[theme-reviewers] introductions (Allan Cole)

Wed Jun 9 21:59:38 UTC 2010

Hello everyone,
My name is Allan Cole. I’m a web & graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY.
I’ve been using WordPress since about 2005/06, developing custom solutions
for businesses and individual clients. I mostly live on the front-end of
things concerning mark-up and css but I’ve been known to get pretty dirty
with PHP code as well. I’ve managed to
drop<http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/autofocus>
a <http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/neutica/>
few<http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mixtape>WordPress themes into
the theme directory myself over the last few years so
i’m excited to see how this process works, and hopefully figure out a way to
improve on it somehow. I’ve spoken at a few WordCamps (2009 NYC & 2010 SF),
but I think this will be my first time really contributing directly to the
inner workings of WordPress!

Here’s some of my info:
Website: http://fthrwght.com
Portfolio(Temporary): http://temp.fthrwght.com
Twitter: @fthrwght
Personal site: http://allancole.com

Best,
Allan

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> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:58:45 -0700
> From: Brianna Privett <brianna at utopian.net>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] introductions
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> Hello everyone, my name is Brianna Privett, I've been using WordPress since
> 2005 when, like Joseph, I got tired of writing a new CMS for each project I
> was doing and decided to do a couple of months of R&D to find open source
> blog software that was easily pluggable and could be used to manage websites
> for artists and creatives. WordPress won hands down, and I've been using it
> ever since.
>
> I work with designers who provide layouts and build plugins and themes to
> bring their visions to life. My personal site is http://brianna.org and my
> business site is http://utopian.net. My plugin focus is generally for
> customizing the gallery or extending MU, and most of my time spent with
> clients is to educate them and get familiar with their individual workflow
> to make WordPress as easy for them as it is for me.
>
> Brianna Privett
>
> work: http://utopian.net
> play:  http://illustrationfriday.com
> life: http://brianna.org
>
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Joseph Scott wrote:
>
> > Moving along.  This is a new email list, with lots of new people
> > subscribed.  Please do a quick introduction, who you are are, a little
> > bit of background, your WordPress URL, etc.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:00:41 -0600
> From: chip at chipbennett.net
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] introductions
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Message-ID:
>        <1864998cc8c7d382281c8b349a2e7fed.squirrel at wp06.secure-dns.net>
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> > Moving along.  This is a new email list, with lots of new people
> > subscribed.  Please do a quick introduction, who you are are, a little
> > bit of background, your WordPress URL, etc.
>
> I'm Chip Bennett. I've been using WordPress since 2005, switching to
> self-hosted WordPress from Blogger. I used a heavily customized Blogger
> theme, so I started right away learning how to port my theme to WordPress,
> and how to use WordPress template tags.
>
> So, I've had my nose in WordPress themes for about five years now.
> (Coincidentally, most of the PHP I know, I learned because of WordPress.)
> Since then, I have ventured a bit into plugins - though I have much, much
> to learn. I may not be able to write terribly complex plugins, but I
> figure I should be able to help out reviewing theme code. Maybe it will
> give me incentive finally to add a theme or two to the repo!
>
> WordPress is very much a passion and a hobby, though it isn't my day job.
> My personal website is www.chipbennett.net, which I use both for
> quite-varied blogging and as a WordPress sandbox.
>
> Looking forward to helping out, and to working with y'all!
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:05:24 -0500
> From: Chris Everson <chris at chriseverson.net>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] introductions
> To: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
> Cc: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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> Hi, I'm Chris Everson and have, like Joseph, been using WordPress since
> 2004. I have actually created my own CMS, but never publicly released it,
> because like many attempts out there, there is always something that doesn't
> better, and taking on the likes of WordPress was not something I was up to
> when it came time to fit it for a public release. I am currently a partner
> and director of web services for a relatively new marketing firm in Houston
> and am a member of the planning committee for the upcoming first ever
> WordCamp Houston. Aside for the standard design and development greatness, I
> spend my time golfing, collecting records and recording music. It's
> wonderful to e-meet you all!
>
> CHRISEVERSON
> WEB DESIGNER & DEVELOPER
>
> cell: 360.286.0353
>
> the man: chriseverson.net
> the machine: startwithgrey.com
> twitter: @chriseverson
> linkedin: linkedin.com/pub/chriseverson
> facebook: facebook.com/chriseverson.net
>
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Joseph Scott wrote:
>
> > Hello, and thank you for joining in on the theme review call for help.
> > I've just gone through and approved several requests to join this
> > list, so hopefully you are in the right place.
> >
> > If your are here then you've expressed an interest in helping with the
> > WordPress.org theme directory.  Let me say right up front, thank you!
> >
> > Sounds like an instructor on the first day of class: welcome to
> > Anthropology 103, if that isn't what you expected then now is the time
> > to find the right class room :-)
> >
> > Moving along.  This is a new email list, with lots of new people
> > subscribed.  Please do a quick introduction, who you are are, a little
> > bit of background, your WordPress URL, etc.
> >
> > Doing theme reviews on a broader scale like this really is a bit of an
