[theme-reviewers] Tags and description.

[Emil Uzelac]

@Ulrich, do you still keep the list?


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, Business/Corporate is one tag that is needed badly.
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> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com
> > wrote:
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>>  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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