In reply to T Piwowar.

Try and review a theme or two before saying TRT kills innovation in developers. The only thing they are doing, and doing well, is making sure your site is secure, plugins don't break and translations work.

If you would've reviewed a theme, you would know what crappy code is sent for review each day and how spammers try to get by undetected.

You should thank TRT for enforcing their guidelines. Also, if you haven't notice, themeforest is following their steps. You know why? Because they are tired of receiving support queries for broken sites by plugins or security, resulting in refunds.

Functionality should go in plugins, let the theme worry only about the design aspect.

Themeisle had 16 months to figure this out, they didn't. Great decision by TRT, I hope they follow up and do the same for the rest of themes.

One more thing, Zerif is not innovative from either a design or ux point of view. It's just a theme that was in the right place at the right time. If you follow up on its history, you would know what I am talking about. It's all in their "Transparency Reports", start with #1.

Badges :)