Posts by contempoinc

I’d recommend using the Isotope plugin, its the newer more advanced version of Masonry done by the same guy.

Bedros said

digitalscience said
Not that I make the same per month that I use to selling on ActiveDen… but I can say when top authors are pulling in fairly decent amounts consistently per month, and you have plenty of free time not having to work 9-5 during the week like everyone else… how much more incentive does one need besides healthy income, and more leisure time? Surely that is enough… I don’t see how bells and whistles, like rings, and custom profiles will make a difference…. and I doubt aspiring authors who want to climb to the top are doing it for the incentives.. you can’t really beat passive income and more leisure time, really the authors are buying their own incentives with their profits and I doubt they’re not missing anything additional from Envato. Also the way these marketplaces work, once you have high sales, and good exposure – you definitely have an advantage over new comers, so anything additional, like ad campaigns would be overkill and just keep a bigger divide between top sellers and new comers…

+1

+2, all the current elite incentives are a kind of a joke I could care less about rings and business cards, I’m not here to earn trinkets this is a business. I thought the ad campaigns might be great but I did t see an increase maybe partly due to the terrible ad design with no call to action. I really think the program needs to be looked at again and revised/molded into something actually beneficial to elite authors.

I don’t see any reason why this would violate any of TF’s rules, as long as the persons has purchased the theme and they’re verified on your end there’s no problem sending the updated files with other outside methods, email, support site, automatic updater, etc…

Congrats guys!

WPWiseOwl said
So I really appreciate when theme authors who do it this way ( or similar ) – http://tgmpluginactivation.com/ Otherwise, it’s usually just extra theme bloat when it doesn’t get used. It’s almost like the addition of crap ware onto a new store bought PC that you never get the chance to opt out of. Ha, ha.

That’s exactly the way I do it, as should any author including plugins with their themes.

jonathan01 said

Ivor said
“To help clarify this point, I reached out to the Software Freedom Law Center, the world’s preëminent experts on the GPL, which spent time with WordPress’s code, community, and provided us with an official legal opinion. One sentence summary: PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.” – Software Freedom Law Center back in 2009.

As a note and an addition to this statement – this is for producing themes for WordPress, the rules for taking part in a WordCamp are “different” (must be in the ‘spirit’ of the WordPress community – which they are saying means everything in a theme should be GPL 100%) and therefore the issue arises.

Looks like I’ll never be contributing or volunteering for a WordCamp.

The only way to fly: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

jonathan01 said
Question: how will you allow your buyers to upgrade with new versions of the plugin for any of these ‘premium’ sliders – as a buyer cannot download when there is an update and this could cause their sliders to stop working in the future if something breaks due to a jQuery update or WP update etc.

Just curious as this is why I do not include any plugins from CC.

Jonathan

Simple, we as the author will grab the latest update of that plugin and re-packaged it with our theme, outline it in the changelog and upload to TF. At least thats how I’m doing it, with my themes that were grandfathered in before the new license changes.

Diet coke, or water

Bought my first house back in 09, its definitely a great feeling. Going to be purchasing my second home towards the end of the year.