[theme-reviewers] XFN Profile

Wed Jul 16 18:35:48 UTC 2014

This is the official guideline http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/
This is maintained by the theme review admins.

The other is a copy which the doc team created.

On 16 July 2014 20:17, John Wilson <mail at johnwilsononline.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > John Wilson
>>> >
>>> >
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