[theme-reviewers] Theme Frameworks and the directory

[Jay]

I've always believed a framework to be along the lines of what Otto has pointed out, i.e hybrid/thematic. 

As for Themes with a ton of options, where the layout and style is adapted via the back end, i see these as more along the lines of 'configurable themes'

Themes that have had the majority of the majority of the style stripped out, these are what i personally have an issue with, there are quite a few of these 'minimal' themes, how many do we really need in the repo?

Back to the point, yes i believe frameworks should be included in the repo, providing a definition is agreed by everyone or a greater majority.

Anyway just my two British penies.

Jay

"Edward Caissie" <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:

>I believe the key point to this discussion more than anything else at
>the
>moment is, as Frumph asked, what defines (specifically) a framework?
>
>Once a definition of a framework is established and agreed to in a
>greater
>forum than a few interested individuals then I think the discussion to
>accept them into the Theme repository can really begin.
>
>
>Cais
>
>On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I know that this is going off-topic, but here goes.
>>
>> I just finished rewriting my whole set of options pages using the
>Settings
>> API. While I agree that the API is not that difficult to understand,
>I
>> believe there are several limitations to it if you want a set of
>options
>> pages that goes beyond the vanilla tabular display (like getting a
>set of
>> JQuery tabs in place). I eventually got it working, but only I know
>how many
>> hoops I had to jump through to replicate the full spectrum of
>functionality
>> I had earlier. I have to admit, though, that the pages became a lot
>more
>> spiffy after the rewrite, because I had to rethink a lot of the
>design for
>> this.
>>
>> I am going to do a tutorial on this shortly. Hopefully that will help
>> folks.
>>
>> Sayontan.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Chip Bennett
><chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I have to disagree.
>>>
>>> *I* just successfully figured out the Settings API. If *I* can do
>that,
>>> then *anyone* who even *thinks* himself a WordPress/PHP developer
>can do so,
>>> too.
>>>
>>> Seriously. The Settings API is straightforward and powerful, and the
>>> learning curve is *not* very high.
>>>
>>> Chip
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > The Settings API does exactly that, but I admit that it may be
>overly
>>>> > complicated for some people.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Note I said "easy" and "options /page/". The Settings API is
>extremely
>>>> complex for non-coders and a simple
>build_option_page($options_array)
>>>> (pluggable, of course) would go a long way towards alleviating a
>lot
>>>> of duplicated effort.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -Doug
>>>> @zamoose
>>>> http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
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