[theme-reviewers] Asking users to review the theme

[Srikanth Koneru]

+1

"Personally, I'm much more laissez faire regarding the Theme Options page.
That's essentially the Theme's domain within the Admin area. I would rather
try to leave that up to the prerogative of the Theme developers, unless it
gets obviously out of hand."


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Personally, I'm much more laissez faire regarding the Theme Options page.
> That's essentially the Theme's domain within the Admin area. I would rather
> try to leave that up to the prerogative of the Theme developers, unless it
> gets obviously out of hand.
>
> Others may have differing views, though?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:49 PM, emin ozlem <eminozlem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So just to be clear, next time, i can add a link to the theme's page on
>> wp.org asking user to review the theme. Like i said i dont intend to
>> endorse or pressure the user with phrases like "please find 5* if you find
>> it useful" but just to be a reference for the others:
>> a.) Is that kind of encouraging link text acceptable ? Or should there be
>> a standart for that too ?
>> b.) I understand that you cant place it like a banner, in a promoting
>> manner. But any other limitations on it, like where it can be placed ? I
>> mean "on the theme options page" is pretty vague. You can place it
>> unintrusively on the last tab of options or if you mean to make it
>> promoting you might place it on the top of the options page which would
>> again fall into "on the theme options page" technically.
>> Besides, instead of a permanent link that catches my eye every time i go
>> over the options, i would rather have a one-time banner telling me to that
>> goes away the next time or one that can be dismissed.
>>
>> I am asking these not to find loop holes, but to prevent developers from
>> exploiting the allowed link on technicalities.
>>
>>
>> 2013/11/21 Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
>>
>>>  Got it.  Thanks for clarifying.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/20/2013 6:35 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep, I would agree that a link from the Theme Options page is good. A
>>> banner on Theme activation is not.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am thinking the manner in which it was done and personally don't see
>>>> the problem of having that extra link from Theme Options :) It leads to
>>>> WPORG anyways.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Justin Tadlock <
>>>> justin at justintadlock.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  After the theme promotion discussion, I got the impression that we
>>>>> were after far worse things than giving the user a link back to review the
>>>>> theme on WordPress.org.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it the manner in which it was done or is it simply that the link
>>>>> itself shouldn't be allowed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just trying to get everyone on the same page here since this has
>>>>> already been opened up here for discussion in the mailing list.
>>>>>
>>>>
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