Scrapbook 5.2 - Russian translationRetiring Themes
Please note that the following themes are now being officially retired and, with the exception of critical bug fixes, will no longer be updated:
Archive copies of these themes will be retained on quirm.net for the foreseeable future.
I’ve also requested that Blackcurrant and Sun City should be removed from the WordPress Theme Directory. This is in direct response to the new theme review that is now in operation on wordpress.org.
Quite simply, the review process is now overly restrictive with themes being rejected for trivial , subjective or, in some cases, downright incorrect, reasons. Some of the review comments I’ve had have been positively unprofessional — to put it mildly. Unlike plugin developers, it seems that theme authors are to be treated as second class citizens and I’m not the only one who feels this way.
Getting a theme update past the review now takes weeks, possibly multiple submissions and a great deal of aggravation &t frustration. So I’ve decided that it’s simply not worth the effort for the most part. I’ve left 4 themes within the Directory. One has been reviewed and accepted (only took 6 weeks and 4 submissions!) — the others are still waiting to be updated. I think I’ll be leaving it for a while before I try resubmitting any of the other three.
After the last 6 weeks, I need a break!
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I am grateful that you have still kept those four themes in the directory. I may use the halloween one for my blog. Thanks
I might try to incorporate the Halloween Pumpkins graphical display into the FlipFlop theme – which, to be honest, is really a more developed fork of Halloween Pumpkins. I’m rather partial to that Halloween header myself :-)
In the meantime, the original Halloween Pumpkins will be available here.
At the risk of self-advertising, you’re more than welcome to submit your themes for inclusion in our theme digest every four days. We don’t have all of the features of the official theme directory (yet), but we only require that the themes be available for free, licensed under the GPL, work with the latest version of WordPress, and free of sponsored links, advertisements, viruses, and common WordPress exploits.
I’ll be in touch…
One question though – can the themes digest handle child themes? There’s a real scarcity of resources to promote child themes at the moment.
Certainly! We feature child themes all the time. We only require that the parent theme is also available for free, licensed under the GPL, works with the latest version of WordPress, and is free of sponsored links, advertisements, viruses, and common WordPress exploits.
It’s really a shame that it hase come down to this. I wonder if they think that there are so many Theme developers now they can treat them like crap and there will be so many more waiting in the wings, it won’t matter. Well, I dig your work and appreciate all that you put into this.
Thanks.
My own take on this is that it’s a relatively new system that has, unfortunately, taken a somewhat extreme stance in response to the much laxer (and possibly too lax) stance of the previous theme review process. They’re trying to do everything at once instead of adopting a phased approach which would allow theme developers the opportunity to get used to the new system and allow the review team to sort out their own Guidelines. As it stands, the Theme Guidelines Codex page can change on an almost daily basis – which strikes me as ridiculous.