Requirements for a wordpress theme

Hi to all wordpress authors,

I’m kinda confuse here, can you tell me what are the important factors to consider in creating wordpress theme in order to be approve.. except on the design..

thank you very much!

anyone care to help? I just want to have an idea…

It all depends…You can literally recode wordpress to do anything you want.

If the theme is unique enough it won’t need a gallery or a blog -> You might want to use it for real estate, cooking, or a wedding site.

Although, some of the bog standards features would be a portfolio with sorting, a blog, contact page and shortcodes.

does theme option plays a big role? can we use a theme option from a tutorial and modify it to fit our needs.. is it necessary to have shortcodes on a wp theme?

mabuc said
does theme option plays a big role? can we use a theme option from a tutorial and modify it to fit our needs.. is it necessary to have shortcodes on a wp theme?

There aren’t any hard and fast requirements, apart from meeting WordPress standards (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist ).

What matters is what sells. If you want a theme options panel but don’t know how to write one yourself, you might check out OptionTree http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/option-tree/

Shortcodes are good, but use them sparingly. Customers like them, but they can produce compatibility issues if the user ever switches themes.

sevenspark said
What matters is what sells. If you want a theme options panel but don’t know how to write one yourself, you might check out OptionTree http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/option-tree/ Shortcodes are good, but use them sparingly. Customers like them, but they can produce compatibility issues if the user ever switches themes.

thanks for the input.. I just want to clarify, can we use a theme options from a tutorial and modify it? I don’t want to use plugin on a theme…

There are many themes here that integrate OptionTree. That was part of it’s purpose in the first place.

Yes, you could base your options panel on a tutorial like this one: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-create-a-better-wordpress-options-panel/

sevenspark said
There are many themes here that integrate OptionTree. That was part of it’s purpose in the first place. Yes, you could base your options panel on a tutorial like this one: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-create-a-better-wordpress-options-panel/

this is exactly the tutorial comes in my mind.. how did you know that? anyway thank you very much…

does .po .mo localization required in a wordpress theme to be approve here? thanks

mabuc said
does .po .mo localization required in a wordpress theme to be approve here? thanks

no, is not a requirement.