[theme-reviewers] Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Code OK on Author & Theme URI?

[Edward Caissie]

I would have to go with a "not-approved" resolution for any of these points.
Although I can understand there may be the potential for the theme author
to gain some data points by way of encoding the Google Analytic code, that
too should not be done ... the only exception to the theme author using
their analytic code would be as an example the end-user can easily disable
or delete but also be "off by default". Also, IIRC, hard-coding GA code was
discussed in the past and decided it would not be acceptable.


Cais.


On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> I don't believe that this is valid URI. Author URI: http://wplook.comalone yes and Theme URI:
> http://wplook.com/dailypost
>
> There are other ways to track referrals from WordPress.org
>
> Emil
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Jim Mitchell <jim at jimmitchell.org> wrote:
>
>> A theme author has just submitted a new version of a theme I was
>> reviewing for them, and in this version, they added some Google Analytics
>> campaign tracking code to the Author & Theme URI in style.css (their
>> previous version didn't have it):
>>
>> Author URIhttp://wplook.com/*
>> ?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost*<http://wplook.com/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost>
>>
>> Theme URIhttp://wplook.com/dailypost/*
>> ?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost*<http://wplook.com/dailypost/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost>
>>
>> I'm going to take a wild guess and say it _might_ be allowed, but not
>> recommended, and ultimately not very useful since stats are kept on
>> repository downloads already. I've not seen any other themes that do this,
>> but of course, I didn't search the whole repository.
>>
>> The author also hard-coded the theme URI in the footer with GA campaign
>> code. I'm going to say this is okay since there's no restriction placed on
>> its removal.
>>
>> TIA for guidance, but mostly patience as I ask questions & learn the
>> ropes...
>>
>> --Jim
>>
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