[theme-reviewers] Is SMOF framework allowed?

[Harish]

Hi Afzaal,

Had you looked at http://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/. SMOF is a
similar to this.

You simply can allow users to install this. That way your theme remains
lightweight and your users can always have access to latest version of
Options framework. 

Many themes have integrated this within the theme itself, but unless your
customizing it to a great extend, its pointless to include it in a theme. 


Regards,
Harish Chouhan

Visit me at - www.harishchouhan.com 
Phone: +91-9833661410 | Email: me at harishchouhan.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: theme-reviewers [mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org]
On Behalf Of wordpress at thinkupthemes.com
Sent: Thu 05 September 13 10:50 PM
To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.; Chip Bennett
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Is SMOF framework allowed?

Totally agree! The theme should still look like a theme when activated. I'd
suggest that you have clear documentation so users know they can change
options from the theme options page. Make it super clear.

So would I be right in assuming that SMOF is allowed then? I'll submit my
theme next week and can completely strip it out if SMOF is not allowed, but
didn't want to as I thought it would be cool to give a premium level theme
for free.

Afzaal



Quoting Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>:

> You should never, ever need to redirect the user to the Theme options 
> page upon activation.
>
> Instead, the Theme should define and use sane defaults as a fallback, 
> in case the user does not configure Theme options.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Towfiq I. <tislam100 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> on a different note, is it possible to redirect the user to theme 
>> options page after activating the theme? If so, how?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:58 PM, <wordpress at thinkupthemes.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Harish,
>>>
>>> Great idea. I'll add a recommendation for the plugin to be installed 
>>> using TGM activation. Thanks, I'll remove this and take your advice.
>>>
>>> Afzaal
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Harish <me at harishchouhan.com>:
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Any reason why you want to roll in the twitter widget in your theme?
>>>> Simply
>>>> show a message after activation to help people download the plugin. 
>>>> Will make your theme smaller and if the users change theme, they 
>>>> won't lose their twitter widget.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Harish Chouhan
>>>>
>>>> Visit me at - www.harishchouhan.com
>>>> Phone: +91-9833661410 | Email: me at harishchouhan.com
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: theme-reviewers [mailto:theme-reviewers-** 
>>>> bounces at lists.wordpress.org<theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress
>>>> .org>
>>>> ]
>>>> On Behalf Of wordpress at thinkupthemes.com
>>>> Sent: Thu 05 September 13 10:21 PM
>>>> To:  
>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.**wordpress.org<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpre
>>>> ss.org>
>>>> Subject: [theme-reviewers] Is SMOF framework allowed?
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm in the final stages of completing my WordPress theme and think 
>>>> people may find it useful so am thinking about trying to get it 
>>>> into the WordPress repository. I've noticed a few warnings however 
>>>> that have appeared when running theme-check.
>>>>
>>>> 1. base64_encode error in the framework SMOF. I used this because 
>>>> of the referral on 
>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/**Theme_Frameworks<http://codex.wordpres
>>>> s.org/Theme_Frameworks>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> 2. base64_encode in the Twitter feed widget which I've packaged 
>>>> into the theme 
>>>> http://wordpress.org/plugins/**tweetscroll-widget/<http://wordpress
>>>> .org/plugins/tweetscroll-widget/>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> If anyone can shed any light on if these are major errors I'd 
>>>> really appreciate your help. I really want to make sure that my 
>>>> themes are 100% safe so am spending a lot of time on finding any
errors.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Afzaal
>>>>
>>>> ______________________________**_________________
>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.**wordpress.org<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpre
>>>> ss.org> 
>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/**mailman/listinfo/theme-**reviewers<htt
>>>> p://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers>
>>>>
>>>> ______________________________**_________________
>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.**wordpress.org<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpre
>>>> ss.org> 
>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/**mailman/listinfo/theme-**reviewers<htt
>>>> p://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________________**_________________
>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> theme-reviewers at lists.**wordpress.org<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpres
>>> s.org> 
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/**mailman/listinfo/theme-**reviewers<http
>>> ://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Towfiq I.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>
>>
>



_______________________________________________
theme-reviewers mailing list
theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers