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March 19, 2007

WordPress 2.1, uploading etc.

A few updates on the site:

  • The test run site has been upgraded to WordPress 2.1.
  • Comments on the test run site has been deleted, and commenting is now closed.
  • The rating system on the main site has been removed - many users noticed that theme authors misused the system to gain more attention to their themes.
  • People who have requested permission to upload, now have uploading rights.
  • In the future, people who sign up for an account will have permission to upload right away.

Regarding all the people who have volunteered to help - thanks a lot. I will get in touch with some of you within the next week, since the site will need moderators to keep down the volume of spam, bitching, theme ripoff’s and duplicate uploads.

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  1. Great news, especially the comment and rating section are closed!
    Finally we have some peace in here.

    Comment by milo — March 19, 10:43

  2. thanks indeed, it really made me go mad and red like a tomato.
    now all the trolls are robbed their toys!

    Comment by jez — March 19, 10:53

  3. Hi,
    I asked the permission to upload in the other post and sending a mail, but nothing happened… :(

    Why?

    My username is “Sw4n”.

    Comment by Sw4n — March 19, 11:33

  4. Thanks for all your hard work

    Comment by April Reign — March 19, 11:47

  5. Sw4n> If you are logged in, you should be able to upload.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 19, 11:57

  6. ok, now it’s ok! :D

    Excuse me… :D

    Comment by Sw4n — March 19, 12:08

  7. Amazing :D

    Comment by Dj Flush — March 19, 13:08

  8. Glad that the problems about the theme ratings has been acted upon.

    Comment by Jam — March 19, 15:16

  9. Great news! :)

    Comment by Andiz — March 19, 15:28

  10. hi all, i have been waiting to have my upload permission long ago , and was following your news and sent you many messages, but till now when i login to my account i cannot upload , my username is “fatma” .

    Comment by fatma — March 19, 15:38

  11. Fatma, I think the upload permission have been updated so all registered members are now capable of uploading their themes.

    Comment by jammed — March 19, 15:54

  12. fatma: In the menu you will find “Upload theme” - when you are logged in, you are capable of uploading your theme there.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 19, 16:12

  13. I’m getting this error when I try to upload…

    “Error: No theme description!”

    But I don’t see anywhere to put a description?
    - Theme file (zip):
    - Columns:
    - Main color:
    - Width-type:
    - Other:

    Any idea’s ?

    Comment by FanAddict — March 19, 16:23

  14. Description etc. is grabbed from your style.css file.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 19, 16:33

  15. thank you very much , i got it now :D .

    Comment by fatma — March 19, 16:54

  16. Awesome! The rating system was being used by theme owners way too often. Well done ;)

    Comment by Robert Day — March 19, 19:22

  17. thanks finally can upload some theme here.

    Comment by rkcorp — March 19, 19:38

  18. [...] where do i even start? 19Mar07 The good news is, theundersigned has updated themes.wordpress.net and is planning to follow through on that appeal for volunteers he made six weeks ago. [...]

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  19. [...] The WordPress ThemeViewer has updated its uploading, commenting and rating system. With the several intrigues, spams and misunderstanding that plagued the site, I feel this is the best way to keep the integrity of the official theme repository of WordPress. [...]

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  20. I am upgrading the thumbnailing server today, which might result in some black thumbnails. I will get it running ASAP again.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 20, 9:13

  21. How about making the top ten more useful and changing it to most downloaded this month so users can see what themes are hot, rather than displaying some themes that are a bit dated now?

    Comment by Everton — March 20, 9:18

  22. Screenshots are not coming up again

    I just uploaded this theme http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1839/webby-blue-10/

    Comment by Ravish — March 20, 12:14

  23. I have the same problem with tha last theme I’ve uploaded…

    http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/1843/buddha-technology-10/

    Can you resolve?

    Thanks!

    Comment by Sw4n — March 20, 12:27

  24. Everton> I will look into it.
    Ravish and Sw4n> I wrote two comments ago that “I am upgrading the thumbnailing server today, which might result in some black thumbnails. I will get it running ASAP again.” - it is online again now.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 20, 13:05

  25. Thanks The undersigned

    Everything works great now :)

    Comment by Ravish — March 20, 13:13

  26. I noticed that you said the screenshot thumbnailing server is back online now. However, I just uploaded a theme, and it seems as if it’s not working again. Is this a problem on my end?

    Comment by nathanrice — March 20, 14:54

  27. There is a problem with the server - im working as hard as i can to fix it. Sorry.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 20, 15:09

  28. No problem. I was just wondering if there was still some trouble. We appreciate this site very much, so take your time.

    My theme snapshot is working now, thanks!!!

    Nathan

    Comment by nathanrice — March 20, 15:23

  29. [...] However today there is some good news as the Theme Viewer site has been upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 plus some other added features: * The test run site has been upgraded to WordPress 2.1. * Comments on the test run site has been deleted, and commenting is now closed. * The rating system on the main site has been removed - many users noticed that theme authors misused the system to gain more attention to their themes. * People who have requested permission to upload, now has uploading rights. * In the future, people who sign up for an account will have permission to upload right away. [...]

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  30. Thomas - its good to see you are back on an even keel again. I hope you got my email. Could you please email me?

    Best wishes

    Root.

    Comment by Root — March 20, 20:37

  31. It’s good news you got rid of the rating system, as at least I felt I had rate my own theme high to even it out.

    But I was wondering if you have considered to make a list of (recently) updated themes as well?

    Comment by Kristin K. Wangen — March 21, 8:42

  32. I’ve been able to sign into the “Theme” account but when I upload it just say’s Theme has been submitted already. I’ve have no idea how to get to wp-content/themes directory and what to do after. I’ve selected a theme I like but have no idea what to do next. My hosting is with godaddy.com. Help would really be appreciative.

    Comment by hustledown1 — March 21, 12:34

  33. I apologize if this has already been taken care of or is in the works. I think the theme viewer could be a little more easily accessible. For example - perhaps we could begin categorizing, or tagging, the themes (like istockphoto.com does their images). At the very least, i think it would be helpful to categorize themes by their applications/industries. For example, right now, in order to find a theme for a enterprise-level tech company, i really don’t know how to search for it other than page by page.

    I’m sure with the people on here, we could come up with some innovative solutions to accessibility.

    I’ll volunteer some time to help out if need be.

    Thanks again for a great product, themes, and community.

    Comment by Tison — March 21, 14:51

  34. Now that a lot more people are uploading themes per day, could you please allow more entries in your RSS-feed, too? 10 Entries is not enough anymore to be able to follow the entries per day. I’d suggest publishing maybe 30 entries in your feed.

    Comment by BGH Quiz — March 21, 16:41

  35. I just uploaded two themes, one is a widgetized version, the other is just a normal theme.

    However, both have the same thumbnail and both are called Cleaker 2.1 - so I just wanted to make sure you didn’t delete one of them, thinking I had uploaded duplicates.

    They are different versions, and I want people to be able to have the option of a widgetized version.

    Thanks!

    Comment by adamwalkercleaveland — March 21, 17:19

  36. There is no need to make 2 versions of a theme, to offer widgets. If people dont want to use widgets, they can simply deactivate the widget plugin.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 21, 17:24

  37. Okay — well, I didn’t know. I’ve sent numerous emails to you using the contact form here, as well as on your site, and I’ve never gotten any feedback (which was frustrating). I just realized today how to upload my theme - so if you need to take down the theme, just take down the one that doesn’t have widget capabilities…I left a comment on the theme page as to which one has widget-capabilities.

    Comment by adamwalkercleaveland — March 21, 17:45

  38. I was never sent my password for my account “vi5″ and have requested it many times but never received anything.

    I signed up with a new useranme, “AndyL” last week and I still haven’t received my password.

    Comment by Andy — March 21, 18:07

  39. http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/1-column/1866/petite/ is apparently corrupted after I updated the theme.

    Comment by Skins for WordPress — March 21, 23:45

  40. I think it is great that the ratings option was removed, as long as the download count is not ever removed. It is still a good need to have some sort of way to see how popular a theme is to the WP community.

    Comment by Matt Livingston — March 22, 23:19

  41. But I’m still for offering an RSS-feed with at least 30 entries. 10 is really pointless at the speed people are uploading. At least respond and say you think my suggestion is dumb. But not responding is dumb, too.

    Comment by BGH Quiz — March 23, 0:49

  42. I’m thinking that without the ratings, once a theme falls off the front page it’s pretty much disappeared. Nobody’s ever going to catch up to the most popular — 18,000 downloads? So after the 12 hours or so that it’s on the front page, basically it’s just taking up storage space… How about maybe a random selection, just so there’s a chance of being seen again?

    Comment by Rod McFarland — March 23, 5:39

  43. BGH> I am sorry, i overlooked your idea - i have set the feed post count to 30 now.

    Rod> I will look into making alternatives to finding themes, e.g. latest updated, random themes etc.

    Comment by The undersigned — March 23, 9:55

  44. Thank you very much, The undersigned!

    Comment by BGH Quiz — March 23, 16:51

  45. Gah, sometimes i wish people would just be thankful for what they have instead of requesting more and bitching when all their demands aren’t met on their schedule.

