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November 30, 2006

User rights update

Due to massive amounts of work I haven’t been able to update user rights before now - so everyone earlier have requested rights to upload themes, you should be able to now.

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  1. Thanks for doing this! Appreciated.

    Comment by Andy — November 30, 23:01

  2. Thanks I was wondering what I was doing wrong!!!

    Comment by guillaumeb — December 1, 1:46

  3. I can upload new themes but I still can’t update my old one — is there any way of claiming it or should I just upload the latest version separately?

    Comment by not (that) ugly — December 1, 17:31

  4. I chose a theme, and it appeared on my site for a couple of days. Today my theme defaulted to a generic theme, and I couldn’t find the old theme in the theme library. What did I do wrong, or did the theme get pulled from the library?

    Comment by Tim — December 1, 20:29

  5. Thanks for your update. It’s waiting long long time. :)

    Comment by patrick — December 2, 11:00

  6. Thanks! I’ve been waiting for your approval! :)

    Comment by jammed — December 2, 11:07

  7. I have been trying to log in unsucessfully with user name and password sent to me… please advise.

    Comment by Velia Pola — December 2, 19:23

  8. Hey,
    How do we submit our theme? I have an account, but when I write a post, how do I upload it etc.?

    Comment by robert — December 2, 19:49

  9. Ahh, sorry. Got it, thanks :)

    Comment by robert — December 2, 19:51

  10. I am only theme viewer, right now, I register for uploading themes at 10/25/06…

    Comment by michaelg — December 3, 8:10

  11. Hey, can you accept my profile so I can post my theme please :)

    The theme is here - http://www.jonwaraas.com/example/

    Comment by jonwaraas — December 9, 8:46

  12. WOW, that’s a lot of free Wordpress Themes!…

    If you haven’t seen this site yet, you’re in for a treat… I’ve stopped by several times and had just a fantastic time picking out new and interesting themes for my sites. When it comes to Wordpress themes, I’m a bit of a s…

    Trackback by ThemePress — December 10, 22:35

  13. I can download my favourite theme here and upload mine too.. It’s like a barter system. I love it ;-) .

    Comment by sunda it — December 12, 4:03

  14. Thanks. Your effort are very much appreciated. :D

    Comment by kimmy — December 12, 17:25

  15. How in the world do I change my theme. I got a password, downloaded the theme, but cant get it in the right file. HELP!

    Comment by missmissy323 — December 13, 3:45

  16. Sorry to barge in here but as I haven’t received a password or reply I’m just going to mention my variant of White As Milk, called Skimmed Milk. Anyone who wants it can pick it up from the skimmed milk page of http://thortz.com Thanks.

    Comment by thortz — December 13, 14:24

  17. I can log in, can find my theme - but no way to edit it. Just the View link is there.
    What next?

    Comment by moshu — December 14, 16:45

  18. I can’t get access. Its been over 2 weeks. Is this site shutting down or what?

    Comment by Billy — December 15, 14:54

  19. This is a great page! Thank you for all this. I am able to choose my template in this great database now. Thanks to all the template creators too! Way to go!

    Comment by freeinfoz — December 16, 5:09

  20. Thanks a lot for this update.

    Comment by xenbd — December 16, 5:57

  21. Uploaded a new theme tonight - the ’snapshot’ of the theme is black, though. I tried updating the theme, but that didn’t fix it. Is it something I did… or something with the server.

    Thanks, and happy holidays!

    Comment by Lisa Sabin-Wilson — December 21, 1:12

  22. Can we get another rights update or find somebody to manage this site has time.

    Comment by Billy — December 21, 20:27

  23. @ Billy — nobody bothers checking the comments here, try emailing the admin at silkjaer@theundersigned.net. If that gets no result contact the domain owner (m@mullenweg.com) and ask him to find somebody else to run the site :)

    Comment by that girl again — December 21, 22:49

  24. You can post wordpress themes on http://themebot.com, which is actively maintained. A gallery entry and live demo will be created for any new theme and users who subscribe to the WordPress downloads section via RSS will be notified when you post a new theme or update an existing theme.

    Comment by Sean — December 23, 17:48

  25. Thanks, Sean. I’ll head over there. I’ve got some themes here that I can’t access to update and about 15 more free themes that I cannot upload.

