Don't you think Themeforest quality is degrading day by day?

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Someone is submitting a WP theme with a HTML demo instead of theme itself and it got approved (and it even has no schema markup, what SEO are we talking about ?!)
And I’m f**cking around one year developing a custom framework and getting soft reject after soft reject because reviewers have never seen what a php class looks like. This is ThemeForest.

No, for real
I added hunderds of options for anything.
Disable header on page and build your own ? Sure !
Custom colors for any menu element you add ? Sure !
20 ways to display your posts ? Sure !
Submit posts from frontend, with customizable form ? Sure !
Lazyload ? Facebook integration ? Track likes & views ? Manage how you want metas to display ? (sort) Excerpt sizes ? Image sizes ? Archive page layouts ? One click demo import (like really, import exact copy of the demo) ? Use page builder for header and footer ?
SURE SURE SURE !

And that author haven’t added even options to edit height of a goddamn slider. And it is accepted.

p.s. I have deleted theme after 16 soft rejections with stupid reasons. Now i’m building another one (link just to prove that design was not that bad - yet it is unfinished)

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^ I understand what you’re saying, but the theme in the link you provided actually falls short of TF design standards. Maybe the design was the problem all along?

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Don’t bother with theme options too much as this is not the key to successful theme. Your theme need a lot of improvements in design (spacings, typography).

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It’s another theme, currently under development, but deleted theme had similar ways of displaying posts and options (bc it’s same framework), can’t provide demo, because I’ve deleted it too.

Still, I can’t understand how that theme (just like some other themes from that author) got accepted. It has a HTML demo instead of WP Installation, this way it’s easy to cheat PageSpeed Insights and GTMetrix.
It has NO SUPPORT for sidebars , as author said (which by default means soft rejection).
And it has misleading description (“SEO Optimized” - but not even schema.org microdata markup used, article titles are h2, or h3, or anything instead of h1… and so on… what seo are we talking about ?)

I had a theme named “Writers” just couple of days before this item was accepted … mine was hard rejected.