Theme Recommendations
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They are using MU here, but it is not the stock version you can download. They make a bunch of changes (typically via back end plugins).
Blogger is a different platform and you cannot compare the two. Apples and oranges.
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I’d like to put in a vote for Andreas01 as a WordPress.com theme: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/wp-andreas01
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Restrictions make sense if they are addressed to protect the system. Themes? WS.com has many, and good. I find WS.com excellent for those, like me that even do not know HTML writing. My only suggestion is to improve de STATS a member gets, since WS.com already uses Google Analytics the info is there. Great and thanks
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Your responses strike me as not entirely honest, in that they don’t address a few things implicit in what you were replying to.
Yes, keeping just anyone from monkeying with PHP is a good thing. However, I think what most were asking for here was along the lines of customizing CSS (which WP.com charges for), or “Theme Options” programmed into the theme, as included in seven of the themes WordPress.Com currently has available (Daydream, DePo Masthead, Hemingway, Regulus, Sandbox, Supposedly Clean, Vigilance). I’ve no idea how much trouble it is making such themes workable in the WP.com environment, but since it has been done seven times already (and maybe more, that’s just going by the theme tags), it’s clearly possible to do it again.
Neither CSS customization (which is what, I am guessing, most here are really looking for) nor Theme Options involve letting anyone mess with PHP. Giving users more control, so long as it does not put other users in any kind of jeopardy, can only be a good thing.
On a related note, I understand why javascript is banned, but it severely limits the usefulness of stats-tracking sites like StatCounter. WP’s stats make up for that in some ways, but definitely not in others. Are there plans to either make WP’s stats more robust in the information the user can access, or to make some kind of widget for certain stat-tracking sites available (StatCounter or Woopra, e.g.)?
And, while it is good to be able to embed from YouTube, embedding things is becoming so common that not being able to do so from other sites (Hulu, Archive.org, Jamendo, Blip.TV, many others) becomes more and more of a deficit, from a user perspective. Is there any sort of compromise that would allow general embeds without putting WP.com at risk?
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Sorry, I left an implication in that which I didn’t mean. thesacredpath, I did NOT mean to imply dishonesty — please substitute “not entirely forthright” for “not entirely honest”.
My main point was that a lot of what people seem to be asking for is NOT access to PHP, but other, less dangerous forms of customization. The PHP became kind of a straw man, as you didn’t deal with the other possibilities after dismissing that one.
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true blogger is different than wordpress, was comparing them as blogging tools and in terms of customization not the backend technology they run under
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true blogger is different than wordpress, was comparing them as blogging tools and in terms of customization not the backend technology they run under
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@ djasonfleming
1. Google owns blogger and google has a bazillion servers and datacenters worldwide and putting blogger onto those servers does not even make a hair-width blip in their costs or bandwidth usage. The additional costs of running blogger probably don’t even qualify as pocket lint, much less pocket change, to Google.
2. WordPress does not have a “sugar-daddy” like Google, so all the maintenance, upgrades, bug fixing, servers, datacenters and bandwidth have to be paid for out of .COM’s pockets. The adsense that they occasionally show on our blogs, and the paid upgrades are what pay to keeping .COM up and running. No income at .COM = no .COM.
3. WordPress adopts and uses GPL licensed themes that are created by independent designers. They do not have a team of theme designers on staff to crank out themes. I for one would certainly welcome themes with more built-in color schemes/options.
4. The paid CSS upgrade costs $14.97 per year, which is $0.041 (4.1 cents) per day, which is hardly outrageous.
5. Due to the multi-user structure of wordpress.COM, they have to be very conscious of security, and that is why they have developed the shortcodes for videos and such. It allows them to completely control the actual flash or javascript in the back end. This takes agreements and coordination between .COM and the video/other services, and that takes time and resources. I doubt seriously if you will ever see .COM allow a user to directly embed flash or javascript code into a blog here. There are just too many potential problems with that.
6. Virtually any video source (that has embed code) on the internet can be inserted into a wordpress.COM blog using the vodpod button for wordpress. Certainly there are a couple more steps involved, but I’ve found few sources where it does not work (CNN and other services are a different story though).
http://support.wordpress.com/videos/vodpod/
http://vodpod.com/wordpress/I stand behind my apples and oranges.
Blogger: has sugar daddy with deep pockets and massive infrastructure
WordPress.COM: has no sugar daddy with deep pockets and massive infrastructure
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Can’t say enough good things about “Manifest” by Jim Barraud.
http://jimbarraud.com/2009/03/19/manifest/All content. Lovely typography. No frills. Simplicity itself.
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I’d like to put in a request for Lightword
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/lightword
It’s one of your featured themes on the WordPress.org, so surely it deserves to be here.
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I would really like to see the pyrmont theme inside of wordpress. It is a great theme for people who like to do their photo uploads, yet still stylish enough to allow for a professional blog.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/pyrmont-v2
It is released under the GPL…
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I’d like to see the panarma theme offered it has rotating header images and custom link colors I am using it on my self hosted blog and would love my wordpress.com blogs to match that. It is the most stable theme I have used, it is GPL and it is a clean beautiful looking theme. I have 30 different panoramas that I have taken that rotate and it is nice to have a little variety. You can see it working at http://blog.spiritnexus,org
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oh the theme maker is here http://themocracy.com/2009/04/panorama-free-wordpress-theme/ and itis on wordpress.org as well
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HELP! https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/elegant-grunge-103
I need help, Im swedish and no good in english but on the wordpress.com site there where a link to that forum above (that I linked to)It said that I could leave a mess and idea for theme and I want that one (elegant-grunge) you can get it if you get member on bloggproffs.se but on that site your media space is only 50mb. And I have a free wordpress.com (swedish) and need help, I realy want that theme on my site, can anybody help my?
Thanks
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http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/elegant-grunge
here is the theme, can I please get this to my free wordpress…please!!!
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I would like too ask if you can add http://www.wptmp.com/preview/1450/ its a soccer theme. We have a site for our amateur soccer team, but there is not one theme to function good as a soccer site.
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