[theme-reviewers] Can Options Framework be included with the theme?

[Ulrich Pogson]

@Admins - Do the setting/option frameworks need to be bundled into the
theme and cannot be loaded as plugin?


On 5 March 2014 12:26, Bass Jobsen <bass at w3masters.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Please also see: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15869#comment:19
> On the first sight i also thought it as impossible to make it optional.
> Then read: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15869#comment:21
> Finally i made it optional, i think that's the right chose now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bass
>
>
> 2014-03-05 11:53 GMT+01:00 Thomas Ireland <info at designchapter.com>:
>
> Sorry to bring this up again
>>
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17038 - Theme is using
>> optiontree plugin which unlike options framework does not have a framework,
>> therefore it has been bundled with the theme. I think I have correctly
>> advised magictheme that this plugin territory (and this is affirmed by
>> Chip's comment on https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16895) and
>> should consider using options framework instead.
>>
>> However when I search I can see that theme Hueman
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16616 uses option tree in a
>> similar fashion and has been approved multiple times with it bundled.
>>
>> I just want to know that going forward:
>>  - I should still take the plugin territory stance (and advice use of
>> Options-Framework framework
>>  - or make the decision on a per theme basis?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> No worries; just a general reminder. This specific issue is probably
>>> worth bringing to the mail-list post-resolution, as it has come up a few
>>> times now. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, chip. But, I do understand that. But, Even I wasn't 100% sure. It
>>>> was tried explaining to the author, but he said a new rule is there against
>>>> it. Hence, I was all skeptical again.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for bringing it to the mailing list. Pardon me.
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:59:22 -0500
>>>>
>>>> From: chip at chipbennett.net
>>>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Can Options Framework be included with
>>>> the theme?
>>>>
>>>> Note: this is probably something that should have been attempted to be
>>>> resolved in-ticket before bringing to the list.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, indeed. I have been using the Framework version, since always and
>>>> hence wasn't never asked to change it by any reviewer.
>>>>
>>>> Here is a ticket no. https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16871
>>>>
>>>> I think, catchthemes is a new reviewer and not familiar with it. I will
>>>> refer him to read this mail.
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:56:18 -0500
>>>> From: chip at chipbennett.net
>>>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Can Options Framework be included with
>>>> the theme?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Options Framework can be confusing, because it comes in two forms: a
>>>> stand-alone Plugin, and a framework intended to be integrated into a Theme
>>>> or Plugin. Themes should use the framework version.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Otions framework and many other frameworks are included in many themes
>>>> for a long time, your reviewer may have misconstrued the plugins should not
>>>> be bundled rule.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> I have been beliveing that options framework is allowed in themes. And
>>>> it has been included in most of my themes. But, in one of the reviews, the
>>>> Author Asked me to remove the Options Framework, and make the user install
>>>> it separately as a plugin.
>>>>
>>>> Technically, my theme doesn't bundle the OF plugin. Its theme options
>>>> panel is built using it with slight modification.
>>>>
>>>> Is there are rule like this, where I can not include OF in the theme? I
>>>> know that bundling external plugins, is not allowed. But, I think its
>>>> different about Options Framework.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Rohit Tripathi
>>>>
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