[theme-reviewers] Latest Featured Themes, seriously?

[Srikanth Koneru]

Thanks Emil, for the clarification. Current batch is well designed.
Is it safe to assume upsell themes are not prohibited from featured list,
now that an upsell theme has been featured?

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Amy Schneider <amy.schneider15 at yahoo.com>
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>   On Thursday, May 29, 2014 11:03 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
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> Earlier today you guys said how Jen mentioned that we cannot feature the
> same Theme every month, right?
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> We are not Theme Forest and don't have so many Themes to chose from.
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> No Theme was chosen because of their background or who they are.
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> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I hope themes are not featured based on wptavern's coverage, they don't
> cover any of mine :(
> Yes, I think criteria should be disclosed since this is an open community,
> even tough admins are short on time.
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> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
> wrote:
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> I agree some of them are well designed, there a lot of well designed
> themes on WordPress.org.
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> From my understanding, the contest was ended because they weren’t happy
> with theme shops being promoted. All the themes last month were not
> commercial theme companies.
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> This month the new list is nothing but upsell themes and themes from
> developers that are friends of Automattic / Audrey Capital. Many of which
> are companies or developers that had not previously contributed to
> WordPress.org.
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> While I’m happy to see better designs on .org, I want to know what the
> criteria for being featured is now? Or at least an explanation of what the
> process is now?
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> I think we all have a reasonable expectation to know what determines if
> your theme is put in front of actual users. What is and is not allowed, etc.
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>  --Trent Lapinski
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> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
> http://CyberChimps.com
> Twitter @trentlapinski
> Skype: mobiletrent
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> On May 29, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> All new featured themes look very well designed.
> Important thing is they are being rotated monthly, which encourages me to
> create some very nice designs myself.
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> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
> wrote:
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> Is anyone else disappointed to see that the theme review contest was ended
> for a list of commercial theme shops with close ties to Automattic,
> personal friends, and employees of Audrey Capital (Matt Mullenweg’s
> personal investment company)?
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> The Theme Foundry (one of Automattic’s earliest theme partners), Justin
> Tadlock (a WordPress.org admin), Sarah Gooding (a blogger for Audrey
> Capital), TeslaThemes (
> http://wptavern.com/teslathemes-celebrates-one-year-of-being-in-business),
> and Themeify (a major commercial theme shops first theme on WordPress.org)
> were all just gifted featured themes on WordPress.org.
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> So what exactly is the criteria for being featured now?
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>  --Trent Lapinski
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> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
> http://CyberChimps.com
> Twitter @trentlapinski
> Skype: mobiletrent
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