The theme check plugin is easy way to test your theme and make sure it's up to spec with the theme review standards.
This is very handy for theme developers, or anybody looking to make sure that their theme supports WordPress theme standards and practices..
Theme Review team use this plugin while reviewing themes and copy paste the output into trac tickets, the trac system has its own markup language..
Themes should be reviewed using the data from Theme Checklists — ) define.
The number is the date of the revision of the guidelines used to create it...
The theme check is designed to be non-perfect way to test for compliance with Theme Review guidelines.
The purpose of the tool is to ensure that themes uploaded to WordPress org repository meet the latest standards of WordPress themes and will work on variety of sites..
But themes that are intended for use on many different kinds of sites by the public need to have minimum level of capabilities, order to ensure proper functioning in many different environments.
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
Chips suggestion of checking for inclusion of searchform php . add theme page is required, all others flagged and displayed with line numbers. < = detected, short tags outputted with line umbers..
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