[theme-reviewers] Note to theme reviewers about settings in themes

[Doug Stewart]

This is spot-on. If themes are restricted to one or maybe two options
in the DB, then what sense is there in creating such overbearing
complexity?

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> I must say: I don't really understand this rule suggestion. I don't see the
> problem with setting default options, as opposed to adding in a bunch of
> conditional code in the Theme template files, in order to account for unset
> options.
> I'm not even sure I would suggest this approach as a "best practice", given
> the amount of additional code/processing that implementation would require;
> setting default options is just more efficient.
>
> We already require that Themes use an options array as the single entry in
> wp_options; so we're minimizing Theme DB clutter. It's true that Theme
> reviewers will have a lot of such DB entries; but I don't think we should be
> making universal rules based on an incredibly niche sub-set of Theme users.
> Chip
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is just a note about a rule that I think should be added to the
>> theme review process:
>>
>> - Themes should not do anything to the database merely by virtue of
>> being activated.
>>
>> By that, I mean that having a theme check for a setting, like
>> get_option or get_theme_mod and then calling set_option or
>> set_theme_mod to set it to some default is wrong.
>>
>> Both get_option and get_theme_mod accept a second parameter of a
>> default setting. If I call get_option('whatever',123) and there is no
>> whatever option, then that will return 123.
>>
>> Use the defaults properly. Don't set them just because they're not there.
>>
>> -Otto
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-Doug