[theme-reviewers] Clarification of Theme Naming Rules

[Emil Uzelac]

Frank, really? Dude, that's awesome!


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Okay, when I wrote the below, I swear that I had not read this from 2
> weeks earlier.
>
>
> http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2013/01/16/frank-a-wordpress-theme-designed-for-speed/
>
> Dangit.
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Stuart Wider <stuartwider at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> So for example,
> >>
> >> 'Retroactive Mobile'
> >> I would say this would be good name... as the name lets you know exactly
> >> what it is. Its probably a Retro theme and its mobile.
> >>
> >> 'Futurizmo Pet Store'
> >> Again I would say that this is a good name as you can see from the title
> >> that this theme is likely to be futuristic and pet store related.
> >
> > And I thought I was bad at naming things. ;-)
> >
> > I'm not judging here, guys, but... names are just names. They don't
> > have to be descriptive of the thing in question. "Akismet". "Jetpack".
> > For all it really matters, I'm pretty sure you could call it "Frank"
> > and have it do just fine, as long as it was a good theme and had a
> > good description.
> >
> > If you want description for the user to see and the search to find,
> > then we have a very big long description field for that. You're better
> > off focusing on that text than worrying so much about the name.
> >
> > -Otto
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