[theme-reviewers] Latest Featured Themes, seriously?

[Emil Uzelac]

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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Amy Schneider <amy.schneider15 at yahoo.com>
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>   On Thursday, May 29, 2014 11:03 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
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> Earlier today you guys said how Jen mentioned that we cannot feature the
> same Theme every month, right?
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> We are not Theme Forest and don't have so many Themes to chose from.
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> No Theme was chosen because of their background or who they are.
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> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
> wrote:
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> I agree some of them are well designed, there a lot of well designed
> themes on WordPress.org <http://wordpress.org/>.
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> 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.
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> 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 <http://wordpress.org/>.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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>  --Trent Lapinski
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> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
> http://CyberChimps.com <http://cyberchimps.com/>
> Twitter @trentlapinski
> Skype: mobiletrent
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> On May 29, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
> wrote:
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> 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)?
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> 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/>.
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> So what exactly is the criteria for being featured now?
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>  --Trent Lapinski
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> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
> http://CyberChimps.com <http://cyberchimps.com/>
> Twitter @trentlapinski
> Skype: mobiletrent
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