Same goes for plugins.
Rating over Popularity.
And you can even have a number of votes factor to better filter those with good rating and less votes
Popular does not account to quality.
Neither does rating, to be fair 🙂
yes it does… Quality to the voter needs. Might not be considered quality by an expert that analysis much more than an average user, but usually when I vote 0-5 I vote according to how good the theme or plugin performs for what I was looking for.
Sure, the next guy might be looking for something else…
Popularity is based on what? Download? Page acess?…
Is there some personal joy by having Twenty Ten and Eleven in first place in the theme sections? [facepalm]
Popularity is based on downloads.
Ratings is based on people who like a theme. It’s terribly subjective. You may love a theme I hate.
Is there some personal joy by having Twenty Ten and Eleven in first place in the theme sections? [facepalm]
Yes.
That’s like saying someone should hire guy X for a job because he sends more resumes, without looking at which areas he was more successful in the past, to evaluate if it will fit the company needs.
Pretty much the same thing when someone comes here looking for plugins and themes.
You may love a theme I hate.
Yes, but I’ll probably be using it, while none of us may not be using the “Popular” because we found something
that we along with others rate higher.
I go with subjective over irrational.
Is there some personal joy by having Twenty Ten and Eleven in first place in the theme sections? [facepalm]
Yes.
So do people actually download those in the theme’s page or every wordpress download counts toward it?
Oh wait, maybe it’s rational, it’s just bad rational…
Using ratings is like saying ‘Well everyone liked that guy at one point in time, I should hire him.’ It’s no more or less appropriate than popularity. In fact, it’s the same thing.
Yes, but I’ll probably be using it, while none of us may not be using the “Popular”
Can’t prove that one either way, I’m afraid. You may have once used the plugin, but you may not now. All the rating means is that, at one point in time, you found value in it.
So do people actually download those in the theme’s page or every wordpress download counts toward it?
That actually is from downloads, not WP installs.
Want you failed to adress rationally is how having the two browsing capabilities is worst than having just one, since I never suggested that on should replace the other, just that I found popular useless.
Especially when both of us made valid points that they have their flaws (even if I still think Rating is better and you that Popular is better).
I correct my self, Plugins seem to have the “rating” option.
Why no Themes, too. And what is the usefulness of having Twenty Eleven and Twelve there if they come with every WP installation.
That actually is from downloads, not WP installs.
I seriously can’t understand why, but then again, if other themes were also bundled I guess that even those that don’t upgrade would also download them.
Plus there seems to be a choking of WP open integration development when there a bunch of plugins that almost force you to use that one theme or small set of themes, with child theme saving face, but not so much.
Cheers
what is the usefulness of having Twenty Eleven and Twelve there if they come with every WP installation.
Because people do sometimes need to re-upload them.
Themes have ratings too, you know: http://cl.ly/0Z1H0U2m1V051v250M0g (That’s the view of a non-logged in user) You can’t list by ’em, but they are there. Can’t list ’em for plugins either, mind.
It’s not an easy metric to sort by, though I’d like to see it listed along side popularity.
“Oh, Foobar is very popular but has 2 stars? Gee, everyone must have downloaded and hated it.”
But then again, I don’t feel that searching by either popularity or rating helps as much as individually reviewing and judging each theme (and plugin) by its merits. Takes longer, sure, but I have fewer trial and error installs 🙂
