[theme-reviewers] Is it approprite or not?

[Chip Bennett]

Otto has it exactly right. Repository-hosted Themes must be fully
functional "out of the box". They cannot rely on "required" plugin for
normal functionality.

Themes can integrate *support* for Plugins, to *enhance* Theme
functionality. But Themes must pass the Theme Review guidelines
as-installed.

Chip

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Nisha Singh <nisha at amiworks.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >  When i activate the 'Layout Engine Base theme'
> > (http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9131) for test, it is Showing
> > message "This theme cannot be run without Layout Engine framwork. Please
> > click here install it". Is  it approprite or not?
>
> My opinion: The theme should work without the plugin. The plugin
> should only provide enhancements of some sort. It's perfectly
> acceptable for the theme to recommend that the plugin be installed,
> and to show messages asking the user to install it, but the theme
> itself should be a functional unit without the plugin.
>
> I'm inclined to remove both the theme and the plugin completely,
> unless the author corrects the situation. Feel free to inform them of
> that.
>
> -Otto
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