    I know it’s the holidays and all and that the owner of this site has a life (as do we all).. So hopefully I’ll hear from him after the first of the year with login info. :)

    Comment by Joni Mueller — December 24, 16:56

  26. I already asked my access since more than 2 weeks and still no access or not info about that topic.

    So I just come here to check every day and to always see that the person who is supposed to maintain this web site has not yet done it.

    Apparently, the guy can’t maintain it actively. Either his excuse is an overload of work to do or either something else to come like I guess holidays etc. The results is the same, a decrease of quality of services and more important a decrease of trust and a feeling of having no choice for the user. The worst is that there is no established policy, and the user just doesn’t know how long he has to wait.

    What is sure is that’s something is wrong somehow because it generates some frustrations for a lot of people, and users also lose some time to come to check on a daily basis if the accesses were given or not. I and other users are not there to get frustrated and lose time like that.

    I believe themes.wordpress.net was a very good idea but it’s clearly a failure in term of maintenance and activity at the level of the one who maintains the site. The right updates just takes weeks.

    All that even forces some of the users to switch to other places and even to think to do another open source Wordpress themes viewer initiative that will be more actively maintained and by more than one unique person, and so it avoid the unique person to be the bottleneck, the point of failure.

    I can just say and I’m not wrong that Mr. “The Undersigned” is the point of failure of themes.wordpress.net. Sorry to tell that but if Mr. “The Undersigned” is too busy and if he has a bit of considerations of the users, he could delegated the maintenance activities to other people who will do much better. There’re other people who can do as well and sure better than Mr. “The Undersigned”, he’s not the unique one that can handle it.

    For me and I know other people share my thoughts, the free initiative doesn’t mean crapy services. If it’s the case, free open source movement would fail since the beginning.

    There themes.wordpress.net is just a failure and if things continue like that with a so low quality of services, I and other people will just launch our own initiative that will be the same kind of services but under another domain name and maintained by more active people, with more respects for the end users.

    Let’s wait and see for 1 more things how things go and if there’s no reaction and changes from Mr. “The Undersigned”, we’ll launch a kind of competition to themes.wordpress.net. It’s the only way to wake up people and we’ll ensure we’ll use our right to compete as competition make things better for the end users in the end.

    Mr. Free But Active
    - Evolution by Revolution -

    Comment by free_but_active — December 27, 13:39

  27. We’re a group a tech activitist and think that free open source can be better managed than that.

    If themes.wordpress.net fails to react and increase the maintenance aspect, sure our tech group will just launch a competitive initiative as it will be the only viable way to make the world better and give better end user experiences.

    Mr. Free But Active
    - Evolution by Revolution -

    Comment by free_but_active — December 27, 13:56

  28. I think that’s a bit harsh. I mean, we are talking about THEMES. For BLOGS. FREE. And yes, we have all invested our time, our creative energy and our enthusiasm to these themes, and this site’s owner has done the same thing with this site.

    Life intervenes. The problem seems to be with the screen shots which individual users, for the sake of consistency of appearance, are NOT able to upload on their own.

    I got in by just going to the “Forgot Password?” screen, and having the system mail me a new one, then I was in and good to go.

    As I said, the only hurdle then becomes the fact that there are no screenshots/thumbnails on the more recently posted themes. But you do have the “Test Run” link so the site is not completely functionless and in fact still remains a rich resource.

    Let’s not bite the hand that feeds us and you should always have your themes in more than one place, your own web site, and other theme repositories. I just think backbiting and villification serves no purpose. Just look how many themes are here. They didn’t miracle themselves here. Someone had to pay for hosting, for bandwidth, to create user accounts, to manage the files, the design, etc. All for free and on his own time. You aren’t paying for a thing, and you’ve lost nothing and I think it says a lot about someone’s priorities if this is what they find to complain about.

    I’ve uploaded my themes here, through my own ingenuity. You can do likewise. Or not.

    Peace out.

    Comment by Joni Mueller — December 27, 21:47

  29. The whole reason this site is on a subdomain of wordpress.net is so that the site admin doesn’t have to meet hosting and bandwidth costs out of his own pocket. If this were still an independent effort I think people would be willing to cut him a lot more slack, but since this site is a semi-official resource whose running costs are being met by Automattic, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the community to expect a certain level of commitment.

    If the current admin’s not capable of maintaining the site by himself, he needs to be honest about the problem and get some more people on board. I wonder whether the people setting up alternative sites have emailed him with offers of help?

