[theme-reviewers] Spammy theme?

[Chip Bennett]

Mainly, because that Plugin compatibility tool is horribly, irrevocably
broken.

Also, parsing readme.txt header tags into the Extend listing page for Themes
would require Themes to implement those header tags - which doesn't help us
for themes that haven't been, and likely won't be, updated.

Chip

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Angelo Bertolli
<angelo.bertolli at gmail.com>wrote:

> Why not just have a "works with version X" selection for users like on
> the plugin side?  Then the users could decide what was working, and
> things could be pruned accordingly.
>
>
> On 07/26/2011 03:44 PM, Justin Tadlock wrote:
> > We've had this discussion before, so I'll say what I said before.  I'm
> > all for it so long as there's actually a need for an update on the theme
> > side of things (e.g., nav menus, comment form, etc.).  Just keep in mind
> > that not all WP releases have things that need to be addressed in themes.
> >
> > WP 2.9 is a generous cutoff date because we've had loads of theme
> > features added to core WP since then.  WP 3.0 wouldn't be too much of a
> > stretch.
> >
> > On 7/25/2011 2:09 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> >> I support this as well, but we need buy-in from higher up.
> >>
> >> I would propose WordPress 2.9 (December 18, 2009) is the *ideal*
> >> cutoff - or, barring that, WordPress 2.8 (June 11 2009), as the
> >> "generous" cutoff.
> >>
> >> I will raise the flag, if there is general consensus?
> >>
> >> Chip
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:sabreuse at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     I noticed that this theme was last updated in 2008 -- it seems like,
> >>     as we're just now gearing up for the next release cycle, it might be
> a
> >>     good time to revisit enforcement of the "must be kept up-to-date"
> >>     guideline? I'd welcome autosuspension of themes that haven't been
> >>     updated in n core versions with a "please update" message to the dev
> >>     (where n is a somewhat generous number).
> >>
> >>     On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com
> >>     <mailto:emil at themeid.com>> wrote:
> >>     > Yes and thank you. Theme has been suspended from the directory.
> >>     They had at
> >>     > least one more site which was suspended in the past.
> >>     >
> >>     > ----
> >>     > Emil Uzelac | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 <tel:224-444-0006> |
> >>     Twitter: @EmilUzelac | E:
> >>     > emil at themeid.com <mailto:emil at themeid.com> | http://themeid.com
> >>     > Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert
> >>     Einstein
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, esmi at quirm dot net
> >>     <esmi at quirm.net <mailto:esmi at quirm.net>>
> >>     > wrote:
> >>     >>
> >>     >> <http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/3d-realty>
> >>     >>
> >>     >> The link on the theme's Repo page and in the footer of the theme
> >>     leads to
> >>     >> an SEO site. No mention of the theme anywhere on the SEO site.
> >>     >>
> >>     >> Mel P.
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