WordPress Theme Header Generator

The one header that is not optional — without it WordPress does not see the folder as a theme at all.

The theme's own page, not the author's. Linked from its name on the Appearance screen.

Yours. Bumping it is what tells WordPress an update exists.

Shown in the details panel.

Linked from the author's name. Needs the scheme.

Anything distributed on WordPress.org has to be GPL-compatible.

The licence's full text. Reviewers check this resolves.

Conventionally the theme's folder name, which is what WordPress.org's translation platform expects.

Where your .mo files live, relative to the folder. Only needed when they are not in the root.

Older installs are told they cannot run this rather than being allowed to fail halfway.

The newest WordPress you have actually run this on. It is a claim, so only raise it once you have.

Checked before any of your code is loaded, so a host on an older PHP gets a notice instead of a fatal.