[theme-reviewers] Webmaster Tools IDs - plugin territory?

[Emil Uzelac]

No disrespect to anyone :)
On Jul 16, 2013 1:24 AM, "Emil Uzelac" <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> This is far from what WordPress stands for. And as an "admin" I will leave
> up to you. Yes I can go in and change them this instant, but there is not
> enough support to do that so. So go ahead and proceed on your own and when
> this bites you, well you know who made this possible and from whom you are
> going to ask answers from.
> On Jul 16, 2013 12:23 AM, "Fränk Klein" <wp-mailing at fklein.info> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:54:33 -0500, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>> > Authors that offer this as an optional feature via Theme Options
>> > should not be allowed to include them with their Themes! Why?
>> >
>> > I really don't see the reason to ban this from Themes. Recommend,
>> > sure, let's do that, but to say no, you cannot, is just wrong :)
>> >
>> > Excluding this from Themes (*in case that author does not fork*
>> > *into a plugin*) will "break" the Theme and that user experience we
>> > talked about will be a terrible one. Not to mention the author.
>> >
>> > So in this case it's fine to do that because that's the guideline
>> > but it is not if the same user decides to switch the Theme and
>> > loses their features. Sorry I don't buy that.
>> >
>> > *Cease and desist :(*
>>
>> Themes are not the place for such features. As Justin said this is
>> clear-cut plugin territory and as such these features need to be removed.
>>
>> I'm okay with "recommending" the removal of such features, but only for
>> already accepted themes and for a limited amount of time. Having two
>> different sets of standards for old and new themes is not only extremely
>> confusing for reviewers, but also unfair to other theme developers so this
>> needs to be a temporary measure. Let's give theme authors three months to
>> adapt their themes and after that the rule will be enforced the same for
>> new and old themes.
>>
>> You are right that if an author decides to first implement such features
>> and then simply removes them without extracting the code into a plugin,
>> this will be a terrible user experience. There is little that we can do
>> about that as every theme author needs to care about his own user base. The
>> only thing that we can prevent is the bad user experience when switching
>> themes, so we should focus on that.
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