[theme-reviewers] A Question About Theme Review/Submission

[Chip Bennett]

It depends on how you "make it pass".

If you find a way within the design intent of the Theme to incorporate the
required functionality, then absolutely: yes, it would pass.

But, if you tried to "game" or work around the requirements, then it would
be failed.

The other issue with Custom Post Types is that the data become locked into
the Theme. Since we do not want to encourage Theme lock-in of data, our
current stance is to request that the CPT functionality be developed as a
Plugin (hosted in the Plugin repository), that can be used by the Theme, or
incorporated into other Themes.

Chip

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ryan Frankel <ryan.frankel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Otto,
>  Does this also mean if I make it pass all of the tests it would still be
> rejected by the Theme Review team?
>
> -Ryan
>
> On May 24, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Otto wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Ryan Frankel <ryan.frankel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>  I am trying to submit a ticket task/management theme to the WordPress
> repo
> >
> > Custom purpose-built themes cannot be submitted to the repository at
> > this time. Themes must currently support a standard blogging platform
> > or CMS type of system.
> >
> > Heck, right now we're not even allowing child themes due to a lack of
> > core support for them (will very likely be in WP 3.3). Before allowing
> > this sort of thing into the repository, it would have to be discussed
> > and considered by the core dev team. It might be worth bringing it up
> > when the 3.3 features discussion takes place around early-mid July
> > (after 3.2 is released).
> >
> > -Otto
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