[theme-reviewers] Refactored themes

[Edward Caissie]

As a general response, these "clone" themes are not accepted into the
repository. Some may get by our review process, but fortunately most are
caught ... if not immediately then generally within a cycle or two of theme
updates if they are being made.

Themes being submitted to the WordPress.org repository are expected, if
using another theme as a base, to be adding significant design and/or
functionality to the original theme. This is still a very subjective
approach but seems to be sorting out the clones versus those authors
wanting to add "something" to an existing theme.


Cais.


On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Michael Torbert <mrtorbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Fernando,
>
> On another topic, you need to change your domain name.
> http://wordpress.org/about/domains/
>
> Michael Torbert
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Fernando Zorrilla (admin wordpressready) <
> admin at wordpressready.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody.
>> My name is Fernando Zorrilla, I hope I will start reviewing themes (my
>> username:WPReady).
>> As a part of my 'self-training' review , I inspected a few themes and I
>> saw something peculiar.
>>
>> I found a few themes 'based' on Twenty Eleven theme. These themes are
>> just a 'theme cloning' where the code is refactored and there are almost no
>> changes inside.
>> Basically the theme changes the twentyeleven prefix  for other more
>> appropriate, keeping the functionality (almost) intact.
>> In fact, a child theme for twentyeleven with a minimal or no additions
>> could do the exact same purpose, except a child theme will evolve when the
>> parent theme is updated.
>> I think those themes are like a 'refactored-snapshot' from the original
>> theme, if you know what I mean.
>>
>> This is something odd to me. An author could make thousands of themes
>> literally using this approach, cloning any  theme.
>> I would appreciate your concerns about this topic.
>>
>> http://www.wordpressready.com
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