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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm not sure i'm understanding why you're having a
3 week waiting time, don't you have an already approved status on it?
those themes that have been through the system already get priority over
others.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>add_theme_page() - read this: <A
href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2011/01/05/discussion-on-menu-locations-for-theme-options/">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2011/01/05/discussion-on-menu-locations-for-theme-options/</A>
On the make/themes site you can give your thoughts to any of the subject
material that comes up for guidelines and be involved in the decision making
process </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As for the ticket #2927 we've changed our stance
with authors including yourself that if something isn't completely 'breaking'
that we approve the theme on the repository with the notice that they fix it on
the next update. As long it's just like 1 or 2 minor things such as
that. That way the author gets their theme on the repo and fixes the
code utilized on the next update and knows about it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm sure you'll agree that - this method of
thinking will help things out quite a bit without rejecting for just a single
little thing. Which of course is all dependant on the reviewer doing
the review if they wish to do it or not.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The featured themes is a different subject
altogether.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We have a meeting once a month to go over things,
we spend about 10 minutes right now roughly to determine if featured themes
switch out, one for another. It's not that you havent been
chosen on purpose it's more then likely your theme just hasn't come up as one
that someone recommended to be put on the featured list. If you
attend these meetings on the IRC you can request your theme to be added to the
featured theme as well as include your thoughts on any of the other things we
discuss, getting involved.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Since we're new to adding/changing the featured
themes we're doing what we can to keep it rotating to a certain
degree. As you know it wasn't being changed out very often before
this so even now it's already better since we're able to do changes once a month
to the featured list.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm not sure where you get this: "<FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Still, My theme doesn't qualify to be on the featured
list." Every theme that passes the theme review process
qualifies for the featured list.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=satish.iitg@gmail.com href="mailto:satish.iitg@gmail.com">Satish
Gandham</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org
href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 14, 2011 2:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [theme-reviewers] Why the
bias?</DIV>
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<P>Last updated of my theme was rejected saying I can no longer use
add_menu_page for themes.</P>
<P>Afraid of another 3 week wait time, I quickly removed the top level menu
without much arguments and added a sub-menu page under “Appearance” using add
theme page. Even after quickly making the suggested changes and uploading the
new version my theme was again pushed down in the queue.</P>
<P><A
href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2730">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2730</A></P>
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<P>-WARNING: admin/admin-core.php. Themes should use add_theme_page() for
adding admin pages.<BR>Line 48: add_submenu_page( 'swift-options', 'Design
Options', 'Design Options', 'ediLine 49: add_submenu_page( 'swift-options',
'Import and Export SWIFT options','Impor</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>And this is the reply i got when i brought this issue up on the theme
reviewers mailing list</P>
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<P>If the Theme options *must* be separated into two pages (in most cases,
one<BR>page is sufficient; but there are exceptions), then just put the two
pages<BR>under "Appearance". Still no need for a separate, top-level menu
entry</P></BLOCKQUOTE>.
<P>However, today I found a theme using add_theme_page() function approved,
and placed on top in featured list.<BR><A
href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2927">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2927</A></P>
<P>My theme had two options pages, while the above theme has only one options
page. Adding a top level menu makes more sense in my theme, but my theme was
rejected and the other was approved.</P>
<P>You insist on doing everything the WordPress way and reject themes that
don't adhere to your rules, but I feel that there is a double standard at
work. Below is just another example of an approved theme which appears to
violate basic theme terms.</P>
<P>The theme uses this styling for warnings<BR><A
href="http://files.droplr.com/files/17962094/cM78.Screen-shot-2011-02-12-at-8.40.51-PM.png">http://files.droplr.com/files/17962094/cM78.Screen-shot-2011-02-12-at-8.40.51-PM.png</A><BR>Aren't
they supposed to be styled like this?<BR><A
href="http://files.droplr.com/files/17962094/2aZ9.change-password.jpg">http://files.droplr.com/files/17962094/2aZ9.change-password.jpg</A></P>
<P><STRONG>My theme was voted as the most popular theme on WLTC,
</STRONG><BR><A
href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/11/29/your-top-5-themes/">http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/11/29/your-top-5-themes/</A></P>
<P>its been on most popular themes list for several weeks (though it is not on
the featured list, 11 of the 15 popular themes are popular because they are
featured, and the other 2 are popular because they were featured recently)</P>
<P><STRONG>3 Million pages are powered by my theme.</STRONG></P>
<P><A href="http://bit.ly/gy1jVQ">http://bit.ly/gy1jVQ</A></P>
<P>Still, My theme doesn't qualify to be on the featured list.</P>
<P>I don't understand how the featured themes are selected, can anyone point
me to the guidelines on how the featured themes are selected? </P></DIV></DIV>
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