<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Chip,<div><br></div><div>Honestly, I don't know why putting a default link reduced our support for the theme with users asking this question. </div><div><br></div><div>Again, I can only really assume a few things 1) it made it more obvious to swap out the link, 2) it forces the user behavior to swap in a new link 3) perhaps when they did click through they actually went to the documentation and read how to use the theme? 4) I wish I knew.<br><div><br></div><div>I still deal with forum posts and e-mails for this theme of someone asking if the Portfolio section can link to a custom url (the default is to a light box). I just keep pointing them to the documentation and answering yes.</div><div><br></div><div>User behavior is user behavior, and when something keeps coming up regularly on a weekly basis I try to find a solution if possible to make it easier for the user and to reduce my support. All I know is when I swapped in the defaults people stopped asking because it became obvious.</div><div><br></div><div>If I have to change the links, linking back to the homepage makes no sense, and if the other desired method is to link back to <a href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress.org</a> I'm just wondering why I can't just point it back to the theme page then? Seems pretty logical.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">For what purpose would anyone attempt to click-through a link on a <a href="http://wp.org/">wp.org</a> Theme demo? I don't get it.<div><br></div><div>Even then: the issue isn't what gets output on the <a href="http://wp.org/">wp.org</a> Theme demo site, but rather what gets output by default on end users' sites.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:50 PM, 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"><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite">If you need to put a link in there to show that it is indeed linkable,<br>
then it would make a heck of a lot more sense to have that link back<br>to the person's own site. home_url() would be the way I'd really<br>recommend doing it for a default link.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div>
<div>The problem with that is if someone is previewing the theme on .org then it will just send them in an endless loop to the homepage, the feature slider is almost always on the homepage which is redundant.</div><div><br>
</div><div>What about linking back to the theme's url on <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">wordpress.org</a> would that be acceptable? Then it's just linking back to itself.</div><div class="im"><br><div>
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--Trent Lapinski<br>=============<br>CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br><a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com" target="_blank">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br>Mobile <a href="tel:%28714%29%20904-4280" value="+17149044280" target="_blank">(714) 904-4280</a><br>
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<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div>On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Trent Lapinski <<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com" target="_blank">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I hear you, it is not that I'm asking for special treatment really, I am<br>simply asking for permission to have my feature slider links to somewhere<br>since this is a grey area that is not clearly defined.<br>
</blockquote><br>Trent, the problem is basically that you're creating a link somewhere<br>which, if the user doesn't change it, points back to yourself. This<br>*screams* SEO-spamminess. Even if your intentions are good, the result<br>
is what it is.<br><br>Linking back to your own site on the public-facing side of things is<br>allowed in specifically one place, the footer, and with specifically<br>one of two links, the two URIs in the style.css header.<br>
<br>If you need to put a link in there to show that it is indeed linkable,<br>then it would make a heck of a lot more sense to have that link back<br>to the person's own site. home_url() would be the way I'd really<br>
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