<div dir="ltr">Basically, theme authors should either be using the Settings API or Theme Mods API if they're building a theme settings page.  It's not strictly required to use the Settings API, but for the majority of cases you might as well say it's a requirement because it's going to take care of a lot of problems present with custom-built theme options pages.  There are, of course, exceptions, but I don't think I've seen one yet here on WordPress.org.<div><br></div><div>Ideally, we'd push theme authors to use the Theme Customizer as much as possible, which would eliminate most issues with theme options.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ulrich Pogson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grapplerulrich@gmail.com" target="_blank">grapplerulrich@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">It is recommended but if it is not used then security precautions should be taken. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/theme-security-and-privacy/#theme-settings-and-data-security" target="_blank">https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/theme-security-and-privacy/#theme-settings-and-data-security</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 September 2014 22:53, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@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">Need confirmation.<br></div>
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