[theme-reviewers] Formal Request for Change of Methodology.

[Srikanth Koneru]

A new tag perhaps for all these "incompatible under new rules" themes like
"Advanced" or "use at own risk" or similar name?

Put all these themes in that tag, exclude them from tag filter searches,
Recently updated, new themes, popular lists on wordpress.org/themes/ ( so
only experienced users and current users can find them )
Themes under this tag to have a big bold disclosure saying they are meant
only for experienced users and maybe be locked in or will have trouble
migrating etc.

That way their current user base who are happily using the existing
functionality can keep getting updates and no new user of WordPress will be
inconvenienced when they switch from these advanced themes and loose all
their data. If any new theme wants to add plugin functions, they can add
this new tag and they can be used by experienced users.

Support responsibility for these themes to be on the theme authors and they
should actively provide support, so current support warriors won't be
burdened?

We can have the best of both worlds this way, Directory can host advanced
themes too and new users won't complain WordPress is hard to use.


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net
> wrote:

> Thanks!  .. sadly no, it's not that simple; there are still roughly
> 25k'ish users out there (that can be counted with services like Comic
> Rocket+backlinks+etc) that still haven't migrated to Comic Easel - which
> only counts to a modest (/grin) 150ish sites using it right now.
>
> It's rather unfortunate that I have to point people to the github to
> download the updated ComicPress that keeps it compatible with the recent
> releases of WordPress. - even then, I have seen some version 1.6's out
> there of ComicPress running wordpress 2.0 something's heh.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Otto
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:05 PM
>
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.**wordpress.org<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Formal Request for Change of Methodology.
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
> <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>
>> My ComicPress theme the same way, it's completely embedded with options
>> that
>> are specific to the code required to run it, while there's an addon
>> available in plugin that plugin will only work for the theme.   It's
>> useless
>> otherwise.
>>
>
> Is that still around? I thought you'd ported most users over to Comic
> Easel.
>
> Comic Easel is a better choice all around, I'd say. That's more of a
> doing-it-right approach.
>
> -Otto
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