<div dir="ltr">I definitely see benefit in a both/and approach, rather than either/or, to "e-commerce" and "plugin-support-{plugin}" tags. And in all honesty, getting a generic "e-commerce" tag approved is probably easier and more feasible in the short-term.<div>
<br></div><div>But I'd still like to see some standard way for Themes to declare that support, since if the "e-commerce" tag is added, a reviewer is going to have to verify the tag is appropriate. A simple add_theme_support( 'plugin-name' ) call would meet that requirement very nicely.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Justin Tadlock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm re-posting this because my last email went to moderation for file size. I'm not sure who's in charge of that.<br>
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I like the idea of automation for plugin support. We just need plugins and themes to start talking to each other via add_theme_support(), which seems to be a growing standard.<br>
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To answer the question of "what is an e-commerce theme?" I'd say any theme that's built to support any e-commerce plugin. We shard start creating a set of guidelines that define these tags. Maybe we won't have all the answers, but we can at least start formulating a standard to go by.<br>
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What's going to be even more useful is themes getting the same "readme.txt" treatment that plugins get. It would help expand on, say, what e-commerce solution(s) it supports.<br>
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Not all users look for a WooCommerce, JigoShop, or whatever theme to start out. Many of them don't really know they'll need both a plugin and theme for an e-commerce site. So, they go out looking for a theme. They know they want to run an e-commerce site. We should provide a way for them to find the solution they're looking for. Having a generic e-commerce tag would go a long way in helping them.<br>
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E-commerce is just one of several tags though. We should focus on what tags we can feasibly define to some degree and come up with a list.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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