    Thomas, you are doing an awesome job with the site. Thanks for providing it to the community.

    Comment by Nik — March 24, 1:52

  46. Love the new site, even loads faster for me.

    –Are you still needing any help, undersigned?
    If so, I’d be willing to lend a hand.
    Thanks for the works!

    -Evan

    Comment by RedFox — March 24, 12:31

  47. I’d be willing to help out, too. Just in case.

    Comment by BGH Quiz — March 25, 0:50

  48. thanks!

    Comment by evitc — March 25, 1:56

  49. Hi there , i have one problem in the thumbnail of my newly uploaded design , the thumbnail shows some bugs in the design doesn’t’ show in FF , opera , IE on which i have been testing , and as i noticed form the buttons shapes in the thumb it appears as the browser is Safari , so i tested the design on Safari by an online web service and it was ok these bugs never shown ..so can you explain to me please ? and if it was error on the thumbnail server . is there a way to solve this ? appreciate your efforts.

    Comment by fatma — March 26, 1:05

  50. Fatma> Can you share what theme you are talking about?

    Comment by The undersigned — March 26, 5:28

  51. here is the theme path >>

    http://themes.wordpress.net/testrun/?wptheme=1970

    Comment by fatma — March 26, 12:02

  52. Fatma> looks identical in Safari and screenshot here …

    Comment by The undersigned — March 26, 14:46

  53. Oh. My. Gosh. I uploaded my first theme, the uploading process went fine, but I saw in the demo/viewer I hadn’t taken into consideration the child categories. So I fixed that and tried re-uploading my theme through the update area. Now it’s a mess of code which is messing up the front page - EEK! I tried re-uploading the zip file again without any change. I’m sorry, I’m such a newbie… eek I don’t know what I did wrong! The theme in the viewer itself is rendering properly…

    Comment by verymom — March 26, 17:43

  54. http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2000/wordpress-whize/

    We’ve reached a milestone!

    Comment by Andiz — March 26, 20:06

  55. i have tested on safari by browsrcamp and testing result was clean !! .. anyway thank you so much for your attention , i will try to solve it.

    Comment by fatma — March 26, 20:47

  56. sorry for disturbing , but a general question ..
    if any one made updates to a theme does the thumbnail change at same time or after a while or just keeps the old one ?

    Comment by fatma — March 27, 4:15

  57. I think it will keep the old one.

    I tried to upload a theme but it kept telling me there was “NO Theme Title”,anyone know how to resolve this problem?

    Thanks very much!!

    Comment by Richie — March 27, 4:48

  58. Auughh! 24 hours and my whacked out theme is still whacked out. Aren’t there moderators now? HELP.

    Comment by verymom — March 27, 14:15

  59. hello,

    how i can add my theme to gallery ?

    pls help me..

    Comment by Emexci — March 27, 21:12

  60. Hi,
    The thumbnailer is not working..
    Kindly fix it
    Thanks!

    Comment by saadahmed007 — March 28, 2:16

  61. Where are the admins/moderators? Today a socalled realestatebigproperty posted about ten spam comments.

    Comment by milo317 — March 28, 9:49

  62. @ Richie:

    Add the following to the beginning of your css file

    /*
    Theme Name:
    Theme URI:
    Description:
    Author:
    Author URI:
    Author:
    */

    Only thing you have to do is ofcourse fill in the right information

    @ Milo
    The Undersigned has a day job….just that you know :)

    Comment by Andiz — March 28, 11:28

  63. Thomas:

    Updating a theme isn’t working + the server doesn’t make any screenshot as you can see

    Comment by Andiz — March 30, 15:02

  64. I am working on it :)

    Comment by The undersigned — March 30, 18:20

  65. Ok thanks Thomas!

    Comment by Andiz — March 30, 19:52

  66. I like the new changes! :D Apart from the fact that it would be nice to have a few sample comments as otherwise its difficult to see what the comments section looks like on the test run. Thanks!

    Comment by Mosey — April 1, 0:09

  67. Mosey: The first post has 5 comments…….

    Comment by Andiz — April 1, 14:33

  68. Good Jobs… this great.. I love the UPDATE THEME TOOLS

    Comment by jauhari — April 2, 7:33

  69. I uploaded the theme here.. http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2231/ajaxlight-10/

    But can’t seem to see thumbnail, as in not the blacked out one as well. Is it a server prob?

    Ekta.

    Comment by ektz — April 3, 16:41

  70. Yes thumbnails are broken again :( I hope that with the new ads they will soon be able to afford a better server. Is there any place we can make donations?

    Comment by Grab A Theme — April 4, 16:25

  71. i can’t upload theme

    Comment by Emexci — April 4, 20:19

  72. Can’t see most of the themes, graphics are not loading.

    Comment by HELP — April 4, 23:30

  73. the screen shots are not coming up properly..good themes are going wasted bcoz when the screen shot is missing/improper nobody does a testrun / download.

    Comment by Sachin — April 5, 7:59

  74. The thumbnails situation is being looked into. The images are not loading right now for most new uploads, it is not a browser issue. One way to overcome this issue is to try updating the theme (using the “update theme” link on top menu) once or twice when you think the site is not overworked, if you get lucky the browsershot program will not time out.

    Comment by Moderator — April 5, 23:00

  75. Update: Most thumbnails are updated, if your theme’s thumbnail is still not showing, list it here.

    Comment by Moderator — April 5, 23:33

  76. Sorry about your server woes!

    I’m experimenting with “Brightside.” I get this Ԫ� before and after the header art, and so it throws off the alignment of that piece.

    It doesn’t happen when I test my blog in the default WP themes, nor in most of the others I am trying out.

    You’ll see it if you navigate to the blog… I can’t figure out in which php file there is something that is unreferenced or missing or wrong. Any quick ideas??

    Thanks, Katie

    Comment by Katie Baird — April 5, 23:48

  77. @ Katie

    The problem seems to be isolated, why not try uploading the header.php file again. Also, how are you uploading the theme files on to your site? FTP?

    Here’s how it should look:

    http://themes.wordpress.net/testrun/?wptheme=1922

    Also, write specific theme related question on the theme’s comments section or on the authors site!

    Thanks
    hso

    Comment by headsetoptions — April 5, 23:59

  78. My problem is with mountain-10

    the thumbview shows it as a fully green theme…which is not the case..

    the actual theme has lot of white:

    http://themes.wordpress.net/testrun/?wptheme=2179

    how to correct it?

    Comment by Neeraj — April 6, 12:04

  79. @ Neeraj

    I went ahead and updated it.

    @ All others

    The process is ongoing to resolve the thumbnail generation. So your patience and cooperation is appreciated.

    Comment by Moderator — April 6, 13:24

  80. you should think of a policy to forbid sponsored themes. people such as themey are taking the piss. it is so annoying. low quality unoriginal themes or css tempatles filled with wordpress code, whooha great theme modding. similar to hso guys who just use existing easy css layouts and put their sponsored (paid for) links under them. if this is going to be a good site in future, the admins should take action.

    Comment by Tout a coup — April 7, 5:09

  81. What on earth are you talking about, Tout? Nobody is stealing your thunder. The Creative Commons Licensing makes it clear what a person is allowed to do.

    Comment by Theme Burrito — April 7, 7:22

  82. Are we allowed to submit more than 1 theme? There’s no forum, you don’t response to my questions, so I don’t have any other choice than to ask here. How on earth can I submut a theme? Everytime I submit my theme it gives me an error saying Theme is already submitted! though I’m sure it’s not! What should I do? Can anyone help me, or is this site really hopeless?

    Thanks….

    Comment by Luthien00 — April 7, 9:11

  83. @Luthien00

    +1

    Comment by emexci — April 7, 11:27

  84. @ Luthien00

    You are able to submit as many themes as you desire. Two possible reasons why you may see this error:

    1) You are submitting the same theme the 2nd time, if you want to update the theme, do not re-submit, just use the update page instead.
    2) Make sure the name of the 2nd theme you are submitting is different from your 1st theme (in your style.css file) and so forth.

    Also, if you asked more politely, may be others will answer your questions and help you out too!

    Comment by Moderator — April 7, 16:49

  85. @ Tout a coup

    Mind your language and get your facts right before you point fingers at a “selected” few.

    Why don’t you do 70 themes for free (without sponsors) if you think it’s so easy? Obviously you seem to have a lot of time on your hands since you are out here to abuse others, and not bringing in a dollar worth of value.
    FYI, there are many who need a ready-to-use WordPress theme, because they can’t do it themselves.

    This is a good site and will remain that way if people focused more on creating something for the WordPress Community rather than bitching.

    Comment by headsetoptions — April 7, 16:55

  86. NOTICE TO ALL:

    Lately, a few themes have been removed from Theme Viewer for copyright infringements.

    All designers who have failed to provide attribution links to the original designers/authors in their themes, are required to update their themes immediately with a footer link to the original designers/authors.

    Your themes will be subject to removal without prior notice if you do not comply with the rules of the license under which you are distributing/re-distributing your themes.

    Strict action will be taken for repeat offense.

    If you notice a theme which is a rip-off from your work, please bring it to our notice.

