[theme-reviewers] Removing core features

[Daniel]

As far as I know removing core features is a no no unless there is an
option page for that.

On 5/22/13, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12168>
>
> Just grabbed a new ticket and immediately noticed this in the theme's
> functions.php:
>
> remove_action('wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);
> remove_action('wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link', 10, 0);
> remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links_extra',3);
> remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_shortlink_wp_head');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links', 2);
> remove_action('wp_head', 'index_rel_link');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_next');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'parent_post_rel_link', 10, 0);
> remove_action('wp_head', 'locale_stylesheet');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'noindex');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_print_styles');
> remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_print_head_scripts');
>
> The theme itself is pretty basic and is not removing any of the above
> because they are being replaced with custom functionality. It's just
> removing core functionality for no apparent reason - which makes me
> uncomfortable. Do you think that they could create problems for users in
> terms of a smooth transition from theme-to-theme?
>
> Mel
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Regards,
Daniel Fenn