[theme-reviewers] Is it approprite or not?

[Otto]

I've emailed the authors about the plugin and the theme and asked them
what-up-with-that, sort of thing.

-Otto


On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> 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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