Posts by Weborithm

Interesting topic guys/girls.

If I had to guess the reason they’re accepting a lot more themes now is probably because they’ve seriously re-vamped the pricing and will introduce a tiered system. Like a department store, you have your local store branded t-shirt at $9.99, Calvin Klein at $25 and Armani at $75. Not saying that’s what it will be like here, just a guess.

I’m hoping that’s what’s in the pipeline though. It’s what I would do anyway.

If you look at the WordPress.org themes, they have 1515 themes currently with close to 50 million downloads (granted, most of those numbers are just people re-downloading updates). Even if you count 20% of that number, it’s 10 million! I don’t think all the themes combined here have been sold a million times. So there’s still a lot of growth you guys can experience. Also, the WordPress.org themes, though lacking in design aesthetics, do make up for in technical ability and coding with WordPress standards (most of the time). Which is not always the case here. I’ve independently fixed a lot of things wrong with some of the top 20 themes being sold here for clients who have bought them and wanted customizations. It was painfully profitable.

Community and all that is great, but they’re a business. They’ve always been a business. Perhaps you feel the enthusiasm has been diminishing lately, I’m sure the higher ups are still very passionate about what they do. But, at the end of the day they still have numbers to crunch.

I’m not defending them, just offering a perspective which they don’t know how to relate to you guys without getting too involved in business speak. I’ve been selling my own stuff independently for quite some time now, so I can kinda relate to my presumption of their strategy (which, again, is just my mind thinking…nothing official).

Anyway, best of luck to all of you.

Don’t get intimidated by the amount of customization options other themes offer, focus on uniqueness and originality.

duotive said

Come on. Who will be foolish enough to buy a theme just to rate it down. Rather, he will concentrate more on his work to sell HIS work better.

:)) you never know…

Lol. Well, if someone is really doing such thing, I would like to say him.. “Spend those $35 to buy some food for needy people”.

Just happened again…. i am starting to hate someone…

Maybe your theme deserves 4 stars?

If a user buys your theme they’re free to rate it what they like, after all they paid for it. It’s not perfect but it’s what Envato has in place.

When all is said and done, who really cares. Let’s all have a cup of tea.

1 sugar and a spot of milk for me please!

@wpdesignerph – Be inspired, create and don’t forget to give back. Best of luck to you.

I have some XHTML /CSS template I’m sure you would like to see in your downloads section.

Don’t forget to follow my items on your profile page

I think it will be photosky (stock image marketplace).

Looks like the plane is falling, would look much better if it was flying up!

Thank you, I think you got it! I was just browsing one day and came across this plug in and didn’t pay much attention at the time, so I thought it was a template. But I think this is what I saw, and if not, it does just fine, again thanks, James

That’s my plugin, if you have any questions let me know.

I just don’t get it – I appreciate there is a little more involved on the development side, but I for one would be prepared to pay a little extra for this essential feature (see my original post above).

Then just hire a developer and have it custom built for yourself. Apparently you need it more than anyone else here.

Do you know what the exact issue is?

The right official did not get bribed enough.

If you think I’m joking or being sarcastic about that, you’re wrong. I couldn’t be more honest.

My rates start from $350. I would have to see your design first along with more information, like functionality required, to give an accurate quote.

You can contact me via my profile page if you are interested.