[theme-reviewers] ASCII art in header.php

[Justin Tadlock]

I'm fine with fun things like ASCII-art as long as it's not publicly 
visible in the HTML source like that.  Don't do things like this for 
brand promotion though.  Do it for fun.  And, put it in functions.php or 
style.css.

WP has a long history of Easter eggs.  Even Kubrick has its own thing 
(scroll to bottom):
http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/default/1.7.2/style.css

I even dropped a quote from one of my favorite shows in my last theme 
for fellow sci-fi nerds.

On 4/3/2014 7:37 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> I would consider an ASCII-art HTML "powered by datacube" comment to be 
> tacky and inappropriate promotion. AuthorURI is there, and equally 
> publicly visible in source, in style.css.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me 
> <mailto:emil at uzelac.me>> wrote:
>
>     We don't have any specific requirements, however I would treat the
>     ASCII like name="author", meaning it should not be in header.php.
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Ryan Cowles
>     <ryan.cowles at automattic.com <mailto:ryan.cowles at automattic.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Howdy,
>
>         I've been reviewing a theme that includes a large ASCII art
>         comment in header.php. I imagine that this is not acceptable,
>         but I can't seem to tie it to a specific rule/guideline.
>         Here's the file for reference:
>         https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/dc_genomics/1.0/header.php
>
>         Does this in fact violate any of the requirements? And if so,
>         which one?
>
>         Thanks!
>         Ryan
>
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