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

[Simon Prosser]

Its really up to the theme provider ( if they are a premium site ) to
provide an xml file if they want to.

Problem arises when people pay lots of dollars from a theme and expect
the content to come with it and they dont even realize you have to
actually write your own content!

On 16 January 2012 22:44, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> 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.org
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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