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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Submitting a theme to WordPress.org</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR>The requirements
of a theme to be placed on the WordPress repository has been changed from the
previous years.</DIV>
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<DIV>With the advent of WordPress 3.0's release there have been quite a number
of changes to the underlying code structure to how a theme is developed.</DIV>
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<DIV>In order to have your theme placed on the repository you should probably
know the changes.</DIV>
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<DIV>Themes can be suspended from the repository if it does not meet the
requirements, code changes and supports for the current release version of
WordPress. This does not mean the theme has been removed permanently, it
just means the theme needs to be updated and reviewed to be available for
download again.</DIV>
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<DIV>Themes will not be validated to be on the repository when submitted unless
it has no Notices/Warnings/Errors, Deprecated function use, all the required
coding in the theme per the documentation that is available and pass the theme
unit test.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Codex pages to read thorougly:</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development</A></DIV>
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<DIV>For a semi-comprehensive guide on what a theme reviewer looks at when
testing your theme to be valid, read:</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review</A></DIV>
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<DIV>When testing your theme on your developement site, it is important that you
have the WP_DEBUG defined as true in your wp-config.php as such
define('WP_DEBUG', true); This will notify you of any
notices/warnings/deprecated code.</DIV>
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<DIV>The theme unit test <A
href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test</A>
will provide you with base data for your theme to test with, what is looked at
and how your theme must behave.</DIV>
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