[wp-hackers] Text ads in themes

[Peter Westwood]

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Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> I just downloaded Barthelme from plaintxt.org and found this in the footer:
> 
> Sponsor: <a href="URL_REMOVED" title="New York City Flower Delivery">New
> York City Flower Delivery</a>
> 
> Is this common in themes now? For people running theme directories, what
> is your policy on themes that have ads in theme?
> 
> Personally I'm fine with a credit link, but I'd rather not have someone
> else's ads in my theme any more than I'd put their Adsense code.
> 

This is something that would put me off.

I wouldn't mind it there if the list of features detailing the theme
told me it was there _before_ I downloaded.  But even then I would
probably remove it.

westi
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Peter Westwood
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