[theme-reviewers] Asking users to review the theme

[Chip Bennett]

Personally, I'm much more laissez faire regarding the Theme Options page.
That's essentially the Theme's domain within the Admin area. I would rather
try to leave that up to the prerogative of the Theme developers, unless it
gets obviously out of hand.

Others may have differing views, though?


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:49 PM, emin ozlem <eminozlem at gmail.com> wrote:

> So just to be clear, next time, i can add a link to the theme's page on
> wp.org asking user to review the theme. Like i said i dont intend to
> endorse or pressure the user with phrases like "please find 5* if you find
> it useful" but just to be a reference for the others:
> a.) Is that kind of encouraging link text acceptable ? Or should there be
> a standart for that too ?
> b.) I understand that you cant place it like a banner, in a promoting
> manner. But any other limitations on it, like where it can be placed ? I
> mean "on the theme options page" is pretty vague. You can place it
> unintrusively on the last tab of options or if you mean to make it
> promoting you might place it on the top of the options page which would
> again fall into "on the theme options page" technically.
> Besides, instead of a permanent link that catches my eye every time i go
> over the options, i would rather have a one-time banner telling me to that
> goes away the next time or one that can be dismissed.
>
> I am asking these not to find loop holes, but to prevent developers from
> exploiting the allowed link on technicalities.
>
>
> 2013/11/21 Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
>
>>  Got it.  Thanks for clarifying.
>>
>>
>> On 11/20/2013 6:35 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>>
>> Yep, I would agree that a link from the Theme Options page is good. A
>> banner on Theme activation is not.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> I am thinking the manner in which it was done and personally don't see
>>> the problem of having that extra link from Theme Options :) It leads to
>>> WPORG anyways.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Justin Tadlock <
>>> justin at justintadlock.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  After the theme promotion discussion, I got the impression that we
>>>> were after far worse things than giving the user a link back to review the
>>>> theme on WordPress.org.
>>>>
>>>> Is it the manner in which it was done or is it simply that the link
>>>> itself shouldn't be allowed?
>>>>
>>>> Just trying to get everyone on the same page here since this has
>>>> already been opened up here for discussion in the mailing list.
>>>>
>>>
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