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>
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</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>
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