<div dir="ltr">That's my recollection as well, Cais. I think we may have dropped the optional second link at some point, but never updated this corollary guideline? I think we could just drop it entirely, and stick with developers using one credit link.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@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>IIRC, the premise behind this guideline was to allow Theme Authors to have more than one credit link (ideally a maximum of two credit links in total; links to WordPress.org do not count towards "credit" links) where the second would be optional and not displayed by default.<br>
<br></div>Of course there are a lot of ways to offer this secondary "credit" link, such as a simple text field linked to a URL of the end-user's choice ... and this leads to the possibility for the Theme Author to populate these fields with their "suggested" text and landing page ... just be careful as any URL used in this fashion would still need to pass any related URL guidelines such as those regarding spam, non-GPL compliance, etc.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Stephen Cui <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scui2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">scui2005@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>English language discussion? May I interpret this way: <br><br></div>credit-link removal option are required to be disabled by default. <br><br></div>In other words, it is double negative: credit-link are not removed by default.<br>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Merci Javier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mercijavier@gmail.com" target="_blank">mercijavier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:19px;font-style:italic"><font size="4">If used, credit-link removal options are required to be opt-in (i.e. disabled by default, rather than enabled)</font></span><br>
<span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:19px;font-style:italic"></span></div><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:19px"><br>
</span></div> The guideline somehow translates to:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">Theme authors are not required to provide credit link removal options. However if the theme author provides such option, "then the default state of that option must be for the credit links to be *disabled* ".<br>
<br></div>Why penalize a theme author who provides a user-friendly option to remove the credit link? It's looking more like protecting a theme author who wants to make it hard for a regular user to remove the credit link. <br>
<br>I don't recall that specific guideline last time I did a theme review. I didn't see this new guideline discussed at all. Theme Review Admin's prerogative?<br><br>Mercime</div></div>
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