<div dir="ltr">Up-sell Themes must explicitly state the license of both the free and commercial versions.<div><br></div><div>Up-sell Themes must clearly state the differences between free and commercial versions.</div><div>
<br></div><div>With regard to features locked behind the paywall: none can be a core feature (custom header, custom background, etc.). Themes can *expand* core features (e.g. more dynamic sidebars, etc.), but the core feature implementation must not be completely behind the paywall.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Here are two "features" in the commercial version that I have a problem with, and would want to have clarified:</div><div style><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div style><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">'heading' => __('Remove Attribution Links', 'portal'),</pre></div><div style><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">
'content' => __('Portal premium gives you the option to easily remove the "Powered by WordPress, Theme by SiteOrigin" text from your footer. ', 'portal'),</pre></div></blockquote><div style>
<br></div><div style>and:</div><div style><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">'heading' => __("Continued Updates", 'portal'),</pre>
</div><div style><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">'content' => __("You'll get continued updates, ensuring that your site keeps on working with the latest version of WordPress for years to come.", 'portal'),</pre>
</div></blockquote><div style><br></div><div style>In the first: there's nothing wrong with making a Theme option to remove the footer credit link; but the wording must be sure not to imply that the footer credit link can *only* be removed via the commercial version. In the second: this implies that the free version is not intended to be maintained/updated. If that is the case, then the free version is not suitable for the Theme directory.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:49 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esmi@quirm.net" target="_blank">esmi@quirm.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><<a href="https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12187" target="_blank">https://themes.trac.<u></u>wordpress.org/ticket/12187</a>><br>
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Quite a few features in this theme are locked unless you upgrade to the premium version. Nothing that's a showstopper but, based upon:<br>
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"Up-sell Themes may be subjected to more rigorous or additional Theme-Review requirements, at the discretion of the Theme Review Team "<br>
<<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Up-Sell_Themes" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/<u></u>Theme_Review#Up-Sell_Themes</a>><br>
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What should I be looking for/at?<br>
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