[theme-reviewers] Credit links in footer

[Dane Morgan]

One credit link with option opt in as default allowed?

I would like to see it that way. It might encourage more option setting 
for that.

I would also suggest that such credit links would serve both the end 
user AND the theme hose if they appeared only on the front or home page.

On 2013-07-25 19:55, Chip Bennett wrote:
> That's my recollection as well, Cais. I think we may have dropped the 
> optional second link at some point, but never updated this corollary 
> guideline? I think we could just drop it entirely, and stick with 
> developers using one credit link.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Edward Caissie 
> <edward.caissie at gmail.com <mailto:edward.caissie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     IIRC, the premise behind this guideline was to allow Theme Authors
>     to have more than one credit link (ideally a maximum of two credit
>     links in total; links to WordPress.org do not count towards
>     "credit" links) where the second would be optional and not
>     displayed by default.
>
>     Of course there are a lot of ways to offer this secondary "credit"
>     link, such as a simple text field linked to a URL of the
>     end-user's choice ... and this leads to the possibility for the
>     Theme Author to populate these fields with their "suggested" text
>     and landing page ... just be careful as any URL used in this
>     fashion would still need to pass any related URL guidelines such
>     as those regarding spam, non-GPL compliance, etc.
>
>     Edward Caissie
>     aka Cais.
>
>
>     On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Stephen Cui <scui2005 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:scui2005 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         English language discussion? May I interpret this way:
>
>         credit-link removal option are required to be disabled by
>         default.
>
>         In other words, it is double negative: credit-link are not
>         removed by default.
>
>
>
>
>         On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Merci Javier
>         <mercijavier at gmail.com <mailto:mercijavier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>             If used, credit-link removal options are required to be
>             opt-in (i.e. disabled by default, rather than enabled)
>
>             The guideline somehow translates to:
>
>             Theme authors are not required to provide credit link
>             removal options. However if the theme author provides such
>             option, "then the default state of that option must be for
>             the credit links to be *disabled* ".
>
>             Why penalize a theme author who provides a user-friendly
>             option to remove the credit link? It's looking more like
>             protecting a theme author who wants to make it hard for a
>             regular user to remove the credit link.
>
>             I don't recall that specific guideline last time I did a
>             theme review. I didn't see this new guideline discussed at
>             all. Theme Review Admin's prerogative?
>
>             Mercime
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