Theme Recommendations

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  wank · Member · Nov 28, 2007 at 12:58 am

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  I see your point about the Sandbox competition entries but I wonder if that’s fair.

  To be completely honest, I don’t think Automattic liked any of the entries enough to install them here. They got as far as putting Blueberry in their SVN repository for testing, but that’s the only one. It sort of falls into the same category as themes.wordpress.net: everything there has already been looked at and rejected.

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  rosclarke · Member · Nov 28, 2007 at 1:27 am

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  That’s a shame. Takimata would be a great addition, imo. And Timethief and the others are quite right about the dearth of ‘girly’ themes. That’s basically why I got CSS – I like a nice pink blog.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Nov 28, 2007 at 3:24 am

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  Blueberry has some bugs that we’ve fixed, and some more that still need fixing. We plan to launch it once those are dealt with. The others haven’t been rejected, we haven’t got to them yet.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2007 at 11:49 pm

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  @tellyworth
  Is there some sort of a filter here http://themes.wordpress.net/ that we can use to have only the GPL themes displayed?

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  wank · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 1:17 am

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  You can search on ‘GPL’ to turn up the eight themes which have ‘GPL’ in the theme description, but that’s as far as it goes.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 1:24 am

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  @wank
  OMG I actually found one that I like when I did that.

  @tellyworth
  Please consider this theme for adaptation and addition to the themes available to wordpress.com bloggers http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1484/dkret2-10/

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  rosclarke · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 2:12 am

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  I agree, I like that one too!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 5:00 am

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  Yay! Two of us like it. :-)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 5:08 am

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  Here’s a link to better test site to view it on (the designer’s) http://diekretzschmars.de/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 5:11 am

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  Add a third for dkret2, it’s a very clean theme with great colors. I particularly like all the little graphic touches such those in the post metadata and the bullets. The quote marks in the blockquote need work though.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 5:55 am

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  YAY! three bloggers like it … be still my beating heart… ;-)
  I love the little graphic touches. And yes the blockquotes need work. They are all “closing” quotes. Aside from that I would be happy to get to use this theme as is … PLEASE

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 6:46 am

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  Only other concerns are widget width. The seem pretty narrow.

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  santm · Member · Nov 29, 2007 at 6:18 pm

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  Please add Shinra House theme

  http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3131/shinra-house-blu-2c-10/

  -thanks

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  wank · Member · Nov 30, 2007 at 8:35 pm

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  There is no clear licensing on that theme. As stated above, you will have to contact the designer and get a declaration that it is GPL.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 30, 2007 at 8:39 pm

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  @thesacredpath
  I agree that the widget width seems narrow. http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1484/dkret2-10/
  But I’m hoping that because I’m not into much sidebar “tat” that it will suffice.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 30, 2007 at 8:42 pm

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  @timethief
  I’m not much into sidebar “tat” either so it would work for me as well.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 30, 2007 at 8:44 pm

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  And, if it is adapted and offered we could change the width via css editing which I , of course, know nothing about. ;-)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 30, 2007 at 8:52 pm

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  Agreed.

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  advice4you · Member · Dec 1, 2007 at 1:24 pm

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  Hello! It’s very nice theme please add it http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/itheme/

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  timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2007 at 7:09 pm

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  @advice4you
  It’s my understanding that ONLY GPL (General Public License) themes without sponsored links in them are used by wordpress.com and the theme you pointed to is not one of them.

  This is what it says about the theme on the designer’s site:

  Note: this theme requires Javascript in order for the sidebar to work (drag & drop).
  License
  By downloading and using this theme, you agree to the following terms:
  * You may NOT resell this theme
  * A link back to N.Design Studio must be retained in the footer (either modified or unmodified)
  * You may use this theme for personal or commercial projects
  * You may modify, translate or distribute