Themes Directory Tag Filter - Subject

[klosi]

Hi,
I found the Themes Directory Tag Filter (​https://wordpress.org/themes/tag-filter/) always very useful, but what was always bothering me lots, was the subject category. It currently states:

• Holiday
• Photoblogging
• Seasonal

I believe that you have way bigger plans for this thing anyways, but can't we as a very quick improvement just add a list of subjects that are actually relevant to the real world of 2014 WordPress Themes? Here is a quick list with suggestions:

• Personal Blog
• Magazine
• Portfolio
• Photography
• Film and TV
• Business
• Travel
• Technology
• Political
• Charity
• Nightlife
• Events
• Restaurants & Cafes
• Music / Bands / DJs
• Wedding
• WooCommerce
• Miscellaneous

I'm pretty sure there are better ways to organize the Themes Directory and that you are probably working on some sort of real Marketplace-ish directory. Still, I hope the Tag Filter can receive a quick "first aid" help until the proper solution is in place.

Let me know if I can help!

Please note: I have already discussed this with the Theme Review team and opened a ticket in meta trac. I ended up here since apparently the tags need to be implemented by Core first, before they can be used for the Directory.
I understand that this might sound like trivial issue for Core, but I would nonetheless like to bring this issue up. I think there are great free themes out there. They are just very difficult to find...

Thanks,
Daniel

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: ​#meta397

[klosi]

It's a bit of an older topic, but I was looking into the Core code and noticed that the referenced tags in WP Core are actually referring to a .org API first:

/**
 * Retrieve list of WordPress theme features (aka theme tags)
 *
 * @since 3.1.0
 *
 * @param bool $api Optional. Whether try to fetch tags from the WP.org API. Defaults to true.
 * @return array Array of features keyed by category with translations keyed by slug.
 */
function get_theme_feature_list( $api = true ) {
	// Hard-coded list is used if api not accessible.
	$features = array(
			__( 'Colors' ) => array(
				'black'   => __( 'Black' ),
				'blue'    => __( 'Blue' ),
...

Is this .org api functional? If not, what prevents us creating a quick survey with theme categories and let people vote for which should be included in the array? it would be a one week project and improve usability substantially I think...

Best,
Daniel

[SergeyBiryukov]

The list of subject tags was recently updated in #33407.