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July 1st, 2009

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The Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is now open. It is linked off the WordPress Extend and is part of the parent theme directory set of links. It is not as much a directory as it is a listing of sites that offer commercial GPL themes. It lists the philosophies, a few words about the business models and the need for the encouragement, a list of screenshots and links to the various theme sites and then a list of criterion for inclusion into this site.

I like the succinct explanation of the purpose and the listing criterion seem simple and straightforward to follow. Send your information to themes at wordpress dot org to get included in the list. From the site, if you want to be included:

Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS.
Have professional support options, and optionally customization.
Your site should be complete, well-designed, up to date, and professional looking.
Include a haiku about yourself to be included.

I am not sure how long this list is going to get, but I am curious to see how this page evolves. I am also glad to see a larger number of GPL based Premium theme vendors on there than I was initially surmising. Cool!

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WordPress Theme Releases for 07/01

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Perurry

July 1st, 2009

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Magloss

Magloss is a magazine style WordPress theme packed with fully customized features. This 3 columns WordPress theme has integrated JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 2.0 for the rotating featured content. This theme also comes with an automatic thumbnail cropping feature for your front page posts. Besides the rotating featured content, this theme also enables you to use the category block feature to display recent posts for each category chosen. All these features are controllable inside the admin panel (Magloss Theme Option). Magloss is also comes ready with Twitter, Feedburner, 125×125 advertisement banners, adsense and featured videos. All you have to do is insert the appropriate html code within the theme option.

GreenTweet

Three column, widget ready theme with a big twitter icon, 125×125 ad support and page management for links in the top navigation.

Vina

Two column layout, widget ready, with features to auto-grab and resize images on the fly and compatible with WordPress 2.8

Omicron

Omnicron

Three column, gravatar ready, SEO friendly theme with custom 404 template. (page not in English)

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed here

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(3 votes, avg: 5.00)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28

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Perurry

June 28th, 2009

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Hanging

In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.

Vina

Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more

Freshmade Software

A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments.

FancyPress

2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme

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(6 votes, avg: 3.83)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 06/20

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Perurry

June 20th, 2009

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Rask Publishing News Theme

Rask

Two column, widget ready, ajax based theme with tonnes of features

Minion

It has 3 columns, and 3 colors (black, white and red links). The content area is 400 pixels wide.

Hanging

In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.

Are you theme author? Submit your theme to us.

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(2 votes, avg: 3.00)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 06/15

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Perurry

June 15th, 2009

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Just two themes for you in this post.

Dellistore

DelliStore template is a full px-based, cross-browser-compliant (X)HTML/CSS-template (IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome) Based on the template released on Smashing Magazine.

Blare

Three column, widget and gravatar ready, orange and grey Wordpress theme

Are you theme author? Submit your theme to us.

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(6 votes, avg: 2.33)

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iThemes is now GPL

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June 11th, 2009

Blogging News, WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Cory Miller’s iThemes is now completely GPL compliant! This is great news indeed and they are the second premium theme vendor who fully support the GPL and align their business models with that of WordPress and its community. Cory is a friend of mine and in full disclosure, has been an advertiser on this blog in the past. We have had various discussions about this topic and I am very happy that they have made the switch. Everyone will be better off for it.

This change means that all themes purchased from iThemes can be installed on multiple blogs without restriction but they will continue to be supported as before. iThemes will continue to sell their themes and packages and provide the support for their themes but their themes will now be licensed under the GPL. This will mean more freedom for developers working with iThemes products (and thus more sales), will lead to better and quicker resolution of issues (lesser support costs) and will encourage development and improvement of iThemes products across the board (better products for the end user and for the WordPress community). I did not want this news to be lost in the excitement of the WordPress 2.8 release and wanted to congratulate Cory on his decision.

Cory and iThemes, welcome to the family!

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(7 votes, avg: 4.43)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 06/10

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Perurry

June 10th, 2009

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Dacia

Dacia is a 2 column WP theme, widget and gravatar ready, in three main colors: red, white and black.

AzSands

AzSands has a dark header and light background. The theme comes with 125×125 advertising space, “About me” space, fixed width and a right widgetized sidebar.

Ndadap

Three column, widget ready theme with Featured Post, Magazine style, Grid Based, Auto Grab image from the content and re size it on the fly and many more.

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(4 votes, avg: 4.75)

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WordPress Theme Releases by 06/06

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Perurry

June 6th, 2009

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WPBlue 3 Column Adsense

WPBlue is 3 column adsense WordPress themes with blue color and fast loading. Gravatar and widget ready.

WP Soul

WP Soul is a free 2 column Wordpress Theme looks simple and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin options at the back end. With wide variety of tune able Theme options in the admin menu you don’t need to edit .php files manually to do basic theme adjustments.

Vertico

Vertico is a 2 columns fixed width magazine style WordPress theme. This theme comes with highly customized features such as the vertical listing of recent posts, categorized tabbers and many more to make your Wordpress blog stand out from others.

Black Hat

Black Hat is a dark minimalist theme based on Adrian Diaconescu’s Corporate Sandbox, which is of course based on the Sandbox framework. It is has been built specifically with WordPress 2.7 in mind, but is also backwards compatible for version 2.6.