<div dir="ltr">This is the official guideline <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/</a> This is maintained by the theme review admins.<div><br></div><div>The other is a copy which the doc team created.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2014 20:17, John Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@johnwilsononline.com" target="_blank">mail@johnwilsononline.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">On the topic of guidelines, and what's the right ones to use. When doing Theme Reviews, I've been using both these resources (along with the Codex & Chip's guide):<div>
<ol><li><a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/part-four-releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/part-four-releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/</a></li>
</ol></div><div>Are they both the same & maintained inline with each other or is there a best practice to base reviews on one over the other?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>John</div><div><br></div></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@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, Otto!<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div></font></span><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:54 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 dir="ltr">Yeah, I just found that after a bit of searching. Looks like this statement has existed for some time. Dunno where it originally came from though.<br><br>I'm editing that handbook page to remove that last sentence. It's clearly untrue and should not be allowed to continue further.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>-Otto</font></span><div><div><br><br><br><br>On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:50 PM, John Wilson <<a href="mailto:mail@johnwilsononline.com" target="_blank">mail@johnwilsononline.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Otto,<br>
><br>> I spotted you picked this up on one of my reviews. I found this in the Theme<br>
> Review Guidelines of the Theme Developer Handbook...<br>> <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/part-four-releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/#doctype-declaration" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/part-four-releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/#doctype-declaration</a><br>
><br>> John<br>><br>><br>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> This was pointed out on StackExchange and I found some tickets referring<br>
>> to it:<br>>><br>>> Correct XFN profile link in <head> tag: <head<br>>> profile="<a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" target="_blank">http://gmpg.org/xfn/11</a>"> or <link rel="profile"<br>
>> href="<a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"" target="_blank">http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"</a>; /> (Exception: Wholly HTML 5 themes<br>>> must not have the profile, as HTML 5 does not support it.)<br>
>><br>
>><br>>> Where does the last part about HTML 5 come from? Where was this<br>>> sentence obtained?<br>>><br>>> HTML 5, like all HTML's, ignores things it does not know about.<br>>> There's nothing I know of that would make "link rel=profile" invalid<br>
>> or incorrect, and there is no reason to omit it from a theme just<br>>> because hand-wavy-HTML5.<br>>><br>>> I believe this information is incorrect and we should not be giving<br>>> incorrect information to theme authors. It causes confusion and<br>
>> nitpickiness, especially among those who don't know HTML that well to<br>>> begin with. All the default themes have the link rel=profile in them<br>>> for the XFN linkage.<br>>><br>>> -Otto<br>
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