Comments on: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/05

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:44:26 +0000

Missed TLA (with default id as the theme authors)

And lastly, none of this is mentioned in the theme release page.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:42:11 +0000

Wasn’t WLTC going to start promoting quality themes? Or do you just say it out for PR (I refer to the post known as WLTC High Ground)

Have you taken a look at the code of Lorem Ipsum? It has so much of irrelevant links, google adsense code, spotplex (I have no idea what that is)letsmint, paypal and what else I am not sure.

And it is promoted here, not once but twice.. Is that no hypocritical?

Maybe this is being snarky/trollish or whatever. But when you say one thing and do another, it just not is a good practice.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:02:30 +0000

that i phone theme is H-O-T…. hot….

By: Small Potato

Small Potato — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:37:04 +0000

I don’t have a problem with designers looking for ways to justify the time they put in to contribute to free themes. I’m also ok with sponsored themes, as long as the users know the sponsored links are there and what consequences can rise from it.

Theme sponsorship is pure page rank spam if you must know. At least the author credit link is relevant because you need to credit the theme’s author.

By: John

John — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:27:34 +0000

What is wrong with a sponsored theme? People want a return for their work. I see nothing wrong with that. Otherwise, any blogger who posts ads on their site is just as bad.

The blogger who uses ads wants some sort of payback, however small, for their work. Same goes for the person who makes a theme that you find useful.

By: Small Potato

Small Potato — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:40:55 +0000

That’s true. Non-sponsored themes outnumber sponsored themes, but not for long if we don’t do something about it.

More than 50% of the latest 45 themes on the WordPress Theme Viewer site are sponsored themes.

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:33:29 +0000

90% of the themes that are released to the public don’t have any advertisements… and if they do, it’s really easy to remove them.

By: Small Potato

Small Potato — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:21:06 +0000

I understand the need for money to justify the time invested in developing free wordpress themes.

But, so many themes nowadays come with mutliple irrelevant sponsored-links, it’s ugly.