[theme-reviewers] Submitting a One-Page Placeholder Theme

[Doug Stewart]

Cais:
I think it unreasonable to look for full repo compliance when
considering these sorts of single-purpose theme. I think the community
suffers by not having access to these sorts of efforts and so some
consideration ought to be extended.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Edward Caissie
<edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sara -
>
> Thank you for your interest in having your theme hosted at the WordPress
> Extend repository.
> Although, for the most part, previously "live" themes may not be a good
> benchmarks a quick review of the "Launch" themes you are referencing would
> indicate both need to have modifications made before a newer version would
> be approved.
>
> As to the issues that you are seeing with the upload script stopping you
> from submitting your theme, there is no real manual process for working
> around it. I would suggest implementing, perhaps with additional options to
> display, all of the functionality your theme's submission report is stating
> as "REQUIRED". Once your theme is in Trac we can look further into your
> use-case scenarios.
>
> Please keep in mind, the Themes found in the repository are meant to be
> potentially used by the community in general, not necessarily by a small
> niche group. That being said I would still very much like to see a "Launch"
> theme that meets all of the current guidelines in the repository.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Sara Chai Butler
> <sara at launcheffectapp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I hope this email finds you well!  I was directed here by the moderater
>> for the Themes and Templates forum, esmi.
>> I was wondering how to go about submitting a one-page theme to the
>> WordPress theme repository. The theme is called Launch Effect and it is
>> basically a placeholder page with email sign-up, unique URL generator, and
>> built-in statistics and incentive tracking.  It has almost 4,000 downloads
>> and a dedicated technical support.  The demand for this type of theme, and
>> the feedback for ours specifically, has been really good and you can see
>> examples of it in use on our homepage: http://www.launcheffectapp.com.
>> It includes a robust theme options panel where every aspect of the design
>> can be customized and a stats panel where users are able to track signups
>> and conversions (people who shared the site) and export their data.
>> TL;DR
>> Our one-page theme (http://www.launcheffectapp.com) fails the theme upload
>> because it's not a blog and has no need for comments or tags, etc... I was
>> wondering if its possible for a theme with a very specific functionality
>> like this to be submitted. I can't figure out how the other two launch type
>> themes were able to upload (these two:
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=launch ) because neither of
>> theme have any kind of blog infrastructure in place.
>> We'd love to be included in the official theme repository of WordPress and
>> we thank you in advance for your guidance on this.
>> Sara
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sara Chai Butler
>> Web Developer
>>
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>>
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-Doug