[theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a'Top Reviewer of the Month'.

[Trent Lapinski]

A redesign of WordPress.org/themes is actually pointless because no one actually visits WordPress.org/themes.

If I recall correctly the last time I asked Otto about this in person, it is actually one of the least visited pages on WordPress.org.

Almost all theme traffic is driven from within WP-Admin > Appearance > Themes > Featured Themes.

The importance of being featured is being displayed in WP-Admin to get your theme in front of hundreds of thousands if not millions of WordPress users who don’t even know WordPress.org as a website even exists.

A redesign of .org/themes will not accomplish anything unfortunately.

As long as Featured themes is in core it will be the best and only way to get a theme in front of most WordPress users.

--Trent Lapinski
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On Jan 29, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Emil - I don't want to take credit, as a few others already mentioned a redesign of http://wordpress.org/themes/.
> 
> One idea that might work is to instead of having "Featured" themes be so prominent and everything else, simple text link lists, there could be 4 columns (floated divs) side-by-side, equal in size to one another, all with screenshots:
> 
> Featured | Popular | New | Updated
> 
> That way, both featured themes and naturally popular themes would share the real estate and exposure. But, if I remember correctly, it might be a difficulty of it being dynamic and not static, which would need to manually be managed?
> 
> @Srikanth - I'm not sure Chip does video design? @Chip? Either way, if there happen to be any video designers reading this discussion that would be interested, and if no one objects to the idea of us donating some money into a community pot for this project, I'd throw down.
> 
> Speaking of donations, what do you think about a PayPal account for non-paid-admins to receive donations, something they can split evenly among themselves at the end of every month? Perhaps, I'm getting ahead of myself. :).
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