[theme-reviewers] Ticket #8055: Need help.

Kirk Wight kwight at kwight.ca
Wed Jun 6 22:39:28 UTC 2012


I think the confusion is in terminology. There are both a wp_title filter
and a wp_title template tag; the requirement refers to the template tag
which, if taken as-is from Twenty Eleven, should be fine.


On 6 June 2012 16:08, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net> wrote:

>   This one is new to me, the reference is here:
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Required_Hooks_and_Navigation
>
>  apply_filters(‘wp_title is found in wp-includes/general-template.php
>
>  It determines what the title is supposed to output, however it doesn’t
> do everything that people want it to, in most cases it doesn’t output the
> bloginfo appropriately on the home page that is specific for the theme.
>
>  It’s not that the codex is wrong at being a requirement, it’s more so
> that the current standards do not have enough documentation and core
> automatic themes are not utilizing the filter appropriately.
>
>  Example twentyeleven theme:
>
> <title><?php
>     /*
>      * Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
>      */
>     global $page, $paged;
>
>     wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );
>
>     // Add the blog name.
>     bloginfo( 'name' );
>
>     // Add the blog description for the home/front page.
>     $site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
>     if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
>         echo " | $site_description";
>
>     // Add a page number if necessary:
>     if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
>         echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyeleven' ), max(
> $paged, $page ) );
>
>     ?></title>
>
> This could actually be written as such:
>
> add_filter(‘wp_title’, ‘twentyeleven_wp_title’);
>
> function twentyeleven_wp_title($title) {
> global $wp_query, $paged, $page;
>     // add the blog name.
>     $title .= get_bloginfo(‘name’);
>     // Add the blog description for the home/front page.
>     $site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
>     if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
>         $title .= " | $site_description";
>     // add a page number if necessary
>     // Add a page number if necessary:
>     if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
>         $title .= ' | ' . _x( 'Page %s', 'twentyeleven' ), max( $paged,
> $page ) ;
>     return $title;
> }
>
> ^  little unsure of the _x( part and I’m doing this from memory.
>
> But the biggest issue probably is lack of documentation to make that a
> requirement and people in the know not using it.
>
> However, as you can see.   It *should* be done this way.
>
> So the end result would be:
>
> <title><?php wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’); ?></title>
>
>  ^^ Now, the problem will be the output.    Someone else want to chime in
> on if this is correct?
>
>  - Phil
>
>   *From:* Gazpo Themes <themes at gazpo.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:52 PM
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* [theme-reviewers] Ticket #8055: Need help.
>
> Hello,
> I need help about my theme ticket (
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8055)
>
> The theme reviewer has suggested: 'Themes must use wp_title filter.'
> I have used the wp_title from the twenty eleven theme, and I can see that
> it works fine. Can someone tell me what's wrong with it?
>
> Also about the header banner, it is by default linked to the local site
> where it will be installed. I really can't see where the problem is.
>
> Can someone please tell me about above issues, I will highly appreciate.
>
> Thanks.
> Sami.
>
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