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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt">I am relatively new to
WordPress. I started learning WordPress last year and have a theme in repo. I
was a WordPress user and use one of popular theme in the repo. Of course, I use
many plugins as well. </p>
<p class="">Why I started writing my own theme? It is because I cannot
trust the Plugin developers out there. Last June, I noticed that one plugin
generated all kind of hidden links on my website. Although I am new to
WordPress and web development, I have good understanding of web development in
general.<br></p>
<p class="">Here is my 2 cents to the discussion. </p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"><li class="" style>The
themes in the repo represent WordPress. The current review process protects
users’ interest. We can certainly improve the process. But we should not
use the same approach as Plugin.</li></ol>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="1"><li class="" style>On
other hands, we should give more freedom to Theme Developers as per Plugin Territory discussion. We have Theme
Development Guidelines. I was wondering if WordPress should define some “standards”
for extension. For example:</li></ol>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="1"><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a"><li class="" style>A
theme should be allowed having shortcodes or other plugin territory stuff.
But if they do, they are required to provide a plug-in or have alternatives
for users. </li><li class="" style>Another
example is CPT and post-meta. Maybe we should have some kind of naming
convention for themes.</li></ol></ol>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class=""> Stephen</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)<br>
<<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net">philip@frumph.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> My ComicPress theme the same way, it's completely embedded with options that<br>
> are specific to the code required to run it, while there's an addon<br>
> available in plugin that plugin will only work for the theme. It's useless<br>
> otherwise.<br>
<br>
</div>Is that still around? I thought you'd ported most users over to Comic Easel.<br>
<br>
Comic Easel is a better choice all around, I'd say. That's more of a<br>
doing-it-right approach.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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