[theme-reviewers] Tags and description.

[Josh Pollock]

@emil- What is that image from?

I'm just getting caught up after being on the road all day, plus a nice
dinner with @justin, and really happy that this discussion has become quite
productive. Wondering if between now and Tuesday afternoon we can put a
preliminary list of tags into a pastebin or gist that we have a preliminary
consensus on thinking they are a good idea and we could review them.


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> Yes, that would be good example for sure.
> On Aug 23, 2013 6:15 PM, "Srikanth Koneru" <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Any examples for industry tags? Like Real Estate etc?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I think, the vast majority of the time, an "industry" tag is just
>>> marketing nonsense. What is it about a Theme's design that makes it
>>> particularly useful to one, specific industry versus another specific
>>> industry? I can see the case for "Business" in general (because a design
>>> that emphasizes a business site can logically be quite distinct from a
>>> design that emphasizes blogging, or a portfolio, or a news/magazine, etc.),
>>> but not specific industries.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>  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 s
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Azizur Rahman
>>>>
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