[theme-reviewers] Header Redirect: Any Good Reason For This?

[Edward Caissie]

To expand on my last reply ...

IF the theme author is distributing their theme from their own servers they
can do as they see fit, but themes distributed from the WordPress Theme
repository should use WordPress standards whether they be explicitly written
or implicitly defined by similar functionality.

I would suggest to the author to use a method at least similar to the one
noted by Austin Matzko if this is the case.


Cais.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> In a word: Yes!
>
>
> Cais
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> So should I request a more WordPress-standard implementation there?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Austin Matzko <austin at pressedcode.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Checking the diff for an update to a Theme that I had previously
>>> approved, I
>>> > found this:
>>> >
>>> > <?php  ( header('Location: http://allfreecms.com') );?>
>>>
>>> They've set up the theme so that if someone requests the URL of the
>>> functions sub-directory, it re-directs that request to the theme
>>> developer's site.
>>>
>>> It's an unusual alternative to WP's core alternate approach in, for
>>> example, the wp-content/index.php file, which just has the following:
>>>
>>> <?php
>>> // Silence is golden.
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> I don't think it's a sin.  If you're trying to get the web server to
>>> list directory contents you're probably up to no good anyways.
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