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For the specific case I'm asking about, it would be a truly blank
theme with no CSS definitions. It definitely wouldn't pass all the
unit test guidelines.<br>
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Honestly, I'd rather Average Joe *not* download and try to use it
unless, of course, he's wanting to learn about theme development.
So, I'm definitely in favor of having a "blank" or "developer" tag
for such themes.<br>
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On 11/29/2011 3:14 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
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type="cite">The reason I see it as a "niche" or "special use" case
is that, 99.99% of the time, end users are not going to use a
truly "blank" (i.e. NO CSS definitions, whatsoever) on a live
site, without modification, and such use is not the intended
purpose of such Themes.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Edward
Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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I do not have any issues with a "blank" theme, generally
speaking I would consider most "minimalist" themes as
working to be considered along the lines of "blank" as well
... at least given definition I would use when reading
"minimalist".<br>
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Having another theme in the repository specifically, or at
least originally, designed for the purpose of helping new
(or old) "developers" is a great idea. I'm not even really
seeing it requiring a niche label as I am taking from the
original premise it would pass the standard guideline
requirements as one of its initial goals.<br>
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Cais.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:37
PM, Ian Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>On 2011-11-29, at 2:11 PM, Angelo Bertolli
wrote:<br>
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> Well they're not really a special-use case
from the perspective of the<br>
> end user who wants to download a special kind
of (usable) theme for<br>
> WordPress. It seems that they warrant
perhaps their own separate<br>
> developer section outside of extend on the
site, or maybe just some<br>
> links from the wiki.<br>
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I think separating them out would be OK but I think
labelling them as "blank" would be better than
"developer". It's friendlier to people who wouldn't
label themselves as developers but are more than
capable of hacking a blank theme.<br>
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Ian<br>
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