions and not overriden by child themes functions of the same name.
>>
>> Although included *in* parsed to output functions use get_template_part() 
>> as
>> necessary
>
> As above doubt it's cause of failure, just picking up of possible
> violation of required guideline.
>
> Just my thoughts, will need Otto to confirm or deny.
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