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kickass, I think that’s a perfectly acceptable model. Think of the free themes as advertisements and marketing collateral for your design business. The more people who use them, the better for you.

denis: we’ll have to agree to disagree but again my statement was extremely simplified. As it happens, an extensive interview with ESR came to my attention today which may give interested parties better understanding:

https://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html

Sorry masquerade but that wasn’t the question. It was:

“1. Is there a website that SELLS wordpress themes?
2. Would you, do you support it?
3. How do you feel about it?”

In any case, unless you’re the forum police here to keep us in bounds…

Well, you might update the file to print the message in Spanish as well as English…

I like it, some elements I haven’t seen before or often. What font are you using for the post titles?

[Standard IANAL preface] GPL doesn’t prevent anyone from selling their work–look at Red Hat Linux, for instance. All it says (to greatly simplify a long legal document) is that you must provide source code to customers and you must give back to the community changes made to the underlying product. Since themes clearly do the former and generally speaking the latter doesn’t apply, someone could sell them. However, as mentioned, there are so many free themes available one wonders how big a market would be for paid versions.

I think if someone has true design skills he or she would be more likely to make money customizing themes and/or supplying graphics.

I spoke too soon about all my sites having this cool theme working. One site is having the problem described by cam at the start of the thread but chmod the plugin and images files didn’t make any difference. Truly one of those uggh things but helped appreciated.

“What do you think people would want to know?”

This is a support forum, not a marketing platform. So I think people will want to know specifically what question your post asks–certainly that’s what nearly all the other messages on this board use as the topic title. To call it interesting for yourself doesn’t add any information, everyone who posts thinks their message is interesting or they wouldn’t bother with it. Then to come in with snide responses to someone who posts helpful answers here constantly and who did in his initial response to you, makes me think you have a strange definition of interesting and useful and that what you want is fawning praise rather than constructive feedback.

Okay, this was pilot error. I somehow didn’t get the wp-admin-tiger directory created under plugins, only the wp-admin-tiger_files. So Tiger showed up as a plugin to use but then the system couldn’t find the files. Now it works properly though I am still curious to know why the extra directory layer is useful/desirable.

alphaoide: If you’re answering me, I am using Firefox; if not, ignore this.

I’m having a stranger problem than this. I get no error or warning message (at least that I can see) either on activating Tiger or accessing an admin page but activating it (1.3, the latest) has absolutely zero effect. I do have it running on two other servers with no such difficulty and, as a test, I installed SpotPress which works fine. I mean there is absolutely no visual evidence that the Tiger plugin is running. Any clues? Please?

Probably the only realistic way for now to get what you want is to create a Technorati watchlist and use the watchlist’s RSS feed as the source to a plugin like CG-Feedread or mcRSSlist. There are other free services, like PubSub, which you can use in place of Technorati but I know that Technorati can do this since I just checked their site.

There are literally dozens of such apps, depending on whether you’re on Windows, Max or Linux and whether you want to pay or have it for free.

Are you sure those webmasters didn’t put the blog in the root directory? Still, to try and answer your question, you probably need to read up on mod_rewrite to get the answer. It’s not something that WordPress can do for you.

Google doesn’t seem to put ads on the cache pages (ex), nor does Yahoo! The ads are on the search pages. So, despite brainwidth being correct IMO, the license doesn’t really come in to play.

@macmanx: Maybe I don’t know how to read the list properly, I’ve not used trac or svn, but if I look at the most recent entry on the trac page in your comment (https://trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/2614) I see a long list of files–several dozen–including a bunch of gifs and jpgs.