[theme-reviewers] XFN Profile

Wed Jul 16 18:17:00 UTC 2014

On the topic of guidelines, and what's the right ones to use. When doing
Theme Reviews, I've been using both these resources (along with the Codex &
Chip's guide):

   1. http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/
   2.
   http://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/part-four-releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/

Are they both the same & maintained inline with each other or is there a
best practice to base reviews on one over the other?

Thanks,
John

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Otto!
>
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I just found that after a bit of searching. Looks like
>> this statement has existed for some time. Dunno where it originally
>> came from though.
>>
>> I'm editing that handbook page to remove that last sentence. It's clearly
>> untrue and should not be allowed to continue further.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:50 PM, John Wilson <mail at johnwilsononline.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Otto,
>> >
>> > I spotted you picked this up on one of my reviews. I found this in the
>> Theme
>> > Review Guidelines of the Theme Developer Handbook...
>> >
>> http://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/part-four-releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/#doctype-declaration
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This was pointed out on StackExchange and I found some tickets
>> referring
>> >> to it:
>> >>
>> >> Correct XFN profile link in <head> tag: <head
>> >> profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"> or <link rel="profile"
>> >> href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" /> (Exception: Wholly HTML 5 themes
>> >> must not have the profile, as HTML 5 does not support it.)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Where does the last part about HTML 5 come from? Where was this
>> >> sentence obtained?
>> >>
>> >> HTML 5, like all HTML's, ignores things it does not know about.
>> >> There's nothing I know of that would make "link rel=profile" invalid
>> >> or incorrect, and there is no reason to omit it from a theme just
>> >> because hand-wavy-HTML5.
>> >>
>> >> I believe this information is incorrect and we should not be giving
>> >> incorrect information to theme authors. It causes confusion and
>> >> nitpickiness, especially among those who don't know HTML that well to
>> >> begin with. All the default themes have the link rel=profile in them
>> >> for the XFN linkage.
>> >>
>> >> -Otto
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