<div style>Hello everyone,</div><div style><br></div><div style>I'm the one who introduced campaign tracking code (Google Analytics).</div><div style>Before I done this I have read several times Credit Links <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links</a></div>
<div style>I searched in this list if there have been previous discussion of such kind: <a href="http://bit.ly/xkzi59" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://bit.ly/xkzi59</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/zk7i23" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://bit.ly/zk7i23</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I did not found that it is forbidden, so it is allowed.</div><div style><br></div><div style>The aim is not tracking visitors from <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">wordpress.org</a>, I agree with Emil Uzelac that there are other ways to do this thing.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Instead I want to have a tracking campaign of the theme that will be installed on different blogs, and for this I need that the link from footer also to contain variables of the GA.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>But there is a problem (
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Credit link, if used, is required to use either Theme URI or Author URI.</span> ) that obliges me to put the same link also in style.css</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">If it is possible that credit link to contain variables GA and links for Theme Author and </font>Author URI <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to be without these variables, so I am only for this solution, I can immediately prepare a new version that will contain these changes.</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would have to go with a "not-approved" resolution for any of these points.<br>Although I can understand there may be the potential for the theme author to gain some data points by way of encoding the Google Analytic code, that too should not be done ... the only exception to the theme author using their analytic code would be as an example the end-user can easily disable or delete but also be "off by default". Also, IIRC, hard-coding GA code was discussed in the past and decided it would not be acceptable.<br>
<br><br clear="all">Cais.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com" target="_blank">emil@themeid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I don't believe that this is valid URI. Author URI: <a href="http://wplook.com" target="_blank">http://wplook.com</a> alone yes and Theme URI: <a href="http://wplook.com/dailypost" target="_blank">http://wplook.com/dailypost</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There are other ways to track referrals from WordPress.org</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emil<br></font><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Jim Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jimmitchell.org" target="_blank">jim@jimmitchell.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">A theme author has just submitted a new version of a theme I was reviewing for them, and in this version, they added some Google Analytics campaign tracking code to the Author & Theme URI in style.css (their previous version didn't have it):<div>
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<label style="vertical-align:middle;float:left;width:100px;font-weight:bold;display:block">Author URI</label><span style="margin-left:100px;display:block"><a href="http://wplook.com/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost" style="outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;color:rgb(33,117,155)" target="_blank">http://wplook.com/<b>?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost</b></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px">
<label style="vertical-align:middle;float:left;width:100px;font-weight:bold;display:block">Theme URI</label><span style="margin-left:100px;display:block"><a href="http://wplook.com/dailypost/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost" style="outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;color:rgb(33,117,155)" target="_blank">http://wplook.com/dailypost/<b>?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost</b></a></span></p>
<div><br></div><div>I'm going to take a wild guess and say it _might_ be allowed, but not recommended, and ultimately not very useful since stats are kept on repository downloads already. I've not seen any other themes that do this, but of course, I didn't search the whole repository.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>The author also hard-coded the theme URI in the footer with GA campaign code. I'm going to say this is okay since there's no restriction placed on its removal.</div><div><br></div><div>TIA for guidance, but mostly patience as I ask questions & learn the ropes...</div>
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