<div dir="ltr">I felt mocking Dane's web presence was an attack. Lets keep things a little more light hearted. Maybe even fun.<div><br></div><div>My 2c is that all themes should essentially be reskinned Underscores.me, with all functional innovation happening in plugins. I don't expect anyone to agree with this, but it's the direction I'm taking with my little theme business.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Keep in mind that my only credential is that I make WordPress themes. My mom thinks they look great though.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>There was no attack there. He provided his credentials saying
it was his job first.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="chip@chipbennett.net" href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">Chip Bennett</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 16, 2013 8:37 AM</div><div class="im">
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</div><div><div class="h5"><div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Webmaster Tools IDs - plugin
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<div dir="ltr">Argue the guidelines all you want, but personal attacks against
Theme Review Team volunteers and other contributors to this list is not
acceptable and will not be tolerated. Impressiveness of personal credentials is
not a criterion for contributing to the Theme Review Team. Respect, however,
is.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Philip M. Hofer
(Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Congratulations on earning a living in this. There are
upwards of the several millions of WordPress users in the world and there are
a handful of posts on the forums, less then that. This is not an
issue that necessitates a requirement.</div>
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<div>Having the core team make the ‘discussion’ tab in the screen options on
by default would alleviate most emails I get; must get at least 20 a
week from that – when it first was changed I got hundreds.</div>
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<div>I assume this is you dane? <a title="http://danemorganmedia.com/" href="http://danemorganmedia.com/" target="_blank">http://danemorganmedia.com/</a> nice site. Or maybe
your blogspot site that was updated last in 2010? Or is it
Rebel where you get your jobs from? .. a company that offers SEO,
fun – at least it’s not spamming it.</div>
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<div><a title="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dane-morgan/" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dane-morgan/" target="_blank">http://profiles.wordpress.org/dane-morgan/</a> This you as
well? you answered or commented on 11 posts and nothing recent; help me
out here – what do you know of the forum and the questions asked there?</div>
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<div>Me? I get asked to conventions to speak. I have more
then a dozen celebrity sites which includes a comic for Shaq <a title="http://hoopfighter.com/" href="http://hoopfighter.com/" target="_blank">http://hoopfighter.com/</a> amongst them. Tens of
thousands of sites use my themes. I have a B/S
business, MS in I/O Psychology from SDSU (was business organizational back
then) – I have worked for fortune 50 companies streamlining their services and
allowing them to provide more for their products with less
overhead; Until I got cancer and had half of my lung
removed. Now I work with WordPress.</div>
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<div><a title="http://www.talltaleradio.com/" href="http://www.talltaleradio.com/" target="_blank">http://www.talltaleradio.com/</a> Posted today a
podcast that I was asked to be on. <a title="http://www.webcastbeacon.com/webcomic-235-interview-with-philip-hofer-aka-frumph-of-comicpress/" href="http://www.webcastbeacon.com/webcomic-235-interview-with-philip-hofer-aka-frumph-of-comicpress/" target="_blank">http://www.webcastbeacon.com/webcomic-235-interview-with-philip-hofer-aka-frumph-of-comicpress/</a>
past one. </div>
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<div>Give me a break. There is no good reason to make it a
requirement for previous themes that have anything of a feature that are being
said that should currently not be allowed. There isn’t an
‘epidemic’ or a continuous problem. It’s all made up to make it
sound like it’s worse then it is.</div>
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<div>Emil wrote some good points, make it a recommendation for previous repo
themes and required for new. This is not a problem; most everyone
is going to remove it including myself within due time – but to make it a
strict requirement for all is based on falsehoods and egoist attitudes and I
foresee the problems will be a hundred fold for end users who then ask why
isn’t google updating? when they used to the analytics code it in their
theme. So ya know? end users yeah, them, why don’t you show
how you give a care about them ya. You say you do but you don’t.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="dane@danemorganmedia.com" href="mailto:dane@danemorganmedia.com" target="_blank">Dane Morgan</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7:54 AM</div>
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<div>Also I just checked the forums again, in the last 6 years there were
less then a handful total and none of them were due to shortcodes or plugin
content that one theme had that another didn’t, although there was one was a
custom post type issue but was easily explained and the end user got it
working almost immediately. If you know of any specific ones, please
speak up.</div>
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<div> </div></div></div></blockquote>Really?<br><br>People do not hire me
saying I uninstalled NotsoAwesome Theme last week and installed PrettyNeat
NewTheme and my [coolbutton color=red link=<a href="http://amazon.com/myaffiliatelink" target="_blank">http://amazon.com/myaffiliatelink</a>] shortcode quit
working.<br><br>They say, all my links disappeared.<br><br>They don't say "I
think the Google analytics shortcode stopped working when i changed from my
old theme to my new theme last week."<br><br>they say "Why did WordPress stop
sending data to Google Analytics last month."<br><br>You are asking the wrong
questions because that is the only way to get the answer you
want.<br></div></div>
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