[theme-reviewers] Theme Review Codex Page: AddressingRecentFeedback

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

That sounded bad sorry

Meant to say "I think that even though there is concern, that amongst us we 
have a collective ability to be able to know the differences at most times 
when it comes to looking at specialized themes."



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)" <philip at frumph.net>
To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme Review Codex Page: 
AddressingRecentFeedback


> Re: Specialized theme, this was 3 weeks ago.
>
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/533
>
> I think we're intelligent enough to know the difference and I was just 
> starting out reviewing.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme Review Codex Page: Addressing 
> RecentFeedback
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>
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> Likewise with Widgets, we should have a wider discussion regarding 
>>> whether
>>> or not it should be removed. My initial take is that it is all 
>>> manageable by
>>> the end user, and additional feed types can be added via plugin (or the
>>> Theme), and implementing the default feed support doesn't detract.
>>> ...
>>> It might be instructive to get some examples of some of these
>>> special-purpose Themes. The only one I've seen so far - a "Coming Soon"
>>> Theme, is (as Frumph pointed out) something that can be managed via 
>>> Plugin,
>>> using any Theme.
>>
>> I think this is rather beside the point. I use a "coming soon" theme
>> on a few sites. It's handy.
>>
>> The fact of the matter is that themes and plugins are not that
>> different. I can make a plugin which redirects a couple of hooks and
>> completely bypasses the theme system to replace it with a theme in the
>> plugin directory. Big deal. It doesn't make any different whether it's
>> a theme or a plugin, except that themes tend to be about looks and
>> plugins tend to be about function.
>>
>> "Tend" being the operative word there. If I am looking to put a comic
>> strip system on my blog, I'm going to look for a theme that makes it
>> easy for me to do that, because comic strips are very visual.
>>
>> Whether something should be a theme or a plugin is really a judgement
>> call, and not everybody has the same judgement. If somebody makes a
>> special purpose theme, then the purpose of the theme should be taken
>> into account. A coming soon theme, for example, needs no feeds, no
>> comments, no post loop. But it's still perfectly valid to do it as a
>> theme and not as a plugin.
>>
>> -Otto
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