Cilacap.info English – WordPress Will Kick Out User, If Use this Platform to Promotion any Hosting, Template, and Plugins. First time initially we looked at article in Search Engine Journal, about prohibition of external links for commercial blogs. It means blogs that offer products such as selling Plugins, Themes etc. and directing External Links.
Found on wordpress.org page, a woman named Milana Cap who on profile is Contributions, said that would stop any commercial blog.
During discussion about external link policy, we came to conclusion that we would not allow, at least at beginning and for now, any commercial blogs. So before you start arguing that some of popular plugin blogs have valuable information, let me stop you there.
Write a Milana Cap starting article published today, Tuesday (7/7).
He even firmly banned all commercial blogs despite his popular service. The ban was for fear of being abused, while wordpress tried to protect documentation.
“Allowing” popular blog plugins / themes / services etc. “and all other commercial blogs to put us in a position to protect documentation from being misused as a marketing medium, to protect ourselves from allegations of bias and to defend every decision we make throughout way. still, there will be dissatisfied parties claiming that we are unjust and they are wrong. The idea of allowing external links will be its own goal. ”
In addition, this will completely shift focus from original idea which is:
Benefits for documentation users .
If this process has to spend too much time for Documentation Team to weigh, decide, and defend decisions taken, then there is no time for actual contributions and no benefits for anyone.
So official WordPress plugin blog, official blog theme, official blog of market or store (with themes, plugins, etc.), official blog hosting, other official service blog, etc. Regardless of whether they sell something or not, it is not allowed. This is why word commercial is wrapped in quotes.
This is in accordance with practice of HelpHub (end user documentation) for which no plugins, themes, hosting etc. will not be promoted or recommended. At HelpHub we only document what is at core or will be core.
The same thing applies here. If this website is dedicated to certain WordPress products (free or not), it is not allowed. These sites usually have product names in domain name but we will not limit criteria there. I am sure some cases will be unique and decisions must be made specifically for that.
The point is: we haven’t found best way to deal fairly with blogs or commercial sites and thus our focus is on links that don’t go into gray zone. We hope to finally discuss how we can safely enter commercial blog links (if this is possible).
Now it clear
We need to determine what is not a “commercial” website but also does not go into a personal blog, which can be permitted. For example, Stack Overflow or any Stack Exchange website. This is actually not a non-commercial website but is completely neutral to display on WordPress.org. This is not to say that being “neutral” in this case is a requirement but merely indicating that they are not interested in trying to abuse opportunity to get their links appear on wp.org.
Some tutorial websites also come to mind but it seems we are stepping into gray area here. Maybe allow a website with only a free tutorial? Is that there?
Let us hear your opinion in comments. All examples, ideas, questions etc. are welcomed.
If you have an opinion on subject now is time to share it. This is an important initiative and we want to make best possible decisions that will benefit users of documentation. thanks.
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