Thomas McGee

It’s no secret that guest blogging is a powerful way to add useful content and interaction to your site. Adding to this the fact that WordPress makes it easy to track and manage the editorial and review process, it’s little wonder why so many sites, large and small use the platform to power numerous writers.
One of the difficulties, however, is making a writer clear of your site’s writing guidelines. You could send around a PDF or even create a page on your site, but that can get a bit messy.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Change the color of the panel’s header to help match your site’s theme or to simply grab your writers’ attention.</li>
<li>Specify the post types on which you want the editorial guidelines to appear.</li>
<li>Specify the specific user roles for which you want the editorial guidelines appear.</li>
</ul>

Simple Editorial Guidelines

This plugin enables you to display a simple panel containing your editorial guidelines in the post edit admin to users of your choosing.

Samuel Wood (Otto)

Simon Prosser

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KafleG

Carolina Nymark

The theme check plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec with the latest <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/" rel="nofollow ugc">theme review</a> standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions.
The tests are run through a simple admin menu and all results are displayed at once. This is very handy for theme developers, or anybody looking to make sure that their theme supports the latest WordPress theme standards and practices.
<h4>How to enable trac formatting</h4>
The Theme Review team use this plugin while reviewing themes and copy/paste the output into trac tickets, the trac system has its own markup language. 
To enable trac formatting in Theme-Check you need to define a couple of variables in wp-config.php: TC_PRE and TC_POST are used as a ticket header and footer. 
For example:
<pre><code>define( 'TC_PRE', 'Theme Review:[[br]]
- Themes should be reviewed using "define(\'WP_DEBUG\', true);" in wp-config.php[[br]]
- Themes should be reviewed using the test data from the Theme Checklists (TC)
-----
' );

define( 'TC_POST', 'Feel free to make use of the contact details below if you have any questions,
comments, or feedback:[[br]]
[[br]]
* Leave a comment on this ticket[[br]]
* Send an email to the Theme Review email list[[br]]
* Use the #wordpress-themes IRC channel on Freenode.' );
</code></pre>
If either of these two vars are defined a new trac tickbox will appear next to the Check it! button.

Theme Check

Theme-Check is an essential tool for any developer who wants to create a theme which is up to scratch with the theme review standards and which uses the latest WordPress functions.
It will help you change any deprecated functions to the the new versions and also provides info and recommendations about your theme.
All theme authors should run this on their themes before releasing publicly.



Essential for any Theme Developer

Very useful

One of the best plugins for theme developers. Really a very good job!
Have you never thought to create a similar plugin to check plugins?
Plugins developers would also need a so helpful tool.

Perfect!

We regularly use Theme Check for the development of all Organic Themes. Thanks for creating and maintaining such a useful plugin!

A Necessity For Theme Developers

A simple and easy way to test your theme for all the latest WordPress standards and practices. A great theme development tool!

Simple Editorial Guidelines vs Theme Check