It IS important darn it! (as Emil tries to stack the deck)

Emil Uzelac wrote:

Completely irrelevant to the Theme bud!

Read this post on the forums: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/more-of-a-wordpresscom-issue?replies=2#post-4603674

Emil, I am so very disappointing in you. I cut my teeth on your themes, learning responsive mechanics (and what I prefer which is to handle things a lot like you do) and the parent child theme layout. And somehow I missed the monkeys bit. I’m very fond of them, and when I am off work or using my former consulting persona there is a very strong monkey theme shall we say.

But about this you are DEAD effing WRONG. The theme in a light box is a horrid idea. No tool I own, other than I guess a big monitor and a ruler, can properly force the theme into the progression of sizes I MUST test if I am going to sell a finished project to clients. There is, as you clearly know because I am familiar with the quality of your work, one hell of a lot more to making a responsive, clean, fast, accessible theme than making a pretty picture in Photoshop and attacking it with the slices tool. The last theme I did had only one piece of art – the logo. HTML5 and CSS3 truly do rock. But I turned away from your theme this afternoon without even looking at it closely enough to see that it is the theme on my personal website because I could not run the pages through my favorite multi viewport tool. That is Chris Pedrick’s Web Developer, still the standard in quickie reverse engineering even with today’s built in developer tools (now for Chrome at https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/chrome/).

You have the best feature set I saw all day, and the code is rock solid. But by the time you PISSED ME OFF by pulling my very justified review our CEO had followed my advice and picked another tool.

So, unless you are selling light boxes that display galleries of blogs, get rid of that damned thing, and don’t give me any BS. read this if you have to, in just three hours I had to come up with something I knew would pass all of the below.

https://developer.wordpress.com/themes/
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development#Theme_Testing_Process

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Unit_Test
https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/demo/theme-unit-test-data.xml

If you can’t take a little truth, close the comments here and even have your friends and family write fake, glowing ones for you from the perspective of someone who doesn’t have to use your theme to put a daughter through college.

Three stars for great code, well written and my favorite behavior across devices, with the exception of some overly complex and unusable Woo stuff. If it hadn’t been in shrink wrap, and customer service was positive and engaging instead of… pissing me off, I would have bought and it would be a 5. Folks, don’t let my experience stop you from buying this excellent theme.

You better not erase this.