First, this question should be asked on the Theme Reviewers mail-list, not at WPSE. If you want official answers, you should use the official communication channels. But to answer your question in brief: Themes that implement core features/functionality are required to support the core implementation of those features/functionality. Thus, the requirement to use wp_link_pages() is… … Read more
What make possible unit test plugins?
What’s the best practice way of handling custom fields in different post formats?
Add comments for template variables
Should I check for privileges before hooking into `wp_ajax_$handle` or after?
If there is anything printed above the logo, then in most cases it’s caused by some errors in PHP. So somewhere in your theme or in one of plugins there is some bad code that is causing this. And these characters suggest that they’re some badly converted UTF characters or some other characters that are … Read more
Prefixing plugin hooks (actions/filters) with a wrapper class or functions
Memory is not the issue here. There are no complex operations, and the difference will be almost unmeasurable. What matters is readability: If your stuff function is rather short (less than eight functional steps) and you use the check just once – keep the check in it. But if you need the support check in … Read more
WordPress coding standards are loosely based on the Pear Coding Standards The Drupal open source project also follows similar standards and has published a guide to configuring various editors and IDEs which includes code for a Emacs Drupal mode which can be modified slightly for WordPress.
You’re not supposed to assign multiple variables on a single line. Do them separately: $pf_param_string = substr( $pf_param_string, 0, – 1 ); $validate_string = $pf_param_string; Or, if you don’t need both variables, just skip one of them: $validate_string = substr( $pf_param_string, 0, – 1 );