[theme-reviewers] Theme shops inside end user's website!

Sat Jan 11 14:14:32 UTC 2014

No not missing anything on the first one - I gave that one as an example of having someone else's content hosted inside end user's site.

The second one is given as not being self contained i.e. pulling in resources:
http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/invert-lite/1.0.1/SketchBoard/includes/sketchtheme-upsell.php

I could have worded both instance separately and better I guess :)

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:12:14 +0530
From: tskk79 at gmail.com
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme shops inside end user's website!

I don't see them pulling any external content :
http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/golden-eagle-lite/1.6/functions/themes-page.php

or am i missing something?

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com> wrote:

A definitive guide on what is "proper use" is required so that both authors and reviewers know where the line is.

From: rohitink at live.com

To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:03:53 +0530
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme shops inside end user's website!

I think reviewers should be allowed to use their own judgement on this matter, whether the option is being abused or properly used.

From: zulfikarnore at live.com

To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:32:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme shops inside end user's website!

I think that decision needs to be looked at again as this option is open to and is being abused!

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:45:09 +0530
From: tskk79 at gmail.com

To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme shops inside end user's website!

Having additional page for theme author's other themes was said to be okay previously.

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com> wrote:

Hello team,

I'm currently reviewing two themes as follow:
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15856
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15945

Both these themes add a secondary page on the Appearance section.
My understanding is that themes can only add "One" theme page and as many tabs as they like.
But this point has been argued strongly for and against - we still need clarification though!

My main concern is that both themes are using these secondary pages to advertise their shop's
other theme - I class this as unrelated items to the active theme and again this needs clarification
on weather we allow it or not.

But a bigger concern is that in both cases (most likely many other authors are doing it too) these
pages are pulling in content from external sources i.e. author's site and planting it in the end user's

site. Effectively what they have is their shops inside someone else's site. For me this is overdoing it
and I feel that it must not be allowed.

Your views please

Regards,
Zulf

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