[theme-reviewers] How to get a theme featured?

Sat Feb 25 23:45:02 UTC 2012

Not a problem :)

Emil

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:

> Understood.
>
> Thanks Emil, truly appreciate everything you do for .org.
>
>
> --Trent Lapinski
> (714) 904-4280
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
> Trent,
>
> There's no special treatments for anyone, nor guidelines or requirements
> when it comes to featured Themes. How one is included or how can you be as
> well is above this list I am afraid.
>
> Emil
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:
>
>> Emil,
>>
>> Who is the person to bring this to their attention then?
>>
>> I'm aware that those posts are likely paid, I was simply stating a TC
>> post shouldn't be grounds for anything, especially if it was a paid post.
>>
>> Obviously someone added PageLines to the featured list, and I would like
>> to know either 1) why? or 2) how I can get my own theme featured.
>>
>> Again, I was under the impression the featured area didn't allow upsell
>> themes, and was supposed to highlight the best open source themes (most of
>> them are automattic themes). Featuring a newly approved closed-garden
>> upsell theme with its own priority plugin system seems backwards.
>>
>> Considering this is the same theme shop who lied to try have my own
>> themes removed from .org and who doesn't contribute WordPress.org or to
>> the review team makes the situation all that much more confusing.
>>
>> --Trent Lapinski
>> (714) 904-4280
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>> Trent,
>>
>> I really wish if this list, reviewers, admins or even Otto can give you
>> better explanations why this happened, or who can be there or not, we
>> cannot even influence this much. As far as TC, Mashable, Smashing or
>> whatever, anyone can be there, "posts" on sites like that are paid, think
>> of it as Press Release that looks much like an article. Anyone can have
>> paid post even on Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg etc.
>>
>> Was that accepted as special request? No, I don't think that's the case.
>>
>> Emil
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:
>>
>>> typo: "I do not see why or how it is fair…"
>>>
>>>
>>> --Trent Lapinski
>>> =============
>>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC
>>> trent at cyberchimps.com
>>> Mobile (714) 904-4280
>>> Twitter @trentlapinski
>>> http://CyberChimps.com
>>>
>>> On Feb 25, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Trent Lapinski wrote:
>>>
>>> > http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6302
>>> >
>>> > "Two quick notes for you: Please consider the new PageLines? Framework
>>> for a 'featured' theme on the directory. Article on the "PageLines? Store"
>>> on Techcrunch:
>>> http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/pagelines-to-launch-an-app-store-for-wordpress-drag-drop-sections-plugins-and-themes/
>>> "
>>> >
>>> > It appears a special request was made, and the grounds for which is
>>> they had a TechCrunch article written about them. The PageLines theme is
>>> now featured despite the fact it is now the only upsell theme featured and
>>> has no history on .org.
>>> >
>>> > I see why or how it is fair that they can become featured especially
>>> when you consider the fact that the PageLines theme has its own
>>> closed-garden priority store and plugin system that doesn't use WordPress's
>>> core plugin or theme functionality.
>>> >
>>> > It seems very counterintuitive for WordPress.org to promote a paid
>>> closed-garden theme.
>>> >
>>> > I'm not asking for special treatment or anything, but I don't
>>> understand why PageLines is getting special treatment especially when you
>>> consider their history.
>>> >
>>> > --Trent Lapinski
>>> > =============
>>> > CEO of CyberChimps LLC
>>> > trent at cyberchimps.com
>>> > Mobile (714) 904-4280
>>> > Twitter @trentlapinski
>>> > http://CyberChimps.com
>>> >
>>> > On Feb 25, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> There is no criteria to be featured, nor special requests can be made
>>> to get featured either. I along with few other have the ability to switch
>>> this around, however I personally never bothered with it, nor I will,
>>> unless, Otto, other Admins or WordPress makes that request.
>>> >>
>>> >> How did new Theme get there, honestly I have no idea. If I have
>>> saying in all this featured Themes should be Top 10 Themes. And that
>>> criteria would be easy ;)
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >> Emil
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:40 PM, WDL <john at webdesignlessons.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> What is the criteria to be featured?
>>> >>
>>> >> Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™
>>> >> www.blackberry.com
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> From: "Trent Lapinski" <trent at cyberchimps.com>
>>> >> To: "theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org" <
>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
>>> >> Sent: February 26, 2012 2:03 AM
>>> >> Subject: [theme-reviewers] How to get a theme featured?
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I've enquired about this in the past, and was told it wouldn't likely
>>> happen for my theme iFeature since it was an upsell theme, yet as of today
>>> I see that PageLines is now a featured theme and they're a $197 upsell
>>> theme.
>>> >>
>>> >> Has the criteria changed? How can I request iFeature become a
>>> featured theme? We've pretty much been in the top 15 since May of 2011.
>>> >>
>>> >> --Trent Lapinski
>>> >> =============
>>> >> CEO of CyberChimps LLC
>>> >> trent at cyberchimps.com
>>> >> Mobile (714) 904-4280
>>> >> Twitter @trentlapinski
>>> >> http://CyberChimps.com
>>> >>
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