[theme-reviewers] Sub-menu depth requirements

Paul Appleyard paul at spacecat.com
Sun Feb 3 13:50:24 UTC 2013


They're getting it for free, screw 'em :)

Paul

On 3/02/2013 11:24 PM, Bryan Hadaway wrote:
> Oh no, plenty of users will try and go more than 3 levels deep and 
> then blame the theme for being inadequate. Users will try to add 
> sparkles and ponies to their theme and blame you for not having a 
> sparkles and ponies feature built-in (you know, because everyone wants 
> that and if you don't add that feature they'll tell the world just how 
> awful you and your theme are).
>
> Whenever you have a user-base (in anything) expect to take all kinds 
> of bizarre abuse. The only difference is those that are willing to 
> educate their users and those who aren't. Is it even required to 
> support one dropdown level as long as he explains in the read me that 
> it doesn't?
>
> The point is that if you only add 0-2 dropdown levels you're 
> constantly going to have to explain to users/customers why it doesn't 
> support more. They won't even see this as a "design choice". 
> Psychologically, they'll just see the theme as broken because it 
> doesn't do what they want, probably even give it a low rating because 
> of some trivial thing that didn't meet their exact specification.
>
> Pessimist? Nope, realist. Welcome to WordPress.
>
>
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