[theme-reviewers] A question

Thu Jun 10 17:02:39 UTC 2010

I haven't released a theme for the public yet, but Id like to. Is there
specific need / style that hasn't been met yet?

Andrew Norcross
Freelance Designer and Developer
(727) 498-1719
twitter: @norcross
http://andrewnorcross.com

On Jun 10, 2010 12:55 PM, <theme-reviewers-request at lists.wordpress.org>
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Today's Topics:

  1. Hey WPeople (Oren Yomtov)
  2. Re: introductions (Melvin Lee)
  3. Re: Wordpress Homepage Theme (Joseph Scott)
  4. Re: Bro themes,   your discount today is 70%. and         Arwad any
     during (Joseph Scott)
  5. Re: Bro themes,   your discount today is 70%. and         Arwad any
     during (Doug Stewart)
  6. Introductions (Tom Lany)
  7. Re: Simplepress 2 theme (Constantin Ionescu)
  8. Re: wp-themes: voidy - 1.3.1 (Joseph Scott)
  9. Re: wp-themes: voidy - 1.3.1 (Joseph Scott)
 10. Re: wp-themes: SWIFT - 5.27 (Joseph Scott)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:23:01 +0300
From: Oren Yomtov <thenameisoren at gmail.com>
Subject: [theme-reviewers] Hey WPeople
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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I'm Oren Yomtov, a web developer and entrepreneur.

I've been using WordPress for more then a year now, and.. It's great.
I will gladly help WordPress back in this opportunity.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:08:24 +0800
From: Melvin Lee <zy at zy.sg>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] introductions
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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Hello all,

I'm Melvin. I have been doing development work mainly on WordPress for
the past 3 years during my free time. I am the guy behind Arras Theme
(http://www.arrastheme.com/), working on new child themes, as well as
new theme ideas as they come along.

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Melvin Lee
@zyml
http://www.zy.sg/

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:12:58 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Wordpress Homepage Theme
To: Richard Mayo <richard.mayo at mac.com>
Cc: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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       <AANLkTilxOFQ_zOdwxG-OW_tEgCNZaIQQJX09ym6YNoLu at mail.gmail.com>
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I assume you are referring to the design for http://wordpress.org/ ?

I don't think the designers for that ever released that publicly.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Richard Mayo <richard.mayo at mac.com> wrote:
> Is the theme that you use as your homepage available to download?

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Joseph Scott
joseph at josephscott.org
http://josephscott.org/

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:14:33 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Bro themes,      your discount today is 70%.
       and     Arwad any during
To: Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com>
Cc: "theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org"
       <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
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The mailing list catches some of these, and I reject them.  As for
spam in general, yes, you can expect people to try and spam
anyone/thing they can, welcome to the Internet :-(

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that I don't enjoy the occasional spam marketing ploy, but is this
going
> to be a regular occurrence?

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Joseph Scott
joseph at josephscott.org
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:17:40 -0400
From: Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Bro themes,      your discount today is 70%.
       and     Arwad any during
To: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
Cc: "theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org"
       <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
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On 6/10/10, Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com> wrote:
> The mailing list catches some of these, and I reject them.  As for
> spam in general, yes, you can expect people to try and spam
> anyone/thing they can, welcome to the Internet :-(

Ahh. Did you add us all as recipients for the themes at wordpress.org
alias? I was under the impression that the spam was getting through to
the list, which, knowing Mailman, seemed odd. But upon closer
inspection I noted the different To: address.

*sigh* Looks like it'll be some more rolled-up-newspaper training for
GMail, then.

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-Doug
@zamoose
http://literalbarrage.org/blog/

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:36:11 -0500
From: Tom Lany <mail at tomlany.net>
Subject: [theme-reviewers] Introductions
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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Hi Everyone,

My name is Tom Lany, and I am a WordPress user from Minnesota.  I have
been working with WordPress since 2006, and manage my college
newspaper's website, The Gustavian Weekly -
http://weekly.blog.gustavus.edu/, doing all WordPress theme programming
and design work for it.  WordPress has been very useful to me, and I
would be happy to help in any way I can.

Tom Lany
http://tomlany.net/

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:39:19 +0300
From: Constantin Ionescu <constantin.ionescu at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Simplepress 2 theme
To: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>,
       theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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       <AANLkTilghA_NJERtvemvLZYrz1Oto-ClxvY53dF4fmLe at mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,

Thanks for the review.

