[theme-reviewers] Category templates not allowed? Notacceptable.

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

There is no documentation for the end user to recognize that.
If you wish to include a readme.txt file as such then by all means, until 
then please stop throwing your weight around.

- Phil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Category templates not allowed? 
Notacceptable.


> The custom gallery functionality as the category is one of the primary
> design criteria for the theme. The purpose is to display all the
> galleries in one place. A gallery of gallery posts, if you will.
>
> This theme uses a gallery shortcode and image.php file as well. That
> has nothing to do with the category-gallery.php file.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
> <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>> My themes have a custom gallery functionality that do not use a category, 
>> it
>> uses wordpresses [gallery] code and the image.php file, which can also be
>> done with attachment.php
>>
>> I'm sure this might be an oversite on your side to recognize that.
>>
>> - Phil
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>> To: "WP Theme Reviewers Mailing List" 
>> <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:07 AM
>> Subject: [theme-reviewers] Category templates not allowed? Not 
>> acceptable.
>>
>>
>>> => category-gallery.php -> not allowed file.
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Theme_Template_Files Cannot
>>> predetermine if a user will have a category called gallery, try to
>>> find a different method of implementation
>>>
>>> This is wholly unacceptable, as the custom gallery functionality is
>>> one of the primary purposes of the theme. It is the most asked about
>>> feature of ma.tt, and it was one of the main reasons for implementing
>>> the theme in the first place.
>>>
>>> There is *no* valid reason that a theme cannot include custom category
>>> or tag templates for specialty cases. Rejecting a theme for this is
>>> not acceptable.
>>>
>>> -Otto
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