[theme-reviewers] Special demo config for wp-themes.com, allowed?

[Chip Bennett]

Most of this discussion is outside the scope of the Theme Review guidelines
and process. However, I would certainly encourage better readme
documentation - including how to accomplish the "demo" appearance - as a
matter of recommended best-practice.

Chip

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Robert Ambartsumov <robert6292 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yea i know, but the issue is that, designers on theme demos place the
> content in the correct location with the correct fluid, this isn't wrong
> actually and just shows you how you can make a good looking site when the
> content and the elements are in their correct position, but often when a
> user installs a theme it gets different content and sometimes no content at
> all to fill all the blank, that's why sometimes it looses the premium look
> a demo had, the only thing that comes to my mind is some sort of a basic
> design lesson in regards to content location and such things that can help
> an end user achieve a great look for any theme, not just the one you are
> providing to him.
>
> cheers.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Anca at anca.tv <anca at anca.tv> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've been lurking on this list for a while.  Hope it's cool to chime in.
>>  I'm not part of the theme review process, but I spend several hours each
>> week helping neophytes learn how to set up their WordPress sites.
>>
>> One problem with the default setup is that it's not always clear to users
>> how to configure the theme in order to achieve the end result shown the
>> demo.  This is really an issue with premium themes (StudioPress comes to
>> mind, Modularity) where the demo has a full set of content that shows a
>> gorgeous site, rather than  bare-bones framework which is what you get out
>> of the box.
>>
>> Some premium themes solve this problem by having a "demo" file you can
>> load which contains posts and categories such that people can see the basic
>> building blocks for the site, but then you wind up with content in your
>> site that doesn't really belong there - and, if you install several of
>> these themes you wind up with a hot mess.
>>
>> It would help if theme authors (and providers) gave a succinct overview
>> of how to achieve the demo theme look step by step, with content of your
>> own.  These things take time to produce, but your users will be rather
>> grateful if you provide them.
>>
>> Anca.
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:10 PM, theme-reviewers-request at lists.wordpress.orgwrote:
>>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:28:27 -0600
>> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Special demo config for wp-themes.com,
>>  allowed?
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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>> Not allowed. Please don't try this. Theme preview should show default
>> as the end user will see the default.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Robert Ambartsumov
>> <robert6292 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>>
>> I would like to include in my theme a special demo configuration file for
>>
>> default settings that will be loaded when it matches the wp-themes.com
>> url,
>>
>> so that for example I can load some data that wont be available on a
>> typical
>>
>> end user theme activation, i.e twitter username feed or a custom home page
>>
>> screen.
>>
>> the?reason?for this is because I do want to show the user what the theme
>> is
>>
>> capable of and improve the?overall?demonstration process eventually, but i
>>
>> agree that those settings shouldn't be loaded as default for the end user
>> as
>>
>> per theme reviewers suggestions and guidelines.
>>
>>
>> i.e by doing this:
>>
>> $mframe['globals'] = home_url() == $mframe['demo']['server'] ?
>>
>> wp_parse_args( $mframe['demo'], $mframe['globals']) : $mframe['globals'];
>>
>>
>> the demo server url can be setup as anything, but for this example is
>>
>> obviously wp-themes.com where we can view demo version of the theme.
>>
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
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