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"Commercial versions of free Themes must not lock core WordPress
features behind the commercial paywall."

Custom backgrounds are a core WordPress feature. It's literally just a
couple extra lines of code to add that feature to pretty much any
theme. Leaving that out of the free theme and only putting it in the
pay theme is, indeed, rather unacceptable from that viewpoint.

Stuff that you put in the pay-version of the theme should be
functionality you've developed yourself and such. True upgrades.
Custom backgrounds are so easy to do that they're virtually a given in
a free theme.

-Otto


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Leena Lahti <leena.lahti at lala.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can I please have a second opinion about this: this theme was accepted and
> added to theme directory only two weeks ago and no-one said that there was
> something wrong with custom background feature (which doesn't exist at all
> in this theme but only in Premium version). I guess this is a matter of
> terminology: is it "locked behind the commercial paywall" if it doesn't
> exist at all? There are other features also in the Premium version which you
> cannot find in Lite version. They are not "locked", they simply don't exist.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Leena
>
>
>
> 2012/10/9 WordPress Themes <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
>>
>> #9687: THEME: Runo Lite - 1.3.2
>> ----------------------------+----------------------------
>> Reporter:  La_ri_za         |       Owner:  garinungkadol
>>     Type:  theme            |      Status:  assigned
>> Priority:  major            |  Resolution:
>> Keywords:  theme-runo-lite  |
>> ----------------------------+----------------------------
>>
>> Comment (by garinungkadol):
>>
>>  * Theme is previously approved
>>  * Theme author has added notation in readme.txt about only supporting two
>>  levels of menu items
>>  * As per diff check, the following changes were made:
>>     * Theme URI was revised
>>     * Additional styling for custom fonts
>>     * Language files were updated
>>     * Minor revisions to template files
>>
>>  == Current Issues ==
>>  * REQUIRED: Commercial versions of free Themes must not lock core
>>  WordPress features behind the commercial paywall
>>    * You are implementing background images in your premium version which
>>  is a core feature.
>>
>>  * REQUIRED: Theme is incorporating custom backgrounds in premium theme.
>>  This must use core functionality,
>>  [http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Backgrounds Custom Backgrounds].
>>
>>  * REQUIRED: Themes are required to use function parameters, filters, and
>>  action hooks where appropriate in order to modify content, rather than
>>  hard-coding.
>>    * Use the `wp_title` filter to modify the contents of `<title>`.
>>    * References:
>>    * http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/32622/when-calling-wp-
>>  title-do-you-have-to-create-some-kind-of-title-php-file
>>    * http://wikiduh.com/1102/using-the-wp_title-filter-in-wordpress
>>
>>  * Recommending '''not-approved'''.
>>
>>  I'll keep this ticket open for a few days.
>>
>> --
>> Ticket URL: <http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9687#comment:2>
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