Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are being followed by authors.
This is an enormous undertaking, and there has already been an absolute ton of discussion around the details of the decision on the blog post’s corresponding forum thread. Many users have good questions, some are confused, and some are angry. I have to say, I’m really impressed Envato is going through with this decision, as it’s no doubt going to be very difficult to adjust the mindset of almost every author on ThemeForest.
I recommend checking out all of the new WordPress theme requirements, but I’ll list a few:
