In reply to Jeff Chandler.

Maybe it'd be a good news story to write about. Just be sure to include the other side of it. Like, for example, how I've released over 40 free themes and plugins on WordPress.org, written 200+ posts on WordPress on my blog, never asked for favorable treatment, and never complained that my themes weren't featured. Yet, the day I get a theme featured, a couple of folks are making a big hub-bub about it. It would've been nice to wake up this morning and see a few "congrats" for being on the featured list.

I'm going to try and be happy that someone thought my theme was good enough to be added to the featured themes list. Maybe all this mess won't ruin the day for me.

Also, just to be clear, the Theme Review Incentive program was not ended because commercial shops' themes were getting featured. It ended for the following reasons:

* Folks were just choosing their own themes to feature.
* The same themes were featured month after month.
* Theme authors were trying to game the system to get featured.

Essentially, we had inadvertently created a pay-for-play system. That was not the original intent of the program. When I agreed to this program, I incorrectly assumed that the winners each month would choose a theme to feature that they had reviewed and found interesting. That was not the case.