Hi all,

Very informative article, and the one the brought me to WP Tavern for the first time! My partner and I are dipping our toes into the WP theme business and have become a little disillusioned with ThemeForest - it seems, as others have noted, that they favour themes with hundreds of options over themes that offer simplicity first.

We're happy to hear the Wordpress has opened their doors to all developers now, as we have a theme that's just about ready to go, although after reading this post it seems I (being the developer half of the team) will have a few tweaks to make.

I see the WP suggests using _s as a starter theme - I used a starter theme called Quark to build our theme, and I was wondering if this isn't a big deal or if it's worth rewriting the code in _s?

My second question is: is it considered appropriate for me to link to our finished site design here for feedback before submitting to WP? It would be great to deal with any design issues the community here might find before sending if off to WP.

Thanks in advance!