Have you seen what Custom background can look like when properly implemented ... I've seen some awful results.<br><br>Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the most insistence of function use the more cookie cutter the repository will become.<br>
<br>If you were to force the issue of mandatory inclusion of custom-header, custom-background, and post-thumbnail you would clear a very large percentage of themes from the repository.<br><br>That's not to mention how many more(?) theme would be removed based on your two version cycle ... have you checked the top 100 popular themes and noted how many of those will be suspended based on your numbers?<br>
<br>Just some thoughts to ponder ...<br><br><br>Cais.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Well put it this way ... custom-background is a
convience.. that's all, just like custom-header.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">While post-thumbnails are a 'feature', if
considered as such then I would say yeah it should be required, but if I
consider it an 'addon' then I would say optional.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div></div></blockquote></div><div>Just to play Devil's Advocate, let me ask it this way: what would be the potential *downsides* if Custom Background support were made mandatory? </div>
<div><br></div><div>(Just like I started from the opposite viewpoint, I'm not against returning to it. We could always use the Tagging system to note which features are supported by a given Theme.)</div><div><br></div>
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