<div dir="ltr">Let's move this discussion over to Make/Themes:<div><a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2013/02/19/theme-brandingwhite-labeling-guidelines/">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2013/02/19/theme-brandingwhite-labeling-guidelines/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div style>There are legitimate issues in question here, so let's make sure that we discuss them fully before determining how they might impact existing Guidelines.</div><div style><br></div><div style>
Thanks,</div><div style><br></div><div style>Chip</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:58 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">@Mercime - We are not doing this to be deceptive, we use a hook system to consolidate and modularize our core theme options between all of our themes in our framework. It is very logical and reasonable thing to do from a programming perspective, and anyone can easily edit the hook or edit the core file to remove our logo. Using a hook system is not deceptive, it is actually very reasonable.<div>
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--Trent Lapinski<br>=============<br>CEO of CyberChimps Inc<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>
Twitter @trentlapinski</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:12px">Skype: mobiletrent</span><br><a href="http://CyberChimps.com" target="_blank">http://CyberChimps.com</a></div></span></div></span></div>
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<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div>On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Merci Javier <<a href="mailto:mercijavier@gmail.com" target="_blank">mercijavier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>The theme has more than a dozen options and there is no option for the user to change/remove the Cyberchimp logo at the footer correctly without knowing code. If the user who does not know any better deletes <br>
<pre><?php do_action('cyberchimps_footer'); ?> <br></pre>in footer.php, it will delete the logo of Cyberchimps as well as delete the block where the user can configure copyright information.<br><br>While welcoming to theme designers/developers, isn't the theme review team there to protect/help the users as well?<br>
<br><br>Mercime<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Trent,<div><br></div><div>See my reply just before yours. Yes you can use a logo image as your footer credit link.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Trent Lapinski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com" target="_blank">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div><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>Are we not allowed to have logo's for our credit links? What sense does that make?</div>
<div><br></div><div>From my understanding, the reason we have credit link rules is to prevent people from using .org as an SEO farm, and by using a logo it is actually detrimental to SEO, but serves the purpose of giving the theme author credit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a logical reason for why we can't use a logo for the credit link?</div><div><br><div>
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Twitter @trentlapinski</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:12px">Skype: mobiletrent</span><br><a href="http://cyberchimps.com/" target="_blank">http://CyberChimps.com</a></div></span></div></span></div>
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<br></div><div><div><div>On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Srikanth Koneru <<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
For issue # 3, simply make it a text link and it should be fine. I thought it was footer logo too when i reviewed your ribbon theme but then i realized it was a credit link.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:27 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">
Hey theme review list,<br>
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Couple questions regarding a recent review that we need clarification on:<br>
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Issue 1: <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5</a><br>
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The theme reviewer claims we need to remove our logo from the default image in the feature slider. It is literally just a default image so that when someone previews the theme they can see the feature slider in action. The image is included with the theme (is NOT hot linked), and doesn't have any promotional copy or anything like that.<br>
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The images in question:<br>
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<a href="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/sliderdefault.jpg" target="_blank">http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/sliderdefault.jpg</a><br>
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<a href="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/slide3.jpg" target="_blank">http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/slide3.jpg</a><br>
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Is having my theme shop name in a default demo image a violation of any review guidelines?<br>
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Issue 2: <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5</a><br>
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I also have a built-in Twitter feed in my themes, which the default simply has our Twitter account so users can see a functional demo of the Twitter feature working on the preview / demo page. Is this is violation of any theme review guidelines?<br>
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Neither of these "issues" are promotional, and are simply for preview / demo purposes. I'm not really sure how were supposed to show the functionality of our themes without including defaults?<br>
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Issue 3: <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11163#comment:2" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11163#comment:2</a><br>
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"User should be able to replace/remove Cyberchimps logo located in the footer."<br>
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A user can easily edit the footer.php or remove the image from the theme, or whatever they want since the theme is GPL. As far as I'm aware, there is nothing saying we have to provide an option to make it easier to remove the credit link in the footer. We are doing nothing to stop users from removing the link.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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--Trent Lapinski<br>
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CEO of CyberChimps Inc<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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