[wp-hackers] WP Theme Directory Submission Restrictions

[Joost de Valk]

Otto,

While I agree with most of what you're saying, I don't think it's wise  
to set that all in stone, restrictions aren't the best thing to boost  
creativity :-)

Cheers,
Joost

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On Oct 6, 2008, at 16:51, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I don't agree, just as I don't agree that all proper C programs ought
>> to have all of their code in a single .c file with nary a #include to
>> be found.  CSS is coding, thus modularization and code reuse are just
>> as valid in its context as they are in Java, PHP, C, et al.
>>
>> I don't want to include the contents of my reset.css in every  
>> stinking
>> CSS doc that I author.  It's inefficient, it's messy and it leads to
>> all sorts of nastiness down the road.
>
> We're talking about a WordPress theme here, not an desktop  
> application.
>
> While I agree with your general theory on code reuse and
> modularization, I'm extremely hard pressed to think of a legitimate
> case for this in the very specific context of a WordPress theme. WP
> themes are not that complex, in general, nor do they need to be. When
> I see a theme with multiple CSS files (or god help me, a "style.php"),
> then I'm inclined to think that somebody is trying way, way too hard.
>
> -Otto
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