[theme-reviewers] Tags and description.

Sat Aug 24 03:08:43 UTC 2013

Interesting. Been a long time since I searched for themes on WordPress.com.

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> wordpress.com under Themes
> On Aug 23, 2013 10:06 PM, "Josh Pollock" <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @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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