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

[Stephen Cui]

I believe credit link is just a credit to the theme author. We should go
too far on the policy. For example, one of my user contact me today for
support. I checked their website. I realized that both credit links for
WordPress and my theme are replaced with a computer dealer. I have no
problem removing credit link. If the users ask, I will let give them
instruction to remove it.

As I said, credit link is just a credit to theme author.

Stephen


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway 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*"
>
> This whole thing is irrelevant. I would say 99% of all the free repo
> themes have a credit in them (which is an encouraged standard). I would say
> 99% of that 99% don't have any special feature that allows the user to turn
> off the footer credit no matter how many options they've packed in there.
> In fact, I don't know of any free themes that have this option and almost
> all require the user to manually hack the theme to remove a credit, this is
> pretty common.
>
> In fact, most would argue that it's frowned upon that users would remove
> the footer credit (sometimes even replacing with their own) when they're
> getting a theme for free in the first place. I personal don't care free or
> premium, when a user/customer gets a theme from me, I encourage them to
> hack up the theme however they like regardless of the GPL (which gives them
> that protection/freedom in writing). That's just basic decency.
>
> The only reason a lot of premium themes have an option to remove the
> credit in the first place is because it's a pretty obvious obligatory
> thing. If they're paying they should be able to white label the thing.
> That's the correct thinking. It's not that developers are trying to coax
> users to buy pro by hiding credit removal behind a paywall or anything so
> devious.
>
> And hey, if there are free theme authors out there that offer an option to
> remove their credit or heck, don't even credit their work to begin with,
> that's great, that's their option as is it the option of the majority of
> other authors to hard-code a credit in, like signing a painting.
>
> There is no ethical gray area here, it's all just fine. Ever even leaning
> towards having to provide some setting to remove a credit in a free theme
> is just silly, especially when many themes don't have options to begin
> with. But, because some do (which can be considered doing more for the user
> already), they should provide an additional feature to remove the credit of
> their work? Doesn't make any sense however you shake a stick at it.
>
>
> "*Here's a point - How many option is too many?*"
>
> Hah! As far as users and customers are concerned there can never be too
> many. I constantly have the difficult task of explaining why we won't be
> adding the checkbox option for magical ponies cause we can't over bloat the
> given theme with too many options that aren't going to benefit the greater
> majority of what's wanted in a theme by the rest of the community.
>
> If we lived in a world full of genius web designers/programmers the answer
> would be 1. 1 option is too many, get in there and do it manually, all of
> it! Not the world we live in though. Thank goodness too, because a lot of
> us would be out of work if that was the case :(.
>
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