[wp-hackers] Themes breaking plugins?

[Firas D.]

Are there any other things to check besides function name uniqueness 
(ie. a somewhat-unique prefix) and general hook availability?

This doesn't need a group looking over themes--definitely not a listed 
of 'verified themes'--just a pseudo-validator of sorts.

Robert Deaton wrote:

>So, with the new themes support in 1.5, I think that there is one
>thing that we need to be aware of, and that is that certain
>not-so-well designed themes will break some plugins. As long as there
>are plugin hooks like wp_footer and wp_sidebar, we should be actively
>letting theme developers know that they should be including these
>hooks, and possibly have some sort of verification process where a
>select group looks over themes and makes sure that they don't majorly
>break anything (they have all the necessary plugin hooks, etc.) and
>include a verified list of themes in the wiki. This way we can prevent
>at least some of the problems that we may have support questions with
>in the future about themes breaking plugins.
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