Is it possible for anyone to submit a theme?
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Hi,
I would like to know whether its possible to submit a theme?IF yes what are the rules/criteria to be followed?Please advise.
Thanks
Pragan -
In practice, they don’t take any notice of the licence. We have non-commercial themes and CC-Attribution (non-GPL) themes on here. And if it doesn’t work on MU they butcher it until it does ;)
If you’re thinking of designing a theme for wordpress.com, don’t bother. There are literally thousands of themes for Matt to pick from. Trying to second-guess his taste will just lead you to making yet another blue/grey/green thing with a massive blue header, and we have enough of them already. But if you want to design a theme for wordpress mu, go ahead.
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I don’t see them adding in a commerically licenced (ie free for non-commerical use but you’ve got to pay for commerial use) theme though.
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Going on past theme choices I don’t think that would concern them either. If they liked it, they’d just take it. There are multiple grounds on which they could attempt to justify this (blogs are free so it’s not really commercial, all themes rely on GPL code so are covered by the GPL, theme has been rewritten for wordpress.com so is not really the same theme, people who dare to charge for themes deserve to get screwed, etc. etc.)
If the worst came to the worst and they got sued, I bet Automattic could afford better lawyers than any theme creator.
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I noticed about 20 themes (I didn’t count them) to pick from hosted at wordpress.com…..this is OK but rather limited. I also found a themetoolkit which lets you adjust features of your theme, although not allowed when hosted at wordpress.com (no doubt to make sure you pay to be unique).
I understand this, but couldn’t a system be set up where people who want to create and submit themes for use by the community free of charge (and vetted beforehand for malicious code by the admins) could be voted on and if it gets enough support, would become one of the themes we all can choose from.
As things stand all I’ve been able to do for my blogs is create a custom header image in Photoshop and upload it. The look is close to what I want, but not the colour scheme or dimensions……theme creation is not difficult with some web design skills.
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These are the three options for customizing you blog at wordpress
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=6406&page&replies=18As far as systems being set up and new policies being introduced re: themes you will have to submit your ideas directly to sysadmin on Monday.
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The thing is you’re looking at WordPress themes. We’re running a different platform called WordPress Multiuser. A lot of the themes created for regular wordpress will not work on the WPMu platform without heavy editing and/ or removal of features from the theme. For example any theme with the toolkit that you mention breaks on WPMu and will not run. (And that’s from a lot of experience dealing with that darn thing.) That’s why we have the older version of Ocadia theme still because the newer versions uses that toolkit.
And it’s 62 themes :)
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I stand corrected on the number. I also didn’t realize that it was on a multi-user setup, and that it was different.
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Theme competitions are a LOT of work. You need someone to collect the zips, comb through the dozen or so php files in each one for malicious code, upload them somewhere everyone can see them, and invent some kind of theme browser that won’t crash under the strain.
Nobody goes to this kind of trouble unless they really, really want the traffic and pagerank a competition would generate, and wordpress.com are doing just fine without it. A Sandbox stylesheet competition would be less work-intensive and might encourage more people to buy the custom CSS upgrade, but, again, I don’t think staff have the time or inclination to start running design contests.
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Dirk, not a problem. I myself was just curious as to the number since you mentioned it. :)
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