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

[Daniel Fenn]

Here's a point - How many option is too many?





On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The theme has more than a dozen options and there is no option for the user
> to  change/remove the Cyberchimp logo at the footer correctly without
> knowing code. If the user who does not know any better deletes
>
> <?php do_action('cyberchimps_footer'); ?>
>
> in footer.php, it will delete the logo of Cyberchimps as well as delete the
> block where the user can configure copyright information.
>
> While welcoming to theme designers/developers, isn't the theme review team
> there to protect/help the users as well?
>
>
> Mercime
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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