IMHO, most important from *our* perspective, with respect to the guidelines, is to ensure that the *primary* screenshot still adheres to the current *content* requirements. I'm all in favor of giving Theme developers near-limitless latitude in what they do with the additional screenshots, provided that the *default* adheres to current guidelines.<div>
<br></div><div>As for screenshot: will a too-large screenshot actually *break* things in the Admin, or is it merely a nuisance (see: CSS max-width fix)?</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A long, long time ago it was specifically stated that screenshots are to be 300px x 225px and I would put forward the primary screenshot (as in the first one to be presented to the end-user) be held to that specific size. Although there has been some arbitrary changes made and for the most part as long as the aspect ratio is 4:3 or at least within range of a hand-grenade it has been allowed. There are a few themes with excessively large screenshots and those, IIRC, were asked to be addressed by their respective authors with the next theme release ... <br>
<br>Given the plan to implement multiple screenshots I would recommend going back to the hard rule of the primary screenshot.png (or .jpg) be set to 300px x 225px keeping the naming convention as such. Then allowing for ensuing screenshots to follow the naming convention as set out for plugins, that is -1, -2, etc. These can then be put into whatever method for end-user viewing.<br>
<br><br clear="all">Cais.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Helen Hou-Sandi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:helen.y.hou@gmail.com" target="_blank">helen.y.hou@gmail.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 theme reviewers,<br><br>As I'm working on the multiple screenshots piece, while I don't have anything authoritative or definitive to say about how this affects theme guidelines, here are a couple thoughts I have that could use a sanity check:<br>
<br>1. My understanding is that right now there is no specified size for screenshots, only a suggested guideline of a 4:3 aspect ratio. It appears that I will be taking the size of the screenshots in the admin up from 240x180 to 300x225. As I browsed through some screenshots, I noted that many themes are not sticking to the aspect ratio, and quite a few have screenshots that are smaller than 300x225, and many have larger ones, some even significantly larger. I believe in the codex it mentions 320x240, which seems to be used often, but is a little big in the context of the admin. Nothing breaks with the variant sizes, but it would be nice to have a little more consistency and also prevent bloat with larger images that aren't used anywhere that I can find. At the moment I don't know of any plans to go any bigger, as the customize frame (otherwise known as Gandalf) really functions as the large-size interactive preview.<br>
<br>2. My dev teammate (Mike S., or DH-Shredder) and I have been told to operate on the assumption that screenshots will be named similarly to the way they are in the plugin repo, e.g. screenshot-#.ext. As right now they are just named screenshot.ext, I suppose both the .org API side and the get_themes() function will have to accommodate accordingly, and perhaps go from screenshot-2.ext and up.<br>
<br>Do the above sound safe/sane? I'm hoping that it isn't a huge impact, but since you're all keeping tabs, I thought I'd jump in here. Thanks for all the work you do!<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Helen<br>
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