[theme-reviewers] Latest Featured Themes, seriously?

[Srikanth Koneru]

I hope themes are not featured based on wptavern's coverage, they don't
cover any of mine :(
Yes, I think criteria should be disclosed since this is an open community,
even tough admins are short on time.



On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
wrote:

> I agree some of them are well designed, there a lot of well designed
> themes on WordPress.org.
>
> From my understanding, the contest was ended because they weren’t happy
> with theme shops being promoted. All the themes last month were not
> commercial theme companies.
>
> This month the new list is nothing but upsell themes and themes from
> developers that are friends of Automattic / Audrey Capital. Many of which
> are companies or developers that had not previously contributed to
> WordPress.org.
>
> While I’m happy to see better designs on .org, I want to know what the
> criteria for being featured is now? Or at least an explanation of what the
> process is now?
>
> I think we all have a reasonable expectation to know what determines if
> your theme is put in front of actual users. What is and is not allowed, etc.
>
> --Trent Lapinski
> =============
> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
> http://CyberChimps.com
> Twitter @trentlapinski
> Skype: mobiletrent
>
> On May 29, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All new featured themes look very well designed.
> Important thing is they are being rotated monthly, which encourages me to
> create some very nice designs myself.
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is anyone else disappointed to see that the theme review contest was
>> ended for a list of commercial theme shops with close ties to Automattic,
>> personal friends, and employees of Audrey Capital (Matt Mullenweg’s
>> personal investment company)?
>>
>> The Theme Foundry (one of Automattic’s earliest theme partners), Justin
>> Tadlock (a WordPress.org <http://wordpress.org/> admin), Sarah Gooding
>> (a blogger for Audrey Capital), TeslaThemes (
>> http://wptavern.com/teslathemes-celebrates-one-year-of-being-in-business),
>> and Themeify (a major commercial theme shops first theme on WordPress.org
>> <http://wordpress.org/>) were all just gifted featured themes on
>> WordPress.org <http://wordpress.org/>.
>>
>> So what exactly is the criteria for being featured now?
>>
>>  --Trent Lapinski
>> =============
>> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
>> http://CyberChimps.com <http://cyberchimps.com/>
>> Twitter @trentlapinski
>> Skype: mobiletrent
>>
>>
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