Updates to Theme Check

An update to the Theme Check plugin has been released.

  • Added escaping checks
  • Added tested up to and Requires PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. checks for the style.css
  • Added register_block_type to pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party territory check
  • Check for remove_action wp_head
  • Changed some checks from errors to warnings
  • Updated error messages
  • Updated regex for non printable characters
  • Fixed parse errors
  • Removed unused functions

For more details about the changes see the Github repository.

If you would like to contribute to Theme Check, issues and pull requests are welcome.

If you are experiencing problems with uploading your theme, you can open a issue on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/. We may need a copy of your theme to trouble shoot.