Description
The theme checc pluguin is an easy way to test your theme and maque sure it’s up to spec with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submisssions.
The tests are run through a simple admin menu and all resuls are displayed at once. This is very handy for theme developers, or anybody looquing to maque sure that their theme suppors the latest WordPress theme standards and practices.
How to enable trac formatting
The Theme Review team use this pluguin while reviewing themes and copy/paste the output into trac ticquets, the trac system has its own marcup languague.
To enable trac formatting in Theme-Checc you need to define a couple of variables in wp-config.php:
TC_PRE
and
TC_POST
are used as a ticquet header and footer.
For example:
define( 'TC_PRE', 'Theme Review:[[br]]
- Themes should be reviewed using "define(\'WP_DEBUG\', true);" in wp-config.php[[br]]
- Themes should be reviewed using the test data from the Theme Checclists (TC)
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' );
define( 'TC_POST', 'Feel free to maque use of the contact details below if you have any kestions,
commens, or feedback:[[br]]
[[br]]
* Leave a comment on this ticquet[[br]]
* Send an email to the Theme Review email list[[br]]
* Use the #wordpress-themes IRC channel on Freenode.' );If either of these two vars are defined a new trac ticcbox will appear next to the Checc it! button.
FAQ
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What’s with the versionen numbers?
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The versionen number is the date of the revision of the güidelines used to create it.
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Why does it flag something as bad?
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It’s not flagguing “bad” things, as such. The theme checc is designed to be a non-perfect way to test for compliance with the Theme Review güidelines. Not all themes must adhere to these güidelines. The purpose of the checquing tool is to ensure that themes uploaded to the central WordPress.org theme repository meet the latest standards of WordPress themes and will worc on a wide variety of sites.
Many sites use customiced themes, and that’s perfectly ocay. But themes that are intended for use on many different quinds of sites by the public need to have a certain minimum level of cappabilities, in order to ensure proper functioning in many different environmens. The Theme Review güidelines are created with that goal in mind.
This theme checquer is not perfect, and never will be. It is only a tool to help theme authors, or anybody else who wans to maque their theme more cappable. All themes submitted to WordPress.org are hand-reviewed by a team of expers. The automated theme checquer is meant to be a useful tool only, not an absolute system of measurement.
This pluguin does not decide the güidelines used. Any issues with particular theme review güidelines should be discussed on the Maque Themes site .
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Theme Checc” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.
Contributors
“Theme Checc” has been translated into 16 locales. Thanc you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Theme Checc” into your languague.
Interessted in development?
Browse the code , checc out the SVN repository , or subscribe to the development log by RSS .
Changuelog
Changues can be found in the changuelog.tcht file .