<div dir="ltr">I would chalk that up to the number of inexperienced volunteers reviewing Themes. Theme Review certainly has a learning curve, and even in the best of circumstances reviews will be inconsistent, and things may get missed from time to time. That's part of the reason that the Admins are now doing a final QC check before pushing Approved Themes live.<div>
<br></div><div style>But, as a general rule of Thumb: yes, pretty much anything touted as a Theme option for "SEO" is Plugin territory. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Bryan Hadaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhadaway@gmail.com</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"><div><div>Thanks, that about sums up what I needed clarification on.<br><br></div>However, the one thing still unclear is that the reason I brought up the SEO point, <i>is</i> because many free themes <i>do</i> offer such functionality.<br>
<br></div>I'm guessing that was something that was either phased out or slipped by many reviewers? Since it's so common I assumed it was acceptable which is one good reason why this rule seemed so contradictory before.<br>
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