Earlier today, I had the privilege of interviewing Brian Gardner live for almost an hour. During our talk, we went in-depth on his decision to go open source. We also discussed relevant topics such as themeing in general, the state of themes for WordPress, GPL and it’s never ending grey area and much more. I [...]
October 10th, 2008 | Jeffro | 10 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "themes"
Nonexistent Market For Premium Plugins-Themes
Quite a few posts circulating around the WordPress community with regards to that dreaded topic of GPL. However, I read something on Vladimir Prelovac’s blog which gave me pause for thought.
And the implication of GPL is this: all WordPress plugins and themes automatically fall under GPL license. In other words, even if you paid for [...]
Why I Don’t Use Shifter Anymore
Recently, someone stopped by the contact form and sent in this question:
Why aren’t you using shifter on your site? It seems from the questions and the remarks in your posts on the forums you stand by it.. But why not use it here? Do you really think its as powerful as they say? I don’t [...]
WordPress Weekly Episode 14
Episode 14 of WordPress Weekly featured an hour and a half interview with Nathan Rice of NathanRice.net. We covered premium themes, the theme market, some of the pros and cons of Small Potatoes theme club model, the issue of finding things in themes that shouldn’t be there and much more. I really enjoyed my time [...]
April 26th, 2008 | Jeffro | 7 comments | Continued
Jeffro2pt0 Goes Naked
In spirit of CSS Naked Day I have disabled both style sheets that were attributed to the shifter theme that I have been using. The purpose of the CSS Naked Day is to bring about the attention of others to show off just how useful and beautiful CSS really is. I must be crazy for [...]
April 9th, 2008 | Jeffro | 6 comments | Continued
RAProject Undergoes Face Lift
Ronald Huereca of the R A Project.com website has finished and published his redesign of the Mimbo Pro theme. I’ve heard from a number of designers that the color brown is one of the most difficult colors to design around. Ronald however, seems to have found a great color scheme that goes well with brown. [...]
March 24th, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
Two New Ways To Get WP News
I got word of two projects today which may be valuable sources of information dealing with WordPress within the near future. The first is called WPSource.com. WPSource.com is an aggregation website that displays the 5 most recent headlines from major players within the WordPress community. The site features a fancy drop down animation once a [...]
March 23rd, 2008 | Jeffro | 12 comments | Continued
Jeffro2pt0 Featured On WP-Premiums
A few days ago, PJ notified me that this blog design was featured on WP-Premiums.com. So far, the design has a total of 8 votes with an average rating of 4 out of 5. According to PJ the reason this design was chosen to be included in the WP-Premiums gallery is as follows:
I was so [...]
Default Theme Idea Contest
ThemeShaper.com is holding a contest where the winner will be able to win up to four iThemes WordPress Themes. How do you win?
It’s easy to win. Just let the community know what you think the next WordPress default theme should be like. All you have to do is leave a comment here with your great [...]
New Design For Theme Respository?
Steven Hodson of WinExtra.com has posted an interesting screenshot of what the official WordPress Themes Repository website looks like to him. I asked Steve if he was sure that this is what was being displayed on http://themes.wordpress.net/ and indeed it was. When I visited the domain, I couldn’t get anything to change and was instead, [...]
March 16th, 2008 | Jeffro | 17 comments | Continued
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