    Comment by Moderator — April 7, 18:08

  87. @ Luthien00, there is another possible reason why the system thinks your theme is already submitted and that is because there already exists another theme with the same name. The same thing happened to me twice, but after I changed the names of the themes it worked fine.

    If you think about it, there are over 2000 themes on this site already and it is quite likely that somebody else has already used the same name for your theme. Before uploading any theme, it is always worth doing a search to check that nobody has used the name already.

    @ Tout a coup, I don’t understand why you are so angry about this. If you don’t want to use a sponsored theme, nobody is making you download them. Most people would rather have a wide choice of themes and then make their own decision whether they are willing to use one with sponsored links or that has been adapted from another template. You are trying to take choice away from people and there is nothing Open Source about that.

    @ Moderator, if you provided a PayPal donation button I would be happy to contribute towards the new server and I am sure many others would too!

    Comment by Grab A Theme — April 7, 19:26

  88. I’d hit the PayPal link too because I know what’s involved in running a server and running a site like this AND trying to do your day job (the one that pays) and manage your personal life..

    It’s all about choices, people.

    @Tout A Coup: Tell me what caliber of gun was being held to your head to make you download a sponsored theme?

    That big red X is in the top righthand side of most browsers for a reason. I suggest you use it if you see something on this site that doesn’t appeal to you.

    Comment by Pixelita Designs — April 7, 23:45

  89. @ all those using the comments feature to discourage users from using our themes

    We only expect a link in the footer to WordPress and to the designers who have contributed to the development of a theme. As for the sponsor links, it’s for the users to decide if it’s good to thank them for their support or not.

    If the footer links are more important to you than the quality of the themes, I suggest you check footers instead of the themes for your site.

    Sponsors are the ones supporting us to create themes for the WordPress community, they wouldn’t be supporting us if we didn’t do a good job of designing. We know you envy us, so find some more reasons to criticize us, coz that’s the best you do.

    Tell me how many designers out here even give a link back to the original designer? Complaining is easy, attributing links to those who have made a theme possible is difficult.

    Rating system has gone, but abuse continues.

    Comment by headsetoptions — April 8, 0:53

  90. [...] What disgusts me most is to see the very designers who use Theme Viewer as a platform to advertise their own talent, continuously complaining. As if a free service is not enough, designers make it sound like they own Theme Viewer or Thomas, the Undersigned. Aha, it’s like putting a gun to Thomas’s forehead and saying:” You gave us a free platform to showcase our work, but you better give us a good service, else….”. It’s the same as wanting a free theme, not on the designer’s terms and conditions, but on the users’ terms and conditions. [...]

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  91. Hi.

    The theme thumbnails that I see on my screen are just black. Is there some kind of plugin I need to download to see the snaps?

    thx

    Comment by Adnan — April 8, 2:56

  92. @about sponsor link
    yep..ppl tend to angry to the theme uploader for providing a sponsor link in their theme but i personally didn’t mind about the sponsor link if the designer can make the sponsor link as clean as possibble..some of the theme i saw here are with messed long sponsor link text and not well organize sponsorlink so as a theme viewer member and wptheme designer myself..its good to give the downloader a more comfortable theme and well form theme so they can used it without thinking “man…i’m going to removed the sponsor link”..:)

    @about clone theme
    i saw couple of comments about clone theme especially the mistylook theme that was clone by timeless.if i’m not mistaken…the original author got pissed with the clone theme and even write an article about..hehe….way to go man!
    the theme clone fenomena are usually hard to define if its intetionally or accidentally clone…since designer may think a like..its hard to prevent a slight cloning happened….the only way if you want to prevent any cloning happened..you may should designed a unique and heavy graphic wp theme rather than simple wp design but that will took much work and time for designer or coder alike..not likely will be practise by daily theme uploader..but still an effort should be put to each themes so ppl could enjoy and used your theme without changing it frequestly..lol…:)

    well i haven’t upload my own theme yet…maybe i should check all the themes to prevent cloning happen..:)

    anyway goodluck yall..

    Comment by rkcorp — April 9, 1:15

  93. I think a checkbox wether or no the desgin contains a sponsorlink would be enough. I don’t see a relation to the clone-problem, some of use are really working hard to make each of their theme unique, I mean we have customers who care about, no?
    Genereally I’d prefer to see a solution for the clones like Wordpress skins. I have once written a small system for having differernt color-styles in a template but I think the Wordpress solution for that is much better and should be coded into the theme-viewer.

    Comment by TomK32 — April 9, 7:23

  94. Oops, I accidently uploaded duplicated themes (White flower) it kept saying The theme is already submitted, so I uploaded and uploaded it again and then I went to the main page and saw like 6 themes or something. Could someone please leave one of them and delete the rest?

    Thanks and sorry! :)

    Comment by Luthien00 — April 9, 20:00

  95. @ Luthien00

    I deleted the 8 other uploads!

    Comment by Moderator — April 9, 21:03

  96. All

    We just added a FAQ page to answer some of the most common questions asked in this forum. Please refer to it before posting your comments/concerns about this site.

    Yes, we notice that the thumbnails are showing black in ALL browsers; we are actively working on restoring it. In the mean time, please use the test run feature to view the themes. Thanks for your patience.

    Comment by Moderator — April 9, 21:08

  97. Hi.

    I would like to upload a theme which I made. It uses a plugin. Can I just add a sibling directory with the plugin in the zip file?

    And I can include notes in the readme.txt.

    Thx

    Comment by linkspub — April 10, 0:24

  98. @ Linkspub

    You are able to add a sub-directory with plugins and readme text file. Please be prudent not to include a whole lot of plugins and overwhelm the user by making the download file large.

    Comment by Moderator — April 10, 0:38

  99. All

    If you are wondering why some of the theme(s) have been removed, read the FAQ and make sure in the future, you credit the original authors as required by their licenses. Please DO NOT re-upload the same theme and make our work difficult, else we might have to take away your upload rights.

    Comment by Moderator — April 10, 1:32

  100. [...] I took the backseat for much of this debate that has been raging for a few weeks now, but it’s time for my response. At Headsetoptions, we are two designers with over 70 themes to our humble credit, some original, some modified and most ported from free CSS templates designed by our friends, and most of our themes created with the aid of sponsors. Why am I saying this, and why now? Well, today, there was a huge cry about “Sponsored Themes” on a popular download site and hoards of users and designers decided to jump on the “kill the designers” bandwagon to vent their frustration, all in response to a mostly one-sided story. As if it is not enough that we make free themes, some users demand, “that we do it without even a single penny coming our way for the many hours we spend creating.” [...]

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  101. QUOTE:
    #91

    Hi.

    The theme thumbnails that I see on my screen are just black. Is there some kind of plugin I need to download to see the snaps?

    thx

    Comment by Adnan — April 8, 2007

    the same here, i can do what i want / clearing cache, using ie6+ and opera….still black, why?

    Comment by whoosa — April 11, 0:56

  102. @ Whoosa

    Read comment #96.

    In short, there is no plugin to view it. We are working on it! Your patience is appreciated.

    Comment by Moderator — April 11, 2:10

  103. no problem,wish you good luck

    Comment by whoosa — April 11, 8:16

  104. [...] — http://themes.wordpress.net/blog/1798/wordpress-21-uploading-etc/ [...]

    Pingback by Falconer Designs » Blog Archive » Sponsored Themes .. apparently Evil from hell! — April 12, 7:33

  105. how about tagging themes for 2.1 and 2.0?

    Comment by gmat — April 12, 15:28

  106. Just wondering if it was the site or maybe its me? I can’t view any of the themes. The thumbnails are black but when I click on “test”, I get nothing but a white page. *scratches head*

    Comment by Chimommy — April 13, 11:18

  107. White page after I submit comments too. Just wanted to let you know. ;)

    Comment by Chimommy — April 13, 11:18

  108. The server times out due to excessive traffic and poor connections. We are still working on it. I was told some needed changes will be made within the next few days. Thanks for your patience.

    Comment by Moderator — April 13, 13:07

  109. many link are corrupted and the thumbnails are “black”. I’m a Mac with safary.

    Comment by Silvio — April 14, 5:52

  110. I’m seeing the same problem too. The thumbnails are black. And the test run link turned out to be “500 server error”.

    Comment by Fath — April 14, 8:28

  111. I think the user Pincopallino is spamming ThemeViewer to promote their website, because the user always posts the same structure of a layout and only changes the header image. That’s pretty annoying if it happens about several times a day. Nobody needs a layout with different pictures over and over again. People will change the image in the header if they want to anyway.

    Comment by BGH Quiz — April 14, 9:57

  112. Let me warn you about the fact no thumbnails are visible for 70% of displayed themes.
    And, for most of the themes, the “run” command displays blank page…

    Comment by Fetard — April 14, 21:40

  113. good work guys, since 1 month i want add my theme to gallery. and nobody helps. thanks thanks thanks..!

    Comment by emexci — April 14, 22:36

  114. @ Silvio, Fath, Fetard and Emexci

    We are aware of the issues, read comment #108

    @ BGH Quiz

    I removed over 11 themes of his/her, he/she is persistent, we will be removing his/her upload rights shortly.

