Most of this discussion is outside the scope of the Theme Review guidelines and process. However, I would certainly encourage better readme documentation - including how to accomplish the "demo" appearance - as a matter of recommended best-practice.<div>
<br></div><div>Chip<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Robert Ambartsumov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert6292@gmail.com">robert6292@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 dir="ltr">Yea i know, but the issue is that, designers on theme demos place the content in the correct location with the correct fluid, this isn't wrong actually and just shows you how you can make a good looking site when the content and the elements are in their correct position, but often when a user installs a theme it gets different content and sometimes no content at all to fill all the blank, that's why sometimes it looses the premium look a demo had, the only thing that comes to my mind is some sort of a basic design lesson in regards to content location and such things that can help an end user achieve a great look for any theme, not just the one you are providing to him.<br>
<br>cheers.<div><div class="h5"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:18 AM, <a href="mailto:Anca@anca.tv" target="_blank">Anca@anca.tv</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anca@anca.tv" target="_blank">anca@anca.tv</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>I've been lurking on this list for a while. Hope it's cool to chime in. I'm not part of the theme review process, but I spend several hours each week helping neophytes learn how to set up their WordPress sites.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One problem with the default setup is that it's not always clear to users how to configure the theme in order to achieve the end result shown the demo. This is really an issue with premium themes (StudioPress comes to mind, Modularity) where the demo has a full set of content that shows a gorgeous site, rather than bare-bones framework which is what you get out of the box. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Some premium themes solve this problem by having a "demo" file you can load which contains posts and categories such that people can see the basic building blocks for the site, but then you wind up with content in your site that doesn't really belong there - and, if you install several of these themes you wind up with a hot mess.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It would help if theme authors (and providers) gave a succinct overview of how to achieve the demo theme look step by step, with content of your own. These things take time to produce, but your users will be rather grateful if you provide them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anca.</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:10 PM, <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-request@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-request@lists.wordpress.org</a> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium">Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:28:27 -0600<br>
From: Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Special demo config for<span> </span><a href="http://wp-themes.com/" target="_blank">wp-themes.com</a>,<br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>allowed?<br>To:<span> </span><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><<a href="mailto:CAD-FghxnFJt5rw0KJJy3YfvR719DpbHwh+S5VpYQ35LLh84B9Q@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CAD-FghxnFJt5rw0KJJy3YfvR719DpbHwh+S5VpYQ35LLh84B9Q@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>Not allowed. Please don't try this. Theme preview should show default<br>as the end user will see the default.<br><br>-Otto<br><br><br><br>On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Robert Ambartsumov<br>
<<a href="mailto:robert6292@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert6292@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hey,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I would like to include in my theme a special demo configuration file for<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">default settings that will be loaded when it matches the<span> </span><a href="http://wp-themes.com/" target="_blank">wp-themes.com</a><span> </span>url,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
so that for example I can load some data that wont be available on a typical<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">end user theme activation, i.e twitter username feed or a custom home page<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
screen.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the?reason?for this is because I do want to show the user what the theme is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">capable of and improve the?overall?demonstration process eventually, but i<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">agree that those settings shouldn't be loaded as default for the end user as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">per theme reviewers suggestions and guidelines.<br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i.e by doing this:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">$mframe['globals'] = home_url() == $mframe['demo']['server'] ?<br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">wp_parse_args( $mframe['demo'], $mframe['globals']) : $mframe['globals'];<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the demo server url can be setup as anything, but for this example is<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">obviously<span> </span><a href="http://wp-themes.com/" target="_blank">wp-themes.com</a><span> </span>where we can view demo version of the theme.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
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