Arras Theme to the WordPress Themes Directory: Interesting Facts

May 15, 2009 at 6:01 PMapprovearrasdirectorypremiumthemeWordPress

When I submitted Arras Theme to the WordPress themes directory for approval, the reviewer sent me a reply requesting that some of the changes need to be made before it can be approved. Here are some of the interesting points they requested for me to fix:

Using an image as the blog title / logo

The blog title and the blog description taken from the blog settings has to be shown in the header, which means you have to dynamically generate the title and the slogan. Using static images as a logo is not allowed. One possible solution is to use sIFR or Cufon, but it may not be a good idea because of the licensing issues with fonts.

All categories must be shown in the single post template

Displaying only one category (probably like the one in Gizmodo) in the single post template is not allowed. You will need to display all categories that belong to the post.

the word ‘premium’ is not allowed

This is quite an interesting one. I had initially placed the word premium in the description and the default text widget, but was requested to remove both of it. Maybe he just doesn’t like the word premium, or my theme wasn’t premium enough :P .

Anyway, I’m really thankful for the reviewer for taking his time to review my theme (he found some bugs too, it’s quite embarrassing). I had a feeling he checked it really thoroughly, kudos to him!

6 Comments
  1. bSaves says:
    May 19, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    I just wanted to let you know that this is a beautiful template. Also, is there a way to change the style of the template? As in, do you have different color schemes?

  2. Mike says:
    May 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM

    Thank you so much for this wonderful theme. It’s the best free “PREMIUM” theme so far. Wordpress should have allowed Arras theme to have the word premium.

  3. Interesting Facts says:
    October 21, 2009 at 4:46 PM

    wow great facts
    really usefull
    thanks for sharing

  4. Interesting Facts says:
    December 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM

    wow great facts…

    really very interestin g

    thanks for sharing

  5. Volunteering Thailand says:
    December 3, 2009 at 5:44 PM

    Nice to know – I was considering Cufon with WP but was looking for some background info on it. Thanks for the heads up on fonts too!

  6. Amelia G says:
    January 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM

    Your theme is certainly premium in the quality sense, but WordPress usually uses the term premium to refer to themes people charge for, many of which are nowhere near yours in quality. :-)