Dear Theme Developers

Posted by on Jan 25, 2010 in Lazyest Gallery and tagged , ,
2 Comments

Dear theme developers, your themes are really a beautiful piece of art. It is also wonderful to see how a web site can be improved by installing a new theme. However, please do not forget that your theme is also part of a larger piece of software called WordPress. So do not forget to use the WordPress template tags. Too often users complain that Lazyest Gallery does not work, simply because one or more template tags do not exist. So before you publish a theme, please check if

  • <?php wp_head(); ?> is present just before the </head> tag;
  • <?php wp_footer(); ?> is present just before the </body> tag;
  • <?php comments_template(); ?> is present preferably in single.php and page.php;
  • <?php comment_id_fields(); ?> is present in comments.php
  • <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?> is present in comments.php

It is not too difficult to include these template tags, but it would make life much easier for us and other plugin developers.

2 Comments

  1. Marcel
    17 March 2010

    it’s probably a javascript error. I’m looking into it now.

  2. marcel
    17 March 2010

    all this is in my template..
    still the slide-show has stopped working on all my sides after update 1.6