[theme-reviewers] Featured Themes Questions

[Simon Prosser]

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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