[theme-reviewers] Is there an official stance on shortcodes in themes?

[Mario Peshev]

It's considered a bad practice and a plugin territory.

Mario Peshev



On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Slobodan Manic <slobodan.manic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I searched mailing list archives since January 2012 and found a few
> discussions but no definite answer, so, is there one? Does this<http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Presentation_vs_Functionality>apply to shortcodes:
>
> *Since the purpose of Themes is to define the presentation of user
> content, Themes must not be used to define the generation of user content,
> or to define Theme-independent site options or functionality.*
> *
> *
> In my eyes that should completely eliminate shortcodes and custom post
> types, and sorry if this was already stated somewhere and I missed it.
>
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