    Comment by Moderator — April 15, 0:25

  115. The NYCReds theme interfers with the NewYorker theme, can you please fix that. Seems like the NYCReds file is corrupted, as the page source shows party the header of the NYer theme. Tried to fix that by uploading a clean file, but it didn’t work out. Link to clean file.

    Comment by milo317 — April 15, 8:16

  116. All the preview images are black…

    Comment by Alan — April 15, 10:44

  117. Since many of the themes here are basically Kubrick with a few minor mods, I suggest that a seperate section be created for Kubrick Image Packs. The packs would only contain the substitute graphics and maybe a stylesheet and readme file.

    Comment by Theme Burrito — April 15, 22:03

  118. @ milo317

    You need to update your own theme, I am not even sure what the problem is!

    Comment by Moderator — April 16, 4:20

  119. Thanks for your reply.
    Strange, yesterday the whole theme was messed up, nothing showed up except of the left sidebar, today it’s working again.

    Comment by milo — April 16, 4:26

  120. Hi I’ve noticed my themes are now showing exec_fname warnings were includes are used in my files.
    This wasent the case when i first uploaded them and the appear fine on two diferent servers I hosted them.
    A quick google search said this a bug that needs patching info can be found here
    http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=8314&edit=1

    Comment by newpbc — April 16, 13:30

  121. What is the problem with the themes showing dark images?

    Place a “donate” button on the site and we will be more than glad to make some donations and make sure that the bandwidth is covered.

    Comment by Daniel — April 17, 11:59

  122. It is so frustrating with the black thumbnails. Will there ever be a fix for this? It’s been going on for literally months. If no fix is going to happen, then there needs to be a different way to display the themes.

    Comment by Wendy — April 17, 13:40

  123. @ newpbc

    Update your themes and tell me if the problem persists. List your theme(s) #(’s) in your comment.

    @ Daniel, Wendy

    The issue is not bandwidth. Two of our servers are not communicating with each other, we are working on it and the fix needs to come from higher up, hence the delay. I appreciate your patience and continued support.

    Comment by Moderator — April 17, 14:05

  124. This is really a great opportunity to preview themes and how they work. I wonder how useful it is. Great!

    Comment by Runa — April 18, 9:50

  125. Currently the screenshots are showing up. Is the problem solved? If so, thank you very much for your efforts! :D

    Comment by BGH Quiz — April 18, 11:39

  126. Only some of the screenshots are showing up, but it is just 1%, the rest ist still black. Will all the others screenshots / thumbnails viewable again? Would be so great to have the thumbnail previews back! :-)

    Comment by Ralf — April 18, 11:44

  127. We are in the process of updating the screenshots, so please be patient! Just refresh the page, the screenshots should be visible. Please list your theme’s name if you are still unable to see your theme’s screenshot.

    Comment by Moderator — April 18, 13:36

  128. thx for updating, it works perfect as always. glad you managed all your troubles and i dont want to forget to thank you all for this great support page for wordpress. a daily visit is guaranteed

    Comment by whoosa — April 18, 16:21

  1. Great work guys!

    Comment by Andiz — April 18, 19:05

  2. Good work, thanks, but it didn’t last long…

    Comment by milo317 — April 19, 17:53

  3. thanks,looks good

    Comment by Mike — April 20, 2:46

  4. Could a mod please delete this theme: http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2696/winepress/ I uploaded it by accident. :)

    Comment by Luthien00 — April 20, 18:38

  5. hi,

    my css is like that:
    /*
    Theme Name: TeLoveisHere
    Theme URI: http://www.wordpressthemes.biz/
    Description: …….
    Author: Just a Wordpress Theme
    Author URI: http://www.wordpressthemes.biz/
    */

    but i am getting the error “NO Theme Title” when i try to upload.
    how can i solve my problem? thanks.

    Comment by wordpressthemesbiz — April 21, 0:54

  6. @ wordpressthemesbiz

    Make sure your theme folder has the style.css file. The structure below should work:

    /*
    Theme Name: some name
    Theme URI: http://www.yoursite.com
    Description: blah, blah, blah.
    Version:
    Author: your name
    Author URI: http://www.yoursite.com
    */

    Comment by Moderator — April 21, 3:23

  7. Hi,
    My theme Smooth Dirt seems to have lost it’s stylesheet. It has been included as I uploaded it a few months ago and have had around 4000 downloads. Please can you replace/put back the stylesheet (which is in the download) as it does not work on the test run..

    Comment by robert — April 21, 14:59

  8. @ Robert

    You need to update the theme if you feel there is an issue/missing file. Use the “update theme” feature and your theme files will get replaced (adding any missing components).

    Comment by Moderator — April 21, 19:23

  9. This will serve as a warning to anyone who is trying to pass off popular themes as your own, provide the appropriate attribution or your upload permission will be removed.

    Also, if your theme gets removed for any reason, write to me before you upload it again!

    wpmoderator [at] yahoo [dot] com

    Comment by Moderator — April 23, 13:50

  10. If this is directed at me, Smooth Dirt is totally my theme, but whenever I use the contact form, I get absoloutely no response, so I thought I should put a comment here.

    Comment by Robert Day — April 25, 18:32

  11. @ Robert,

    That comment was not directed towards you.

    It was for those who claim to be the original CSS/WP designers of popular themes with minor graphic mods. In the past few weeks, close to 75 rip-offs/duplications have been removed.

    I would like one of those who had volunteered to help earlier to report theme duplications/rip-offs at wpmoderator[at]yahoo[dot]com.

    If you have any questions or issues, you can email me directly, I will try to respond within 2 business days.

    Comment by Moderator — April 25, 20:15

  12. How can I upload my favourite theme from the dashboard ? I like that green-elegancy theme .From the dashboard I only get that message ” not sufficient authorisation to …”.Do I have to sent the number ? Allright no problem, the number is 438

    Regards,edc (username)

    Comment by edc — April 25, 22:21

  13. Ah ah! today i see AGAIN the black thumbnails.
    some days ago, I was very glad to see resolved the problem, but now is back!

    it’s very shame…

    Comment by Silvio — April 26, 4:41

  14. I see the black thumbnails too :( just uploaded a theme and was surprised that my thumb is black… then I looked on the index page and recognized that all thumbs are black. :(

    Comment by AngiWaters — April 26, 11:00

  15. I see on many theme’s page that their screenshots aren’t displayed, there’s a black image instead.

    I was having this issue myself and fixed it by playing with the screenshots size. Does anybody have some clear info on that topics?

    And thanks to all the guys in here for this great job…. :)

    Comment by blogosquare — April 26, 12:21

  16. The infamous Error is back yet my css is fine.
    /*
    Theme Name:Simplicity
    Theme URI: http://www.evanlugh.com
    Description: Nice simple theme - hency the name!.
    Version: 1.0
    Author: RedFox / Evan Lugh.

    */

    html>body #content {
    height: auto;
    min-height: 580px;
    }

    Comment by RedFox — April 26, 18:36

  17. The thumbnail issues have been addressed.

    Comment by Moderator — April 27, 4:45

  18. i’m happy that this site is running stable again, thanks for your work ;-)

    Comment by Michael — April 27, 11:16

  19. Still isn’t working for me

    Comment by RedFox — April 28, 11:44

  20. @ RedFox

    What is not working?

    Comment by Moderator — April 29, 7:40

  21. I’m sure, RedFox means the thumbnail-problem.
    I see them, maybe a Browser Issue?

    Comment by David May — April 29, 17:51

  22. ”
    The infamous Error is back yet my css is fine.
    /*
    Theme Name:Simplicity
    Theme URI: http://www.evanlugh.com
    Description: Nice simple theme - hency the name!.
    Version: 1.0
    Author: RedFox / Evan Lugh.

    */

    html>body #content {
    height: auto;
    min-height: 580px;
    }
    ”

    It still says theme name not found - @ Moderator.

    Comment by RedFox — April 30, 17:36

  23. @ RedFox

    You are trying to update the theme I am guessing? That’s when you’ll get that error! If you are trying to upload a theme, you are in the wrong page. First login, then go here and follow instructions! 

    Comment by Moderator — April 30, 18:01

  24. It says user registration is disabled. Can I register to upload my theme?

    Comment by Chris — April 30, 20:00

  25. Excellent clause, thanks for work.

    Comment by lola — May 1, 12:17

  26. Sorry but the thumbnails are not working again :(

    Comment by Grab A Theme — May 1, 13:32

  27. @ Chris and *** All New Registrants ***

    I have disabled registration to clean out the users list, we have hundreds of unused and/or double registrants that needs to go, so while we are weeding em out, new registration will remain closed.

    In the mean time, if you have a theme ready, send me an email with a link to “your theme demo on your site” along with your preferred “username” at wpmoderator[at]yahoo[dot]com and I will do the needful.

    Comment by Moderator — May 1, 19:15

  28. Okay, and nope, I’m starting fresh

    Comment by RedFox — May 1, 19:56

  29. wordpress es asombroso!

    Comment by Souyris — May 3, 3:29

  30. – at wpmoderator[at]yahoo[dot]com –

    I send some my themes to you, but they return to me with error “e-mail is not correct” :(

    Is you e-mail correct? my be you have another?

