.com/.org themes
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Recently, I’ve been noticing that the themes available on WordPress.com are no longer available for download for self-hosted blogs.
Am I wrong? Was there an announcement? Did I miss something?
C’s there are some themes on .com that I’d love to use on a standalone blog.
Just saying.
(btw, I posted this question over on .org too)
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There’s churn in the .org themes which is natural, since the themes are offered by their designers, who may get tired of them. If you see something you like, grab it.
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That principle I can understand, but ALL the themes? Granted, I haven’t searched for every single one, but none of the ones from A-C that I looked for are available for download for .org.
I’ve been WordPressing for three years now, having started with self-hosting (I had to get the .com blog to get my API code) and I’ve been grabbing all the themes I like over the years. This is the first time I’ve noticed a divergence in the world of WP themes, and it’s because all of a sudden I’m looking for single-column themes. For my personal blogs I prefer three-column themes, which weren’t all that plentiful back in the day. Now People change. I like Ambiru and Day Dream very much (available over here). They used to be available for stand-alone blogs too but I can’t find any single-column theme I like for download anymore.
I wondered whether it had to do with the divergence in the software – the fact that .com uses MU coding. But I also wondered whether Automattic had started a new policy of offering special themes on .com, which is perfectly fair. I just wondered whether I’d missed some announcement or other.
Course, I could just get Sandbox and start making my own theme, but I’m slow, and clothing something entirely naked is going to take a lot of time that I don’t have to spare right now. Maybe, though, that’s the way to go.
Just curious, that’s all.
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