[theme-reviewers] Default Wordpress Functionality Disabled

[Abhik Biswas]

Themes can not lock core functionalists (post type is one of them) behind a
pay wall. Enough to reject the theme right away.


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Harish Chouhan <me at harishchouhan.com>wrote:

> This seems a bit tricky.
>
> Situations like these should be judged on a case to case basis. Many free
> themes in the Repo do not support all Post Formats. So comparing this theme
> with them it does not do anything wrong.
>
> IMO, If however, in the PRO version only difference is more Post Formats
> than this is not great. If there are other features too then I think it
> should be ok.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Vicky Arulsingam <
> vicky.arulsingam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As per the Guidelines: "Themes are required to support proper WordPress
>> core implementation of all included features".
>> So substituting his own code and placing that functionality behind a pay
>> wall isn't allowed.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I am reviewing a theme in which, the user has disabled the option to
>>> choose post-types, i.e. standard, video, gallery, quote. Instead, he has
>>> added his own functinality to choose the post type. But, it is only
>>> available if the users chooses to upgrade the theme. Is this allowed?
>>>
>>> Example: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/9670/li7.png
>>>
>>> Thank You!
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