<div dir="ltr">If the theme is manipulating the $path parameter of the function, or attaching something to the `home_url` hook then I would say yes, otherwise `home_url()` on its own should be fine as by default $path is empty.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Stephen Cui <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scui2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">scui2005@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
According to in example in <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Site_Information" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Site_Information</a>, echo home_url() is acceptable (or not?)<br><br>But many reviewer ask the author to use echo esc_url( home_url() ).<br>
<br>Question: Is esc_url required in home_url() case?<br><br>Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Stephen<br><br>
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