[theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions

[Chip Bennett]

Absolutely.

Otherwise, I'm adamantly against "random" featured Themes.

Chip

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net
> wrote:

>  Random theme thats been through the current theme review process I hope
> ;)
>
> - Phil
>
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> *From:* Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk>
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:23 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
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> On 30 September 2010 22:11, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Edward Caissie
>> <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > @Otto - Ian Stewart suggested asking you questions that might relate to
>> the
>> > Featured Themes ... I counted 15, just didn't know if that was all or if
>> > that was all that were shown at one time as 15 is the number of themes
>> shown
>> > per page by default anywhere else.
>>
>> Yeah, I didn't think of that. I'll double check. The code doesn't
>> specify a number, so I assumed that was all of them. Looking closely
>> at it, I can see that it's doing a BB_Query without specifying a
>> number, so it may only be displaying the first 15.
>>
>> > As to the random idea, perhaps I'm not explaining it clearly enough.
>> >
>> > Let's start with the above being a static quantity, that is _only_ 15
>> themes
>> > are shown on the Featured Theme page, not sure what would happen if say
>> 20
>> > themes were set to be "sticky" ... and I would prefer not to test it
>> out.
>> >
>> > Can a portion of those themes, perhaps the last one to three themes be
>> > randomly picked? Leave the the first set of themes as manually set to
>> > "stick" to the front page, while the second set are randomly picked from
>> the
>> > repository and automatically set to "stick" ... or is this an all or
>> nothing
>> > affair which if that is the case we can keep going forward with the
>> manual
>> > method.
>>
>> I can make it do anything at all, including lounge singing, but having
>> three random themes show up in the featured list does strike me as
>> rather strange.
>
>
> We were just thinking of having a random theme picked automagically for say
> 7 days...
> but having it sing would be better ;)
>
>
>> > PS: What is the difference in the "sticky" links ... one reads "Stick
>> Topic"
>> > the other reads "to front"? The "to front" link has the extra parameter
>> > &super=1 in it. EAC
>>
>> Short answer: Use Stick To Front to make a theme featured.
>>
>> -Otto
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