> > experiment, I expect that we'll make adjustments as we figure things
> > out along the way.  Some items to help everyone get up to speed:
> >
> > - make sure you have a WordPress.org account already
> > - know where http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ is :-)
> > - the theme review check list in the codex, make sure you are
> > comfortable importing the test data
> > http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist#Theme_Unit_Test
> >
> > One idea that has recently been tossed around is putting together a
> > theme review score card.  Something that would help quantify some of
> > the review process.  A simple scale of 1 to 5 (perhaps 1 to 3?) for
> > different categories like security, following code guide lines,
> > supports WP core features, etc.
> >
> > While getting this list up and going I'm also moving the existing
> > theme review emails to this list as well, so you'll be seeing some
> > back and forth on themes currently in the review queue.
> >
> > I'd like to see nice, high quality themes for the directory and
> > another big thank you for volunteering to work with theme authors to
> > help make that possible.
> >
> >
> > Here's my intro blurb:
> >
> > Hi, I'm Joseph Scott.  I've been using WordPress since 2004, after
> > giving up on writing my own blog software (seems like everyone back
> > then tried to write their own before finally going to WP).  I started
> > doing WordPress work full time when I joined Automattic, I contribute
> > to both the WordPress.org community project as well as work on
> > WordPress.com.  What seems like a long time ago now I wrote the code
> > for the original Prologue theme (which others continued to enhance,
> > into what is now P2).  One of the areas I focus on in WordPress are
> > the XML-RPC APIs.  I've also done work in the realtime(ish) area for
> > WordPress, with plugins for both rssCloud and PubSubHubbub (PuSH).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Scott
> > joseph at josephscott.org
> > http://josephscott.org/
> > _______________________________________________
> > theme-reviewers mailing list
> > theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> > http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
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> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:17:29 -0700
> From: Kailey Lampert <trepmal at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] introductions
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> Hi, I'm Kailey Lampert
> I've only been playing around with WordPress for about 2 years. I'm not
> much
> of a designer, but I do love code - and I'm always interested to see what I
> can learn from somebody else's handiwork. Hopefully I'll be able to use
> what
> I've learned so far and be able to give back to the community.
> Several years ago, I put some effort into writing my own little blogging
> platform, but once I learned about WordPress - I never looked back.
> I've written a handful of dinky plugins, and I've created numerous themes
> for clients through my job (admittedly, not all of the greatest
> quality...).
>
> Kailey Lampert
> http://trepmal.com
> trepmal at gmail.com
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello, and thank you for joining in on the theme review call for help.
> >  I've just gone through and approved several requests to join this
> > list, so hopefully you are in the right place.
> >
> > If your are here then you've expressed an interest in helping with the
> > WordPress.org theme directory.  Let me say right up front, thank you!
> >
> > Sounds like an instructor on the first day of class: welcome to
> > Anthropology 103, if that isn't what you expected then now is the time
> > to find the right class room :-)
> >
> > Moving along.  This is a new email list, with lots of new people
> > subscribed.  Please do a quick introduction, who you are are, a little
> > bit of background, your WordPress URL, etc.
> >
> > Doing theme reviews on a broader scale like this really is a bit of an
> > experiment, I expect that we'll make adjustments as we figure things
> > out along the way.  Some items to help everyone get up to speed:
> >
> > - make sure you have a WordPress.org account already
> > - know where http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ is :-)
> > - the theme review check list in the codex, make sure you are
> > comfortable importing the test data
> > http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist#Theme_Unit_Test
> >
> > One idea that has recently been tossed around is putting together a
> > theme review score card.  Something that would help quantify some of
> > the review process.  A simple scale of 1 to 5 (perhaps 1 to 3?) for
> > different categories like security, following code guide lines,
> > supports WP core features, etc.
> >
> > While getting this list up and going I'm also moving the existing
> > theme review emails to this list as well, so you'll be seeing some
> > back and forth on themes currently in the review queue.
> >
> > I'd like to see nice, high quality themes for the directory and
> > another big thank you for volunteering to work with theme authors to
> > help make that possible.
> >
> >
> > Here's my intro blurb:
> >
> > Hi, I'm Joseph Scott.  I've been using WordPress since 2004, after
> > giving up on writing my own blog software (seems like everyone back
> > then tried to write their own before finally going to WP).  I started
> > doing WordPress work full time when I joined Automattic, I contribute
> > to both the WordPress.org community project as well as work on
> > WordPress.com.  What seems like a long time ago now I wrote the code
> > for the original Prologue theme (which others continued to enhance,
> > into what is now P2).  One of the areas I focus on in WordPress are
> > the XML-RPC APIs.  I've also done work in the realtime(ish) area for
> > WordPress, with plugins for both rssCloud and PubSubHubbub (PuSH).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Scott
> > joseph at josephscott.org
> > http://josephscott.org/
> > _______________________________________________
> > theme-reviewers mailing list
> > theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> > http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
> >
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