[theme-reviewers] Theme selection is great frustration

[emin ozlem]

>
> Totally agree, the "Preview" button doesn't really show anything decent in
> 99% of all themes.


I second that. "Theme homepage" should rather be the primary button since
most theme developers provide decent demos for their teams already. If
there is a demo link present, the preview button should be replaced with
that i think.

2014-09-18 4:22 GMT+03:00 Yentl Bresseleers <hello at design311.com>:

>  Totally agree, the "Preview" button doesn't really show anything decent
> in 99% of all themes.
> Even for default themes these preview button doesn't really show anything
> useful:
> http://wp-themes.com/twentyfourteen/
> Wouldn't it be better if that link got replaced by the demo url, which you
> can find here?
> http://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/
>
> Another comparison:
> http://wp-themes.com/twentythirteen/ vs
> http://twentythirteendemo.wordpress.com/
>
> Most probably this is out of our hands but I really think we should add a
> "Demo URI:" to our style.css file.
> That link can then be used on the Preview button rather than the link we
> currently have.
> This seems like a really easy fix.
>
> Maybe we should add the Demo URI in *style.css* and *readme.txt* even if
> we have no control over the preview button.
> People looking at these files will at least get an idea of what is
> possible with the theme.
>
> What do you guys think? What do you propose?
>
>
>  On 18/09/2014 02:46, // ravi wrote:
>
>
>  Hello all,
>
>  this is a bit larger than theme review, so apologies beforehand if it is
> misdirected, but I want to relate my experience in trying to help some
> friends choose a theme for their site. In this effort, searching on
> wordpress.org using the provided filters is a very frustrating
> experience, mostly stemming from a disparity between the filter selection,
> the theme preview image, and the actual theme preview.
>
>  First, what shows up in the preview is a far cry from what is in the
> screenshot. It is understandable that the screenshot was carefully crafted
> with various features enabled in order to display the theme at its best,
> and therefore some discrepancy is inevitable. But what one sees in the
> preview at times has almost no relation visually to the screenshot.
>
>  Next, what appears in the preview seems to have no relation to the
> selected filters either. Say I select “left sidebar”… well, in many cases,
> the preview has none.
>
>  Having written a few themes myself, back in the stone ages, I realise
> that there are reasons behind all of this, but consider the experience from
> a regular WordPress user’s perspective. Selecting a theme is one of the
> first, and certainly the most defining activity, for a new user. Whatever
> the underlying reasons may be, their experience has to be better than what
> occurs today.
>
>  Apologies if I have missed some obvious steps that would have improved
> my experience.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  —ravi
>
>
>  P.S: background: this was for a self-hosted blog, not one on
> WordPress.com.
>
>
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