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Theme name containing spaces
Should it really be allowed to create a theme with a name containing spaces ?
- Theme Panel > New Theme
- theme name:
my theme - theme title:
my silly theme
Save. Textpattern 4.8.8 happily saves the theme. Sections can be assigned, the theme selector appears on the relevant panels.
When trying to export the theme, things go pear shaped and trigger an error message: skin_unsafe_name: my theme.
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The help file (pop-help) is non-comital (my bolding):
Theme name
A theme’s name is used for the directory name of the theme and other technical purposes (required).
The name shouldn’t contain any special characters or spaces.
Shouldn’t this be tightened a little ? The title is ok when containing spaces, of course. But the name? Other places reject a name with spaces (e.g automatically convert the space to a hyphen for the category name).
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Re: Theme name containing spaces
Yeah. Good catch. That shouldn’t be permitted as it’ll cause all sorts of issues with file names when exporting and importing. We need to be more restrictive here.
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Re: Theme name containing spaces
Thanks for confirming… Issue 1826 for a rainy summer morning.
BTW – the message pane says skin_unsafe_name. That looks like a place holder string. Something is misplaced in the language file?
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