[theme-reviewers] Credit links in footer

[Edward Caissie]

I don't recall there ever being a theme that took advantage of this
guideline ... I would say it could be removed as well as there does not
appear to be a need for it to stay.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> That's my recollection as well, Cais. I think we may have dropped the
> optional second link at some point, but never updated this corollary
> guideline? I think we could just drop it entirely, and stick with
> developers using one credit link.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> IIRC, the premise behind this guideline was to allow Theme Authors to
>> have more than one credit link (ideally a maximum of two credit links in
>> total; links to WordPress.org do not count towards "credit" links) where
>> the second would be optional and not displayed by default.
>>
>> Of course there are a lot of ways to offer this secondary "credit" link,
>> such as a simple text field linked to a URL of the end-user's choice ...
>> and this leads to the possibility for the Theme Author to populate these
>> fields with their "suggested" text and landing page ... just be careful as
>> any URL used in this fashion would still need to pass any related URL
>> guidelines such as those regarding spam, non-GPL compliance, etc.
>>
>> Edward Caissie
>> aka Cais.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Stephen Cui <scui2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> English language discussion? May I interpret this way:
>>>
>>> credit-link removal option are required to be disabled by default.
>>>
>>> In other words, it is double negative: credit-link are not removed by
>>> default.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If used, credit-link removal options are required to be opt-in (i.e.
>>>> disabled by default, rather than enabled)
>>>>
>>>>  The guideline somehow translates to:
>>>>
>>>> Theme authors are not required to provide credit link removal options.
>>>> However if the theme author provides such option, "then the default state
>>>> of that option must be for the credit links to be *disabled* ".
>>>>
>>>> Why penalize a theme author who provides a user-friendly option to
>>>> remove the credit link? It's looking more like protecting a theme author
>>>> who wants to make it hard for a regular user to remove the credit link.
>>>>
>>>> I don't recall that specific guideline last time I did a theme review.
>>>> I didn't see this new guideline discussed at all. Theme Review Admin's
>>>> prerogative?
>>>>
>>>> Mercime
>>>>
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