[theme-reviewers] help with review

Greg Priday greg at siteorigin.com
Tue Jul 2 17:08:44 UTC 2013


I think I know the answer to this already, but does this mean I have to
remove the Facebook like and Twitter follow buttons from my theme pages
(they're iframes)?

I'll miss being popular :(


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Phone-home script? Yeah, looking at it, that's bad. I'm immediately
> suspending all Themes from this developer. Feel free to close/not-approved
> all open tickets.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:
>
>> If I may add - all themes by this reporter (previously suspended for
>> license compatibility) seem to have the same contact form in them.
>>
>> A quick SVN comparison to the ticket Kavita reviewed shows the same
>> pattern as they all contain almost the same file structure. here are the
>> ticket numbers in question...
>>
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12795
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12796
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12797
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12798
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12800
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12801
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12802
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12805
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12813
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12803 - has the iframe in
>> functions.php
>>
>> File in question is
>> http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/theme-name/cfg/admin/settings/contact.php- not tested if they are indeed iframes, just going by the pattern at the
>> moment.
>>
>> I could be wrong on this but themes also seem to have a phone home script
>> pointing to http://wpstats.mythem.es/?theme= with the extraction of user
>> first_name' user last_name, user_login and user_email - this is triggered
>> by activation and deactivation of the theme.
>>
>> For ticket #12795 the suspected phone home script is located in
>> theme-name/fw/mytheme.class.php - could be same for the rest of themes but
>> I think I notice one located in the functions.php.
>>
>> Should we go through these and close them on per ticket basis sighting
>> the review @ #12793 <http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12793> or
>> can an Admin do an SVN comaprison and close all tickets sighting the same
>> review?
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:13:11 -0400
>> From: chip at chipbennett.net
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] help with review
>>
>>
>> No. Themes should not link to any external resource. They can provide a
>> link to the external content, or include the content internally.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Kavita Kumawat <erkavecb at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was reviewing this theme and the developer has put the iframe in theme
>> options, linking to his website to be contacted.. is this allowed??
>>
>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12793
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> kavita
>>
>>
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