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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Totally agree, the "Preview" button
doesn't really show anything decent in 99% of all themes.<br>
Even for default themes these preview button doesn't really show
anything useful:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wp-themes.com/twentyfourteen/">http://wp-themes.com/twentyfourteen/</a><br>
Wouldn't it be better if that link got replaced by the demo url,
which you can find here?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/">http://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/</a><br>
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Another comparison:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wp-themes.com/twentythirteen/">http://wp-themes.com/twentythirteen/</a> vs
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://twentythirteendemo.wordpress.com/">http://twentythirteendemo.wordpress.com/</a><br>
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Most probably this is out of our hands but I really think we
should add a "Demo URI:" to our style.css file.<br>
That link can then be used on the Preview button rather than the
link we currently have.<br>
This seems like a really easy fix.<br>
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Maybe we should add the Demo URI in <b>style.css</b> and <b>readme.txt</b>
even if we have no control over the preview button.<br>
People looking at these files will at least get an idea of what is
possible with the theme.<br>
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What do you guys think? What do you propose?<br>
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On 18/09/2014 02:46, // ravi wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello all,</div>
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<div>this is a bit larger than theme review, so apologies
beforehand if it is misdirected, but I want to relate my
experience in trying to help some friends choose a theme for
their site. In this effort, searching on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress.org</a>
using the provided filters is a very frustrating experience,
mostly stemming from a disparity between the filter selection,
the theme preview image, and the actual theme preview.</div>
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<div>First, what shows up in the preview is a far cry from what is
in the screenshot. It is understandable that the screenshot was
carefully crafted with various features enabled in order to
display the theme at its best, and therefore some discrepancy is
inevitable. But what one sees in the preview at times has almost
no relation visually to the screenshot.</div>
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<div>Next, what appears in the preview seems to have no relation
to the selected filters either. Say I select “left sidebar”…
well, in many cases, the preview has none.</div>
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<div>Having written a few themes myself, back in the stone ages, I
realise that there are reasons behind all of this, but consider
the experience from a regular WordPress user’s perspective.
Selecting a theme is one of the first, and certainly the most
defining activity, for a new user. Whatever the underlying
reasons may be, their experience has to be better than what
occurs today.</div>
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<div>Apologies if I have missed some obvious steps that would have
improved my experience.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>—ravi</div>
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<div>P.S: background: this was for a self-hosted blog, not one on
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://WordPress.com">WordPress.com</a>.</div>
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