[theme-reviewers] Theme Review Codex Page

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

Not if you use another core method of implementation, a Child Theme.

So we're going to require child themes now, cause its a convience?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chip Bennett 
  To: Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) 
  Cc: Edward Caissie ; theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org 
  Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme Review Codex Page


  On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net> wrote:

    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.

  The default search form can also be added via sidebar Widget. It requires no editing of Theme "core" files. So, searchform.php is truly superfluous.


  Conversely, changing the background color does require editing a Theme "core" file, and is therefore not forward-compatible. 


  Chip
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