[theme-reviewers] THEME URI

[Chip Bennett]

For Theme URI, I think that's fine.

For Author URI, I would think that a WPORG profile would be acceptable?


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> I thought we did not require, but not a problem, it's all good :)
>
> Current guideline says: *Avoid using WordPress.org as your Theme or
> Author URI*, which I added while back.
>
> Should we alter to not to use instead of avoid?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> Avoid using WordPress.org as your Theme or Author URI.
>>>
>>> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/
>>>
>>> But yes, they can :)
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm going to actually say no on this one. Unless you're an official
>> wordpress.org theme like Twenty-* or so forth, you should not use the
>> WordPress.org URI for your theme URI or author URI. There is no technical
>> reason for this, we'd simply prefer it if you didn't.
>>
>> I would not fail a theme *solely* because of this, but I would put it in
>> the "must fix" category if there were other reasons to not-approve the
>> theme.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
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