[theme-reviewers] Tags and description.

[Srikanth Koneru]

Well, Business/Corporate is one tag that is needed badly.


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Justin Tadlock
<justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:

>  I definitely agree, Chip.
>
> I wanted to focus on a set of meaningful tags that described "types" of
> themes though.  We've kind of taken a single tag,  e-commerce, and ran with
> it (with some good ideas too).
>
> Here's one of my favorite tags:
> http://wordpress.org/themes/tags/photoblogging
>
> I think a good first step would be for us to come up with similar, useful
> tags for users that describe the types of themes they can download.
>
>
> On 8/23/2013 1:48 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>
> I definitely see benefit in a both/and approach, rather than either/or, to
> "e-commerce" and "plugin-support-{plugin}" tags. And in all honesty,
> getting a generic "e-commerce" tag approved is probably easier and more
> feasible in the short-term.
>
>  But I'd still like to see some standard way for Themes to declare that
> support, since if the "e-commerce" tag is added, a reviewer is going to
> have to verify the tag is appropriate. A simple add_theme_support(
> 'plugin-name' ) call would meet that requirement very nicely.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm re-posting this because my last email went to moderation for file
>> size.  I'm not sure who's in charge of that.
>>
>> I like the idea of automation for plugin support.  We just need plugins
>> and themes to start talking to each other via add_theme_support(), which
>> seems to be a growing standard.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> To answer the question of "what is an e-commerce theme?" I'd say any
>> theme that's built to support any e-commerce plugin. We shard start
>> creating a set of guidelines that define these tags.  Maybe we won't have
>> all the answers, but we can at least start formulating a standard to go by.
>>
>> What's going to be even more useful is themes getting the same
>> "readme.txt" treatment that plugins get.  It would help expand on, say,
>> what e-commerce solution(s) it supports.
>>
>> Not all users look for a WooCommerce, JigoShop, or whatever theme to
>> start out.  Many of them don't really know they'll need both a plugin and
>> theme for an e-commerce site.  So, they go out looking for a theme.  They
>> know they want to run an e-commerce site.  We should provide a way for them
>> to find the solution they're looking for.  Having a generic e-commerce tag
>> would go a long way in helping them.
>>
>> E-commerce is just one of several tags though.  We should focus on what
>> tags we can feasibly define to some degree and come up with a list.
>>
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