[theme-reviewers] Twitter facebook links within theme options.

[Terry East]

Oh.. I see the distinction. Thx

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> On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Christine Rondeau <christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
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> It is and themes cannot incorporate social media sharing tools allowing the user to set them up. Those should be done via a plugin.
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> But if you are a developer and want to have a page that says, hey, like my theme, you may want to follow me on twitter, than that's ok.
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> Then there's the fine line of doing it nicely once and not go all spammy and put links everywhere. 
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> That's how I understand it. 
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> Christine Rondeau
> Bluelime Media
> www.bluelimemedia.com
> twitter: @bluelimemedia
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>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Terry East <terryeast at enricchicreative.com> wrote:
>> New to the game.. But, I thought social sharing is in the domain of plugins not embedded into themes.
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
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>>> Acceptable if implemented properly. I can't say I understand the purpose of a Facebook "like" link in Theme Options, but it's not harmful. Twitter follow button is reasonable as well.
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>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Christine Rondeau <christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi there, 
>>>> Just wanted to confirm that having a like me and/or follow me buttons in the theme options is ok.
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>>>> This theme here - https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16288#comment:5
>>>> has both in their options.
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>>>> You can see the code they are using to insert it here:
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>>>> http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/webvideo/1.0.5/functions.php
>>>> all the way at the bottom of the file is where you will find the code.
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>>>> Christine
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