[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33407: Theme tags overhaul

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#33407: Theme tags overhaul
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 Reporter:  greenshady                   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Themes                       |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  reporter-feedback has-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by greenshady):

 Replying to [comment:10 Shaped Pixels]:
 > Thanks for the link to this ticket Justin; didn't know this was here...

 The team has already spent several weeks coming up with the tags after a
 few rounds of open discussion.  What we need to do now is get the changes
 in core.

 I'm not saying we can't discuss some changes to the proposal, but I don't
 think we want to take a step back at this point because that would mean
 going back to the drawing board and more meetings.  We had a lot of theme
 authors and users participate in this and get this list of tags just
 right.  We want to move forward with that.

 I'll touch on a few of your points though because all of them have already
 been covered several times in the dicussions.  So, my replies are just a
 summary of what was already said.

 > For Layouts....I'm not sure "responsive-layout" should be removed, but
 renamed to "responsive". There are still many themes that are not
 responsive, so giving the end-user the method of searching for responsive
 themes is important.

 The problem with searching for "responsive" is that it doesn't actually
 add value to the search results given the high number responsive themes.
 The point of the tags is to help narrow down the results.  This particular
 tag doesn't help with that based on the data we have from the surveys.

 Also, the `-layout` suffix is just how we name layout tags.

 > For "Feature Tags" such as adding footer-widgets, I'm not sure why that
 would be used or even searched for. I think most themes now have
 footer/bottom widgets.

 Some themes do.  Some themes don't.  Definitely not most.  This one was
 actually highly requested.

 > For "Subject Tags", My starting point recommendations would be:

 "Corporate" or "Business" was decided to be too general.  "Retail" kind of
 fits in as a sub-category of that, but we're not seeing enough retail
 themes to warrant a tag yet.

 "Magazine" is a style rather than a subject.

 We also decided to keep the list to a strict 9 subjects because that's
 what's considered the cut-off point for "choice overload" for most users.
 There's the possibility to add more, of course, in the future.

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