As a general response, these "clone" themes are not accepted into the repository. Some may get by our review process, but fortunately most are caught ... if not immediately then generally within a cycle or two of theme updates if they are being made.<br>
<br>Themes being submitted to the WordPress.org repository are expected, if using another theme as a base, to be adding significant design and/or functionality to the original theme. This is still a very subjective approach but seems to be sorting out the clones versus those authors wanting to add "something" to an existing theme.<br>
<br><br clear="all">Cais.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Michael Torbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrtorbert@gmail.com">mrtorbert@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>Hi Fernando,</div><div><br></div><div>On another topic, you need to change your domain name.</div><div><a href="http://wordpress.org/about/domains/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/about/domains/</a></div><br clear="all">
Michael Torbert<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Fernando Zorrilla (admin wordpressready) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@wordpressready.com" target="_blank">admin@wordpressready.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
Hello everybody. <br>My name is Fernando Zorrilla, I hope I will start reviewing themes (my username:WPReady). <br>As a part of my 'self-training' review , I inspected a few themes and I saw something peculiar.<br>
<br>I found a few themes 'based' on Twenty Eleven theme. These themes
are just a 'theme cloning' where the code is refactored and there are
almost no changes inside. <br>Basically the theme changes the twentyeleven prefix for other more appropriate, keeping the functionality (almost) intact.<br>
In fact, a child theme for twentyeleven with a minimal or no additions
could do the exact same purpose, except a child theme will evolve when
the parent theme is updated.<br>I think those themes are like a 'refactored-snapshot' from the original theme, if you know what I mean.<br>
<br>This is something odd to me. An author could make thousands of themes literally using this approach, cloning any theme.<br>I would appreciate your concerns about this topic.<br><br><a href="http://www.wordpressready.com" target="_blank">http://www.wordpressready.com</a><br>
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