Oh you're referring to:<br><br><a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/">http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/</a><br><br>I don't think everyone is aware of that, so there's the link.<br>
<br>It's extremely convenient to just comment by email so I wonder if this bothers everyone else?<br clear="all"><br><br>Bryan Phillip Hadaway<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Daniel Fenn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielx386@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielx386@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
No, what I was saying is that you reply to the topic tread, and not<br>
the digest emails.<br>
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Bryan Hadaway <<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Isn't this the very purpose of this email group, to discuss things like<br>
> this? If you don't have any personal interest or input in a specific email,<br>
> just ignore the email, right?<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Daniel Fenn <<a href="mailto:danielx386@gmail.com">danielx386@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> Can you please stop replying to "theme-reviewers Digest...." email as<br>
>> not many of us will read or even answer then?<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Daniel Fenn<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:52 AM, CONNOR Wayne and Jill <<a href="mailto:wayne@dubbo.org">wayne@dubbo.org</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > This is the same issue I had with my slidingdoor theme that I made about<br>
>> > 3 years ago.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > You can see a demo here:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Using home_url() doesn't work because it makes the person previewing the<br>
>> > theme may think that clicking on the sliding menu just returns you to the<br>
>> > home page. It's not actually obvious that they can be linked somewhere else.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Let me say it was tempting to put some of my own commercial or personal<br>
>> > URLs in these links, because they essentially bypass the link checking of<br>
>> > the review process. Also these links disappear automatically as soon as the<br>
>> > end user creates their own pages.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I decided just to use theme URLs on the links at the time because I<br>
>> > thought that was the intention of the WordPress guidelines.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I would think that if they are not a permanent part of the theme (like a<br>
>> > footer link) then using EITHER (1) <a href="http://wordpress.org" target="_blank">wordpress.org</a> or (2) the theme URL or (3)<br>
>> > the author URL or (4) <a href="http://example.com" target="_blank">example.com</a> or (5) home_url() would give enough<br>
>> > options, but not a different URL.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If you don't have guidelines you'll get all sorts of jokers linking to<br>
>> > all sorts of places.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Wayne<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On 09/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-request@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers-request@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
>> > wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> Send theme-reviewers mailing list submissions to<br>
>> >> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
>> >><br>
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>> >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>
>> >> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-request@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers-request@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> You can reach the person managing the list at<br>
>> >> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-owner@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers-owner@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>
>> >> than "Re: Contents of theme-reviewers digest..."<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Today's Topics:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> 1. Re: Feature slider default links (Daniel Tara)<br>
>> >> 2. Re: Feature slider default links (Justin Tadlock)<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Message: 1<br>
>> >> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 03:35:57 +0300<br>
>> >> From: Daniel Tara <<a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com">contact@onedesigns.com</a>><br>
>> >> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feature slider default links<br>
>> >> To: "<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a>"<br>
>> >> <<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a>><br>
>> >> Message-ID: <6052357002005747691@unknownmsgid><br>
>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Why not link to something like <a href="http://www.example.com" target="_blank">www.example.com</a>? It's generally<br>
>> >> accepted<br>
>> >> that's a domain used for demonstration purposes, nobody would question<br>
>> >> if<br>
>> >> you'd use that.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On 09.08.2012, at 03:33, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> How so? Can you explain how you're attempting to show this custom URL<br>
>> >> functionality? Perhaps I'm just not following you. Are you talking<br>
>> >> about a<br>
>> >> Theme demo? Are you talking about the default custom URLs that appear<br>
>> >> in<br>
>> >> the Theme options page? Something else?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Trent Lapinski<br>
>> >> <<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>>wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >>> @Chip<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> I suppose I could but that doesn't really show the custom URL<br>
