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

[Emil Uzelac]

Either or should be all right.

Emil


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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:

> **
> For the specific case I'm asking about, it would be a truly blank theme
> with no CSS definitions.  It definitely wouldn't pass all the unit test
> guidelines.
>
> Honestly, I'd rather Average Joe *not* download and try to use it unless,
> of course, he's wanting to learn about theme development.  So, I'm
> definitely in favor of having a "blank" or "developer" tag for such themes.
>
>
> On 11/29/2011 3:14 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>
> 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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