Interview with Matt Mullenweg and Joseph Scott on the WordPress Theme Directory
Ian Stewart of ThemeShaper has interviewed Matt Mullenweg and Joseph Scott about the recently reopened WordPress Theme Directory. You’ll get a good idea of where WordPress theming is headed—for example, automatic theme updating just like plugins—and the general vision behind the official theme repository and its guidelines.
The WordPress theme directory addresses all of these, and as a bonus allows us to do a theme update mechanism like we have for plugins and give theme authors a canonical place to track their distribution.
Since there have been over 150,000 downloads in less than a month it seems to be working.
Read the whole interview here.
Pinoy WordPress Theme: Aoi Midori
Aoi Midori is a dark, 3-column WordPress Theme created by Asrai. It has special features like recent post excerpts and post image thumbnails, so be sure to check out the instructions.
It’s named Aoi Midori ..obviously because of the color scheme. Blue Green translates to Aoi Midori in Japanese. Yeah I suck at naming things. smiley You can change the color scheme if you know CSS. You can make it Pink, Orange or Red..whatever works for you.
WordPress Theme Directory moves to WordPress Extend
You might remember that the official repository of WordPress themes was once hosted at themes.wordpress.net, but unfortunately had to close down for several reasons. Today, WordPress Themes has reopened at a new location at WordPress Extend, a fitting parallel to the Plugins section.
Bringing the new theme directory under the WordPress “extend” umbrella allowed us to take advantage of all the infrastructure that has already been built up to support WordPress.org. If you’ve browsed through the plugin directory, you’ll feel right at home in the new theme directory.
Aside from having the privilege of being at the official site of WordPress, themes uploaded there will be more convenient to update for ordinary WordPress users, as they have done with the automatic plugin updater already built into the latest version of WP.
However, theme authors, keep in mind that you must meet several requirements to get your themes listed. As with the recent development on the old themes.wordpress.net, themes with hidden, paid, or sponsored links are not allowed.
In order to be added to the directory each theme must meet the following
requirements:
- A single zip file, with all of the files themes file included.
- There must be a style.css file containing:
- Name (which must be unique to the directory)
- Tags
- Version (in the format of x.x or x.x.x and must be unique to the theme)
- Image align classes: img.centered, img.alignright, img.alignleft,
.alignright, .alignleft- The screenshot file name must be
screenshot.png, and be a
real screenshot of the theme, not a splash screen.- Licensing must be GPL compatible.
- No hidden, paid or sponsored links in the theme. Links back to the
author’s site are fine.- The theme must be your own original work.
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- Brightness
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- Overstand
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- The Unstandard
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Check out the rest of the website for more excellent themes that will fit your every need.
Pinoy WordPress Theme: Coffee Prince
Coffee Prince is a 2-column WordPress theme inspired by the Korean drama of the same name. It’s very girly and makes use of pixelated graphical elements overflowing with kawaii-ness (cuteness).
This theme was designed by Alyssa Bithao, also known as Ayei, of Kawaii Feenque. You can check out her other equally kawaii themes in her free WordPress themes page.
Pinoy WordPress Theme: Zine Style
Zine Style, as the name suggests, is a magazine-style WordPress theme by ChiQ Montes.
It’s my first time to Release a Magazine Style Wordpress Theme, and no this isn’t a premium theme at all. You get to download it for free. This theme has a lot of room for content mainly because its design is subtle yet effective on the eyes.
It follows the look of most premium magazine themes out there, which is a very “in” trend and proves WordPress be useful for more than just blogging.
Pinoy WordPress Theme: Midnight Makoy
Midnight Makoy is a dark, 3-column WordPress theme by Yan of FubarGenre.
Midnight Makoy started as an alternative design for the Himantayon Pro theme, which I created for Himantayon.com back in August. I used more or less the same design elements as in Himantayon Pro, but with an entirely different color scheme. Here’s hoping you’d like it.
It uses a blue and dark gray color scheme and supports the Gravatar and Pagenavi plugins. Download and preview the theme here.
Pinoy WordPress Theme: Wowza - World of Warcraft WordPress Theme
Wowza is a free World of Warcraft inspired WordPress theme by Kevin Codamon, a Filipino problogger and the editor in chief of Level Up! Games Philippines.
The theme has 3 columns, a customizable header, widgets support, and of course, fancy images revolving around the World of Warcraft.
You can download and preview the theme here. Looking forward to the Starcraft 2 theme!
Pinoy WordPress Theme: Tiffany Blue
Tiffany Blue is a theme for WordPress created by Filipino designer Ia Lucero, inspired by the official color of Tiffany & Co.
It started with the color I wanted to paint the walls of my room with. Of course I wanted blue. But something not too blue. I ended up choosing a very icy aquamarine (as noted by the man who did the painting), but continued to be fascinated by the remote regions of cyan.
Then I discovered Tiffany Blue and its reputation of all things luxurious and romantic. It is Tiffany & Co.’s official color (Pantone Matching System number 1837, the founding year of the company!), whose petite boxes contain strands of silver and drops of diamonds. Though for me, having the cute boxes would be enough.
Tiffany Blue is a runner up in the Sandbox theme design competition held a few months back. You can check out a live preview via sndbox.org’s theme switcher (select Tiffany Blue from the dropdown box). You can download the theme here.
