[theme-reviewers] Draft Theme Development Checklist

[Safirul Alredha]

Your reasoning doesn't convince me at all.

If you're distributing your private theme for public use, then the
core of that theme should be intended and made for public. All your
private hacks or mods should go into child theme. This is how theme
hacks and mods are done these days.

If a theme got rejected because of the use of prefix page-, category-,
taxonomy- for pre-made template in theme root dir then I'm against it.
This is totally up to theme author. If this going to stay TDC, there
should be a small note saying something like "Not recommended but it's
okay..."

Cheers!

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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> Well, first: I left it there, because it is in the current version of the
> Theme Development Checklist.
>
> But, I believe the reasoning is that such files are intended for private
> themes (or private/individual modification of themes), not publicly
> distributed themes - that the author would have no idea what "foobar" any
> given user would need/want, so such files would needlessly clutter the theme.
>
> (For example: in the private version of my theme, I have a file called page-
> missions.php, with corresponding sidebar-left-missions.php and sidebar-right-
> missions.php. The public version of my theme has none of these files, because
> they are specific to my use of the theme.)
>
> Joseph et al, any further clarification?
>
> --
> Chip Bennett
> chip at chipbennett.net
> www.chipbennett.net
>
> On Saturday 10 July 2010 6:23:32 am Safirul Alredha wrote:
>> I would love to hear the reasoning behind this:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Excluded Files
>>
>> Themes must not include files such as the following:
>>
>>     * page-foobar.php
>>     * category-foobar.php
>>     * tag-foobar.php
>>     * taxonomy-foobar.php
>>
>> ...
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