[theme-reviewers] Number of Theme Downloads

[Sayontan Sinha]

>
> Dang it Sayontan you had to mess this up for us? Plugin was good stuff!
>
Me? What did I do? :-)

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> 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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>
> 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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