[theme-reviewers] Is SMOF framework allowed?

Thu Sep 5 17:33:14 UTC 2013

You can (as far as I know), but I would advise against it, and would favor
the original: Devin Price's Options Framework. The main reason is that SMOF
adds a non-standard Settings Page UI.

Looking more in-depth, I am concerned about the SMOF readme, which includes
the following:

License

SMOF is released under GPLv3 - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. You
are free to redistribute & modify copies of the plugin under the following
conditions:

   - All links & credits must be kept intact
      - For commercial usage (e.g in themes you're selling on any
      marketplace, or a commercial website), you are*strongly recommended* to
      link back to my Themeforest Profile
Page<http://themeforest.net/user/SyamilMJ> using
      the following text: Slightly Modified Options
Framework<https://github.com/sy4mil/Options-Framework>
       by Syamil MJ <http://themeforest.net/user/SyamilMJ>

That straddles the non-GPL-compatible restrictions line.

The GPL does not require "all links and credits" to be kept intact; rather,
it requires the appropriate copyright/license attribution to be retained.
As for the commercial-use part: the GPL does not allow the developer to
"strongly recommend" any such thing.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Harish <me at harishchouhan.com> wrote:

> Hi Afzaal,
>
> Had you looked at http://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/. SMOF
> is a
> similar to this.
>
> You simply can allow users to install this. That way your theme remains
> lightweight and your users can always have access to latest version of
> Options framework.
>
> Many themes have integrated this within the theme itself, but unless your
> customizing it to a great extend, its pointless to include it in a theme.
>
>
> Regards,
> Harish Chouhan
>
> Visit me at - www.harishchouhan.com
> Phone: +91-9833661410 | Email: me at harishchouhan.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theme-reviewers [mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org]
> On Behalf Of wordpress at thinkupthemes.com
> Sent: Thu 05 September 13 10:50 PM
> To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.; Chip Bennett
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Is SMOF framework allowed?
>
> Totally agree! The theme should still look like a theme when activated. I'd
> suggest that you have clear documentation so users know they can change
> options from the theme options page. Make it super clear.
>
> So would I be right in assuming that SMOF is allowed then? I'll submit my
> theme next week and can completely strip it out if SMOF is not allowed, but
> didn't want to as I thought it would be cool to give a premium level theme
> for free.
>
> Afzaal
>
>
>
> Quoting Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>:
>
> > You should never, ever need to redirect the user to the Theme options
> > page upon activation.
> >
> > Instead, the Theme should define and use sane defaults as a fallback,
> > in case the user does not configure Theme options.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Towfiq I. <tislam100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> on a different note, is it possible to redirect the user to theme
> >> options page after activating the theme? If so, how?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:58 PM, <wordpress at thinkupthemes.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks Harish,
> >>>
> >>> Great idea. I'll add a recommendation for the plugin to be installed
> >>> using TGM activation. Thanks, I'll remove this and take your advice.
> >>>
> >>> Afzaal
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Quoting Harish <me at harishchouhan.com>:
> >>>
> >>>  Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Any reason why you want to roll in the twitter widget in your theme?
> >>>> Simply
> >>>> show a message after activation to help people download the plugin.
> >>>> Will make your theme smaller and if the users change theme, they
> >>>> won't lose their twitter widget.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Harish Chouhan
> >>>>
> >>>> Visit me at - www.harishchouhan.com
> >>>> Phone: +91-9833661410 | Email: me at harishchouhan.com
> >>>>
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> >>>> From: theme-reviewers [mailto:theme-reviewers-**
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> >>>> ]
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> >>>> Subject: [theme-reviewers] Is SMOF framework allowed?
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm in the final stages of completing my WordPress theme and think
> >>>> people may find it useful so am thinking about trying to get it
> >>>> into the WordPress repository. I've noticed a few warnings however
> >>>> that have appeared when running theme-check.
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. base64_encode error in the framework SMOF. I used this because
> >>>> of the referral on
> >>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/**Theme_Frameworks<http://codex.wordpres
> >>>> s.org/Theme_Frameworks>
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. base64_encode in the Twitter feed widget which I've packaged
> >>>> into the theme
> >>>> http://wordpress.org/plugins/**tweetscroll-widget/<http://wordpress
> >>>> .org/plugins/tweetscroll-widget/>
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> If anyone can shed any light on if these are major errors I'd
> >>>> really appreciate your help. I really want to make sure that my
> >>>> themes are 100% safe so am spending a lot of time on finding any
> errors.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you so much in advance.
> >>>>
> >>>> Afzaal
> >>>>
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