Hi Satish,<div><br></div><div>The Theme Review team does not determine which Themes are selected as "featured" Themes. I'm not sure who does, but I can assure you that we have not influence or control over the "Featured Theme" selections.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Satish Gandham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satish.iitg@gmail.com">satish.iitg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p>On what basis are the featured themes selected? Don't tell me they are selected for their uniqueness. Tell me how much should I spend to get a theme listed in that section?<br>
</p><p>Almost 10 <span>themes</span> listed under featured
section have been there for
the last six months (That's since have been closely observing the
Wordpress theme directory, so it may be longer than that). <span>Themes</span> like
Atahualpa, constructor,Mystique are out of the box and deserve to be
there but rest of the <span>themes</span> listed under
featured section aren't so
special to be listed there for years. I think pixel,light world, piano black,Retromania have been there
for almost 2 years.</p><p>How different is Motion theme from Pixel? Whats the point in listing two almost identical themes from the same author in featured section?</p><p>Whats so amazing about Piano Black?</p><p>Monochrome and Piano black are from the same author, is he a friend of your?</p>
<p>Same with pixel and motion.</p><p>If Piano black is such a great theme, how many people are using it?<br></p><p></p><p>Listing 2 <span>themes</span> from the same author
listed under featured
section,isn't fair. I think you should have proper guidelines for
listing a theme under featured section. Every developer should be given
equal exposure. We spend lot of time in developing these <span>themes</span>. It's
our choice and we enjoy developing these <span>themes</span>
but, it's demoralizing
when our theme which is better than other <span>themes</span>
doesn't get the enough
exposure just because the person reviewing the theme doesn't like it,
or doesn't have the time to dig into see what the theme has to offer.</p>
<p>Most of the <span>themes</span> listed under <span>popular</span> <span>themes</span> section are <span>popular</span>
only because they are listed under featured <span>themes</span>,
please do something
about.</p>
<p>I hope you will do something about the issue.</p>
<p>Kind Regards<br><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888">
Satish Gandham</font></font></p>
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