[theme-reviewers] Tags and description.

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Fri Aug 23 21:47:19 UTC 2013


Distilled to their essence, "responsive" and "adaptive" designs *adjust to
work on devices with variously small screen sizes*.


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Azizur Rahman <prodevstudio at gmail.com>wrote:

> Execuse me if i have missed this: What is our understanding of the term "
> Responsive" in the view of WPTR team?
>
> I am yet to find two people or even developers coming to same definition.
>
>
> On Friday, 23 August 2013, Srikanth Koneru wrote:
>
>> Tags don't need to be used by everyone, If it helps a small percentage of
>> users find the theme they want quickly, then its good to have it.
>> Ex : if someone wants video themes, video tag will be helpful for them.
>> No harm in having it.
>>
>> A one or two line description for each tag will be helpful too. Having a
>> line of description will help users understand what the tag is in case they
>> don't know what it is.
>> Ex :
>> Responsive
>> Themes that adapt to mobile, tablet screen sizes.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Azizur Rahman <prodevstudio at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I think we need more then just "tags".
>>>
>>> Take the following tags for example:
>>> "Responsive, E-Commerce, Business, Portfolio, News/Magazine, Video,
>>> Accessibility."
>>>
>>> Above tags are useful from a developer point of view but are they useful
>>> for end users? They are mixture of industry and theme features. They are
>>> two distinct taxonomies.
>>>
>>> I am sure end user would benefit form having industry specific
>>> categories/tags or something that are aligned with some of the popular
>>> theme market places. We do not need to go wholesale with marketplaces but
>>> something in that direction.
>>>
>>> Just my two cents.
>>>
>>> On Friday, 23 August 2013, Ulrich Pogson wrote:
>>>
>>>  @Chip I like where you are taking this.
>>>
>>> @Emil What list?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23 August 2013 21:10, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>
>>> Nice, thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, so :
>>> Responsive, E-Commerce, Business, Portfolio, News/Magazine, Video,
>>> Accessibility.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>
>>> accessibility
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> He can add these i guess :
>>> Responsive, E-Commerce, Business, Portfolio, News/Magazine, Video.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>
>>> @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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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. <
>>>
>>>
>
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