I'd like to quote Lance Willett here (from Jul 15):<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I think the best course of action is to strongly suggest supporting<br>
all customization features, with one custom menu being required (main<br>
navigation).<br><br>
So something like this:<br><br>
Themes must support the the following customization feature:<br><br>
Navigation Menu - wp_nav_menu()<br>
* At least one custom menu should be supported, generally the<br>
top-level navigation.<br><br>
Themes are strongly suggested to support the following customization features:<br><br>
Custom Header - add_custom_image_header<br>
Custom Background - add_custom_background<br>
Visual Editor CSS - add_editor_style<br><br>
3.0 changes like comment_form() are required since it isn't an<br>
optional customization, it's a core part of how themes work.<br></blockquote><div><br>Of course the above was refering to a discussion on add_custom_image_header support to themes but the basic premise applies.<br><br>
post_thumbnails is a feature added to WordPress, but I believe it should only be a _must_ include _if_ the theme uses post thumbnails, much like support for wp_nav_menus is required in place of the various wp_list_ functions if a horizontal navigation menu is being used.<br>
<br>If a theme does not use post thumbnails originally then it should be optional for the theme author to add at their discretion not mandated by a Mallory-Everest idea. Dictating what features must be included in a theme does not lend itself to creativity, and I am certain the idea is not to stamp out the creative possibilities of new themes in the repository but quite the opposite. <br>
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<font color="#888888"><br></font><br>Cais<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:27 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;">That would seem to be easy enough to address: we can leave the page, with a note that it's deprecated, and a link to the Theme Review page/Theme Unit Test section.<div>
<br></div><div><font color="#888888">Chip</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.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;">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Backwards compatible with every link out there that
links to it for 1, its been around so long its established.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">- Phil</font></div>
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<a title="chip@chipbennett.net" href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">Chip
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</div><div><div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a title="edward.caissie@gmail.com" href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">Edward Caissie</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 20, 2010 7:18
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme
Review Codex Page</div>
<div><br></div></div><div><div></div><div>On a related note: is there any reason we couldn't - or
shouldn't - pull the Theme Unit Test Data directly into the Theme Review page?
Do we gain anything by making developers and reviewers use two separate pages
to perform one review?
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<div>I put a place-holder in, but it merely links to the existing Theme Unit
Tests page.</div>
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<div>What do you think?</div>
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<div>Chip<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Chip - <br><br>Looks like lots of re-working on your part
... well done!<br><br>There are a few points I want to digest further before
commenting on .... maybe mark the page as a work in progress while it is
being finalized?<br><br>Also, after seeing it on the screen in
context, that with an Implementation Date each major version should also
have its release date, perhaps beside the version would
work.<br><br><br>Cais.<br><br><br>
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<div>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>Good morning, Theme Reviewers!
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<div>I've taken some time this morning to clean up the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review" target="_blank">Theme
Review</a> Codex page some more. Hopefully it is more straight-forward,
and has a minimum of duplicate content.</div>
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<div>Please let me know what you think, and fix (or let me know) if I've
made any mistakes, or added any incorrect information.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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