[theme-reviewers] Guidelines and theme markets

[Mario Peshev]

Wrote them an email suggesting that we could brainstorm on the guidelines
and exchange different ideas and best practices while reviewing themes. I am
really curious if they are going to respond positively but yet again it is a
chance to bond and get a fresh workflow ideas.

Best,

Mario Peshev
Training and Consulting Services @ DevriX
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
http://peshev.net/blog



On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:

> **
> Definitely tell folks to join the mailing list.  I work for DevPress, which
> has its own set of theme guidelines that go beyond what we do here.  I
> welcome feedback on guidelines from other theme
> communities/shops/repositories because it'll help here as well as in our
> guidelines.
>
>
> On 10/8/2011 12:19 PM, Edward Caissie wrote:
>
> It's a public mailing list, by all means let them know it is available.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
>
>> Hey Cais,
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>>  Could I invite two of the reviewers to the mailing list here informally
>> on behalf of the WPORG or it's better just to share them my personal
>> thoughts as for how can we help each other?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Mario Peshev
>> Training and Consulting Services @ DevriX
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
>> http://peshev.net/blog
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Edward Caissie <
>> edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We are always open to constructive discussions.
>>> That is really one of the core views of the WPTRT.
>>> We want to listen to the community and get their feedback.
>>>
>>> Granted, there may be differing points of view based on the venue the
>>> themes will be available from, and we make every effort to keep to the what
>>> we understand as the WordPress guiding ideals; but that in no way hinders us
>>> from listening to and discussing other ideals used by other "repositories".
>>>
>>>
>>> Cais.
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hello Reviewers,
>>>>
>>>>  Since we are discussing the guidelines and some possible changes out
>>>> there, I would like to comment something interesting (at least in my
>>>> opinion) about the toolkit of reviewers here and in other markets. My team
>>>> has submitted a theme framework for sale on Envato's theme market last week
>>>> after an unsuccessful submission half a year ago. During the first review in
>>>> April there was no specific technical review - it was mostly stability and
>>>> design uniqueness and function richness, but after the approval last week we
>>>> actually commented out with their reviewers that they have started to
>>>> actively use the Theme-Check plugin.
>>>>
>>>>  Since their overall concept is different, I was surprised that they
>>>> actually insist on different things such as styling the .sticky class or
>>>> using some file operations. Due to the market specifics some required
>>>> options are considered recommended only, but still they consider using it
>>>> closely for their reviewing process.
>>>>
>>>> Also, since the recent huge attack of timthumb, most of the authors in
>>>> the market actually got interested in the 'best practices' and what comes
>>>> 'in the box' of WordPress. I've been researching the market since January
>>>> and themes are implementing post-thumbnails instead of timthumb nowadays
>>>> (probably Justin's "Get the Image"
>>>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-the-image/ and user
>>>> comments have helped). The point is that there are other 'secret' teams that
>>>> also respect these guidelines and tools and I believe that we could probably
>>>> contact them and discuss some changes or best practices (even share and
>>>> exchange reviewing ideas). By popularizing that relation some theme sellers
>>>> could join and contribute to the WPORG repository (we plan revamping the
>>>> framework as a free version as Pagelines did) or take part as reviewers.
>>>>
>>>> So does it make any sense or we are kinda 'closed' to other reviewing
>>>> groups?
>>>>
>>>> Mario Peshev
>>>> Training and Consulting Services @ DevriX
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
>>>> http://peshev.net/blog
>>>>
>>>>
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