[theme-reviewers] Can Text Domain be name of the Theme shop?

[Srikanth Koneru]

http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2013-July/014378.html


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Hugo Saner <hugo at sanerdesign.com> wrote:

> Seeing as theme frameworks are so popular and the basis for a lot of theme
> developers work can this future core feature that has yet to be written not
> bend a little to allow this framework trend to work?
>
> I just cannot see how we will be able to do any translations for our free
> themes otherwise
>
>
>
> On 6 Feb 2014, at 12:17, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Text domain must be the theme slug, not a out dated rule but a rule to
> facilitate some core feature in future.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the rule should simply be that it must be unique to the theme and
>> not generic. A theme shop's name is definitely unique, relevant and
>> appropriate enough to not cause any issues/conflicts and make sense to the
>> end-user.
>>
>> I see 0% danger in this, perhaps it's more an out-dated rule, with a
>> philosophical reason or it's simply always been the rule so the thought is
>> "Why change it?"
>>
>> In theme development and management in general where it concerns
>> developers or theme shops who have essentially built their own framework
>> and then release multiple theme designs on top of that one unique
>> framework, I think it's very good practice to keep everything consistent
>> and tight, same slugs, function prefixes, text domains etc etc.
>>
>> This is not only good for ease of managing the project on the
>> development's side, but also ease-of-use for the end-user who may decide to
>> for example upgrade to the pro version of a theme or try another one of the
>> shop's free themes, keeping everything seamless and options intact.
>>
>> I can only think of pros as far as development consistency like this is
>> concerned, but would be interested in hearing what some of the cons may be,
>> if any, for keeping the rule intact without a revision.
>>
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