[theme-reviewers] Befuddled by the theme search engine

[Doug Stewart]

Hah, I had the ethics to not self-rate and got punished, huh?

*grin*

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> Bug in the API search. Looking for a solution now.
>
> But, the basic problem is that the theme had zero ratings. This
> doesn't normally happen, theme authors almost always give at least
> their own themes a 5 star rating, so I guess nobody had ever noticed
> it before.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>> I recently had a user point out to me that my theme doesn't actually
>> seem to be find-able via its name in the Themes dashboard with "terms"
>> selected. (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/elbee-elgee) Try it. You
>> can't bring it up via its name, nor any substring thereof. The only
>> way that it comes up is if you search for me as the "author".
>>
>> Yet when you do searches on the Extend repo, it comes right up. I'm
>> confused -- why wouldn't it come up via "terms"?
>>
>> Also, I clearly have "BuddyPress" in my theme description, yet if you
>> search for "BuddyPress" (or any variation in capitalization) it
>> doesn't appear. (It *does* appear near the top of the BuddyPress tag
>> listings)
>>
>> So: what gives? What context am I missing? Why the wide variation in
>> behavior between the various search vectors?
>>
>> --
>> -Doug
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-- 
-Doug