[wp-hackers] Themes Being Unofficially Distributed with Security Vulnerabilities - Time for an Official Theme Repository?

[Robin Adrianse]

Anyone could do it, really (at least anyone with reasonable knowledge of
code).

Hell, I'd be willing to help out with that... but I wouldn't really want to
be the only one, in case I got tied up in something else and the repository
just stalled... which is what happened with themes.wordpress.net IIRC.

On Nov 28, 2007 3:56 PM, Christine Davis <christine at neato.co.nz> wrote:

> > But that's easily gamed by spammers. They're not *that* stupid, you know
> > ;).
>
>
> I'm all for anything that makes it more difficult.  The current zero
> checks
> which are currently in place are vastly easier to work around d:
>
> I don't think machine-verification would be that productive, to be honest.
> > And it wouldn't really be that hard for a human to just give the theme
> > files
> > a quick look-over.
> >
>
> Who did you have in mind to do that?
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