Theme Submission

[pangolin123]

I tried to submit some of my recent themes but none get approved. Is my theme really that bad to get rejected or am i doing something wrong ?

[bloc]

As of today its only one submission in the queue now.

As a rule however, don't expect a theme to get approved right away. There is a testing step before that happens.

[crazystu]

Theme Submission seems to take a while on SMF.
I understand that it does take time to check throught every theme,
but I did ask Bloc when wondering about one of my submissions if they needed any help and I didn't get an answer (although I do most of the time!).

* nesianstyles thinks about a third-party theme site.

[rongup]

Can you give some previews to it.

I would like to see them.

[pangolin123]

I remembered submitting my Aura theme and BGStyles some weeks ago but it does not get approved. I tried submitting my theshadow theme yesterday. Usually how long do we have to wait ? Whenever I submit the themes, it takes a while to submit and process the request.

p.s I am not using dial up, I am using broadband.

[bloc]

Nesianstyles, approving is restricted to staff only, so its really not possible to help out without being one.

pangolin123, I am not sure what happended, but do try again, and I keep a lookout for them. I know I haven't rejected any of them at least.

[Deaks]

Bloc, this mayt not be fully plausable as you are volunteers but couldnt you set like a time frame for themes like up to 48 hours after submission then the author will know, alsoa notification to the author saying if its been approved or rejected.

[crazystu]

Nesianstyles, approving is restricted to staff only, so its really not possible to help out without being one.

That's ok.
Was just wondering about it.

[rongup]

Thats a good idea.

It would be better if some kind of notification was sent.

[bloc]

Notification will be considered, but setting a time-frame for these things will not work.

What happens after 48 hours then..? If no-one haven't reviewed it won't get any faster done just because its a time-frame there. Its not a quality check, its a security check.

[forsakenlad]

Yes, as Bloc pointed out its a security check. The downside of the SMF template system being so powerful is that it enables people to insert malicious code into a theme. Although this is really rare (for myself I can say that I have never come past such an issue), still the themes submitted must be checked throughly for the users' own good.