Just uploaded a new version that fixes some bugs, so the theme can use the
correct version of jQuery.

Regards,

Constantin

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com> wrote:

> I took a quick look at version 1.1.5 and noted a couple of items:
>
> - includes a separate copy of jQuery instead of using the jQuery that
> ships with WP
> - loading 3rd party JavaScript from Google is ok, but I'd make it an
> option that defaults to off (the IE7 JS code)
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Constantin Ionescu
> <constantin.ionescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any possibility to have my theme reviewed?
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Scott
> joseph at josephscott.org
> http://josephscott.org/
>
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:30:10 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] wp-themes: voidy - 1.3.1
To: Safirul Alredha <zeo at unic.net.my>,
       theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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Excellent feedback.  One thing to note is that the twentyten theme
depends on WP 3.0, which hasn't hit official release yet.  Supporting
new features is fine, but I wouldn't expect a theme to require them
until the version is actually released.  In the case of
the_author_meta() that isn't a problem since it's part of WP 2.9.2.

Please go ahead and pass that along to Niyaz PK <niyazpk at gmail.com>
(and the list again).

In addition, you get the first new theme review task :-)

Check out http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/wpt-magnitade-11/1.12 via
Subversion and post the review details to the list.  My hope is get
people comfortable with reviewing themes and then giving them direct
access to the review admin.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Safirul Alredha <zeo at unic.net.my> wrote:
> A quick look of voidy 1.4.0:
>
> - get_settings is deprecated, use get_option.
> - decide whether you want to make your theme translation-ready or not.
> Because some strings are wrap with __() or _e() function call and some
> don't.
> - use theme API.
>
> author.php
> - use the_author_meta() instead of $curauth var. See twentyten theme
> for example.
>
> comments.php
> - use comments_open() => ('open' == $post->comment_status)
> - !$user_ID => !is_user_logged_in()
> - <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo
> htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); ?>" />? What is this for?
> - escape. For example: <?php echo $comment_author; ?> => <?php echo
> esc_attr($comment_author); ?>
>
> functions.php
> - use nonce in your form.
>
> header.php
> - automatic_feed_links(); for automatic output of feed link. Which is
> better than hard-coded feed link.
>
> footer.php
> - <?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/ => <?php echo admin_url(); ?>
>
> index.php
> - <?php the_time('M') ?> <?php the_time('d') ?> <?php the_time('Y') ?>
> => <?php the_time('M d Y') ?> (also archive.php, search.php, 404.php)
>
> page-archives.php
> - wp_list_cats() is deprecated, use wp_list_categories()

--
Joseph Scott
joseph at josephscott.org
http://josephscott.org/

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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:42:18 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] wp-themes: voidy - 1.3.1
To: niyazpk at gmail.com
Cc: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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       <AANLkTilQ74G5Sz0fdX6adMTL3LYU1dMbkJHcAitzbDVD at mail.gmail.com>
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We've seen trends where themes create several new rows in options
table, for no particular reason, they just didn't realize what was
happening.  As a result I've been encouraging theme authors group
these in more reasonable ways, usually as just a single option.  A
related issue is naming theme options in reasonable, unique ways, so
that it is clear where the option can from and doesn't have naming
collisions.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Niyaz PK <niyazpk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Uploaded a new version. All the options of this theme are now using a
single
> wp-option.
> BTW I checked some of the latest?WordPress?themes [even the default
?theme]
> and none of them seem to store the options as a single value. What is
> different with my theme?

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Joseph Scott
joseph at josephscott.org
http://josephscott.org/

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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:47:25 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at automattic.com>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] wp-themes: SWIFT - 5.27
To: SATISH GANDHAM <satish_g2009 at yahoo.co.in>
Cc: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Message-ID:
       <AANLkTilw-ak3B4QHg4wlZvm_cdx2wbwdGD0h7qd-mtnd at mail.gmail.com>
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Ok, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't trying to double serialize the
content.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:15 AM, SATISH GANDHAM <satish_g2009 at yahoo.co.in
>wrote:

> All my theme options are stored in two arrays,
> swift_opt and swift_design_opt
>
> I'm providing an option to import and export the theme options( two
arrays)
> as a text string (serialized data).
>
> The form input is unserialized to get the array back, and then
> imported.(swiftImportExport() function in swift/admin/admin-core.php)

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Joseph Scott
joseph at josephscott.org
http://josephscott.org/
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