<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Is anyone else disappointed to see that the theme review contest was ended for a list of commercial theme shops with close ties to Automattic, personal friends, and employees of Audrey Capital (Matt Mullenweg’s personal investment company)?</div><div><br></div><div>The Theme Foundry (one of Automattic’s earliest theme partners), Justin Tadlock (a <a href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a> admin), Sarah Gooding (a blogger for Audrey Capital), TeslaThemes (<a href="http://wptavern.com/teslathemes-celebrates-one-year-of-being-in-business">http://wptavern.com/teslathemes-celebrates-one-year-of-being-in-business</a>), and Themeify (a major commercial theme shops first theme on <a href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a>) were all just gifted featured themes on <a href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>So what exactly is the criteria for being featured now?</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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