[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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