[theme-reviewers] Feature slider default links

[Trent Lapinski]

> If you need to put a link in there to show that it is indeed linkable,
> then it would make a heck of a lot more sense to have that link back
> to the person's own site. home_url() would be the way I'd really
> recommend doing it for a default link.

The problem with that is if someone is previewing the theme on .org then it will just send them in an endless loop to the homepage, the feature slider is almost always on the homepage which is redundant.

What about linking back to the theme's url on wordpress.org would that be acceptable? Then it's just linking back to itself.

--Trent Lapinski
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On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com> wrote:
>> I hear you, it is not that I'm asking for special treatment really, I am
>> simply asking for permission to have my feature slider links to somewhere
>> since this is a grey area that is not clearly defined.
> 
> Trent, the problem is basically that you're creating a link somewhere
> which, if the user doesn't change it, points back to yourself. This
> *screams* SEO-spamminess. Even if your intentions are good, the result
> is what it is.
> 
> Linking back to your own site on the public-facing side of things is
> allowed in specifically one place, the footer, and with specifically
> one of two links, the two URIs in the style.css header.
> 
> If you need to put a link in there to show that it is indeed linkable,
> then it would make a heck of a lot more sense to have that link back
> to the person's own site. home_url() would be the way I'd really
> recommend doing it for a default link.
> 
> -Otto
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