[theme-reviewers] Theme shops inside end user's website!

[Srikanth Koneru]

Having additional page for theme author's other themes was said to be okay
previously.


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:

> Hello team,
>
> I'm currently reviewing two themes as follow:
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15856
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15945
>
> Both these themes add a secondary page on the Appearance section.
> My understanding is that themes can only add "One" theme page and as many
> tabs as they like.
> But this point has been argued strongly for and against - we still need
> clarification though!
>
> My main concern is that both themes are using these secondary pages to
> advertise their shop's
> other theme - I class this as unrelated items to the active theme and
> again this needs clarification
> on weather we allow it or not.
>
> But a bigger concern is that in both cases (most likely many other authors
> are doing it too) these
> pages are pulling in content from external sources i.e. author's site and
> planting it in the end user's
> site. Effectively what they have is their shops inside someone else's
> site. For me this is overdoing it
> and I feel that it must not be allowed.
>
> Your views please
>
> Regards,
> Zulf
>
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