<br>I'm not sure what you mean by "easier rules for
working Themes" either. BuddyPress themes submitted to the WP Repo go
through the same thorough reviews - Theme Unit Tests. Debogger, etc. Some BP themes which had been approved
some time ago have even been removed from WP Themes Extend page because
they have not been updated to the latest BP version.<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><i>>></i> <i>have to spend tens (if not more) hours to keep all the rules in place,
such as defining classes for byauthor and sticky and many many more
irrelevant for themes being used as web site templates.</i><br></div><br>Less than an hour to add minimum theme requirements of index.php, comments.php and screenshot plus style.css - <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Theme_Template_Files">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Theme_Template_Files</a><br>
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