[theme-reviewers] Theme Activation Hook

[Otto]

Note that at some point in the nebulous future, if your theme saves
"default options" to the database and relies on that working, then it
will very likely be broken-as-heck in the theme previewer. My long
term plan there is to make a database for it, then make the whole
thing completely read-only. No saving of anything to the database,
period.

So make sure you're using defaults correctly. Default settings are the
one you use when there are *no* settings in the database or anywhere
else. You should not rely on being able to "write" to anywhere to have
the thing work properly.

-Otto


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Konstantin Kovshenin
<kovshenin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are you trying to write the default options to the database? You can
> just use $options = get_option( 'your_theme_options', $defaults ); and
> update them only if they've changed on your options page. I would also
> suggest looking into theme mods and not options:
> https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_theme_mod
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Towfiq I. <tislam100 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are we allowed to use:
>>
>> if (is_admin() && isset($_GET['activated'] ) && $pagenow == "themes.php" )
>> {}
>>
>>
>> example:
>> ---------------------
>> if (is_admin() && isset($_GET['activated'] ) && $pagenow == "themes.php" )
>> {
>>   $option_default_values = array(
>> "block1_text_id" => "Lorem Ipsum",
>> "block1_textarea_id" => "Lorem Ipsum blah blah blah");
>>
>> update_option('theme_options', $option_default_values);
>> }
>> --------------------------
>>
>> if we are not, what should we use instead?
>> after_setup_theme doesnt work btw.
>>
>> or should we use after_switch_theme?
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Towfiq I.
>>
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>
>
> --
> Konstantin
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