[theme-reviewers] theme-reviewers Digest, Vol 27, Issue 36

Bryan Hadaway bhadaway at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 01:58:38 UTC 2012 

Isn't this the very purpose of this email group, to discuss things like
this? If you don't have any personal interest or input in a specific email,
just ignore the email, right?


Bryan Phillip Hadaway


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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you please stop replying to "theme-reviewers Digest...." email as
> not many of us will read or even answer then?
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:52 AM, CONNOR Wayne and Jill <wayne at dubbo.org>
> wrote:
> > This is the same issue I had with my slidingdoor theme that I made about
> 3 years ago.
> >
> > You can see a demo here:
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door
> >
> >
> > Using home_url() doesn't work because it makes the person previewing the
> theme may think that clicking on the sliding menu just returns you to the
> home page. It's not actually obvious that they can be linked somewhere else.
> >
> > Let me say it was tempting to put some of my own commercial or personal
> URLs in these links,  because they essentially bypass the link checking of
> the review process. Also these links disappear automatically as soon as the
> end user creates their own pages.
> >
> > I decided just to use theme URLs on the links at the time because I
> thought that was the intention of the WordPress guidelines.
> >
> > I would think that if they are not a permanent part of the theme (like a
> footer link) then using EITHER (1) wordpress.org or (2) the theme URL or
> (3) the author URL or (4) example.com or (5) home_url() would give enough
> options, but not a different URL.
> >
> > If you don't have guidelines you'll get all sorts of jokers linking to
> all sorts of places.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 09/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, theme-reviewers-request at lists.wordpress.orgwrote:
> >
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> >> Today's Topics:
> >>
> >>   1. Re: Feature slider default links (Daniel Tara)
> >>   2. Re: Feature slider default links (Justin Tadlock)
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 03:35:57 +0300
> >> From: Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feature slider default links
> >> To: "theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org"
> >>       <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> >> Message-ID: <6052357002005747691 at unknownmsgid>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >>
> >> Why not link to something like www.example.com? It's generally
>  accepted
> >> that's a domain used for demonstration purposes, nobody would question
> if
> >> you'd use that.
> >>
> >> On 09.08.2012, at 03:33, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> How so? Can you explain how you're attempting to show this custom URL
> >> functionality? Perhaps I'm just not following you. Are you talking
> about a
> >> Theme demo? Are you talking about the default custom URLs that appear in
> >> the Theme options page? Something else?
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> @Chip
> >>>
> >>> I suppose I could but that doesn't really show the custom URL
> >>> functionality.
> >>>
> >>> I would rather just get an exception.
> >>>
> >>>  --Trent Lapinski
> >>> =============
> >>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC
> >>> trent at cyberchimps.com
> >>> Mobile (714) 904-4280
> >>> Twitter @trentlapinski
> >>> http://CyberChimps.com
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Why not have them link to home_url() by default, instead?
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com
> >wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> Some of my themes have feature sliders, and for the default links for
> >>>> those slides I simply link them back to my company website to show
> users
> >>>> can link the images in the feature slider.
> >>>>
> >>>> It was recently brought to my attention that this may be a grey area
> in
> >>>> terms of the guidelines. I spoke to Otto about this at WCSF12, and he
> said
> >>>> it likely shouldn't be too big of an issue and I should be able to
> request
> >>>> an exception to keep these links.
> >>>>
> >>>> With that said, I would like to formally request an exception to have
> >>>> these default links. I can have them direct to theme specific pages
> perhaps?
> >>>>
> >>>>  --Trent Lapinski
> >>>> =============
> >>>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC
> >>>> trent at cyberchimps.com
> >>>> Mobile (714) 904-4280
> >>>> Twitter @trentlapinski
> >>>> http://CyberChimps.com <http://cyberchimps.com/>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:45:18 -0500
> >> From: Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feature slider default links
> >> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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> >> Why not just make the slider work without a link?  I assume you're
> >> displaying some sort of image slider and each image is wrapped in a
> >> link.  It makes sense to me that if the user doesn't add a link, the
> >> individual slide doesn't need to link anywhere.  It gives users an extra
> >> option if they want to use it.
> >>
> >> On 8/8/2012 6:54 PM, Trent Lapinski wrote:
> >>> @Chip
> >>>
> >>> I suppose I could but that doesn't really show the custom URL
> >>> functionality.
> >>>
> >>> I would rather just get an exception.
> >>>
> >>> --Trent Lapinski
> >>> =============
> >>> CEO of CyberChimps LLC
> >>> trent at cyberchimps.com <mailto:trent at cyberchimps.com>
> >>> Mobile (714) 904-4280
> >>> Twitter @trentlapinski
> >>> http://CyberChimps.com
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net
> >>> <mailto:chip at chipbennett.net>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Why not have them link to home_url() by default, instead?
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com
> >>>> <mailto:trent at cyberchimps.com>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>    Hi everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>>    Some of my themes have feature sliders, and for the default links
> >>>>    for those slides I simply link them back to my company website to
> >>>>    show users can link the images in the feature slider.
> >>>>
> >>>>    It was recently brought to my attention that this may be a grey
> >>>>    area in terms of the guidelines. I spoke to Otto about this at
> >>>>    WCSF12, and he said it likely shouldn't be too big of an issue
> >>>>    and I should be able to request an exception to keep these links.
> >>>>
> >>>>    With that said, I would like to formally request an exception to
> >>>>    have these default links. I can have them direct to theme
> >>>>    specific pages perhaps?
> >>>>
> >>>>    --Trent Lapinski
> >>>>    =============
> >>>>    CEO of CyberChimps LLC
> >>>>    trent at cyberchimps.com <mailto:trent at cyberchimps.com>
> >>>>    Mobile (714) 904-4280 <tel:%28714%29%20904-4280>
> >>>>    Twitter @trentlapinski
> >>>>    http://CyberChimps.com <http://cyberchimps.com/>
> >>>>
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