Thanks Otto, so the plugin justs needs to flag a warning really, that normal permalinks should be used, in most cases.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 June 2011 21:45, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Mike Little <<a href="mailto:wordpress@zed1.com">wordpress@zed1.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 20:53, Simon Prosser <<a href="mailto:pross@pross.org.uk">pross@pross.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I got a tweet from Chip asking for theme-check to flag it as bad, so ..<br>
>> Are people not supposed to use it at all? if so theme fails? and if so<br>
>> what is the suggested alternative?<br>
><br>
> You should *never*, *ever* use the guid in your theme.<br>
<br>
</div>... unless you're using it for the right thing.<br>
<br>
Concept: Photoblog theme. Creates a special media-enabled rss feed for<br>
photo posts only. Uses the guid in the feed.<br>
<br>
Concept: Podcasting specific theme. Ditto for podcast enabled feed.<br>
Uses guid in the feed properly.<br>
<br>
Never use the GUID field as a "permalink", because it's not one.<br>
<br>
If we add this to the theme check, it should be a strong warning, not<br>
a requirement to pass the upload. Too many possible specialized cases<br>
that I'd rather not exclude outright.<br>
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