I'd have to agree with Simon ... a recommendation, at the absolute best.<br><br>To make them requirements over bloginfo() variations, for all intent and purpose, would empty the repository.<br><br>Granted those appear to have a significant amount of utility built in that I will be looking at for future themes, although I will likely not be replacing existing bloginfo() instances in any of my current themes.<br>
<br>Of course, with that being said, a reference to their usage should be
made more obvious, but I believe it would be best served from the codex
page(s) referencing the bloginfo() function usage rather than the Theme
Review page(s).<br>
<br><br>Cais.<br><br>PS: My point of having the WordPress Devs form the list of required items a
theme must use is further supported by this thread. EAC.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Simon Prosser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pross@pross.org.uk">pross@pross.org.uk</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="im">On Friday 27 August 2010 19:06:38 Chip Bennett wrote:<br>
> Something we have thus far overlooked, the following three template tags<br>
> were added in 3.0:<br>
</div>> home_url()<<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/home_url" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/home_url</a>>,<br>
> site_url() <<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/site_url" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/site_url</a>>,<br>
<div class="im">> admin_url().<br>
><br>
> (Actually, site_url() was added in 2.6.)<br>
><br>
> Should these be incorporated into the Guidelines, as replacements for their<br>
> get_bloginfo() equivalents? And if so, how: required, or recommended?<br>
><br>
> See Justin Tadlock's<br>
</div>> comment<<a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/1911-theme-repositor" target="_blank">http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/1911-theme-repositor</a><br>
> y-reviews-3.html#post18711>at WP Tavern for reference.<br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
><br>
> Chip<br>
99.99% of themes still use bloginfo() so i think a recommendation only at this<br>
point..<br>
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