WordPress/theme-check

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Theme Check plugin

Stars: 371
Forks: 113
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 40
Avg merge: 8m
Merged PRs (30d): 5

Dominant language: PHP
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 2, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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40 open issues indexed

Theme Check flags "wordpress" identifier as REQUIRED — false positive, do not "fix" by renaming Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/theme-check#505 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Blocklisted file-extension patterns are unanchored, so ordinary filenames fail the check Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

WordPress/theme-check#504 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Bug: "License" and "License URI" are missing from Theme Info summary when checking the active theme Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

WordPress/theme-check#494 · Opened Jul 6, 2026
Success box upon the theme check has a broken link for GitHub repo Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

WordPress/theme-check#492 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2026
Typescript Tests Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#491 · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Copyright Check False Positive Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#481 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 1, 2025
Text Domain Check False Positive on Child Theme Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

WordPress/theme-check#480 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 1, 2025
Should we move to semantic versioning relase names? Open

decision needed question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#469 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Handle checks and results as a structured array instead of an array of strings. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/theme-check#459 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
Let's make a way to run the theme-check via cli against arbitrary folders? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#438 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 13, 2022
text-domain is not parsed correctly when theme has no i18n translation Open

WordPress/theme-check#430 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2022
Incorrect results when run on child theme because of a possible bug in WP_Theme::get_files() Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#429 · Opened Jul 31, 2022
Issue with php 8.1 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#427 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 16, 2022
Check if readme file is empty or not Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/theme-check#419 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 29, 2022
Block upload with PHP notice Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

WordPress/theme-check#418 · Opened Jan 29, 2022
Translation function calls must not contain PHP variables.... Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#416 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 21, 2022
Themes without translation functions fails the text domain check Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WordPress/theme-check#413 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 4, 2022
Git and other extraneous files are not checked Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/theme-check#407 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 30, 2021
Add check for __MACOSX folder Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#403 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 11, 2021
Warn about jQuery usage on the front end Open

help wanted high priority

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#402 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 6, 2021
Reduce the screenshot ratio requirement to info Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/theme-check#398 · Opened Sep 24, 2021
Improve consistency and naming of variables Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#384 · Opened Aug 12, 2021
The readme.txt file check is not specific enough Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/theme-check#375 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 26, 2021
New check: Admin notices must be dismissible Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#365 · Opened Jul 2, 2021
Functions is being misread as a default WP function on theme update Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 28/100

WordPress/theme-check#356 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Add Unit Tests Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#290 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 3, 2020
Adapt checks for Full-Site Editing themes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#279 · 11 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2020
Go through code inspection and see what can be improved Open

enhancement

WordPress/theme-check#254 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 10, 2020
Follow WordPress coding standards Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#245 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2020
Parsedown class false positive for short tags Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#186 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2017
[Function _n] What wrong? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#175 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2016
Improve child theme support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

WordPress/theme-check#143 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2016
Escape and sanitize untrusted data [Warning] Open

sniffer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#141 · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 18, 2016
Use the Customizer for implementing theme options [Required] Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#133 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 22, 2016
Do not use to use roles to check capability [Required] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/theme-check#132 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 22, 2016
Theme Tag functionality [Info] Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/theme-check#128 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2016
Use WordPress functionality and features first [Info] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

WordPress/theme-check#125 · Opened Mar 22, 2016
Use a unique namespace [Info] Open

sniffer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/theme-check#124 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 22, 2016
Generic tokenizer checking Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

WordPress/theme-check#87 · Opened Sep 7, 2015
Sanitize checks fail if semi-colons are in strings Open

bug help wanted sanitize

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/theme-check#36 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2015

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