I would love to establish best-practice here. But, given that two lead developers (Otto and Nacin) disagree on "best practice" in this case, I'd rather take a wait-and-see approach before we introduce anything along these lines formally into the Guidelines.<div>
<br></div><div>I *would*, however, strongly recommend all developers follow the discussion, and try to understand the two philosophies. Such understanding *will* lead to better practices in general, with respect to Theme options and the database.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Konstantin Obenland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:konstantin@obenland.it" target="_blank">konstantin@obenland.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Talking about Themes and the Themes customizer:<div>When it comes to adjust guidelines for 3.4, we should keep this quote from Otto in mind:</div>
<div><br></div><div><i>"BTW, mere activation of a theme should never change the database. This
becomes even more important in 3.4 with the theme customizer, because a
theme that is not active, but being customized will have it’s
functions.php be loaded and all the theme will seem to think that it is
active even though it is not."</i></div><div><a href="http://kovshenin.com/2012/never-set-defaults-in-the-database/#comment-9332" target="_blank">http://kovshenin.com/2012/never-set-defaults-in-the-database/#comment-9332</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Enjoy your weekend! :)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Konstantin</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><div><br><div><div>On 05.05.2012, at 07:46, Merci Javier wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Thank you Chip. I'm going to play with it this weekend :-)<br><br>Cheers.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Amy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sabreuse@gmail.com" target="_blank">sabreuse@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Thanks for this - I've been looking for something like it!<div><div><br><br>
On May 4, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div></div></div><div><div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
Good evening, all!<div><br></div><div>Great tutorial this evening from Otto:</div><div><a href="http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/" target="_blank">http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div>
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