[theme-reviewers] Theme Check - ever changing policies

[Curtis McHale]

I certainly like the idea of a message if your theme will fail built in to
the Theme Check plugin.

Curtis McHale
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Bruce Wampler <brucewampler at gmail.com>wrote:

> The last time I used Theme Check, WARNINGS did not ban a theme from
> submission. Apparently it does now.
>
> The Theme Check plugin itself should be more clear about this. I think it
> should have a
> "Your theme will FAIL submission" message, which I don't see now.
>
> Last time I submitted my theme, which wasn't all that long ago, the WARNING
> for fopen did not automatically ban the theme, but now it does. It would be
> much more helpful if the Theme Check plugin matched the theme submit Theme
> Check as far as issuing a FAIL notice.
>
> What makes a theme fail submission seems to change fairly rapidly - it
> would be nice if there were an easy to find, concise list of the new things
> that make a theme fail. Embedding new criteria within the current documents
> is necessary, but doesn't help much for people with existing, accepted
> themes. I'm really not going to re-read the full set of requirements each
> time, and then maybe notice a new one.
>
> And there may be a change list somewhere, but I can't find it. Maybe Theme
> Check could include a link to the latest set of changes, or even better, a
> link to the specific requirement (I know - that's really too hard because
> the links would be hard to keep constant - but it would be nice.)
>
> Bruce Wampler
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