[theme-reviewers] Formal Request for Change of Methodology.

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

The theme tools can check for those things, make the tools work for us; 
those plugins can check if there's a registration of sidebars - especially 
the uploader in this case.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:13 PM
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Formal Request for Change of Methodology.

Well what if someone download a theme that doesn't support a core
feature of WordPress? Like no sidebar or no support for widgets?




On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<philip at frumph.net> wrote:
> 1) Remove all requirements and recommendations, change it all to 'best
> practices', do not remove anything in the codex just yet.
>
> 2) Theme review process.
> * Theme reviewers tag a theme for review. / It already passed the upload
> checker
> * Check theme with the other plugin(s)[1] available for development, check
> it for notices, warnings, fatals and deprecation messages, Pass/Fail
> * Check theme with theme unit test.  Pass/Fail
> * Review the tags, website links, theme name.  Pass/Fail
>
> It's done, it's reviewed, it's over, if it passed all of those, flag it as
> passing review and live.
>
> 3) Anything else missing on the above list that is a MUST should be added 
> to
> the list but only if it's a MUST, and can't go live no exception.
>
> [1] Make the plugins work for the theme review team; add common security
> problems, etc.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This is it, this is all that is needed.     Everything else is icing on 
> the
> cake for best practices.
>
>
> Themes are the 'meat and potatoes' of WordPress, the idea that a theme 
> must
> adhere and be cross compatible with other themes in features is a nuance
> that is unnecessary to worry about.   Plugins are made to enhance themes; 
> if
> a plugin doesn't work with a theme the community WILL contact the author;
> they always do.   As long as the theme is up to date with core coding 
> which
> all of the tools at our disposal make you aware of - of which even the
> messages from core will also state things it is unnecessary to do anything
> otherwise.
>
> // not sure about
> Not sure what Nacin wrote in entirety on the Make site, but having the
> themes that are live and pass the upload process and immediately go live
> again would be a boon; that basically makes it like the theme developer 
> has
> svn access, without having svn access.
>
>
>
>
>
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