Posts by brainbuzzmedia

Did you even look at the screenshot? Nivo slider is not used anywhere in my theme and not referenced either. All style and js loaded is needed on every page.

So, what should I do about this?

Yeah it is, and thanks for the tip, I will do that.

Now i’m only partially making this thread to whine, I think there is also a legitimate problem here. It seems to me that we only have two-three reviewers for wordpress themes and they are obviously very busy. However, it is extremely frustrating as an author to spend three months on a file, finish up all of the demo content, write and style an item description and wait 3 days in the queue only to get an extremely vague letter saying your file was almost good enough but was rejected.

Sometimes there are screenshots with something pointed out and those are very helpful. But sometimes there are just a couple sentences that vaguely point out a general issue without giving any idea where in the theme it occurs.

Sure there isn’t time for detailed feedback on every theme, but this has happened a number of times on themes where the email has stated “Your theme is not quite ready” and the required fixes, while pretty small were still so vague that it is an ordeal.

So when I get a letter like this and don’t understand what the problem even is that needs to be fixed, what can I do from there? I can tweet the reviewer and hope he replies (which they often do) but this requires knowing who the reviewer was and they don’t tell you anymore. Or I can do what… file a support ticket? In my experience this has about a 50/50 chance of even hearing back and if so it usually takes 5-7 days.

So if we don’t get clear feedback because there isn’t time to give it and we have no method of asking for it in any reasonable amount of time, what are we supposed to do?

After submitting my newest theme for the first time, it was rejected with the “You’re almost there” email. There were 4 technical (theme check etc) issues that needed to be fixed. It was my fault for not being thorough enough. After fixing these very thoroughly and resubmitting, here is the feedback I recieved in full:

Unfortunately your submission Expression – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress isn’t quite ready for ThemeForest. Here’s some feedback from our Review team on why it couldn’t be accepted.

Please use wp_enqueue to load any external scripts/stylesheet – wp_enqueue_script / wp_enqueue_style – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script#Functions

Also, please use conditional tag to load scripts for only the specific page, for example nivo script only for page with nivo slider.

http://d.pr/i/WeuI

If you look at the screenshot, everything is enqueued using the mentioned wp_enqueue. All of the files are used on every page as well. Why was my file rejected? How can I reasonably find out?

What about the idea that people who want to do things honestly and legitimately won’t download something that is pirated?

Go search for a themeforest theme on google and try to illegally download it. I have / do try to find my own themes to make sure they aren’t being pirated and it’s not even REMOTELY close to being as easy to find them as it is to find all of the woo themes.

You’re saying that’s moot?

Tell that to the music industry, or Hollywood.

Which that brings up another good point. People can already pirate themes just as they can pirate music and dvds, but they know it’s illegal. Not everyone chooses to do this even though they may know it’s possible. If it’s suddenly legal now to resell themes or give them away for free even, people who would have bought a themeforest license to run an upstanding, legitimate business may now just buy the bundle of all themes for $15 because after all it is legal and there is nothing “ethically” wrong with it.

It appears to be legal. You can search for multiple sites selling bundles for all the big name GPL wordpress shops like woothemes, studiopress, etc.

Just kidding, but what about this one: http://themeforest.net/item/music-pro-music-oriented-wordpress-theme/1582368?WT.ac=search_thumb&WT.seg_1=search_thumb&WT.z_author=BrutalDesign

found that by just typing grunge into the search bar.

Search for Ghost Hunter theme, I think there’s one specifically for that.

kriskorn said

brainbuzzmedia said
How does allowing sleezy people to resell someone else’s work and at the same time steal their income fit the spirit of the GPL? And if it does, why do we care about the spirit of the GPL?

It is basically like politics, but I don’t want to go that way for the sake of the thread…

Sounds like a gigantic power trip.