Dude, chill.<div><br></div><div>We use this mail list to discuss the process and guidelines. Just because something is brought up here, doesn't mean that it will get implemented. It's just being <i>discussed</i>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>FWIW, suggesting the use of an array for storing Theme options has merit. I just went through and cleaned out literally <i>hundreds</i> of rows in wp_options, thanks to reviewed-and-since-deleted Themes. If a Theme (or a Plugin, for that matter - something I'll be looking into for some of my own Plugins) has more than a couple options, it is, from a database-management perspective, best practice to use an array, rather than discrete options.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But, again: we're just discussing these things. Nothing discussed here has been added to the Guidelines.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Demetris Kikizas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kikizas@gmail.com">kikizas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">We are approaching a point when reading the theme guidelines will need<br>
more time than building a theme.<br>
<br>
I predict that people will stop bothering with reading all that<br>
capricious, arbitrary stuff that is put there and will stop submitting<br>
themes, at least people who build good themes that can become known<br>
without help from WordPress Extend.<br>
<br>
The worst part is that the stuff that is being continuously added to<br>
the guidelines does not make any sense.<br>
<br>
For example, why serialization of options should be even a recommendation?<br>
<br>
Are there any facts or measurements showing that storing 5 or 10 theme<br>
options in separate rows is bad in any way?<br>
<br>
I am really worried about the direction this thing has taken.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Demetris<br>
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