[theme-reviewers] Ticket that smells spamish...

[Chip Bennett]

Certainly. Derivative Themes need to have a significant style/design
distinction from the original Theme. Bear in mind, though, that it is a
subjective judgement call; so just be prepared to handle pushback from the
developer. (Admins will generally support reviewers' judgement on such
matters.)


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter is correct. The code is almost totally identical to Contango besides
> the theme slug.
>
> Does this make anyone else think its just there as part of some
> backlinking strategy? If so is that a reason to reject?
>
> Also, if I remember correctly, before the new rearrangement of the
> guidelines, which is awesome btw, there was a section on child themes that
> said something about themes that are not significantly different than an
> existing theme in the repo. I can't find it now. Is that still a reason to
> reject a theme?
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Peter Baylies <
> pbaylies at semperfiwebdesign.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Josh,
>>
>> It looks a lot like Contango to me - http://wordpress.org/themes/contango
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>  -- Peter
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Is this theme that I'm reviewing a complete clone of a popular theme? I
>>> can't place were I've seen this code before, but its eerily similar to
>>> something. Maybe its just all generic themes look the same on the inside.
>>> If anyone has a second to take a look at it, I'd appreciate it.
>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12930
>>>
>>> I'd be less concerned, if the authorURI wasn't a website full of "10
>>> Things With Good SEO" type posts.
>>>
>>> http://webdesignlayer.com/
>>>
>>> This all seems kind of spammy, but I don't know. I would appreciate
>>> opinions?
>>>
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