[theme-reviewers] Question

Sat Apr 7 05:55:30 UTC 2012

ok, so I am going to ask them to change the wordings for "more themes"
to "Natty
Themes".

Meanwhile, I think we should give more thought to this and form some
guidelines around it.

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Nisha

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> Absolutely and that's good in my book!
>
> Emil
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:
>
>> This is in at least a dozen themes, if not more. It's a pretty standard
>> upsell feature and has been allowed on .org for years.
>>
>> When this came up in my themes reviews we were simply asked to be more
>> specific and changed it to "CyberChimps Themes". It's been a year since
>> then.
>>
>> I mean some themes even have their own store built into them, so I don't
>> see this as the "commercializing of themes" or that being a bad thing or
>> something that should be looked down upon.
>>
>> If someone is abusing the links then don't approve their theme, let's not
>> drop the ban hammer on everyone else.
>>
>> --Trent Lapinski
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>> Themes are located under the Appearance, not sure why "More Themes" can't
>> be there as well. Maybe different wording would clear this up? Like e.g.
>> "Natty Themes" maybe.
>>
>> Emil
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> My issue with the sub-menu page is the precedent that it sets, and the
>>> question of whether it belongs as a sub-page. The Appearance sub-menu is
>>> supposed to hold pages related to altering the *current* Theme's
>>> appearance. A "More Themes" page confuses the UX in that "More Themes" have
>>> nothing to do with modifying the current Theme, and also in that the
>>> correct place to add "more Themes" is the Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
>>> Theme page.
>>>
>>> Chip
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you honestly think that this is the only Theme that does this? No,
>>>> there's more :) Checking for abuse, well that's why we have the Diff for,
>>>> whatever is changed it will appear there, if Theme is approved with
>>>> potential abuse links, well that means that we're not doing our job
>>>> correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Emil
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am concerned about this issue. This new "More Themes" panel has a
>>>>> huge potential for abuse.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, with the approval of a theme which has this function in the
>>>>> official WP Theme Repository, I would bet that almost every theme author
>>>>> will add a new "More Themes" page in Appearance -- which would be another
>>>>> check by a theme reviewer to see that links within "more themes" are kosher.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mercime
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