[theme-reviewers] Plugins and Themes

[Edward Caissie]

Interestingly enough, this point came up in a recent Meetup about plugins I
just organized.

I would likely think that item 7 in the Plugin Guidelines (
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/guidelines/) would cover this,
but in so doing if the plugin author is using new functionality only
available in a newer version of a core-bundled script I would interpret
item 7 to allow this providing the plugin author also advises the end-user
the plugin is doing so (perhaps in the plugin description).

Fortunately Theme Guidelines simply do not allow for it at all (*grin*)


Cais.


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Emil.
>
> AFAIK, plugins which are hosted in the WP repo shouldn't be deregistering
> core jquery at all.
>
> Best thing to do is report such plugins or inquire at
> plugins at wordpress.org and they can take appropriate action. They usually
> write back and inform you about the action taken on the plugin. I reported
> a plugin which phoned home (and more) and they took it off right away and
> let me know about it.
>
> Mercime
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> Right and that's something I like and support all the way :)
>>
>> Question was prompted by this http://pastebin.com/MaVFM1KZ and not just
>> this, there are more plugins just like it where plugin author "kills" the
>> bundled JS library, in this particular case the jQuery and "injects" not
>> only non-bundle, but also higher version as well.
>>
>> I guess they are "allowed" to do this right? and there's nothing we can
>> do from Theme's end to prevent that :(
>>
>> P.S. Higher version is most of the time compatibility issue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emil
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure I understand the question.
>>>
>>>    - If a Theme wants to use jQuery, it should call wp_enqueue_script(
>>>    'jquery' ), to enqueue the core-bundled jQuery library.
>>>    - If a Plugin wants to use jQuery, it should call wp_enqueue_script(
>>>    'jquery' ), to enqueue the core-bundled jQuery library.
>>>    - No Theme or Plugin should de-register core-bundled jQuery, in
>>>    order to register any other version of jQuery.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity: what prompted the question?
>>>
>>> Chip
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Guys!
>>>>
>>>> Should plugin check first if the Theme is already "calling" the jQuery
>>>> and if it does, plugin should do nothing and also not to remove wp_enqueue_script
>>>> and "inject" higher version via Google API?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Emil
>>>>
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