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

[Justin Tadlock]

The problem with themes cleaning up after themselves is simply that 
there's no uninstall hook.  Once we get that (plus some 
activate/deactivate hooks), I'd have no problem in setting some 
repository rules for themes to delete options on uninstall.

As far as using the $default parameter of get_option() and not setting 
defaults, that can be good practice.  However, I see no reason themes 
shouldn't be setting up some defaults using add_option().  Of course, 
there's no activation hook, so some theme authors are just dropping some 
code into functions.php instead of using a hook (load-themes.php might 
be a good one) to auto-set default options.

On 6/12/2011 10:06 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
> Or for future release of WP when Theme is deleted all that was 
> associated with that specific Theme gets deleted as well. Not all 
> Authors will comply with WP guides and not all Themes are downloaded 
> from the repository.
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> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Angelo Bertolli 
> <angelo.bertolli at gmail.com <mailto:angelo.bertolli at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 6/12/2011 10:59 PM, Syahir Hakim wrote:
>
>         I don't think it's only the theme reviewers who are installing and
>         trying a lot of themes. It is not unusual at all for regular or
>         first-timer WP users to try a lot of themes before they settle
>         on one
>         that they really like. Trying more than 10 themes is quite
>         normal for a
>         first-timer WP user, I think, and some of my theme users even
>         reported
>         that they've tried 40+ themes.
>
>
>     It sounds like WP should have a way of forcing options to be
>     associated with their themes, and cleanup options that are
>     independant of theme code.  For example add_option would
>     automatically associate the option with a particular theme, maybe
>     by directory name.  Then after such a theme no longer exists or is
>     deactivated, WP presents an option to "clean up theme options for
>     theme X"
>
>
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