<font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That's all good, we build our Themes around the platform, what's not is more than one "personal" link in footer area, or unrelated sites, that would be considered as SPAM :) And we documented all this in </font></font></font><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links</a> as well.</font><div>
<font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><h3 style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 4px;font-weight:normal;font-size:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:rgb(238,238,238);line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span class="mw-headline">Credit Links</span></h3><ul style="text-align:left;margin:0px 0px 22px 16px;padding:0px;list-style:square;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">Themes may <b>optionally</b> designate Author URI and Theme URI in style.css.<ul style="margin:0px 0px 22px 16px;padding:0px;list-style:square"><li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">
Theme URI, if used, is <b>required</b> to link to a page specifically related to the Theme. If a demonstration site or page is being used, the content must be related to the theme itself.</li><li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">
Author URI, if used, is <b>required</b> to link to an author's personal web site or project/development website.</li><li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">Themes are <b>recommended</b> to provide at least one of these two links, in order to ensure Theme users have a point of contact for the Theme developer.</li>
</ul></li><li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">Themes may <b>optionally</b> include a public-facing credit link in the Theme footer.<ul style="margin:0px 0px 22px 16px;padding:0px;list-style:square">
<li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">If used, Themes are <b>required</b> to include no more than one such footer credit link.</li><li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">Credit link, if used, is required to use either Theme URI or Author URI.</li>
<li style="text-align:left!important;margin:0px;padding:0px">Credit link anchor text and title are <b>required</b> to be relevant and appropriate with respect to the linked site. <i>Spam or SEO-seeded anchor text and titles may subject Themes to automatic rejection.</i></li>
</ul></li></ul><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">Emil<br></font></font></font><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, CONNOR Wayne and Jill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wayne@dubbo.org" target="_blank">wayne@dubbo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><pre style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
The 'default' theme has this:</pre><pre style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
<pre style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px"><!-- If you'd like to support WordPress, having the "powered by" link somewhere on your blog is the best way; it's our only promotion or advertising. -->
</pre><pre style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">followed by a WordPress link so I'd say it's good practice.</pre>
</pre><pre style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">The twenty ten theme has similar a link but the comment is not there.</pre>
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