<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If they are theme options fields you can use placeholders instead of actual content to showcase what those fields are for. This way the user can also keep the fields blank and not display any link if he pleases so. This is in my opinion the best solution.<div><br></div><div>Daniel<br><div><br><div><div>On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Okay, found the relevant code:<div><a href="http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/eclipse/1.0.17/includes/classy-options-init.php">http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/eclipse/1.0.17/includes/classy-options-init.php</a></div><div><br>
</div><div>These aren't "examples" or "temporary defaults". They are Theme option defaults, meaning that until the user changes them, the three slides will display public links to the URLs in question.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I see no reason to grant an exception here. You can use home_url(). You can use <a href="http://wordpress.org/">wordpress.org</a>. You can use <a href="http://example.com/">example.com</a>. You could leave the default as an empty string (this latter option being my recommendation). </div>
<div><br></div><div>But facilitating your support queries is not sufficient enough reason to grant an exception.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Trent Lapinski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com" target="_blank">trent@cyberchimps.com</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">Wayne,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your input, thats correct that these are temporary defaults - examples really. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I imagine this kind of issue may arise more in the future as I'm seeing a lot more theme authors add temporary defaults to theme options for preview / demo purposes when doing reviews.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Wanted to raise this issue to make sure I'm not breaking any rules and open discussion on this topic.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="im"><div>
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<br></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:01 PM, CONNOR Wayne and Jill <<a href="mailto:wayne@dubbo.org" target="_blank">wayne@dubbo.org</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Trent I can't see that you need to ask for an exemption.<div><br></div><div>The Credit Links is talking about… '<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:left;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:22px;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">a public-facing credit link in the Theme footer.'</span></div>
<div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:left;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:22px;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"><br>
</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:22px">Your link is not a credit, it doesn't even stay as part of the page for very long, it's a temporary placeholder till the user puts their own link in. It's not intended to stay in the theme at all.</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:22px"><br></span></font></div><div><div>I would think that if it's not a permanent part of the theme (like a footer link or an opt-in credit link) then using EITHER (1) <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">wordpress.org</a> or (2) the theme URL or (3) the author URL or (4) <a href="http://example.com/" target="_blank">example.com</a> or (5) home_url() would give enough options to show how it works.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:left;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:22px;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">However, the Theme Review team reserves the right to prohibit such optional text/links if, at its sole discretion, a Theme abuses this option."</span></div>
<div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:left;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:22px;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:left;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:22px;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">I would say don't abuse it and it will be fine your theme has already been approved many times. </span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Wayne</div></div><div><br></div><div><pre style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px"><br></pre><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="im">_______________________________________________<br>theme-reviewers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
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