Comments on: Blogging Pro releases sponsored Wordpress theme

By: Sherif Elsisi

Sherif Elsisi — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:59:17 +0000

It’s been a while, but I have to admit that I like the orignial blogging pro theme more. It need some tweeks, but the design to make search box stand out and the color scheme makes it still my favorite.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:58:13 +0000

“Well, there is a good reason for the lack of more kickass Wordpress themes: They take time to develop. Doing good design is not only hard work, it is most often expensive.”

Writing good software takes time, is hard work, and is even more “expensive” but our community seems to have created something pretty neat, and tons of people volunteer their time into making WordPress better every day.

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:00:19 +0000

Keeping you all informed, we have said in our full text that you can remove the sponsor link if you want as it is not included under our Creative Commons Attribution. :)

But this sponsorship link pays for the designer and coders time creating the theme, and I think most people would agree, this isn’t a common, simple, boring theme. :)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:17:11 +0000

I downloaded that theme somewhere. But now that I know there is a Sponsor link on it, I may just delete it, or take it off. Most likely delete the file. I’m stingy. I want my pagerank to myself.

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By: Ben Bleikamp

Ben Bleikamp — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:19:51 +0000

I believe Chris Pearson has done this with a theme in the past.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:34:31 +0000

Yah .. I’m pretty sure that I’m not a fan of that financing sponsor on the designer’s footer. It’s great to support the designer but, to support the people who supported the designer? That’s too far off-center in my books, regardless of how in- or ob- trusive the link might be.

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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:40:12 +0000

Seems like a great idea and a win-win for everyone.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:38:26 +0000

If the theme is released as GPL, then there isn’t an issue if a user wants to know off that sponsored link.

What a lot of authors are now releasing their themes with sponsors link under an Attribution license… does the sponsors link fall under attribution?