[theme-reviewers] Settings API required or recommended?

[Justin Tadlock]

Basically, theme authors should either be using the Settings API or Theme
Mods API if they're building a theme settings page.  It's not strictly
required to use the Settings API, but for the majority of cases you might
as well say it's a requirement because it's going to take care of a lot of
problems present with custom-built theme options pages.  There are, of
course, exceptions, but I don't think I've seen one yet here on
WordPress.org.

Ideally, we'd push theme authors to use the Theme Customizer as much as
possible, which would eliminate most issues with theme options.



On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ulrich Pogson <grapplerulrich at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It is recommended but if it is not used then security precautions should
> be taken.
> https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/theme-security-and-privacy/#theme-settings-and-data-security
>
> On 29 September 2014 22:53, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Need confirmation.
>>
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