[theme-reviewers] Thesis WP Theme

[Chip Bennett]

Navigation isn't "functionality"; it is UX. Baking breadcrumb navigation
into a Theme falls on the correct side of the Theme-Plugin differentiation,
AFAIK.

If you want to build in support for breadcrumb plugins, you could use
function_exists() conditionals. e.g.

if ( function_exists( 'yoast_breadcrumbs' ) {
    yoast_breadcrumbs();
} else {
     mytheme_breadcrumbs();
}


That way, if the user enables Yoast Breadcrumbs, the Theme uses that;
otherwise, it falls back to your own breadcrumb navigation.

Chip

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> After reading this I'm starting to think that I may be heading off-track
> with my wordpress theme.
>
> Otto, are you saying that my breadcrum code that I put in is a doing it
> wrong all because I just given people no choice in what plugin they use?
>
> Would adding the option in my next version to turn it off make it a doing
> it right? Isn't the idea to make a wordpress theme that has some decent
> features without needing to use plugins? Is it not true that the more
> plugins that you got installed the slower wordpress will get?
>  Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
>
>
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>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Tony Crockford <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my mobile, so please excuse brevity and / or formatting errors.
>>
>>
>> On 23 Jul 2011, at 21:19, Hilary J Holz <holz.hilary at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> It's certainly
>> >> possible for a theme to implement plugin type functionality, but
>> >> that's usually overkill for a general purpose theme.
>>
>> I think this is an interesting point.  It seems to me that there are
>> themes and "themes" where we might need to have a new name for a theme that
>> provides a distinct off-shoot of functionality to WordPress to make it fit a
>> particular role.
>>
>> Perhaps a means to bundle plugins    with a theme as a *customising
>> package* might be a better approach?
>>
>> I can get behind theme as presentation layer and plugin to add function
>> but there's clearly an overlap where a *theme* needs to add function and
>> style/present it at the same time.  I think the lack of a *plugin required*
>> system is what leads to theme authors including plugin type function in
>> theme templates.
>>
>> Or I might be off the mark.
>>
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