[theme-reviewers] Proposed Modifications to Guidelines

[Rodrigo Galindez]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> Mostly relating to the Theme Unit Tests, I would propose the following:
> 1) Ignore the intent of the caption text on the centered image with caption
> (e.g. "must be centered, with box"). All that matters is that image and
> caption are centered.
> 2) Author Comment styled (e.g. .bypostauthor CSS class defined) should be
> *recommended*, not *required*

Agree, recommended.

> 3) Not displaying "comments are closed" text on Pages should be
> *recommended*, not *required*.

Agree.

> 4) Separation of track/pingbacks from comments should be *recommended*
> Thoughts?

No. Trackbacks/Pingbacks need to flow in the natural way as they come
in. To me, they are part of the conversation (like comments) and
separating them would break the cronological order in which they were
sent. I would suggest to differentiate them visually, but not to move
them off the regular list of comments. A checkbox that says "show
Trackbacks/Pingbacks" on top of the comments list would be ideal.

> Also, anything that anyone else has come across? Anything else that you
> think should be downgraded from *required* to *recommended* (or vice versa,
> I suppose)?

Remove the "Permalink should be displayed on each post" (can't
remember the exact wording for this point). Tricky, yet not even the
official TwentyTen theme has this link (thus fails the Unit Test when
there's no post title).

Rod

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