Issues

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

  WordPress/theme-check#505 · Filter by author lihsaa591 opened on Sep 9, 2026

• Blocklisted file-extension patterns are unanchored, so ordinary filenames fail the check

  WordPress/theme-check#504 · Filter by author Jiwoon-Kim opened on Sep 3, 2026

• Bug: "License" and "License URI" are missing from Theme Info summary when checking the active theme

  WordPress/theme-check#494 · Filter by author CookieDarb opened on Jul 6, 2026

• Success box upon the theme check has a broken link for GitHub repo

  WordPress/theme-check#492 · Filter by author marshallshoeb opened on Apr 26, 2026
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• Typescript Tests

  WordPress/theme-check#491 · Filter by author bhubbard opened on Apr 14, 2026

• Copyright Check False Positive

  WordPress/theme-check#481 · Filter by author chipbennett opened on Jul 1, 2025
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• Text Domain Check False Positive on Child Theme

  WordPress/theme-check#480 · Filter by author chipbennett opened on Jul 1, 2025

• Should we move to semantic versioning relase names?

  decision neededquestion
  WordPress/theme-check#469 · Filter by author matiasbenedetto opened on Oct 10, 2024
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• Handle checks and results as a structured array instead of an array of strings.

  WordPress/theme-check#459 · Filter by author matiasbenedetto opened on Sep 6, 2024

• Let's make a way to run the theme-check via cli against arbitrary folders?

  WordPress/theme-check#438 · Filter by author georgestephanis opened on Dec 13, 2022
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• text-domain is not parsed correctly when theme has no i18n translation

  WordPress/theme-check#430 · Filter by author latracal opened on Sep 13, 2022
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• Incorrect results when run on child theme because of a possible bug in WP_Theme::get_files()

  WordPress/theme-check#429 · Filter by author pbiron opened on Jul 31, 2022

• Issue with php 8.1

  WordPress/theme-check#427 · Filter by author NoralK opened on Jul 16, 2022
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• Check if readme file is empty or not

  WordPress/theme-check#419 · Filter by author kafleg opened on Jan 29, 2022
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• Block upload with PHP notice

  WordPress/theme-check#418 · Filter by author kafleg opened on Jan 29, 2022

• Translation function calls must not contain PHP variables....

  WordPress/theme-check#416 · Filter by author shuvo247 opened on Jan 21, 2022
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• Themes without translation functions fails the text domain check

  WordPress/theme-check#413 · Filter by author carolinan opened on Jan 4, 2022
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• Git and other extraneous files are not checked

  bug
  WordPress/theme-check#407 · Filter by author kafleg opened on Nov 30, 2021
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• Add check for __MACOSX folder

  WordPress/theme-check#403 · Filter by author TeBenachi opened on Oct 11, 2021
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• Warn about jQuery usage on the front end

  help wantedhigh priority
  WordPress/theme-check#402 · Filter by author adamsilverstein opened on Oct 6, 2021
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• Reduce the screenshot ratio requirement to info

  WordPress/theme-check#398 · Filter by author carolinan opened on Sep 24, 2021

• Improve consistency and naming of variables

  WordPress/theme-check#384 · Filter by author carolinan opened on Aug 12, 2021

• The readme.txt file check is not specific enough

  WordPress/theme-check#375 · Filter by author carolinan opened on Jul 26, 2021
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• New check: Admin notices must be dismissible

  WordPress/theme-check#365 · Filter by author carolinan opened on Jul 2, 2021

• Functions is being misread as a default WP function on theme update

  WordPress/theme-check#356 · Filter by author eramits opened on Jun 22, 2021
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