I can't recall reading any requirement in the codex indeed, but afaik it's not recommended, still it's accepted. <br><br>There are themes in the repository that incorporate frameworks with shortcodes, but it's not a good practice for the reason that you mentioned above. <br clear="all">
<div><br>Mario Peshev</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Slobodan Manic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slobodan.manic@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="vt-p">slobodan.manic@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 dir="ltr">Thanks Mario. <div><br></div><div>So it's a good enough reason to reject a theme and instruct the author to remove them? Using Theme Review Guidelines lingo, are themes <b>required</b> not to use shortcodes or <b>recommended</b> not to use shortcodes?</div>
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