[theme-reviewers] Lite Themes

[Thomas from ThemeZee]

Well, it was perfectly fine for theme developers to name their themes with
"Lite" or "Pro", because nobody could take the name with the old guidelines.
Now names are no longer policed, but a lot of developers have named all
their free themes "Theme Name Lite" and it will be confusing to change that
for existing users.

And what is about the other way around? Some developer releases "Theme
Name" and after that another developer comes up with "Theme Name Lite".
Allowed or not? It has basically the same result that there are two
different themes with nearly the same name. When names are no longer
policed in any way we will soon have a lot of different themes with
similiar names.

And my final question: Can I release a dummy theme "Theme Name" in addition
to "Theme Name Lite", which I'll unapprove right away? Basically can I
block theme names? Since names are no longer policed it seems the only way
to prevent the case you have mentioned.

2014-10-02 3:56 GMT+02:00 Sakin Shrestha <info at sakinshrestha.com>:

> Yes, really hard to understand it. This type of naming will simply
> undesirable. Especially lite, pro of already approved theme. Can we discuss
> about this in coming theme review meeting and have a fixed review rule for
> names.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hard to keep up with TRT policies, so if someone submits destro
>> pro/lite/uno/prime/donkey, it will be allowed since names are not policed ?
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you submit a theme called "Theme Name Lite" you are leaving the door
>>>> open for anyone else to submit a different theme under "Theme Name" only.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is true of any theme name using more than one "word" ... see my
>>> example of "Opus Primus" and someone submitting "Opus" months later.
>>>
>>>
>>> Edward Caissie
>>> aka Cais.
>>>
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