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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">I've a query regarding the
current rule that a theme may only have 1 credit link. What if I
have a theme that is designed (voluntarily for free) by a web
design studio, which then pass it to me to develop it into a
full-fledged Wordpress theme. In this case, wouldn't it be
justified to include 2 credit links, one for the design and
another for the development? It would be something like "Theme
Foo is designed by Bar and developed by Foobar", with Bar being
a link to the design studio who designed the theme for free and
Foobar a link to the developer. And by extension, why can't Foo
be a link to the theme's page.<br>
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I find the requirement that there can only be 1 credit link a
bit restrictive, since after all the link to the theme's page is
not necessarily a credit link - it doesn't give credit to
anybody, but just point the theme's user to where to get support
and description and stuffs. I think in an environment where
people come together and volunteer to do things for a community,
the least we can do to reward them is to allow their work to be
credited to them. In the example I gave above, it's not
difficult to think that the design studio who designed the theme
for free would insist on the design of the theme be credited to
them. Getting a professional design studio (or designer) to
design a website for free is difficult enough. Getting them to
do it without any credit to them whatsoever would be nearly
impossible.<br>
<br>
Having said that, of course I disapprove of links that are
blatantly for SEO purposes. But what I'm talking about above is
just plain good 'ol give credit where credit is due, especially
for high-quality themes where countless hours of development
efforts have been poured into.<br>
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Regards,
Syahir Hakim
Contact:
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