<div dir="ltr">It is <b>required </b>to use core features <b>when </b>implementing features like custom background and header but it is only <b>recommended</b> to add features like custom background and header.(My words)<div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.2000007629395px">Theme is </span><b style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.2000007629395px">recommended</b><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.2000007629395px"> to incorporate the following WordPress core features, but is </span><i style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.2000007629395px">not required</i><font color="#555555" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px"> to do so. However, if incorporated, features must support the core WordPress implementation:" (The guideline) <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-recommended/">https://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-recommended/</a></span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 September 2014 08:56, Jose Castaneda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jomcastaneda@gmail.com" target="_blank">jomcastaneda@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">Where are you seeing this?</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't believe that we ever required anything like that. <div><div><span></span><br><br>On Sunday, September 21, 2014, Venkat Raj <<a href="mailto:venkat@webulous.in" target="_blank">venkat@webulous.in</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Everyone,<br>
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While Guidelines Theme Check says it is required to implement core theme features such as custom background and header, but Guidelines Recommended says otherwise. It says it is not required but recommended.<br>
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Which one is correct?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Venkat<br>
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