[theme-reviewers] Why the double standards and why Pagelines gets special treatment?

[// ravi]

On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Satish Gandham wrote:
> <heartfelt rant deleted with apologies>
> 
> *****Points from theme review guidelines*********
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review
> 	• Themes are required to save options in a single array, rather than create multiple options for its settings page. Use of set_theme_mod and get_theme_mod handles this for you, as does using the Settings API.
> 

This is great, I learnt something - these two functions, looking through the source code of which I find, if I am reading it right, the answer to my earlier question regarding serialisation of options.

If nobody has any objections (perhaps I should ask on a wp-docs mailing list?) I would like to make the following updates to the Codex:

1. Add a pointer at the bottom of the pages for get_option() and set_option(), pointing theme creators to these two functions as the preferred way to store theme settings.

2. Update these two Codex pages with a description of their usage.

	—ravi