[theme-reviewers] help with review

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Tue Jul 2 17:20:41 UTC 2013


How do you "share" a Theme options page? Since only authenticated users can
access the page ostensibly being "shared", that seems a bit silly, no?


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Theme option pages?
> Are social sharing buttons allowed there? My themes have them...
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> From your "Theme pages"? I'm not sure I follow (no pun intended)...
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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