[theme-reviewers] Themes and Post Meta/Custom Fields

[Edward Caissie]

I had that one too ...

I don't think there is a lot that can really be done about the use of custom
fields. Obviously several themes are using them for various reasons ... the
only thing I can think of at the moment is to keep an eye out for malicious
usage.


Cais.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I also had one add a "geo-public" key, with value "0".
>
> In any case, what are you thoughts?
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I saw that "superawesome" custom field key before ... never did track down
>> which theme wrote it.
>>
>>
>> Cais.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I just ran into another one, thanks to a Theme that outputs all of a
>>> post's custom field keys/values as post meta data: apparently, some Themes
>>> are adding custom fields to posts.
>>>
>>> Should there be some guidance here? Specifically, should Themes be adding
>>> meta information/custom field keys/values to existing posts without user
>>> knowledge?
>>>
>>> In my case, one Theme added various default Thumbnail images as custom
>>> fields, and another Theme added a "superawesome" custom field key (with a
>>> value of "false").
>>>
>>>  Chip
>>>
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