It’s official, WordPress themes are GPL too. Matt Mullenweg announced at the Development Blog that after consulting with the Software Freedom Law Center, it was determined that “PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL” although “artwork and CSS may be but are not required”. This means that WP theme code can be modified and distributed [...]

Update (March 25, 2008): WPDesigner.com has a new owner.
WPDesigner.com, one of the most prominent sources of quality WordPress themes by Tung Do (Small Potato aka SP), is now being but up for sale. WPDesigner is such a young site (it started in 2006), with such a young designer (he’s 21 years old) to boot.
He writes [...]

While most theme authors would release their creations for free, there are also WordPress themes that are considered premium. It’s something that’s not exactly custom-made for a design client, but something with added value that authors think would be worth paying for.
Here on Free WordPress Themes, we’ve received a few requests for removal of posted [...]

In the few months of Free WordPress Themes being online, we’ve received a few complaints from members and non-members alike. The gist: someone has uploaded their themes, but without proper attribution. Worse, these uploaded themes had sponsor links embedded somewhere (usually the footer). This means some people are making money off other people’s efforts, sometimes [...]

Sorry for the lull in posting here, folks. I’ve had a family emergency and tragedy so I took some time off of work. Now we’re trying to pick up the pieces of our lives, and of course with this, I’m trying to reroute my energies back into my blogging and design-related writings.
Here’s a great piece [...]

Last month, the big issue being discussed by the WordPress community and the blogosphere at large was that of sponsored themes. The concept of sponsored themes is not entirely new.–it has been used by designers to monetize their creations for some time now. The basic idea is this:

The theme will include at least one link [...]