<div dir="ltr">Hello Reviewers,<div><br></div><div>Since we are discussing the guidelines and some possible changes out there, I would like to comment something interesting (at least in my opinion) about the toolkit of reviewers here and in other markets. My team has submitted a theme framework for sale on Envato's theme market last week after an unsuccessful submission half a year ago. During the first review in April there was no specific technical review - it was mostly stability and design uniqueness and function richness, but after the approval last week we actually commented out with their reviewers that they have started to actively use the Theme-Check plugin. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Since their overall concept is different, I was surprised that they actually insist on different things such as styling the .sticky class or using some file operations. Due to the market specifics some required options are considered recommended only, but still they consider using it closely for their reviewing process.</div>
<div><br>Also, since the recent huge attack of timthumb, most of the authors in the market actually got interested in the 'best practices' and what comes 'in the box' of WordPress. I've been researching the market since January and themes are implementing post-thumbnails instead of timthumb nowadays (probably Justin's "Get the Image" <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-the-image/" class="vt-p">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-the-image/</a> and user comments have helped). The point is that there are other 'secret' teams that also respect these guidelines and tools and I believe that we could probably contact them and discuss some changes or best practices (even share and exchange reviewing ideas). By popularizing that relation some theme sellers could join and contribute to the WPORG repository (we plan revamping the framework as a free version as Pagelines did) or take part as reviewers.</div>
<div><br>So does it make any sense or we are kinda 'closed' to other reviewing groups?</div><div><div dir="ltr"><br>Mario Peshev<br>Training and Consulting Services @ DevriX<div><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev" target="_blank" class="vt-p">http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev</a><br>
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