<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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">theme-reviewers-request@lists.wordpress.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:28:27 -0600<br>From: Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Special demo config for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://wp-themes.com/">wp-themes.com</a>,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>allowed?<br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><<a href="mailto:CAD-FghxnFJt5rw0KJJy3YfvR719DpbHwh+S5VpYQ35LLh84B9Q@mail.gmail.com">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">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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://wp-themes.com/">wp-themes.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://wp-themes.com/">wp-themes.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>where we can view demo version of the theme.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">thanks!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">theme-reviewers mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers">http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>