[theme-reviewers] Theme Review Codex Page

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

Not really a devil's advocate type of question really.  There's no evil side to any of the must or optional.

Devil's advocate to your devil's advocate then, the optional searchform.php, what would be the harm in requiring it?

.. because it doesn't need it.

The end user can edit the style.css via the appearance -> editor, just like the developer can use get_search_form(); and get the default one that imo is better.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chip Bennett 
  To: Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) 
  Cc: Edward Caissie ; theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org 
  Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme Review Codex Page


  On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net> wrote:

    Well put it this way ... custom-background is a convience.. that's all, just like custom-header.

    While post-thumbnails are a 'feature', if considered as such then I would say yeah it should be required, but if I consider it an 'addon' then I would say optional.

  Just to play Devil's Advocate, let me ask it this way: what would be the potential *downsides* if Custom Background support were made mandatory? 


  (Just like I started from the opposite viewpoint, I'm not against returning to it. We could always use the Tagging system to note which features are supported by a given Theme.)


  Chip
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