Archive for category Compatibility

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.