[theme-reviewers] Question

[Trent Lapinski]

This is in at least a dozen themes, if not more. It's a pretty standard upsell feature and has been allowed on .org for years.

When this came up in my themes reviews we were simply asked to be more specific and changed it to "CyberChimps Themes". It's been a year since then.

I mean some themes even have their own store built into them, so I don't see this as the "commercializing of themes" or that being a bad thing or something that should be looked down upon.

If someone is abusing the links then don't approve their theme, let's not drop the ban hammer on everyone else.

--Trent Lapinski
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On Apr 6, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> Themes are located under the Appearance, not sure why "More Themes" can't be there as well. Maybe different wording would clear this up? Like e.g. "Natty Themes" maybe.
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> Emil
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> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> My issue with the sub-menu page is the precedent that it sets, and the question of whether it belongs as a sub-page. The Appearance sub-menu is supposed to hold pages related to altering the *current* Theme's appearance. A "More Themes" page confuses the UX in that "More Themes" have nothing to do with modifying the current Theme, and also in that the correct place to add "more Themes" is the Appearance -> Themes -> Add New Theme page.
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> Chip
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> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
> Do you honestly think that this is the only Theme that does this? No, there's more :) Checking for abuse, well that's why we have the Diff for, whatever is changed it will appear there, if Theme is approved with potential abuse links, well that means that we're not doing our job correctly.
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> Emil
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> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am concerned about this issue. This new "More Themes" panel has a huge potential for abuse. 
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> Also, with the approval of a theme which has this function in the official WP Theme Repository, I would bet that almost every theme author will add a new "More Themes" page in Appearance -- which would be another check by a theme reviewer to see that links within "more themes" are kosher.
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> Mercime
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