[wp-docs] Codex pages relating to theme development

Andrew Nacin wp at andrewnacin.com
Wed Jul 14 01:48:31 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Lance Willett <nanobar at gmail.com> wrote:

> > http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Theme_Compatibility
> >
> > While this page in particular is mostly obsolete, it does raise some
> points
> > for people who release themes that may be used in a network of sites.
> >
> > The whol page can go as the title is misleading. :D theme devs need to be
> > aware of things like the edit_themes capped used for accessing theme
> options
> > pages will prevent blog admins in a network from seeing those menus.
> That's
> > pretty much it.
>
> Great, thanks for the reminder, Andrea.


This might be a good time to plug the new edit_theme_options capability in
3.0. Use it instead of switch_themes for options panels, unless the user
actually should be able to switch themes to be able to use your options
panel. We use it for menus, background, header, etc.
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