<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Wow! So this is from where all those themes on Themeforest took their [three_columns_last] shortcodes. I was always wondering how can this method be so inefficient and yet everybody seems to prefer it. Now it's clear: they were following a tutorial. I can give you dozens of examples of themes that do it just this way, every once in a while I stumble upon one. I can understand now the level of frustration plugin developers must have.</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel</div><br><div><div>On Sep 6, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Justin Tadlock wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
  
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    That tutorial looked like it was written by someone who doesn't
    understand what the `$atts` parameter does in his own code.&nbsp; 22
    shortcodes for the work of 1.&nbsp; I bet that's a huge selling point for
    some themes. <br>
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    I need to write a plugin to do that, just better (shouldn't be in a
    theme anyway).&nbsp; I really think I might do this.<br>
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    I could tell this tutorial was going nowhere before getting to step
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    <blockquote cite="mid:CAMx9--VRHzOcgSG+XWGhp51MXZtchHdwmEohs8x9mrO6=W9U2Q@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Yeah, it seems strange. There's a tutorial here:&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com/adding-column-layout-shortcodes-to-a-wordpress-theme/#highlighter_671922">http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com/adding-column-layout-shortcodes-to-a-wordpress-theme/#highlighter_671922</a>
      which seems to claim that the &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; and &lt;br /&gt;
      tags mess with column shortcodes, or something like that?
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On 6 September 2012 10:47, Justin
          Tadlock <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>&gt;</span>
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I can't really think
              of a reason a theme should be doing either of those things
              at all.&nbsp; There might be some legitimate uses (from a theme
              perspective) but none come to mind at the moment.
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                  <div>On 9/5/2012 7:27 PM, Japheth Thomson wrote:<br>
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                    <div>Hello,</div>
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                    <div>There's been some discussion today on Twitter,
                      and a blog post I wrote (&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://japh.co/NSXyTr" target="_blank">http://japh.co/NSXyTr</a>
                      ), about themes that run code like:</div>
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">remove_filter(

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                      'the_content', 'wptexturize' );</blockquote>
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                    <div>And also implementing a [raw][/raw] shortcode
                      like&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-remove-wpautop-wptexturize-with-a-shortcode" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-remove-wpautop-wptexturize-with-a-shortcode</a></div>
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                    <div>Could we add checks for these things into
                      Theme-Check? And would it be sensible to do so?</div>
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                    <div>Cheers,</div>
                    <div>Japh</div>
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