[theme-reviewers] specialty themes, theme options that are only used if plugins are installed

[Emil Uzelac]

This is not a specialty Theme. What falls under the plugin territory should
be noted and required to be either removed or moved into a companion
plugin. We do not based exceptions on how old the Theme is. Rules are equal
for all.

On Thursday, May 22, 2014, carolina poena <myazalea at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'm reviewing a rather large update for a theme that is already live, and
> it's very complex but the majority of the
> code seems to be for functionality, not the actual design of a site.
> How do we handle these specialty themes? Do we ask admin if the author has
> been granted an exception, or is it enough that
> an admin at some point has pushed it live?
>
> The theme *almost* works without the recommended plugin -it doesn't
> display the latest posts and there is a broken slideshow.
> *The purpose of the theme is obvious *and it was also first approved 16
> months ago, when is a theme considered old enough to be an exception?
> I do feel that, since there already is a plugin, it would be a better
> choice to update the plugin, and clean up the theme.
>
> When does it become "too much"?  it's a real estate theme and I'm finding
> options for
> Maximum Listings Per Search
> Price Range Options
> Currency Symbol
> (+analytics)
> etc.
> All of these are in the themes option page regardless if the plugin is
> installed or not, but most of them only actually do something if the plugin
> is installed.
>
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18824
>
>
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