[theme-reviewers] Specialty themes?

[Jonny]

I disagree with the reviewer completely. 
It's not meant to show the test data, because its not a theme designed to show content.

It should be reviewed as a special case.
As long as the coding conforms to WP standards it should be allowed.

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On 24 Feb 2013, at 14:27, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:

> I came across 2 coming soon themes this weekend. It would be difficult
> for us to accept them given the current guidelines. We'd need to
> introduce a lot of special cases, especially with the unit test
> requirements.
> 
> I feel that if something drastically changes the frontend
> functionality of WordPress, it's in the plugin domain.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Abhik Biswas <abhik at itsabhik.com> wrote:
>> I agree with the reviewer in this particular ticket.
>> I am on with having speciality themes in repo as long as they have options
>> to show theme unit test data anyway.
>> 
>> WordPress is no longer just a blogging platform or cms and we should
>> conditionally (as of now) welcome new ideas.
>> 
>> Just my 2 cents
>> 
>> On Feb 24, 2013 7:37 PM, "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Question for the list: What's your take on speciality themes?
>>> 
>>> I ask because I saw this:
>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10866
>>> 
>>> -Otto
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