Dave Hall

@bcworkz Thanks for being a gent. My suspicion that there was some misunderstanding was apparently correct, which is reassuring. I totally agree that having options in the Customizer visible but not available would be very annoying. (I think this is explicity outlawed in the documentaion anyway.)

In conclusion to all this I think I’ll go wih your suggestion to include just a link and put all the info on an external site. It’s neater and also I guess means I can update it more regularly without having to release a theme update (that not everyone will download anyway).

Thanks.

Thanks Jan. I’m learning lots here.

Thanks @bcworkz. I’m not quite sure if we understand each other. What I’ve included is a single page, included as a sub-entry under Appearance. That page includes support links and a list of a few plugins available for people who might be interested. The information doesn’t appear anywhere else on the back end, and the user will never see it unless they click on that link. This is explicity given as an example of what is permissible in the Theme Review documentation: “Only one sub-page is allowed under the Appearance section in the admin sidebar.”

Is that what you understood from my description? If so, do you really think that qualifies as “obtrusive”? The only thing less obtrusive would be nothing at all!

You’ve mentioned not wanting to be “bombarded with reminders” but I never mentioned anything like that. My theme, as it was submitted, bombards not a single user with a single reminder.

I’m genuinely trying to get a grasp on what’s concerning you here, because I want to produce a theme people will enjoy using. So I do want to know if you’re reacting to the facts of the situation or something you’ve imagined that I don’t recognise: “adware with some minor theme functionality”. How did you get that idea? I’m talking about a fully functioning theme, to which, like any theme, you can add plugins for specific purposes to make it do even more. I’ve re-read my post for traces of ambiguity, but I really don’t see it.

Anyway, I’ll follow up with the reviewer. I wasn’t sure that I could still do that now that the ticket status is “closed”. Thanks.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Dave Hall.

Thanks Jaaaarne. I accept that might be a problem – it’s essentially a “share” link, which I can take out (I just have, actually). Still I don’t think that’s what the reviewer would have been referring to when they said “This is not an appropriate way of implementing upselling”. I’m left wondering if it’s my plan to sell plugins or my plan to list them on the theme back end… or both!

Very helpful. Thanks.

Thanks Ben. 5-8 months seems crazy. I know it’s a free volunteer-run service, so there’s no point demanding anything of them, but still I’m surprised. Looks like I need to rethink my whole strategy.

If you’re using the AAPL plugin, it actually needs to be like this (entered into the reload code box, like this, without the script tags around it):

jQuery('body').trigger('post-load');

Apologies for the confusion. Hope that works for you n3v3rm1nd.

Probably a little late for you Arjun, but in case anyone else out there is grappling with this one, I found I could get the tiled galleries in Jetpack to reinitialise with the following:

$( 'body' ).trigger( 'post-load')

Worked for me.