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

[Chip Bennett]

I don't look at that as a "new rule". I look at that as "common sense", and
I'm disappointed that we even have to state it explicitly.


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then work for it, completion will always be there....
> With the new rule of not assigning more than one ticket before posting
> full review, you will have more than fair chance of winning it.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>> =============
>> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
>> http://CyberChimps.com
>> Twitter @trentlapinski
>>
>>
>> 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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