WordPress Theme Submission Guidelines

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Hello WordPress Theme developers. Please feel free to offer your WordPress
Themes here. Please note, however, that we have specific guidelines regarding
disclose as to any encoding/scripting markup.

This WordPress Theme Submission Guidelines Sticky will be updated regularly
to include any further UKWW guidelines. Please read and comply with all guidelines
below.

Begin Theme Submission Guidelines:

1. All WordPress Themes must come with full disclosure as to the "reason/behavior" of any and all encoding/scripting included in the theme's markup.
   • If a WordPress Theme posted for download at UKWW is found to contain any encoding/scripting without disclosure as to the "reason/behavior" of such encoding/scripting - the theme will be removed.
   • Any WordPress Theme author found to continually post their themes without disclosure will be warned AND/OR banned from UKWW.
2. If a WordPress Theme posted for download at UKWW is found to contain any encoding/scripting not disclosed within the disclosure statement (script is found to do "other behaviors" NOT mentioned in disclosure) the theme will be removed.

End Theme Submission Guidelines

Encoding in WordPress Themes has become very popular with theme authors,
who encode javascript within the theme (typically the footer.php file) to maintain
the backlinks to their sites. This is a "fair use" practice. However, there have
been been blackhat techniques discovered within SOME encoded scripts,
which will do SOME of the following:

• Redirect Google AdSense publisher IDs to the theme author
  • They'll make money from YOUR clicks
• Generate random backlinks from your site to sites theme authors chooses
• Basically, do anything blackhat as author wants.

There is a new WP plugin: Headzoo WP Anti-Wares - that will warn a WordPress
owner about the encoding, and then dis-activate a theme found to contain
encoded scripting. It does NOT determine if the scripting contains malicious
motives, some warning is better than none.