[theme-reviewers] Submitting a One-Page Placeholder Theme

[Emil Uzelac]

I am 110% with Chip on this one and +1 on Otto's thinking from the sky :)


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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> While the decision to use a landing page Plugin is equally valid, I would
> consider the choice between Plugin and Theme to be one solely at the user's
> discretion. And since both Plugin and Theme are equally valid choices, I
> wouldn't want to exclude landing page Themes.
>
> Consider also that users looking for landing page Themes may end up looking
> elsewhere - either to a commercial Theme (not necessarily a bad thing) or to
> the Wild West (a phenomenally BAD thing). So, we do users a favor merely by
> providing them the option not to have to look outside the repository for
> such a Theme.
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Ryan Frankel <ryan.frankel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The main difference I see is just from a user perspective.  Personally,
>> if I wanted a landing page I would install WordPress and immediately look
>> for a landing page theme with all of the styling and options I want.  Since
>> the design/look/feel of the site itself is centered around the idea of a
>> landing page it seems logical to me to have it as a theme.  I don't see any
>> reason that it couldn't also be a plugin but plugins in general (for me) are
>> much more difficult to incorporate stylistically to a theme.  Since so much
>> of a landing page is also the stylistic aspect and not functionality it
>> seems like it falls under a theme.
>>
>> I agree with this in principle. A specialty theme would be
>> differentiated from a plugin in that a plugin is designed to be useful
>> regardless of the theme, whereas a specialty theme would have the
>> functionality and the display tightly knitted together. For example,
>> you couldn't easily make a ticket tracking system into a plugin,
>> because the display of that ticket system is not generic.
>>
>> Although this is often a judgment call. The new bbPress plugin does a
>> pretty darned good job at including a theme compatibility layer to
>> make it work with most any theme, but as you can see from using it for
>> a while, a theme that is explicitly designed for bbPress capability
>> just works and looks better.
>>
>> I think one principle that might be useful is to consider whether a
>> user would expect the same sort of functionality to work with a
>> different, generic, theme. If not, then a specialty theme makes sense
>> as a theme instead of a plugin.
>>
>> A "landing page" is a bit generic though. Depends on the specific
>> features. If you define it one way, a "landing page" can be any site
>> with only one Page defined and no Posts anywhere.
>>
>> -Otto
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