    Comment by Anna Andreewa — May 4, 14:05

  31. Now search is broken and some of our themes are not showing up :(

    Comment by Grab A Theme — May 4, 14:32

  32. @Anna Andreewa,

    wpmoderator[at]yahoo[dot]com
    Check if you sent it to the right address.

    @Grab A Theme,

    Your themes were removed for missing credits to the original graphic designers. Pls update your themes with credits to the original designers in the footers.

    @all,
    It’s not going to be as easy as updating your themes a few months later when caught.

    We suggest you add attribution links not only for uploading themes on Theme Viewer, but on other official/non-official WordPress sites before your names are reported to other sites as well.

    Also, you might want to inform the users of your themes to add the original attribution links to the footers. You could do this by adding a note on your own websites.

    Comment by Moderator — May 4, 22:37

  33. Glad to see the thumbnail previews have been fixed, it was driving me mad having to click on every link to see what the theme looked like.

    Comment by Blogtagstic — May 5, 11:39

  34. Daily Blog Tips, Justin,

    Do not duplicate the same theme in different colors or headers.

    cflorin, Navjot Singh, soren121

    Do not upload a theme which has already been ported to WordPress before.

    Pls read FAQs before you upload themes.

    Comment by Moderator — May 6, 20:05

  35. Could a moderator please delete this theme as it has a broken screenshot?

    http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3035/business-blog/

    Thanks!

    Comment by Luthien00 — May 7, 13:27

  36. Luthien00,

    Comment #95: You uploaded the same theme 8 times.
    Comment #132: You uploaded a theme by accident.
    Comment #163: You said the theme had a broken screenshot, I didn’t see any.

    I’m here to help you, but not repeatedly for the same mistake. Please be careful next time, else I will have to take appropriate action.

    Comment by Moderator — May 7, 21:05

  37. its cool template. thanks

    Comment by sfa — May 7, 22:05

  38. thanks for template.

    Comment by web tasarımı — May 7, 22:05

  39. thanks.. but i cant change from old template.

    Comment by almanya vizesi — May 7, 22:06

  40. If a theme is based initially on the WP default theme (Kubrick) but modified substantially… what is the standard of attribution? I am just trying to get a solid handle on where and at what point the work becomes original and requires no attribution technically speaking? Not to evade but just to know. And where are there good examples of proper attribution?

    Comment by agent 314 — May 8, 4:45

  41. this is a good think closing comments. A lot of people make spam in testrun..
    thanks WP :)

    Comment by rüya — May 8, 7:09

  42. @Moderator

    1. I uploaded the theme 8 times because it was the site’s mistake, not mine. It gave me an error that the theme wasn’t uploaded, but it actually did upload it, so it wasn’t my fault.

    2. My mistake and I’m sorry.

    3. Not my mistake again, it was broken I promise! It looked all weird, so I thought no one will be interested to download it though the actual theme it’s not broken.

    Just thought I’d make it clear :)

    Comment by Luthien00 — May 8, 14:00

  43. You’re being spammed again by the users called:

    Select Loans and
    Rebuild

    Comment by BGH Quiz — May 8, 23:14

  44. thanks for all of the blog templates!

    I am looking for one that i lost .. when I downloaded it I believe it was file named 1860.rar and it was red/gray/black .. anyone know what im referring to?

    Comment by Business — May 11, 15:37

  45. Hey quick note, there is a typo in your post. The second to last bullet reads:

    “People who have requested permission to upload, now has uploading rights.”

    “has” should be changed to “have”

    Hope this helps!

    Regards,
    Diaa

    Comment by Diaa — May 12, 6:51

  46. What’s going on with user registrations? Why they are closed? Is it just for upgrading reasons or they are permanently closed?

    Comment by depi — May 12, 14:20

  47. If the registration form is closed, is there someone we can email to register?

    Comment by Jenn — May 12, 16:09

  48. Dear Moderator,

    One of the themes removed (This Other Eden) has links to the original designer in the SIDEBAR where the AUTHORS originally put it. In fact, the original theme did not even have a footer. I am puzzled why your wishes about the placement of the author’s link should override the intentions of the original template designer, can you explain this more fully please?

    As for updating edited versions of the themes, we have already tried this but still they do not show up.

    If we are using linkware templates we ALWAYS keep the required link to the authors and require the people who download them to keep them too. It is libellous of you to imply that we do not. If links do not appear, it is because the original author did not require that they be included but made the template freely available for use without them. Some of them do not even provide sites to link to, what do you suggest we do in these cases?

    Comment by Grab A Theme — May 12, 16:44

  49. @ Diaa

    You get the point right?

    Comment by Moderator — May 13, 3:43

  50. @ depi and Jenn

    Read comment #155

    Comment by Moderator — May 13, 3:44

  51. @ Grab A Theme

    This site is not run based on my wishes. Some basic rules are set to prevent rip-offs, you will not appreciate it until your theme gets ripped off.

    Also, you updated the theme once I pulled it out of the site, you have included footer links now and I posted it back. As for the 2nd version, it was exactly the same as the first one in a different color and is considered a duplicate. So it will not be posted back.

    Sidebar credits, especially when the sidebar is widget ready, is not reasonable for the reason that it will be removed as soon as one uses widgets. I see you have included footer links for yourself, so I see no reason why adding the original designer link there would be of any hassle to anyone. If you are really interested in attributing credits, why not include it where it is likely not removed from, just like you have done for your own site.

    If the original author does not have a site, then add their names at least. It’s not like the template pops out of thin air. CSS descriptions are not visible on a site, so adding it there is as good as not adding it at all.

    Comment by Moderator — May 13, 3:45

  52. ‘Fleur for Wordpress’ is an entirely different design to ‘This Other Eden’ and to the existing themes called ‘Fleur’ on this site. We have updated it to link to the author in the footer, in accordance with your wishes, yet it is still not showing up in searches. Should we re-upload it under another name?

    Also if you had bothered to look at the actual code for ‘This Other Eden’ you would have seen that the sidebar module containing the credits is outside of the widget code, so it is unaffected by widgets. However we understand you are probably far too busy to look at the zips yourself so your confusion is understandable.

    Comment by Grab A Theme — May 13, 12:37

  53. Sorry to post again but I do need to be reassured. If our themes keep ‘disappearing’ and still don’t show up when we update them with new links, then obviously we would have to upload the new version as if it was a new theme. But will the new upload be treated as a duplicate? We do want to obey whatever rules you have, but if they are just going to be deleted all over again then that would be a waste of everyone’s time.

    Comment by Grab A Theme — May 13, 20:03

  54. @ Grab A Theme

    Smart aren’t you! When did I say “Fleur for Wordpress” was a duplicate? I removed that theme because there were no attributes (you just updated it today). I removed “That Other Eden” which was a duplicate of “This Other Eden”. So no need for sarcasm.

    You know why your themes were removed, don’t try and make it appear like we don’t know what we are doing. You could save us the trouble if you had added the required attributes in the first place.

    Before you write again, read the FAQ!

    Comment by Moderator — May 14, 4:29

  55. @ Moderator

    No need to be rude, just trying to be helpful. Pointing out mistakes is generally welcomed, but evidently not here.

    Thanks Moderator, I “got the point”.

    Comment by Diaa — May 14, 4:50

  56. Dear Moderator.

    I’ve wrote you yesterday an e-mail with a demo link to my new WP theme, but in meantime I found out that registrations are opened again. Now I tried to upload my new theme with the upload form, but I get an error: “Error: No theme description!”, how can I submit a theme description? There is no description field in the form.

    Thanks.

    Comment by depi — May 14, 4:53

  57. @depi,

    Read comment #62. Hope that helps. If not, let me know.

    Comment by Moderator — May 14, 9:34

  58. @Moderator Re: #62,#185

    An FAQ entry detailing the format for the opening comments in the stylesheet would be helpful.

    Comment by alex — May 14, 10:11

  59. Thanks for restoring ‘Fleur for Wordpress’. I have read the FAQ, but unfortunately it does not answer my question about updated themes being treated as duplicates.

    What is the procedure you suggest we follow? Should we update the missing themes and then contact you telling you the changes have been made, or delete the existing themes and upload the updated ones as new themes? On the one hand I would prefer not to lose the download counts, but on the other it would be a LOT easier if we could get the fixed versions up without waiting for you to approve them, and I’m sure you have better things to do with your time too.

    Comment by Grab A Theme — May 14, 13:08

  60. @Grab A Theme,

    Pls do not take this personally, we are only trying to ensure that everyone get due credits. I appreciate you leaving credits in the CSS descriptions, unlike many who don’t leave any credits at all to the original designers.

    Email me a list of updated themes and I will restore them back!

    Comment by Moderator — May 14, 13:55

  61. @ alex,

    Thanks for your suggestion, we will update the FAQ soon.

    Comment by Moderator — May 14, 13:57

  62. I have been going from one theme to the other for a few hours. I was looking for themes with 2 columns and a left sidebar. Many theme designers obviously confuse left and right! But it is not too big of a problem as you already see that in the snapshot.

    My biggest problem is to find the license terms for each theme. Why is this information not available for each theme under “Theme info” ? It is really a waste of time to have to walk around publishers site untill you find an email address or any other way to get the information.