>> >>> functionality.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> I would rather just get an exception.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> --Trent Lapinski<br>
>> >>> =============<br>
>> >>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br>
>> >>> <a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br>
>> >>> Mobile <a href="tel:%28714%29%20904-4280" value="+17149044280">(714) 904-4280</a><br>
>> >>> Twitter @trentlapinski<br>
>> >>> <a href="http://CyberChimps.com" target="_blank">http://CyberChimps.com</a><br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Why not have them link to home_url() by default, instead?<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Trent Lapinski<br>
>> >>> <<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>>wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>>> Hi everyone,<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> Some of my themes have feature sliders, and for the default links for<br>
>> >>>> those slides I simply link them back to my company website to show<br>
>> >>>> users<br>
>> >>>> can link the images in the feature slider.<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> It was recently brought to my attention that this may be a grey area<br>
>> >>>> in<br>
>> >>>> terms of the guidelines. I spoke to Otto about this at WCSF12, and he<br>
>> >>>> said<br>
>> >>>> it likely shouldn't be too big of an issue and I should be able to<br>
>> >>>> request<br>
>> >>>> an exception to keep these links.<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> With that said, I would like to formally request an exception to have<br>
>> >>>> these default links. I can have them direct to theme specific pages<br>
>> >>>> perhaps?<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> --Trent Lapinski<br>
>> >>>> =============<br>
>> >>>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br>
>> >>>> <a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br>
>> >>>> Mobile <a href="tel:%28714%29%20904-4280" value="+17149044280">(714) 904-4280</a><br>
>> >>>> Twitter @trentlapinski<br>
>> >>>> <a href="http://CyberChimps.com" target="_blank">http://CyberChimps.com</a> <<a href="http://cyberchimps.com/" target="_blank">http://cyberchimps.com/</a>><br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> _______________________________________________<br>
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>> >>>> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
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>> >> Message: 2<br>
>> >> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:45:18 -0500<br>
>> >> From: Justin Tadlock <<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com">justin@justintadlock.com</a>><br>
>> >> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feature slider default links<br>
>> >> To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
>> >> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:5023081E.1040307@justintadlock.com">5023081E.1040307@justintadlock.com</a>><br>
>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Why not just make the slider work without a link? I assume you're<br>
>> >> displaying some sort of image slider and each image is wrapped in a<br>
>> >> link. It makes sense to me that if the user doesn't add a link, the<br>
>> >> individual slide doesn't need to link anywhere. It gives users an<br>
>> >> extra<br>
>> >> option if they want to use it.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On 8/8/2012 6:54 PM, Trent Lapinski wrote:<br>
>> >>> @Chip<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> I suppose I could but that doesn't really show the custom URL<br>
>> >>> functionality.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> I would rather just get an exception.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> --Trent Lapinski<br>
>> >>> =============<br>
>> >>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br>
>> >>> <a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>><br>
>> >>> Mobile <a href="tel:%28714%29%20904-4280" value="+17149044280">(714) 904-4280</a><br>
>> >>> Twitter @trentlapinski<br>
>> >>> <a href="http://CyberChimps.com" target="_blank">http://CyberChimps.com</a><br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a><br>
>> >>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>>> Why not have them link to home_url() by default, instead?<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Trent Lapinski <<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br>
>> >>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> Hi everyone,<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> Some of my themes have feature sliders, and for the default links<br>
>> >>>> for those slides I simply link them back to my company website to<br>
>> >>>> show users can link the images in the feature slider.<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> It was recently brought to my attention that this may be a grey<br>
>> >>>> area in terms of the guidelines. I spoke to Otto about this at<br>
>> >>>> WCSF12, and he said it likely shouldn't be too big of an issue<br>
>> >>>> and I should be able to request an exception to keep these links.<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> With that said, I would like to formally request an exception to<br>
>> >>>> have these default links. I can have them direct to theme<br>
>> >>>> specific pages perhaps?<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> --Trent Lapinski<br>
>> >>>> =============<br>
>> >>>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br>
>> >>>> <a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>><br>
>> >>>> Mobile <a href="tel:%28714%29%20904-4280" value="+17149044280">(714) 904-4280</a> <tel:%28714%29%20904-4280><br>
>> >>>> Twitter @trentlapinski<br>
>> >>>> <a href="http://CyberChimps.com" target="_blank">http://CyberChimps.com</a> <<a href="http://cyberchimps.com/" target="_blank">http://cyberchimps.com/</a>><br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>><br>
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