They’re not spiteful, they’re to the point. I took the spiteful ones out.

Spite: A desire to vex or injure. Comments about killing puppies are spiteful.

While I don’t like your spiteful comments about my templates, I do appreciate you pointing out exactly what is wrong. You made several good points (SQL injection, NONCES, Overuse of Options table), but also some that aren’t correct.

When you reference my “over additions” to the Options table, you are completely right…if this was a large scale plugin. But it’s not (and even large scale plugins use my method). Your opinion is your opinion, but it’s not a guaranteed “must follow” standard.

You’re completely correct on the NONCE and SQL Injection statements and I will be updating my templates to include those.

In regards to the $Post and $WP_Query global variable calls, I added them so that the users would already have access to that data if they need/want it since it’s a high traffic area. Your statement on me adding the variables at the top of the file to the Options table every time the code runs is completely incorrect. the “add_option” function will only run if table isn’t there. so in fact, all I’m doing (after the first run) is checking that all my needed resources are available.

On the topic of require vs. include, either way is a viable option. It may be logical to use both. “include” for the admin page and “require” for the purpose.php file.