Posts by XiaoThemes

Hi.

A standard license can be used in one domain, to one website. If you use it in another place, buy another one.

Cheers

Even if you be approved, you’ll get a lot of angry users saying>

“Duh, this themes sucks, we can’t change the color of X thing…”

Mainly in WP area, where almost buyers read one WP tutorial and think that they are WP masters hahaha

Cheers

Do you need a Super Fast host and that is at same time Cheap?

I think doesn’t exists

Cheers!

+4

Almost of my buyers don’t know how to install the theme, just wondering what they would do if I require that they want install plugins hahahah

Just kidding…

This thread is doing I think, let keep posting nice ideas and opinions, this can inspire the developers to improve the code quality of the themes.

Cheers, Rafael Angeline

Hi.

They regret but purchased, right? The problem here is that if one developer stop doing this kind of thing, other ones will keep doing it, as you see, all the best seller themes has this kind of features.

So I think developers don’t want to risk the sales going alone to this path, since almost of us don’t fully understand the ramifications of the code that we include.

It’s a hard and sensitive question, that only would be solved if ThemeForest apply several rules and turn good practices in mandatory practices.

What I want to say, is that to solve this kind of problem, all the developers need stop – not only few ones, in true, mainly the top authors here must stop it to give a example to follow to new authors…

Cheers!

But isn’t a question of developers, is a question of the buyers.

We (developers) try do what sells and what sells is what customers wants, and customers don’t like the plugins (almost don’t like) – they need the function with the theme, don’t want setup a plugin, and we can’t just say.

“Come on, go find a plugin to the shortcodes, this theme is only to presentation” – in true, I can say it, but a another theme from other developer that has the code he wants will with all the sure get more money.

I’ll stay stuck with my only-presentation theme at 0-20 sales while the other theme that implements everything in the theme – even with a bad code, will have +400 sales….

Cheers!

Hi Japh, for example, this:

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* [flex_slider]
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

function wpts_flex_slider($atts, $content = null, $code) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
        'attr' => '',
    ), $atts));

    return '[raw]
        <div class="flexslider home">
                <ul class="slides">
                    '.do_shortcode($content).'
                </ul>
        </div>
        [/raw]';
}
add_shortcode('flex_slider', 'wpts_flex_slider');

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* [flex_item]
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

function wpts_flex_item($atts, $content = null, $code) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
        'src' => '',
        'caption' => '',
        'href' => '',
        'type' => 'normal'
    ), $atts));

    $class= 'slider-caption';

    $text = '';

    $aBegin = '';
    $aEnd = '';

    if($type != 'normal') {
        $class = 'slider-caption-2';
    }

    if($content != '')
        $text = '<p>'.trim($content).'</p>';

    if($caption != '')
        $caption = '<h3>'.$caption.'</h3>';

    if($href != '') {
        $aBegin = '<a href="'.$href.'">';
        $aEnd = '</a>';
    }

    return '
                '.$aBegin.'
                <img src="'.$src.'" alt="" />
                '.$aEnd.'
                <div class="'.$class.'">
                    '.$caption.'
                    '.$text.'
                </div>
            ';
}
add_shortcode('flex_item', 'wpts_flex_item');

Note that the [raw] avoid that the caption display looks like:

<p>My Caption></p>
<p></p>

Cheers!

I would like to know more about your opinion of the use of [raw] shortcodes, that changes the wpautop behavior, or better, the default WP behavior.

Almost authors do it to ensure the code won’t be returned with a lot of few that can break the code, of a little slider shortcode for example…

What you recommend to do instead change the default WP behavior and ensure that WP won’t add auto in the shortcode code?

I agree with you that themes would just do less than they actually do, but as a theme seller, I can say that users aren’t good with a theme that doesn’t do X thing, they don’t want search for a plugin to shortcodes, or contact form, they need that this comes with the theme, else they will say your theme is poor….

And as we (theme devs of TF) depends of the money that users waste in our themes, we need do it, change this kind of think would require a general change in all themes OR a change in the customer mind … both really hard

Cheers!

Hi @mordauk

I would like to hear what is the best option in your opinion, what the theme developers would use to help plugin developers like you and Carl?

A example code is really appreciated.

Waiting