[theme-reviewers] Author URI guidelines

[Srikanth Koneru]

Theme shops, personal websites and project websites are allowed as author
url and everything else isn't.


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Jose Castaneda <jomcastaneda at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have to ask as well since I've seen other themes use themeshops for
> their author credit links as well.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
>
>> Chip, could I personally ask for some clarifications on the guidelines
>> page - either in make/themes or in the Codex under Theme Review or
>> wherever, like
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing.2C_Theme_Name.2C_Credit_Links.2C_Up-Sell_Themes:
>>  or
>> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/
>>  ?
>>
>> I tend to disagree so often with most subjective decisions that I'd
>> really love to actually have them better defined than what is already in
>> there, especially with the contradictions with some of the existing themes
>> in the repository.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mario Peshev
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Correct.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Ola Łączek <ola at bodera.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I've got a theme that uses this address: http://www.siteground.com/ as
>>>> author URI and for credit link in footer.
>>>> In guidelines it says that "*For AuthorURI, emphasis is on the
>>>> personal nature of the site*".
>>>> So I think this link is not acceptable, am I right?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Ola Łączek
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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