[theme-reviewers] Redistributing edited themes

Ronnel Angelo ronnel.angelo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 23:55:10 UTC 2013


There are a lot of wordpress.org themes here
http://www.alihan.com.tr/blog/category/wordpress-themes


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Can you point out one of the spam-link Themes at the site in question?
> I'll take it from there.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Ronnel Angelo <ronnel.angelo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I came across this site http://www.alihan.com.tr/blog/
>> It distributes WordPress themes including those found on wordpress.org.
>> The themes have been edited to contain spammy links. The theme names were
>> also edited to prevent users from updating. Nothing new about that, a lot
>> of sites do that. But this guy also has his own themes hosted on
>> wordpress.org (http://profiles.wordpress.org/alihan1988/) and on most of
>> those themes the Credit Link points to the url that redistributes the
>> edited themes. So what are your thoughts on this? Is the guy in violation
>> of some policy or is he just being a naughty boy?
>>
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