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

Daniel Fenn danielx386 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 02:01:43 UTC 2012 

No, what I was saying is that you reply to the topic tread, and not
the digest emails.

Regards,
Daniel Fenn






On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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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.org
>> > wrote:
>> >
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>> >> Today's Topics:
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>> >>   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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>> >> Message: 2
>> >> 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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