[theme-reviewers] theme-reviewers Digest, Vol 4, Issue 125
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Fri Oct 1 10:50:38 UTC 2010
Hello all,
I may be late into the Featured Themes discussion.
What if we use variables to determine Featured Themes?
These variables are
1. star ratings (by popular)
2. work ratings (by function)
Random may be fair for all WordPress themer (designers or developers), but
those variables will add values to Featured Themes and WordPress itself.
Thanks
Regards,
Kate
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> 3. Re: Featured Themes Questions (Edward Caissie)
> 4. Re: Featured Themes Questions (Otto)
> 5. Re: Featured Themes Questions (Simon Prosser)
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> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:34:03 -0400
> From: Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
> Subject: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
> To: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
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> Otto -
>
> A couple of questions you can hopefully answer and/or point the Theme
> Review
> Team in the right direction.
>
> 1. Is there a way to find out all of the currently "Featured" themes?
> Short of making a list; "un-sticking" them; and, seeing what still shows
> up.
> I have not seen anything except the "Featured" search criteria on the
> "Install Themes" tab.
> 2. As per this comment:
>
> http://edwardcaissie.com/2010/09/featured-themes/comment-page-1/#comment-353and
> my reply; would it be possible to have randomly picked theme(s) posted
> to the Featured page for x amount of days? Not sure what would work best,
> or
> if it's possible ... I'll leave that to your code creativity.
>
>
> Cais.
>
> PS: To the mailing list in general: feel free to leave comments on the
> post,
> too. The more input the better. EAC
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> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:13:26 -0500
> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
> To: Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
> Cc: WP Theme Reviewers Mailing List
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> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Edward Caissie
> <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to find out all of the currently "Featured" themes? Short
> of
> > making a list; "un-sticking" them; and, seeing what still shows up. I
> have
> > not seen anything except the "Featured" search criteria on the "Install
> > Themes" tab.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. The Featured Themes are all
> the themes listed under Featured Themes on
> http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/.
>
> Perhaps you may have been told it was choosing some random set of the
> featured themes to be displayed there. If that's the case, then I
> understand... but you have been misinformed. That's it. That's all of
> them. There are no more. It displays all the sticky themes there.
>
> > As per this comment:
> >
> http://edwardcaissie.com/2010/09/featured-themes/comment-page-1/#comment-353
> > and my reply; would it be possible to have randomly picked theme(s)
> posted
> > to the Featured page for x amount of days? Not sure what would work best,
> or
> > if it's possible ... I'll leave that to your code creativity.
>
> We can change it to display some kind of random selection instead, if
> desired. Currently it just displays them all.
>
> -Otto
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:27:15 -0400
> From: Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
> To: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> Cc: WP Theme Reviewers Mailing List
> <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> Message-ID:
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> @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.
>
> 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.
>
> Hopefully that is a little more clearer than mud.
>
>
> Cais.
>
> 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
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Edward Caissie
> > <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to find out all of the currently "Featured" themes?
> Short
> > of
> > > making a list; "un-sticking" them; and, seeing what still shows up. I
> > have
> > > not seen anything except the "Featured" search criteria on the "Install
> > > Themes" tab.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand the question. The Featured Themes are all
> > the themes listed under Featured Themes on
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/.
> >
> > Perhaps you may have been told it was choosing some random set of the
> > featured themes to be displayed there. If that's the case, then I
> > understand... but you have been misinformed. That's it. That's all of
> > them. There are no more. It displays all the sticky themes there.
> >
> > > As per this comment:
> > >
> >
> http://edwardcaissie.com/2010/09/featured-themes/comment-page-1/#comment-353
> > > and my reply; would it be possible to have randomly picked theme(s)
> > posted
> > > to the Featured page for x amount of days? Not sure what would work
> best,
> > or
> > > if it's possible ... I'll leave that to your code creativity.
> >
> > We can change it to display some kind of random selection instead, if
> > desired. Currently it just displays them all.
> >
> > -Otto
> >
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> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:11:19 -0500
> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
> To: Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
> Cc: WP Theme Reviewers Mailing List
> <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
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> 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.
>
> > 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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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:23:42 +0100
> From: Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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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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> >
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:30:27 -0700
> From: "Philip M. Hofer \(Frumph\)" <philip at frumph.net>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
> To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
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> Random theme thats been through the current theme review process I hope ;)
>
> - Phil
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> From: Simon Prosser
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions
>
>
> 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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>
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> Plugins : http://www.pross.org.uk/plugins/
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