    Comment by Jean-Luc — May 14, 20:54

  63. It still appears that registration is disabled… am I missing something? Would sure love to register and upload a theme or two…

    Comment by agent 314 — May 15, 16:10

  64. @Jean-Luc
    License information is usually contained in the README.TXT or LICENSE.TXT file inside the theme archive file.

    I agree, though, that it would be great if publishers included that information in the theme description.

    Comment by alex — May 15, 22:32

  65. maby I can shall my theme with you.

    Comment by 99fashion — May 16, 4:41

  66. Hello,
    I have tried several times since a week ago to register and upload my theme, but i always get the message Uploading is not possible now?

    When can i be able to regiser and upload my theme?

    Thank you.

    Comment by Astrit — May 16, 5:02

  67. I’m wondering the same thing as well…is there an estimated time that registration will be opened again?

    Comment by Daniel Barr — May 16, 20:29

  68. @ agent 314 , Astrit, Daniel Barr

    Send me a email with:

    1) A demo of the theme on your site
    2) The user name you desire (give at least 2 options)
    3) The email you will register under

    We are in the process of cleaning up the users list!

    wpmoderator[at]yahoo[dot]com

    Comment by Moderator — May 16, 20:56

  69. [...] Regarding all the people who have volounteered to help - thanks a lot. I will get in touch with some of you within the next week, since the site will need moderators to keep down the volume of spam, bitching, theme ripoff’s and duplicate uploads. 196 Responses [...]

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  70. Thank you for your kind reply, i have sent you e-mail (from astrit ‘at’yahoo.com) with all the informations.

    Will be waiting for an answer.

    Comment by Astrit — May 17, 13:14

  71. Hello,
    Does anyone know if there’s a way to see all themes submitted by a specific member?

    Thanks!

    Comment by Luthien00 — May 17, 18:45

  72. Hello,

    I just upload my first theme( http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/3253/pixelnet-finance/). But my theme looks so ugly as it is required plugin. Please active 2 plugins I included into uploaded files.

    Hope you help me about this.

    Thanks,

    PixelNet

    Comment by pixelnet — May 18, 9:22

  73. Couldn’t there be some dummy comments? It would be nice to be able to preview the appearance of comments while evaluating a theme. I learned this lesson after the first couple themes I tried. Thank you!

    Comment by limedragon — May 18, 14:17

  74. @ Pixelnet

    We cannot activate plugins that you include in your themes zip files. On a personal note, try using conditional tags to avoid the plugin to call from the DB, that way if the plugin is not active, the theme will not break!

    Comment by Moderator — May 19, 2:14

  75. The user “Loans” is spamming again.

    Comment by BGH Quiz — May 19, 12:08

  76. why i am getting this error message, i checked the stylesheet its perfect, and also the title is there in the header….

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

    Error: No theme title!

    Please help me….

    Comment by vinodkv — May 20, 6:49

  77. [...] Regarding all the people who have volounteered to help - thanks a lot. I will get in touch with some of you within the next week, since the site will need moderators to keep down the volume of spam, bitching, theme ripoff’s and duplicate uploads. 204 Re [...]

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  78. thanks…

    Comment by web tasarım — May 20, 21:10

  79. Hi,

    I emailed wpmoderator [@] yahoo [dot] com yesterday requesting user credentials to upload a theme.

    I sent the required details etc

    Is there any time frame in which I can expect a response?

    Thanks in advance,
    Steve

    Comment by Steven Fullman — May 21, 10:27

  80. @moderators:

    These 2 themes are nothing more than ripoffs, shouldn’t they be removed?

    http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/3306/paradise-blog-100/
    http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/3309/southriver-10/

    Thanks!

    Comment by Lynn — May 21, 13:30

  81. Any idea when new users will be allowed to register again?

    Comment by Paul — May 22, 13:58

  82. @ Lynn, Felu, AskGraphics,

    Email the proof of the original one, and I will do the needful.

    Comment by Moderator — May 22, 16:10

  83. Yaaaaaaay! I can see the thumbnails again! Thanks for the fix!

    Comment by birdseatbugs — May 22, 18:50

  84. @Pilkster and all those who are still uploading themes for others,

    You are authorized to upload themes DESIGNED by you ONLY.

    Do not upload themes for:
    * Other designers
    * Third-party Distributors of your Themes
    * Buyers of your Themes

    This is to prevent spam and aliases. We look forward to your co-operation.

    Comment by Moderator — May 22, 20:18

  85. @all,

    There are better ways of communicating, please refrain from using words like spam, scam, thief, etc. unnecessarily.
    Do not make false accusations, watch what you say. Please report copyright violations along with a link to the original design for us to be able to take any action.

    Also, “repeat questions” will not get “repeat answers” now on. The FAQ has been updated today, please spend a few minutes to read it from time to time.

    Comment by Moderator — May 22, 20:28

  86. Estoy buscando un theme o plantilla para alguna de mis webs. Espero encontrar aquí lo que busco.

    De todas formas, muchas gracias a los que os preocupais por preparar esos magnificos themes.

    Saludos ;-)

    Comment by abogados — May 25, 18:45

  87. PLEASE move the template list (themes.wordpress.net) up on the page. Scrolling ALL THE TIME makes me sick! This is so user-unfriendly!!!

    Comment by AVV — May 26, 16:54

  88. Hi, I’m having exec_fname warning on my theme’s testsite. What is the problem? Theme or server?

    Comment by Okan — May 27, 12:20

  89. Tried to test for someone there first theme but reverted back to old one here http://www.vonroberts.com when exec_fname error was shown.

    Comment by Von — May 27, 19:10

  90. i would like to have a hall of fame on the main page. I hate to see some of my great designs getting washed into inner pages just because a bunch of less than average designs submited just after mine.

    Imagine all the hard work getting washed out by less than average themes put togather in like 10 mins :(

    Comment by AskGraphics — May 28, 14:51

  91. oh just saw that moderator asked me to email proof, how do i do that? email the psd’s?

    i originally sent a complaint thru contact page and didnot get any response, so i thought you people don’t care.

    thanks
    askg

    Comment by AskGraphics — May 28, 14:54

  92. @ AVV

    Sorry, I cannot change the format of this site at your fancy!

    @ Okan

    Which is your theme with the error, email me. It appears from the error like it’s your theme.

    @ AskGraphics

    Every designer is entitled to upload themes here and just as you consider some themes “less than average”, others might think your themes are just that. As for the contact form, please email your questions to me instead!

    Comment by Moderator — May 30, 13:49

  93. @Moderator

    i emailed the psd’s to you on the email on undersigned.net

    thanks,
    srik

    Comment by AskGraphics — May 30, 17:05

  94. Maybe a couple of extra options in the Sorting Options? Something like Quality: Pro Themer and Quality: Newbie Themer. I believe the sorting options tend to make front page status less important. Obviously, some of the pro themers are annoyed by the flood of newbies. The flood is gonna grow whether anyone likes it or not. With WP being so popular, many of those webmasters are eventually going to look into building themes of their own. They will, of course, be proud of their accomplishments and want to join in the fun of offering their works on the theme viewer, regardless how feeble their plums might be.

    Comment by Theme Burrito — May 30, 21:22

  95. Themes not showing up?
    I uploaded 2 themes today Blackhead-Newpbc-Fluid & Goldkhead-Newpbc-Fluid they were there for a while now they have disapeared any reason

    Comment by newpbc — May 30, 22:14

  96. @Moderator

    i was talking abt these type of themes :
    http://themes.wordpress.net/index.php?s=Anthony+Ifon

    they clearly are just color variations, he releases 3-4 color variations at a time and thus pushing good themes out of the first page.

    there are many guys who do this… if you need any help spotting them so you can remove them, letme know..

    Comment by AskGraphics — May 31, 14:34

  97. Fair enough but I only released 2 a day and with over 100 downloads each on the first 2 releases people seemed to like them.
    Not everyone has a suitable image editor to change the colours on the images within a template.

    Plus I’m sure some people some people just can’t be bothered that’s why then come to download templates rather than create there own.

    @ Moderator

    How about if one colour variation was uploaded a day would this be okay.

    Comment by newpbc — May 31, 19:31

  98. another one
    http://themes.wordpress.net/index.php?s=Aequitas

    @newpbc
    Imagine if everyone starts releasing color variations…

    from the FAQ section :

    You are not allowed to duplicate your own theme over and over again by simply changing the header image. If you would like to provide multiple headers, give a link to your own site from where the header images could be downloaded.

    If you want to offer multiple color choices for your theme, use a WP options menu or provide other options on your own website.

    Comment by AskGraphics — May 31, 21:05

  99. @ Ask Graphics,

    “newpbc” has been pushing themes behind, so do other users who upload more than one theme a day. We are working on this and might soon control the upload of multiple themes by the same user too frequently.

    @newpbc,

    If you were to pay for uploading themes on this site, would do upload the same theme in so many different colors? Unfortunately, this site cannot be dedicated to you.

    You can list other colors available in the comments section so that users who like your theme can check your site. If you duplicate again, your account will be suspended.

    Comment by Moderator — May 31, 21:25

  100. @ AskGraphics or others willing to volunteer:

    You can take one or more of the following responsibilities.