    Comment by that girl again — December 28, 2:22

  30. I wonder that too.

    Comment by Pixelita Designs — December 28, 5:59

  1. Agree with “that girl again”. Wordpress has a very strong brand and everybody is happy with the effort but that’s right that the subdomain name themes.wordpress.net doesn’t meet the same level of expectation than people used to get with the official Wordpress.

    It may be possible that themes.wordpress.net will have a negative impact on the good Wordpress brand, just because it’s hosted under a sub-domain of wordpress and it’s labelled as an offial theme viewer.

    It makes sense that one day or another someone or a group complains about something that doesn’t work well. It’s not bad, it’s just a right to complain and not to stay mute. Sometimes, it’s better to point out something that doesn’t work to make people aware of what doesn’t work. If nobody complain, I believe people will think all is perfect.

    I also think Mr. Free But Active has certainly reached a certain level of frustration that pushed him (or them) to think about a real alternative.

    May be he (or they) have certainly tried to contact the admin of themes.wordpress.net but they haven’t certainly got any reply or answers. I had the same experience when contacting the Admin and I never had any answers to my little question that I’ve sent since some weeks…

    Yes, I confirm that the admin of themes.wordpress.net is certainly so busy and it has apparently some real consequences on the Wordpress brand and other people who are certainly also frustrated and even myself at my little level.

    I just hope all will be fine and that the owner of Wordpress.org and Wordpress.net is more wise and will just find a replacement for the current Admin of themes.wordpress.net before there’re something more disturbing or that will give a bad reputation to Wordpress itself?

    Your thoughts?

    Comment by vklabs — December 28, 12:45

  2. Reply to Joni Mueller:

    I think the complain is OK and it makes sense. I also don’t think there’re something hard in the tone. It’s quite adequate for the context.

    General statement:

    I tend to take the camp of people who wants to make things moving, and I really think all of us should do the same as in life it’s the only thing that can make things better.

    Anyway, I’m sure all will be smooth soon.

    Comment by vklabs — December 28, 12:57

  3. I think the point that is missed that jonimueller touched on is that even despite this site’s apparent problems now, it still has a great many wonderful themes to choose from and they are all well displayed, the site is easy to navigate and the themes are easy to find. In other words, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. :0)

    Comment by Roberto Herrera — December 28, 13:55

  4. Thanks, I like all these themes.

    Comment by paulyao — December 29, 14:25

  5. Is there any idea when the thumbnail issue is going to be fixed? I have a theme just about ready to go but don’t want to post it until everything is sorted out.

    Comment by Justin — December 30, 2:16

  6. Thanks for the themes.
    Happy New Year!

    Comment by ituloy angsulong — January 3, 5:28

  7. Is there any idea when the thumbnail issue is going to be fixed? I have a theme just about ready to go but don’t want to post it until everything is sorted out.

    Wondering the same thing

    Comment by Ash Haque — January 4, 7:17

  8. I have had a rough time lately, not being able to focus at running the site optimately, resulting in:
    - screenshotting server has been down
    - 350 unread emails from this site (3 weeks mails)
    - unsatisfied users

    What i think isnt fair is:
    - The whole reason i have to give people upload rights is that some users cant handle immidiate uploading rights and starts spamming.
    - I run a free site, ad-free, for the WordPress community, and have put many hours into coding it and maintaining it - the reason i use a wp.net domain isnt to get free hosting, i could manage that without. I am not paid to run this, even though its a “semi-official” ressource site.

    I will handle user uploading rights and screenshots asap, and then i might look around for someone to continue the site after me.

    /Thomas

    Comment by The undersigned — January 5, 6:37

  9. Thomas - this site is a phenomenal resource to WP users everywhere. I think most reasonable folks understand that this is a free site - life does intrude and technology is not always perfect. I know I am pleased that the wp themes site exists… aside from uploading my own themes for community use, I have several hosting clients of mine who benefit greatly from this site. Considering the great resource this site is . . . and the utter size of the WP community (not too mention the free use of themes and the donation of your time) - a few burps in the system are to be expected and understood.

    Hoping you and your family had wonderful (and safe) holidays.

    Comment by Lisa Sabin-Wilson — January 5, 7:22

  10. (sorry, my english is verry verry bad…)

    Dit is een fantastische website! waar mooie thema’s GRATIS te krijgen zijn. Tevens is dit een mooi gebaar, waarmee ik bedoel, dat er mensen zijn die gratis een thema aanbieden waarin ze veel tijd hebben gestoken! Dank u!

