[theme-reviewers] What are your thoughts on "blank" themes?

[Chip Bennett]

The reason I see it as a "niche" or "special use" case is that, 99.99% of
the time, end users are not going to use a truly "blank" (i.e. NO CSS
definitions, whatsoever) on a live site, without modification, and such use
is not the intended purpose of such Themes.

Chip

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I do not have any issues with a "blank" theme, generally speaking I would
> consider most "minimalist" themes as working to be considered along the
> lines of "blank" as well ... at least given definition I would use when
> reading "minimalist".
>
> Having another theme in the repository specifically, or at least
> originally, designed for the purpose of helping new (or old) "developers"
> is a great idea. I'm not even really seeing it requiring a niche label as I
> am taking from the original premise it would pass the standard guideline
> requirements as one of its initial goals.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ian Stewart <ian at iandanielstewart.com>wrote:
>
>> On 2011-11-29, at 2:11 PM, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>>
>> > Well they're not really a special-use case from the perspective of the
>> > end user who wants to download a special kind of (usable) theme for
>> > WordPress.  It seems that they warrant perhaps their own separate
>> > developer section outside of extend on the site, or maybe just some
>> > links from the wiki.
>>
>> I think separating them out would be OK but I think labelling them as
>> "blank" would be better than "developer". It's friendlier to people who
>> wouldn't label themselves as developers but are more than capable of
>> hacking a blank theme.
>>
>> Ian
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