[theme-reviewers] Clarification of Theme Naming Rules

[Doug Stewart]

BRB, reserving the theme name "Frank Mobile Responsive Pet Shop Gallery".


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:19 PM, 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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-Doug
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