    Wanneer een website meer bekendheid krijgt, neemt het aantal spammers ook toe, logisch! Dat hier iets tegen gedaan wordt is terecht! Dus mensen, als u moet wachten op uw gebruikers rechten… het zij zo! Plaats dan in een reply uw link waar u uw thema(’s) aanbied, zodat mensen bijvoorbeeld op uw website kijken naar de door u gemaakte thema…

    Ik snap niet waarom deze personen hun frustraties niet omzetten in daden, start dan zelf een soortgelijke website en ervaar zelf hoe het is om zo’n website en commentaar en email te onderhouden, zeker als er niet voor betaald wordt!

    Again, sorry for the dutch text!!
    I hope someone can and will translate it… :S

    Thank you verry much for this great website!

    Erik

    Comment by Erik — January 5, 13:06

  11. Here Eriks translated post:

    This is a fantastic website! where beautiful themes FREE OF CHARGE to get are. Also is this a beautiful gesture, with which I mean, that it men its that free of charge a theme offer in which they a lot of time stuck! You thank!

    When a website gets more acquaintance, increases the number spammers also, logically! That here something against done becomes is correct! Thus men, if you must wait on your users straighten… the they so! Place then in a reply your link, which you your theme (’ s) offered, so that men for instance on your website look at the through you made theme…

    I get not about which these persons their frustrations do not translate into acts, start then self a similar website and experience self how it is round so website and comment and email to maintain, certain as for it not paid becomes!

    —————

    @The Undersigned:

    This site is such an amazing place for everyone in the Wordpress community to find most things they need. You do a great job, but if you do decide to hand it over to someone else, thanks for all you’ve done. I wouldn’t mind helping out whoever takes over this place.

    Thanks again.

    Comment by Robert Day — January 5, 20:19

  12. Yes, and it’s nice to have the thumbnails back as well. Thanks, Thomas, for all your hard work. Whether the site continues to grow and expand, or whether it just sits here exactly like this for the rest of time, it will always continue to be a wonderful resources for great themes and a showcase for design talent (and in my case, a great learning experience).

    Regards,

    Joni

    Comment by Joni Mueller — January 5, 21:40

  13. I’ve added a forum to ThemeBot.com for showcasing websites created using WordPress. You can add a link to your site and get feedback from other members.

    http://themebot.com/forums/

    Comment by Sean — January 6, 6:52

  14. [...] Take something like the WordPress Theme Viewer. I choose this as a starting point because it is something I was heavily involved in for quite some time and I can relate to much of the input from both the users and the current site maintainer. Reading through the comments on this thread, it soon becomes apparent that many people are impatient, expect a lot for free, and believe they have the right to complain if the service provided does not operate to their complete satisfaction. And this is not just for the Theme Viewer. It applies to thousands of situations across the Net. [...]

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  15. I was waiting over two months to get access, and i DIDN’T go mad. It’s a free service, seems like nobody gets paid to maintain the Themeviewer, BUT the Theme creators gets some nice benefits:
    - free PR
    - backlinks
    - showcase
    So… where is the problem to wait some time?

    Comment by milo — January 8, 0:57

  16. i can’t upload / share my theme :(

    Comment by WildConcepts — January 8, 17:45

  17. Those themes are awesome. Thanks for providing them

    Comment by MeByte — January 11, 9:46

  18. Thank you very much for your effort on these wordpress themes.

    Comment by Html Color Codes — January 11, 15:31

  19. I am receiving this error while uploading my theme:

    Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in /home/themesw/public_html/post.php on line 14

    Error: No theme title!

    Any idea what I am missing here?

    Comment by Navjot Singh — January 15, 16:58

  20. Look at line 14 of the code of the post.php page of the theme you’re trying to upload.

    Comment by Michelle — January 15, 18:42

  21. To tell you frankly my theme does not contain any post.php file.

    Comment by Navjot Singh — January 15, 18:50

  22. Any idea how long does it take to get upload access ?

    Comment by Maciej Bryński — January 15, 20:39

  23. Maciej Bryński, been waiting for like a month now :(

    Comment by WildConcepts — January 17, 5:17

  24. Thanks for fixing the error. Finally I uploaded my first wordpress theme.

    Comment by Navjot Singh — January 21, 17:44

  25. On trying to upload my second theme today…again this error is back:

    Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in /home/themesw/public_html/post.php on line 14

    Error: No theme title!

