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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<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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