[theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions

[Edward Caissie]

@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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