[theme-reviewers] Number of Theme Downloads

[Emil Uzelac]

Dang it Sayontan you had to mess this up for us? Plugin was good stuff! I
removed mine Otto and updating every few days manually as I was doing
before.

Cheers,
Emil

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*Emil Uzelac* | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 | Twitter: @EmilUzelac | E:
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> You can use the XML thing mentioned earlier. Although honestly, we'd
> prefer it if you didn't.
>
> The "stats" information wordpress.org collects is not necessarily
> accurate or valid, and there's many things that can throw it off. It's
> pretend data, not rigorously collected data. It's there to be pretty
> and to show relationships between differing components. It's not meant
> to be any sort of accurate counter and the methodology is not
> necessarily robust.
>
> We do not have any sort of robust stats system for this, nor is there
> a plan to implement one.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Otto, since you have removed that plugin, are there any other way that
> > we can show the download count? Are there any API that we can use
> > legally?
> >
> > On 10/08/2011, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> You can use plugin, I did that here
> >>> http://themeid.com/shell-lite-theme/and the plugin is:
> >>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-extend-download-stat/
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks for the info. That plugin has now been removed.
> >>
> >> Please do not scrape our site.
> >>
> >> -Otto
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Daniel Fenn
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