[theme-reviewers] Default images, Twitter demo, and an option to remove credit link?

[Chip Bennett]

Trent,

See my reply just before yours. Yes you can use a logo image as your footer
credit link.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:

> Are we not allowed to have logo's for our credit links? What sense does
> that make?
>
> From my understanding, the reason we have credit link rules is to prevent
> people from using .org as an SEO farm, and by using a logo it is actually
> detrimental to SEO, but serves the purpose of giving the theme author
> credit.
>
> Is there a logical reason for why we can't use a logo for the credit link?
>
> --Trent Lapinski
> =============
> CEO of CyberChimps Inc
> trent at cyberchimps.com
> Mobile (714) 904-4280
> Twitter @trentlapinski
> Skype: mobiletrent
> http://CyberChimps.com
>
> On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For issue # 3, simply make it a text link and it should be fine. I thought
> it was footer logo too when i reviewed your ribbon theme but then i
> realized it was a credit link.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey theme review list,
>>
>> Couple questions regarding a recent review that we need clarification on:
>>
>> Issue 1: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5
>>
>> The theme reviewer claims we need to remove our logo from the default
>> image in the feature slider. It is literally just a default image so that
>> when someone previews the theme they can see the feature slider in action.
>> The image is included with the theme (is NOT hot linked), and doesn't have
>> any promotional copy or anything like that.
>>
>> The images in question:
>>
>> http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/sliderdefault.jpg
>>
>> http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/eclipse/images/slide3.jpg
>>
>> Is having my theme shop name in a default demo image a violation of any
>> review guidelines?
>>
>> Issue 2: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11164#comment:5
>>
>> I also have a built-in Twitter feed in my themes, which the default
>> simply has our Twitter account so users can see a functional demo of the
>> Twitter feature working on the preview / demo page. Is this is violation of
>> any theme review guidelines?
>>
>> Neither of these "issues" are promotional, and are simply for preview /
>> demo purposes. I'm not really sure how were supposed to show the
>> functionality of our themes without including defaults?
>>
>> Issue 3: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11163#comment:2
>>
>> "User should be able to replace/remove Cyberchimps logo located in the
>> footer."
>>
>> A user can easily edit the footer.php or remove the image from the theme,
>> or whatever they want since the theme is GPL. As far as I'm aware, there is
>> nothing saying we have to provide an option to make it easier to remove the
>> credit link in the footer. We are doing nothing to stop users from removing
>> the link.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Trent Lapinski
>> =============
>> CEO of CyberChimps Inc
>> trent at cyberchimps.com
>> Mobile (714) 904-4280
>> Twitter @trentlapinski
>> Skype: mobiletrent
>> http://CyberChimps.com <http://cyberchimps.com/>
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