Themes should work out-of-the-box, Theme options and all. Regarding Theme options, I would invoke the Otto Rule here: use sane defaults. Don't require the user to *have* to configure settings in order for the Theme to work.<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Bryan Hadaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Actually, it seemed pretty reasonable. Just by entering the themes options page it seemed to auto-update and activate. I'm just not sure what the point is, seems like they're just trying to get the users attention to checkout the themes options page.<br>
<br>Since there's no upsell/registration factor that I can see I think it's just the theme authors methodology to help the user along. I'll finish my review and neither approve or not-approve and give the author a chance to explain the reasoning behind the functionality.<div class="HOEnZb">
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