[theme-reviewers] Regarding Free Themes

[Rahul Bansal]

>
> End users can run the theme-check plugin
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check  to check out whatever
> theme they have uploaded, theme-check can be used before even activating a
> theme.

I am aware of this but end-users are not-so-tech-savvy.(otherwise they will
look at wordpress-org or other authentic designers for free themes)
Having this plugin in theme-upload section of Appearance menu will prevent
many ugly things IMHO.



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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net
> wrote:

>  End users can run the theme-check plugin
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check  to check out whatever
> theme they have uploaded, theme-check can be used before even activating a
> theme.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Rahul Bansal <rahul286 at gmail.com>
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 23, 2011 11:38 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Regarding Free Themes
>
> Just a suggestion...
>
> In WordPress core itself, if we add some preventive measures like:
>
>    1. Showing a warning on "upload" theme page about possible
>    threats/security issues when user lands on that page
>    2. Running security check on uploaded theme - similar to checks which
>    run when theme-developers upload theme here
>
> We can think of more ways!
>
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>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> Pretty good article. I tweeted<http://twitter.com/#!/EmilUzelac/status/26882934166257664>about that few days back. Many or all on that top 10 list shouldn't even be
>> there, that's why it's always good idea to download themes via WordPress :)
>>
>>
>> *Emil Uzelac* | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 | Twitter: @EmilUzelac<http://twitter.com/emiluzelac>| E:
>> emil at themeid.com | http://themeid.com
>> *Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.* - Albert
>> Einstein
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thought I would pass this along - a great article looking at the results
>>> from the first page of Google when you search for free themes:
>>> http://wpmu.org/why-you-should-never-search-for-free-wordpress-themes-in-google-or-anywhere-else/.
>>> It details which exploits are found on themes from each of those sites.
>>>
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