    Comment by Navjot Singh — January 22, 4:41

  26. Can I get my account verified? …. or what is going on?… im not about to read all of those comments… just want my account verified…. my username is what im posting with right now…

    Comment by FanAddict — January 23, 1:27

  27. Thanks for all the hard work

    Comment by mia — January 23, 7:42

  28. Thank’s for this Site.
    I found the answer to my question.
    Martin

    Comment by Auto verkaufen — January 23, 19:44

  29. hey! Why is the screenshot not showing up? Anyone who knows?

    Comment by jammed — January 28, 13:15

  30. Black thumbnails are showing again. Anyone else seeing this?

    Comment by Gina — January 28, 14:27

  1. Yes Even i am seeing black thumbnails and my theme’s thumbnail is shown without the css working…it shows only text…no formatting? Please fix these.

    Comment by Navjot Singh — January 28, 15:15

  2. Also seeing the black screenshots.

    Comment by THoward — January 28, 15:29

  3. Glad that the thumbnails are back now.

    Comment by Jam — January 30, 11:21

  4. Great resources to anyone who needs an updated look to their blog. Thanks for this information.

    Comment by Drew — January 30, 14:00

  5. Thank you!!! :)

    Comment by Gina — January 30, 20:16

  6. hello, i’ve already sent an email ( twice ) so i can be approved. thanks

    Comment by WildConcepts — January 31, 8:43

  7. Just wondering how long (on average) do you actually wait to get approve? My username is zeebob. TQ.

    Comment by zeebob — January 31, 19:15

  8. I’ve got a question about the themes that are hosted on the Theme Viewer. Do all of the new themes have their code checked for security vulnerabilities before being added to the viewer?

    Comment by sean — February 1, 18:03

  9. probably not :)

    Comment by jez — February 3, 10:55

  10. there are so many themes submitted to the theme viewer. and they are php-based. i know that phpBB has a team that checks styles before making them available. i guess the themeviewer hasn’t been hacked yet, so most of the people submitting themes must be coding them securely.

    Comment by sean — February 3, 20:02

  11. Maybe someone could help me, because i dont know how to upload a theme.
    I am a registred user, who has the right to write a post. But how i upload a theme?
    Should I write a post, with my ZIP File in it, or how does it works?

    Comment by BenediktRB — February 10, 21:17

  12. Thank’s for this Site.
    I found the answer to my question..

    Comment by zonenoktarog seo — March 14, 9:46

  13. Those themes are awesome. Thanks for providing them

    Comment by AYRILIK DIZISI — March 14, 9:46

  14. thanks for this post

    Comment by video — March 15, 9:49

  15. Firstly,Thank you very much for this themes that you are shareman:)and wonderfull.
    In case anyone is wondering, the header.psd file is in the images folder. You can edit it in photoshop/elements and replace the “rockin suckerfish” logo with one of your own for personalization.I will using mysite, kvteror.com, woush.com, luzum.com, esonuc.com, turkzirve.com, iddaalig.net, yalan.org, sanalalan.org.The image shows up properly on the linked page but for some strange reason not on this site (in any Browser I tested it: FF, MSIE, Opera)Totally awesome theme Nathan, you should be proud. The Suckerfish menu will draw a lot (I repeat LOT) of people to use this!

    Comment by brka147 — March 15, 18:18

  16. Cool!

    Comment by Euaggelos — June 10, 16:48

  17. Nice

    Comment by Antonis — June 11, 16:30

  18. Interesting…

    Comment by Arion — June 12, 7:51

  19. Cool…

    Comment by Hermes — June 13, 5:36

  20. Cool!

    Comment by Kalinikos — June 15, 2:36

  21. Cool!

    Comment by Miltiades — June 16, 14:34

  22. interesting

    Comment by Crist — June 23, 23:02

  23. Thank’s for this Site.
    Schöner Artikel. ;)

    Comment by artikel schreiben — July 8, 14:47

  24. Ja, finde ich auch.

    Comment by Auto inserieren — July 8, 14:48

  25. Nice

    Comment by Nektarios — July 9, 8:52

  26. Cool!

    Comment by Martinos — July 9, 10:04

  27. Nice

    Comment by Theofanis — July 10, 3:33

  28. interesting

    Comment by Andonios — July 10, 3:40

  29. Nice

    Comment by Prokopios — July 11, 3:16

  30. Nice

    Comment by Ambrosios — July 11, 4:45

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