[theme-reviewers] Commercial Theme Provider Directory

[Casey Lee]

I certainly understand. There are those of us who don't have the SEO of
Themeforest or the popularity Woo, so exposure on WP.org is a great way to
stimulate productivity and feedback for work that would otherwise go
unseen. I'm not saying it's a responsibility of WP to offer such "perks" to
contributors, but it certainly helps things to keep moving.


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Right. That would be me and Scott. Mostly Scott.
>
> We'll get around to it, but it's understandably low priority, low traffic,
> and taken care of on an "as-we-get-to-it" basis. Delay is inevitable, and
> from our point of view, actually helpful. In the past, when we added
> anybody and everybody who asked, we found that a lot of the companies that
> asked disappeared after about a month or two and so we would have a page
> full of broken links or worse, links pointing to spam domains.
>
> While delay isn't an intended feature, it does ensure that commercial
> groups which aren't still around a couple of months later when we finally
> get back to them aren't wasting our time. Updating that list is extremely
> manual, so we want to have to maintain it as little as possible. If the
> list was to become a maintenance burden, then it would likely be removed
> entirely instead.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> Also, please note: the "we" to whom Otto refers is not the Theme Review
>> Team.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Casey Lee <casey at simplethemes.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, The email address listed on the commercial theme providers list (
>>>> http://wordpress.org/themes/commercial/) is themes at wordpress.org, but
>>>> after three weeks and a follow-up I've not received any correspondence. Is
>>>> this still the correct address? I've exchanged emails with this address in
>>>> the past. Is there a better way?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Casey: You only made your request 6 days ago. Typically, the response
>>> time there is measured in months, not days.
>>>
>>> There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is simply that it is
>>> a low traffic email. Unlike the plugins email, which gets dozens a day,
>>> typically the commercial themes email only gets about 1-3 per week, max. So
>>> it's not something we check on a regular basis. Semi-monthly, at best.
>>>
>>> -Otto
>>>
>>>
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