In reply to Jeff Chandler.

I just find it odd man.

The theme review contest was ended because supposedly the higher ups didn't like the fact that commercial theme shops were winning the contest. Now the featured themes list is nothing but commercial theme shops or developers who have close personal relationships with Automattic and/or Audrey Capital then I saw this blog post. I'm curious what the interest or connection is?

I've been following WPTavern closely and I love what your doing, but sometimes I'm confused why you guys choose to cover some companies and developers over others.

CyberChimps was the first to get a theme to hit a million downloads on WordPress.org, and has had a top 15 theme on WordPress.org for 3-years now but we get no love. I e-mail you guys every time we have a new product release or announcement and never hear back. Yet here you are celebrating a random theme shops 1st year when most people have probably never heard of them until now.

Just trying to understand why some stories are covered over others?