[theme-reviewers] Theme promotion in dashboard

[Rohit Tripathi]

My Idea: Author should allowed to link only to an upsell version of the current theme. Whereas, he shouldn't be allowed to link to any other premium theme of his.

Authors should be allowed to link to upsell version of the current theme because it offers their users an ability to take their websites to next level with premium support and more features. Without any linkback, most users won't be aware of its existence. 
I don't see why somebody would be against the use of it.
Although, if there is excessive advertising in the theme options, then I am obviously against it. These decisions should be left on the reviewer who is reviewing the theme, or a theme review admin. Because of some, other authors who create great themes and do not do excessive advertising shouldn't suffer.

Regards,Rohit Tripathi

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:17:26 -0500
From: chip at chipbennett.net
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme promotion in dashboard

We currently allow developers to add a second page to promote other Themes from the developer, so I would say that fits under that allowance.

But I really question if that second page isn't a step too far.


Maybe Cais is onto something: we add a guideline that Themes are *recommended* not to display any upsell/commercial advertising in the Admin, and then have the discussion, and let the community pose an argument for why the practice should be allowed - or, from my perspective, why the developer's need to do such advertising in the user's Admin outweighs the user's need not to have advertising in their Admin.



On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Ola Łączek <ola at bodera.com> wrote:

I totally agree with the rule about ads only on theme options page, but what if theme doesn't have one? In that case adding Page under Appearance menu is still unacceptable?

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