<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>I agree some of them are well designed, there a lot of well designed themes on <a href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>From my understanding, the contest was ended because they weren’t happy with theme shops being promoted. All the themes last month were not commercial theme companies.</div><div><br></div><div>This month the new list is nothing but upsell themes and themes from developers that are friends of Automattic / Audrey Capital. Many of which are companies or developers that had not previously contributed to <a href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>While I’m happy to see better designs on .org, I want to know what the criteria for being featured is now? Or at least an explanation of what the process is now?</div><div><br></div><div>I think we all have a reasonable expectation to know what determines if your theme is put in front of actual users. What is and is not allowed, etc.</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On May 29, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Srikanth Koneru <<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com">tskk79@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>All new featured themes look very well designed. <br></div>Important thing is they are being rotated monthly, which encourages me to create some very nice designs myself.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Trent Lapinski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com" target="_blank">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><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/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">WordPress.org</a>) were all just gifted featured themes on <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress.org</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So what exactly is the criteria for being featured now?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">--Trent Lapinski<br>=============<br>CEO of CyberChimps Inc.</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><a href="http://cyberchimps.com/" target="_blank">http://CyberChimps.com</a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
Twitter @trentlapinski</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:12px">Skype: mobiletrent</span><br></div></div></div>
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