<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is the same issue I had with my slidingdoor theme that I made about 3 years ago.<div><br></div><div>I didn't need any exceptions for slidingdoor I just linked back to the theme url in style.css.<br><br>If you don't link to a company URL then you won't need an exception.<br><br>@chip: I think he's talking about what appears in the theme preview in <a href="http://wordpress.org/">wordpress.org</a></div><div><br><br>eg <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door</a></div><div><br></div><div><br>Using home_url() doesn't work because it makes the person previewing the theme may think that clicking on the sliding menu just returns you to the 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 URLs in these links, because they essentially bypass the link checking of the review process. Also these links disappear automatically as soon as the end user creates their own pages. <br><br>I decided just to use theme URLs on the links at the time because I 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 footer link) then using EITHER (1) <a href="http://wordpress.org/">wordpress.org</a>or (2) the theme URL or (3) the author URL or (4) <a href="http://example.com/">example.com</a> or (5) home_url() would give enough options, but not a different URL.<br><br>If you don't have guidelines you'll get all sorts of jokers linking to all sorts of places.<br><br>Wayne<div><br><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><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><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<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">www.example.com</a>? It's generally accepted<br>that's a domain used for demonstration purposes, nobody would question 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 about a<br>Theme demo? Are you talking about the default custom URLs that appear in<br>the Theme options page? Something else?<br><br>On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Trent Lapinski <<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">@Chip<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I suppose I could but that doesn't really show the custom URL<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">functionality.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I would rather just get an exception.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> --Trent Lapinski<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">=============<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mobile (714) 904-4280<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Twitter @trentlapinski<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://CyberChimps.com">http://CyberChimps.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Why not have them link to home_url() by default, instead?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Trent Lapinski <<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>>wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Some of my themes have feature sliders, and for the default links for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">those slides I simply link them back to my company website to show users<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">can link the images in the feature slider.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It was recently brought to my attention that this may be a grey area in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">terms of the guidelines. I spoke to Otto about this at WCSF12, and he said<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">it likely shouldn't be too big of an issue and I should be able to request<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">an exception to keep these links.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">With that said, I would like to formally request an exception to have<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">these default links. I can have them direct to theme specific pages perhaps?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> --Trent Lapinski<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">=============<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Mobile (714) 904-4280<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Twitter @trentlapinski<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://CyberChimps.com">http://CyberChimps.com</a> <<a href="http://cyberchimps.com/">http://cyberchimps.com/</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">theme-reviewers mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers">http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">theme-reviewers mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers">http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">theme-reviewers mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers">http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>theme-reviewers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20120809/fcd543ea/attachment-0001.htm><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:45:18 -0500<br>From: Justin Tadlock <justin@justintadlock.com><br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feature slider default links<br>To: theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>Message-ID: <5023081E.1040307@justintadlock.com><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 extra <br>option if they want to use it.<br><br>On 8/8/2012 6:54 PM, Trent Lapinski wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">@Chip<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I suppose I could but that doesn't really show the custom URL <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">functionality.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I would rather just get an exception.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Trent Lapinski<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">=============<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">trent@cyberchimps.com <mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mobile (714) 904-4280<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Twitter @trentlapinski<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://CyberChimps.com<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Chip Bennett <chip@chipbennett.net <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><mailto:chip@chipbennett.net>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Why not have them link to home_url() by default, instead?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent@cyberchimps.com <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com>> wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Hi everyone,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Some of my themes have feature sliders, and for the default links<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> for those slides I simply link them back to my company website to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> show users can link the images in the feature slider.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> It was recently brought to my attention that this may be a grey<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> area in terms of the guidelines. I spoke to Otto about this at<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> WCSF12, and he said it likely shouldn't be too big of an issue<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> and I should be able to request an exception to keep these links.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> With that said, I would like to formally request an exception to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> have these default links. I can have them direct to theme<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> specific pages perhaps?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> --Trent Lapinski<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> =============<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> CEO of CyberChimps LLC<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> trent@cyberchimps.com <mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Mobile (714) 904-4280 <tel:%28714%29%20904-4280><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Twitter @trentlapinski<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> http://CyberChimps.com <http://cyberchimps.com/><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>