Feature #1399

Theme audit

Added by Boone Gorges 5 months ago. Updated about 1 month ago.

Status:Assigned Start date:12/05/2011
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:Boone Gorges % Done:

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Category:WordPress
Target version:1.5

Description

We have too many themes, many of which are terrible. Much of this goes back to the fact that many of our themes come from a package of themes from wpmudev that was originally used to seed the site. I recommend the following:
- Review actual theme usage - which themes are most popular, and which are unused?
- Check out the wpmudev themes. I think that some of them have had their names/versions changed intentionally so that they would not be detected by WordPress's auto-updates. Where this is the case, replace them with the up-to-date versions of the themes from the wordpress.org repository.
- Based on the results of the first two points, remove any themes that are of questionable value.

History

#1
Updated by Matt Gold 5 months ago

Thanks, Boone -- this sounds great.

We might want to remove some of the premium themes (from WooThemes, for instance) we installed if no one is using them. We should talk about whether we should re-up on WooTheme membership (and the other premium site we joined) so that we can received updates.

#2
Updated by Boone Gorges about 1 month ago

  • Target version changed from 1.4 to 1.5

Ray, I would welcome any bright ideas on how to do this in a way that won't drive us insane :)

#3
Updated by Raymond Hoh about 1 month ago

We could use Ron's WPMU Multisite Theme Stats plugin that's already installed on CAC as a good benchmark of what is currently being used.

According to the stats on my local box, 95 themes are currently in use. Then based on the themes that are not used, we could do an audit based on what you wrote in the original ticket description, Boone.

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