WordPress Themes by Category

WordPress Themes is pleased to announce that we will be offering lists of themes made available to the public based on category.

You will see category lists in the sidebar of our website that will link to various WordPress theme categories - we hope this will become a huge resources too anyone looking to download a WordPress theme.

If you would like to suggest a category or would like to have your theme listed, please contact us and let us know!

Posted May 25, 2007 by Brian Gardner | Filed Under News 

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9 Responses to “WordPress Themes by Category”

  1. Paul Enderson on May 25th, 2007 7:59 pm

    That’s a fantastic idea! I’d like to think that this will end up being a higher quality selection of themes than is currently available from other WordPress theme directories!

    I’m against sponsored themes - what’s your viewpoint, just out of interest?

  2. skarld on May 26th, 2007 1:22 am

    I would like to extend the same invitation except I plan on using tags.

  3. Ed on May 28th, 2007 9:08 am

    I’m with Paul on the sponsored theme issue; they go against the entire open model. If people want to distribute adthemes, the designs should at least be a cut above the run-of-the-mill.

  4. Paul Enderson on May 28th, 2007 9:12 am

    Thanks for the support Ed! I vaguely recall reading a post somewhere, that said sponsored themes were actually illegal if the WordPress licence was taken into account.

    However, as is often the case, I can’t find it now! ;)

  5. Ed on May 28th, 2007 9:48 am

    Paul, the “legality” issue comes from WordPress being released as GPL. WordPress says anything distributed using its internal functions - as themes do - must be free, also. Sponsored themes attempt to spook theme users into not removing these links. I’ve no problem with people offering sponsored themes - just don’t imply end-users can’t delete the links.

    Here’s a good summation of the issue.

  6. Paul Enderson on May 28th, 2007 10:18 am

    Yup - that’s the article I couldn’t find! Thanks for that…

    I agree totally. Some people would be happy to leave sponsorship in place, but others will avoid a particular theme if they’re forced to carry advertising on it.

    I saw a theme release yesterday, and the creator said that he was no longer releasing themes under the GPL licence because of the legal stance - and would instead be using a ‘Sponsorware’ licence. Of course, this argument doesn’t hold any water if the WordPress licence automatically covers derivatives.

  7. Sebastian on June 14th, 2007 12:17 pm

    I agree with these Sponsored comments. I am new to wordpress, and not having a good amount of quality themes has discouraged me, albeit slightly. Given that I don’t exactly know much about creating these (yet), I would be someone that really benefits from quality themes offered by non sponsored sites. Or, themes that are sponsored, yet don’t REQUIRE that I leave those links on there.

    Thanks for your input. I just sorta stumbled across this. :D

  8. andol on July 29th, 2007 1:59 am

    wonderful~i like it

  9. Swiss on September 12th, 2007 12:03 am

    Yeah ! I’m with Paul too on this one .

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