[theme-reviewers] Special demo config for wp-themes.com, allowed?

Mon Jan 16 23:28:09 UTC 2012

+1. I'd rather we encourage theme devs to do great, detailed, fabulous
sites with good demos, docs, help, readmes and all the rest, than jack
the repo for the sake of any one theme.

Too many themes I've reviewed barely have anything you'd call a Theme
URI. That (and a solid readme file) are where theme information
belongs.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Edward Caissie
<edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still of the opinion the Theme URI can be used (with appropriate
> content) as an ideal demonstration of the theme's functions and capabilities
> ... and obviously thorough documentation as needed (preferably within the
> theme itself) explaining how to implement all of its features and
> aesthetics.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Its really up to the theme provider ( if they are a premium site ) to
>> provide an xml file if they want to.
>>
>> Problem arises when people pay lots of dollars from a theme and expect
>> the content to come with it and they dont even realize you have to
>> actually write your own content!
>>
>> On 16 January 2012 22:44, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>> > Most of this discussion is outside the scope of the Theme Review
>> > guidelines
>> > and process. However, I would certainly encourage better readme
>> > documentation - including how to accomplish the "demo" appearance - as a
>> > matter of recommended best-practice.
>> >
>> > Chip
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Robert Ambartsumov
>> > <robert6292 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Yea i know, but the issue is that, designers on theme demos place the
>> >> content in the correct location with the correct fluid, this isn't
>> >> wrong
>> >> actually and just shows you how you can make a good looking site when
>> >> the
>> >> content and the elements are in their correct position, but often when
>> >> a
>> >> user installs a theme it gets different content and sometimes no
>> >> content at
>> >> all to fill all the blank, that's why sometimes it looses the premium
>> >> look a
>> >> demo had, the only thing that comes to my mind is some sort of a basic
>> >> design lesson in regards to content location and such things that can
>> >> help
>> >> an end user achieve a great look for any theme, not just the one you
>> >> are
>> >> providing to him.
>> >>
>> >> cheers.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Anca at anca.tv <anca at anca.tv> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi everyone,
>> >>>
>> >>> I've been lurking on this list for a while.  Hope it's cool to chime
>> >>> in.
>> >>>  I'm not part of the theme review process, but I spend several hours
>> >>> each
>> >>> week helping neophytes learn how to set up their WordPress sites.
>> >>>
>> >>> One problem with the default setup is that it's not always clear to
>> >>> users
>> >>> how to configure the theme in order to achieve the end result shown
>> >>> the
>> >>> demo.  This is really an issue with premium themes (StudioPress comes
>> >>> to
>> >>> mind, Modularity) where the demo has a full set of content that shows
>> >>> a
>> >>> gorgeous site, rather than  bare-bones framework which is what you get
>> >>> out
>> >>> of the box.
>> >>>
>> >>> Some premium themes solve this problem by having a "demo" file you can
>> >>> load which contains posts and categories such that people can see the
>> >>> basic
>> >>> building blocks for the site, but then you wind up with content in
>> >>> your site
>> >>> that doesn't really belong there - and, if you install several of
>> >>> these
>> >>> themes you wind up with a hot mess.
>> >>>
>> >>> It would help if theme authors (and providers) gave a succinct
>> >>> overview
>> >>> of how to achieve the demo theme look step by step, with content of
>> >>> your
>> >>> own.  These things take time to produce, but your users will be rather
>> >>> grateful if you provide them.
>> >>>
>> >>> Anca.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:10 PM,
>> >>> theme-reviewers-request at lists.wordpress.org
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:28:27 -0600
>> >>> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>> >>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Special demo config for wp-themes.com,
>> >>> allowed?
>> >>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> >>> Message-ID:
>> >>> <CAD-FghxnFJt5rw0KJJy3YfvR719DpbHwh+S5VpYQ35LLh84B9Q at mail.gmail.com>
>> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>> >>>
>> >>> Not allowed. Please don't try this. Theme preview should show default
>> >>> as the end user will see the default.
>> >>>
>> >>> -Otto
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Robert Ambartsumov
>> >>> <robert6292 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hey,
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I would like to include in my theme a special demo configuration file
>> >>> for
>> >>>
>> >>> default settings that will be loaded when it matches
>> >>> the wp-themes.com url,
>> >>>
>> >>> so that for example I can load some data that wont be available on a
>> >>> typical
>> >>>
>> >>> end user theme activation, i.e twitter username feed or a custom home
>> >>> page
>> >>>
>> >>> screen.
>> >>>
>> >>> the?reason?for this is because I do want to show the user what the
>> >>> theme
>> >>> is
>> >>>
>> >>> capable of and improve the?overall?demonstration process eventually,
>> >>> but
>> >>> i
>> >>>
>> >>> agree that those settings shouldn't be loaded as default for the end
>> >>> user
>> >>> as
>> >>>
>> >>> per theme reviewers suggestions and guidelines.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> i.e by doing this:
>> >>>
>> >>> $mframe['globals'] = home_url() == $mframe['demo']['server'] ?
>> >>>
>> >>> wp_parse_args( $mframe['demo'], $mframe['globals']) :
>> >>> $mframe['globals'];
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> the demo server url can be setup as anything, but for this example is
>> >>>
>> >>> obviously wp-themes.com where we can view demo version of the theme.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> thanks!
>> >>>
>> >>>
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