[theme-reviewers] Feature slider default links

[Chip Bennett]

For what purpose would anyone attempt to click-through a link on a
wp.orgTheme demo? I don't get it.

Even then: the issue isn't what gets output on the wp.org Theme demo site,
but rather what gets output by default on end users' sites.

Chip

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:

> 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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