<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Can we bring this back to issue 1? Logos in default images. <div><br></div><div>We use default images to show how our feature sliders, portfolios, galleries, and other image based visuals are represented. Many other themes on .org do this.</div><div><br></div><div>Are we allowed to use the theme name but not the theme shop / author name? </div><div><br></div><div>Are images like these below not allowed? If so, why are they not allowed?</div><div><br></div><div>I wasn't aware of this issue until now, I mean even PageLines a featured theme has a default slider image which includes the theme shop logo. Again, I personally don't see anything wrong with this, because it tells users these are default images to be swapped out.</div><div><br></div><div>Can I please get some clarification on this issue?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/sliderdefault.jpg">http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/sliderdefault.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/pagelines/sections/quickslider/images/image3.jpg">http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/pagelines/sections/quickslider/images/image3.jpg</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/ifeature/images/branding/slide1.jpg">http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/ifeature/images/branding/slide1.jpg</a></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">--Trent Lapinski<br>=============<br>CEO of CyberChimps Inc<br><a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br>Mobile (714) 904-4280<br>Twitter @trentlapinski</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: mobiletrent</span><br><a href="http://CyberChimps.com">http://CyberChimps.com</a></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Daniel Fenn <<a href="mailto:danielx386@gmail.com">danielx386@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Here's a point - How many option is too many?<br><br><br><br><br><br>On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Merci Javier <<a href="mailto:mercijavier@gmail.com">mercijavier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>The theme has more than a dozen options and there is no option for the user<br>to change/remove the Cyberchimp logo at the footer correctly without<br>knowing code. If the user who does not know any better deletes<br><br><?php do_action('cyberchimps_footer'); ?><br><br>in footer.php, it will delete the logo of Cyberchimps as well as delete the<br>block where the user can configure copyright information.<br><br>While welcoming to theme designers/developers, isn't the theme review team<br>there to protect/help the users as well?<br><br><br>Mercime<br><br><br><br>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Trent,<br><br>See my reply just before yours. Yes you can use a logo image as your<br>footer credit link.<br><br><br>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Trent Lapinski <<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>><br>wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Are we not allowed to have logo's for our credit links? What sense does<br>that make?<br><br>From my understanding, the reason we have credit link rules is to prevent<br>people from using .org as an SEO farm, and by using a logo it is actually<br>detrimental to SEO, but serves the purpose of giving the theme author<br>credit.<br><br>Is there a logical reason for why we can't use a logo for the credit<br>link?<br><br>--Trent Lapinski<br>=============<br>CEO of CyberChimps Inc<br><a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com">trent@cyberchimps.com</a><br>Mobile (714) 904-4280<br>Twitter @trentlapinski<br>Skype: mobiletrent<br>http://CyberChimps.com<br><br>On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>For issue # 3, simply make it a text link and it should be fine. I<br>thought it was footer logo too when i reviewed your ribbon theme but then i<br>realized it was a credit link.<br><br><br>On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent@cyberchimps.com><br>wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Hey theme review list,<br><br>Couple questions regarding a recent review that we need clarification<br>on:<br><br>Issue 1: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5<br><br>The theme reviewer claims we need to remove our logo from the default<br>image in the feature slider. It is literally just a default image so that<br>when someone previews the theme they can see the feature slider in action.<br>The image is included with the theme (is NOT hot linked), and doesn't have<br>any promotional copy or anything like that.<br><br>The images in question:<br><br>http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/sliderdefault.jpg<br><br>http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/slide3.jpg<br><br>Is having my theme shop name in a default demo image a violation of any<br>review guidelines?<br><br>Issue 2: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5<br><br>I also have a built-in Twitter feed in my themes, which the default<br>simply has our Twitter account so users can see a functional demo of the<br>Twitter feature working on the preview / demo page. Is this is violation of<br>any theme review guidelines?<br><br>Neither of these "issues" are promotional, and are simply for preview /<br>demo purposes. I'm not really sure how were supposed to show the<br>functionality of our themes without including defaults?<br><br>Issue 3: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11163#comment:2<br><br>"User should be able to replace/remove Cyberchimps logo located in the<br>footer."<br><br>A user can easily edit the footer.php or remove the image from the<br>theme, or whatever they want since the theme is GPL. As far as I'm aware,<br>there is nothing saying we have to provide an option to make it easier to<br>remove the credit link in the footer. We are doing nothing to stop users<br>from removing the link.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>--Trent Lapinski<br>=============<br>CEO of CyberChimps Inc<br>trent@cyberchimps.com<br>Mobile (714) 904-4280<br>Twitter @trentlapinski<br>Skype: mobiletrent<br>http://CyberChimps.com<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>theme-reviewers mailing list<br>theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers<br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>theme-reviewers mailing list<br>theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>theme-reviewers mailing list<br>theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers<br><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<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><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<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><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></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>