    1. Checking new themes for duplication and reporting them: Duplication of the same theme with different graphics or colors.
    2. Checking new themes for repeat ports and reporting them.
    3. Reporting missing credits/attributions.
    4. Reporting duplicate IDs.
    5. Reporting spam and abuse in comments.

    Each task would require around 30 minutes of your time everyday. So make sure you commit ONLY if you are willing to dedicate that much time (for free of course!)

    Comment by Moderator — May 31, 21:27

  101. @Moderator

    letme get started with this task :
    1. Checking new themes for duplication and reporting them: Duplication of the same theme with different graphics or colors.

    i should be able to do a few more but i am sure about the first one….

    also any news on my email to you with PSD’s…. i really would like to close that chapter…

    askg

    Comment by AskGraphics — May 31, 22:15

  102. @ AskGraphics,

    Pls don’t respond from the Contact form. Email me directly at wpmoderator[at]yahoo[dot]com, along with the PSDs and themes that are ripoffs and I will immediately do the needful.

    Thanks for your offer to volunteer. I look forward to receiving updates.

    Comment by Moderator — June 1, 2:52

  103. @Moderator

    sent you two emails with psd’s and links

    Comment by AskGraphics — June 1, 16:49

  104. Es geht los!…

    Endlich ist es so weit, unser Word? Press! [Test] Blog ist online. Aktuell läuft alles noch auf einem Testaccount von all-inkl.com, aber bald werden wir auf “richtigem” Webspace laufen.
    Aber genug geredet, jetzt werden Taten Einträge folg…

    Trackback by Word? Press! [Test] — June 1, 17:07

  105. Hi my name is Jamey Miller, I have recently uploaded 2 themes and they have since been banned. I understand you have been speaking with my associate Todd with Total Backyard after he carelessly just changed the header image and re-submitted. The themes I have designed are original and are Dark Sunday 1.0 and Kiddie Korner 1.0. I did put a couple of links at the bottom to my sites, but I see almost every theme on here to that. Is that not part of the reward here, to gain links while providing a useful and well designed theme for the wordpress community?

    I was hoping you could give me some insight on what was wrong with these themes and what I could do to correct this.

    Comment by Backyardescapes — June 1, 18:23

  106. @Pavel Bogdan and Jeff Quindlen,

    Around 7 of your themes have been removed for duplication. If you duplicate again, all your themes will be removed and your upload permission could be removed.

    Comment by Moderator — June 2, 5:26

  107. @ Backyardescapes

    We remove themes that violate copyright issues as reported by the original author(s). Check your email.

    Comment by Moderator — June 2, 5:27

  108. Hi,

    Can I please get uploading rights!!!
    I need to upload a theme
    You can see it on my homepage

    Comment by Nathan — June 3, 20:04

  109. Has the webmaster considered having a monthly (or even weekly) most downloads section in addition to the “Most Downloaded”? I think I would be a neat feature, and it would enable bloggers to see what is popular now, and not just the same old most downloaded list that may never change.

    Comment by DirSrc — June 3, 23:56

  110. Great idea there DirSrc…:)
    sure love to see how that looks in the site..

    Comment by rkcorp — June 4, 0:53

  111. Was the word “bitching” really necessary on the homepage of one of the most recognized blogging code’s theme directory? That was fucking inappropriate.

    Comment by Frederick Szczepanski — June 4, 3:37

  112. really nice and you are doing great job dudes, please open the new member registrations
    thanks

    Comment by ali — June 5, 2:43

  113. Thanks for all your work!

    Comment by grazitaly — June 5, 20:41

  114. @Moderator

    why does theme of mine downloads someone else’s theme?
    http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3517/greenflower-10/

    Comment by AskGraphics — June 6, 5:34

  115. Hello,

    My AJAX theme is not working properly.

    http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/3719/pixelnet-ajax-10/

    and the working demo is http://www.pixelnetltd.info/demo

    Please fix that problem as soon as possible.

    Comment by pixelnet — June 7, 4:17

  116. @ All waiting in anticipation of upload permission

    I will get to them this weekend.

    @ AskGraphics

    #3517 downloads the corresponding theme, not sure what you mean by someone else’s theme. Who’s theme is it downloading?

    @ Pixelnet

    I cannot fix broken themes, it’s up to you to fix it or not. Use the update theme option, if you are not sure how, read the FAQ’s.

    Comment by Moderator — June 7, 5:23

  117. Hi Moderator,
    tried to update the new Bruce 3.17 theme,
    but the drop down list doesn’t show it.

    Comment by milo317 — June 8, 9:48

  118. @ milo317

    I cannot see your update options unless I login as you! I will check that anyway.

    Comment by Moderator — June 8, 19:29

  119. @ Moderator

    Thanks a lot for fixing it. I appreciate that.

    Comment by milo317 — June 8, 21:00

  120. Hello there,
    Do the themes now need to be checked by a moderator to go live on the website? The latest one I submitted “Lime Twist 2.0″ is not showing up on the main page (just submitted about 2 mins ago..)

    Comment by FanAddict — June 9, 22:01

  121. @Moderator

    this guy is ripping off my themes and he even confessed it here :
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=3390426&postcount=19

    are you going to ban him or you don’t care?

    here are the themes :
    mine : http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3104/glamourgreen-10/
    His : http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3316/greatorangee-10/

    mine : http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/3223/pinklove-10/
    His : http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3743/butterfly-brown-10/

    mine : http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2945/bigflower-10/
    His : http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3787/business-red-10/

    let me know if you don’t care, atleast will save my time complaining here

    Comment by AskGraphics — June 10, 18:53

  122. I’m having the same problem. I just submitted my theme and I can see it here: http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3797/morning-dew/

    but it doesn’t appear on the main page.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Kate — June 11, 10:47

  123. Request

    Henceforth the author link must go to a legitimate web site. Not to some faux directory, or some sort of dummy blog. If this rule is broken the theme in question will be removed, and the IP of the person uploading said theme shall be banned.

    Comment by Alan Kellogg — June 11, 16:21

  124. @Moderator: Regarding Comment #210, which id shall i send you an email to?

    Comment by Felu — June 13, 6:22

  125. When will the sign up page be back up?

    I have a bunch of modded themes I’d like to put up

    Comment by Fengt — June 13, 17:57

  126. ya need to make this accessible from the front page of the wordpress site… the main question anyone would have: ‘what will it look like?’ Duh!

    Comment by dev — June 13, 18:04

  127. @ FanAddict, Kate

    Patience my friends, patience.

    @ Fengt

    Send it to wpmoderator [at] yahoo [dot] com

    @ All

    There is plenty backlog on my end, so the issues will be addressed as it’s queued.

    Comment by Moderator — June 13, 18:56

  128. @ AskGraphics

    Be patient and polite! Your comment was caught in the Spam filter. If you have 10 links in your post don’t expect it to reach me right away.

    Comment by Moderator — June 13, 19:00

  1. @moderator,

    my applogies… just mad at all the rippoffs :)

    Comment by AskGraphics — June 14, 6:20

  2. It was sugested that I should use my own hosting to distrabute diferent colour variations on my themes fair enough.
    Can any recomend a script that would work the same way as test run to help me get going.

    Cheers guys

    Comment by newpbc — June 14, 18:33

  3. @ newpbc

    Just a suggestion. Use the “theme switcher” plugin by http://boren.nu

    Comment by Moderator — June 15, 1:00

  4. Hello,

    Perhaps it has been mentioned here already, but is there an approximate time frame set for the reactivation of account registrations?

    Thanks.

    Comment by CognitiveCombine — June 15, 9:30

  5. just curious, is thomas changing stuff on the site again or why can I only update and no longer “upload” themes?

    Comment by jez — June 15, 17:10

  6. My account has also lost the ability to upload themes. Just wondering what is going on and if there is anyway to fix the problem.

    Thanks

    Comment by charlesk — June 15, 18:11

  7. @ jez and charlesk,

    Unless your account is suspended,there is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to upload themes with a little patience. I suggest give it 5-10 mins. If there is a specific error, email me and we will look into it.

    @ jez,

    Your pink theme was removed as it is a new color version of your old theme. Please do read the Terms and Conditions for uploading themes on the FAQ page.

    Comment by Moderator — June 15, 19:14

  8. @ CognitiveCombine,

    If you want to register as a theme contributor, email me your theme demo or screenshot and I will register for you.

    There is no time frame as such to reactivate account registrations, we will announce it when it’s open.

    Comment by Moderator — June 15, 20:01

  9. dear moderator, I appreciate you taking time to sort things out for “annoying” people like me. It is all back to normal and for the theme, have the toc and the faq changed in the past 6 months? anyhow thanks again and I won’t be annoying you any time soon.

    Comment by jez — June 16, 8:50

  10. @Moderator,

    Thanks for the info, I have emailed you with a link to my demo site.

    Comment by CognitiveCombine — June 16, 10:51

  11. @Moderator,

    I have also lost the ability to upload for no apparent reason, strangely I have the ability to update a theme.

    Comment by DirSrc — June 16, 20:39

  12. Well it started working again… Ignore the above comment.

    Comment by DirSrc — June 16, 22:57

  13. Hello Moderator..

    Saw your #155 comment and hence sent you a mail accordingly..

    Please view my theme and register me

    Thanks,
    Swapnil

    Comment by Swapnil — June 17, 6:16

  14. Really thanks for creating this theme, I like it a lot!!! :)

    Comment by lorenzone92 — June 17, 8:03

  15. @ lorenzone92

    you talking to me?

    Comment by Swapnil — June 17, 9:42

  16. @ Lorelei, Liza Kliko, Rui Castro, web2themes, digitalphoto or rcastro,

    Did I miss any of your aliases?

    You were BANNED for stealing credits and you still are BANNED. So do not try to cheat repeatedly because we will catch you.

    Darklight, Lorelei Bliss 2.0, Lizommi, Diary Notes, Bluewell, etc. are just a few blatant copies of themes by headsetoptions.org and mandarinmusing.com, Spring rain is a blatant copy of a Kaushal Sheth theme.

    You have multiple charges on you:
    1. Repeat stealing, you were banned because all your themes were ripoffs. You cannot claim to be a WordPress designer if all you do is take a popular theme and change it’s graphics (even worse, without permission from or credits to the respective authors).

    2. Inspite of being banned, you duplicated IDs and dared to upload more ripoffs using aliases.

    3. You’ve also duplicated themes with your duplicate ids.

    If someone finds any theme from loreleiwebdesign.com, web2themes.com, toptut.com on this site, do inform us.

    WARNING to contributors and sponsors of stolen themes: If you support ripoffs, directly or indirectly, you are to blame equally, and if you sponsor stolen work repeatedly, all themes sponsored by you would be banned too.

    Comment by Moderator — June 19, 1:44

  17. @ George C,

    Leave credits wherever necessary in all your themes which are adaptations of “Cleaker” by Adam Walker Cleveland. Also, stop duplicating the same theme with minor mods, if you want to continue to upload themes.

    @ Rochow,

    You uploaded a theme for “crimsonc” or designprophet.co.uk with no attribution to Arie Setiawan. The same author tried to copy Envision3C by headsetoptions.org. This is exactly why registration is not open for all, i.e. to prevent potential ripoffs.

    I have been registering for new users, so there is no reason why you should upload themes for other users.

    Comment by Moderator — June 19, 3:31

  18. I’ve got a theme I would like to upload, but user registration is closed. I’ve sent in an email but not sure if this is the proper method for setting up an account. Can someone confirm?

    Thanks.

    Comment by nathan — June 19, 14:59

  19. Dear Moderator,

    Could you please confirm the receipt of an email from me to: wpmoderator [at] yahoo [dot] com ?

    I have not received a response yet and I am sure you are quite busy, but I just want to confirm that I sent my registration request to the right email address and that my email arrived.

    Thank you very much.

    Comment by CognitiveCombine — June 19, 15:28

  20. I need Upload Permission…

    Username: DonCano

    Thanks.

    Comment by DonCano — June 19, 17:29

  21. @ cognitivecombine

    I’ve already registered for you, check your emails.

    @ Nathan
    Email your theme demo or screenshot and I will register for you.

    Comment by Moderator — June 19, 17:52

  22. @ Moderator,

    I am afraid I have not received anything, would it be possible to send the email again?

    Thank you.

    Comment by CognitiveCombine — June 19, 18:11

  23. Dear Moderator,

    what’s now wrong with my account ?

    I just uploaded my 2 themes “Designer Theme V2″ and “Pirates Theme” and now the themes disapeared & I can’t do anything ?!

    Please tell me why ?

    Thanks.

    Regards.

    Comment by DonCano — June 19, 18:12

  24. @ DonCano, Styleshout, Hitesh Shah, Rochow, wpthemer.com, changedetect.com, shoutdirectory.com, conversational-hypnosis.com, themeoutlet.com, hs-hosting.net, etc.

    You have too many aliases, I have only listed a few above.

    I suspended your account for duplicating themes, and for uploading themes for others. (Read comment 273) Now you want a new id DonCano. Just a warning, do not try to duplicate ids again.

    @ netpowersoft,
    We have not set a limit to the number of daily uploads, that does not mean you upload 8 themes in one shot, of which 2 are duplicates.

    Comment by Moderator — June 19, 18:50

  25. @ Moderator

    I was not able to create an account before,so I asked “rochow” to upload my themes. He uploaded “Designer Theme” and it disapeared. Now I’ve got an account and uploaded it again & it disapeared again. I’m sorry if I broke a rule, but I had to upload the themes immediately.

    What can I do, to get my themes on themes.wordpress.net, without disapearing every time?

    Please let me know.

    Thank you.

    Regards.

    Comment by DonCano — June 19, 19:06

  26. @Moderator

    I’m sorry for the double-post, but I want to get one thing clear…

    When “Rochow” published my themes, I put the “designer-sponsor-link” as the author of the theme (in the .css file). I didn’t know that this is not allowed so if you let me upload these themes again, I’ll certainly change the author name to “DonCano”, because I’m the designer & coder of these themes and there’ll be no problems again.

    My Themes which “rochow” uploaded for me:

    Business Theme

    Designer Theme

    Urban (Style) Theme

    Orange 3D Theme

    Dark Nature Theme

    Thanks.

    Cano

    Comment by DonCano — June 19, 19:16

  27. @ DonCano,

    I will get back to you shortly.

    Comment by Moderator — June 19, 19:24

  28. What do you mean “aliases”?

    @ DonCano, Styleshout, Hitesh Shah, Rochow, wpthemer.com, changedetect.com, shoutdirectory.com, conversational-hypnosis.com, themeoutlet.com, hs-hosting.net, etc.

    You have too many aliases, I have only listed a few above.

    I suspended your account for duplicating themes, and for uploading themes for others. (Read comment 273) Now you want a new id DonCano. Just a warning, do not try to duplicate ids again.”

    shoutdirectory.com is mine, as is themeoutlet.com as is rochow. The rest of them are from uploading DonCano’s which I’ve just found out I’m not actually allowed to do.

    Every single theme of mine is designed either by me or I purchased with the .psd’s. If there are rip-offs I would like to know about it (as I will have to have a nice chat to the perosn I bought it off)

    I must have missed the part where the author has to be the same for all the templates I made. I had been trying to spread them out between my 3 sites which will be online very soon.

    The “wpthemer.com” was because I uploaded a theme I bought off DP by the owner of wpthemer and forgot to change the style.css … and because the author was then shown to be not me, I couldn’t update it.

    I only have the one account, and have never ripped off a theme before (have all the .psds to prove it). I was only trying to help DonCano out (as I found out now is against the rules) and have subsequently lost my account. Not looking forward to telling the sponsors…

    Thanks,
    Matt

    Comment by Rochow — June 19, 22:14

  29. @ Moderator,

    It’s always amusing to see someone’s anger, especially when it misses the target. Well done on finding out that Liza Kliko is Lorelei’s real name, it appears in my every site/blog, including account registration here, and I never attempted to hide my identity.

    Rui Castro/ web2themes / rcastro is someone I don’t even know, though I had seen the person on digitalpoint forum. If he created double account(s), it has nothing to do with me anyway, and since you claim we are the same person - it only proves how unprofessional is the attitude at Themes Viewer. No need to threat saying “we will catch you”, because like I said, I never even tried to register another ID. I did ask digitalphoto to upload my theme, doesn’t make us to be the same person, and I did not know it was against the rules.

    Yesterday I emailed you with the fixed credits on my theme, as you requested (of headsetoptions.org or mandarinmusing.com, I hope you do know it’s 1 person). I never denied basing my theme on his coding, and I was in contact with the author, with whom we resolved the issue FULLY 2 months ago, you seem to be the only one who has a problem with it. I also offered to send you PSD files of Lizommi, Diary Notes, Darklight, Lorelei Bliss etc - you did not reply to that email, you did not agree to see a proof, yet you keep claiming my DESIGN is ripped. Fine.

    And yes, the themes mentioned above are similar and I know now that they can’t all be uploaded since their design is alike, but did I ask to put them all back online? I emailed you the new theme I was planning to upload, which is currently up on lizatom.com, coding based on Earthling, and has credits in both css description AND footer link (same story about Bluewell theme, up on lizatom.com/Bluewell), and if you claim it’s a “blatant rip off” of Earthling’s DESIGN, than I am obviously wasting my time trying to prove it.

    Regards,
    Liza

    Comment by Lorelei — June 19, 23:04

  30. @ Rochow,

    I never said your themes are ripoffs. But are you denying you tried to upload a theme for someone who was caught selling sponsor links on a ripoff? Or are you denying you didn’t duplicate designer-theme, Modern Blue and Green 2.0 and Dark Effect Reloaded?

    Every theme of yours has a different author, it’s your personal choice to use any of your websites as the author, but if you do that to elude us with a new website in every theme (half of which you now claim are not even your own themes), it’s not acceptable.
    Lastly, you tried to reopen another account when suspended.

    At least for now, your account will not be reopened.

    @ Lorelei,

    All the themes you uploaded earlier were ripoffs, be it copied from headsetoptions.org or kaushalsheth.com. You dared to ask for permission to reupload the same themes without due credits again, even after a few months now. And stop lying, there were no footer links to any of the original authors when I removed your themes. If anything, your email clearly says you don’t want to provide any footer links.

    You can give me all the names you want, I don’t