Comments on: WordPress To Host Premium Themes Marketplace

By: Danielle Lane

Danielle Lane — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:24:48 +0000

With havin so much content do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright infringement? My website has a lot of completely unique content I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it looks like a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my authorization. Do you know any methods to help prevent content from being ripped off? I’d genuinely appreciate it.

By: Dave Coveney

Dave Coveney — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:12:36 +0000

I may be late to the debate, but I gave it some thought and decided that our company should participate.

We do closed, proprietary themes for people who want custom designs, but we also now do GPL themes to give to the wider audience. Given that WordPress.com could take these GPL themes and do what they like with them anyway, it’s quite nice to be able to get money for them in return for giving WordPress.com first rights.

So what Matt’s doing, so far as I can see, is arranging a method by which GPL designers can potentially profit more significantly from their themes than currently. I can’t see why he’s getting so much flack for the plan. Non-GPL designers… well, you benefit from a GPL product (WordPress) anyway, so just continue as you are – you’re hardly losing!

By: snehal

snehal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:55:18 +0000

maybe http://wpremix.com/home/ will be one of them?

By: Jeremy Running Photography » Viva La Revolucion!

Jeremy Running Photography » Viva La Revolucion! — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:28:51 +0000

[...] Among the proposals under consideration, and I stress that, since this is not a done deal but an idea, is the selling of Premium WordPress Themes to WordPress.com bloggers. In Matt’s post, he comes up with a 50-50 split as an example, which has outraged many, and created a lot of speculation and false accusations. [...]

By: Lula

Lula — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:40:45 +0000

Netter Blog. Falls Ihr einen neuen kostenlosen Webkatalog haben wollt, schaut mal rein.

By: Wordpress To Host Premium Themes Marketplace | Blogger Trail

Wordpress To Host Premium Themes Marketplace | Blogger Trail — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:18:34 +0000

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By: Theme Marketplace: Update and Rundown : The Blog Herald

Theme Marketplace: Update and Rundown : The Blog Herald — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:02:53 +0000

[...] I first read the post about the WordPress Theme Marketplace, I didn’t know it was for WordPress.com. That doesn’t change the validity of many of my [...]

By: Criticizing or supporting trends without revealing monetary interests » Reader Appreciation Project

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:03:35 +0000

[...] company, through WordPress Marketplace, will get a 50% percentage cut from WordPress theme sales. I was more than right after all in my original post: Matt had and Matt has financial interest in [...]

By: sethuhdiah

sethuhdiah — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:31:47 +0000

50/50 is too much. Why have 1 centralized place for the best premium themes and lose half of your time? Independent designers can still work together to make sufficient wp themes. Anyway I think its bullcrap, wordpress is supposed to be one of the best open source tools out there. Now their tryin to steal half our money.

You just inspired me to buy a new domain: http://www.buywpthemes.com. I tell you what, ill split profit 25/75 :)

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:18:33 +0000

Meanwhile, even Moveable Type is letting you run your own theme viewer: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/developer/plugins/style-repositories.html

By: WordPress.com to offer Theme Marketplace, and why I’ll be on it

WordPress.com to offer Theme Marketplace, and why I’ll be on it — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:12:31 +0000

[...] Tony Hung points out that this should be a great way for upcoming designers to reach a big audience, and I agree – it sure is. But for people like me, who’s used to charge quite a bit more, it isn’t exactly a no-brainer, right? [...]

By: Donncha’s Friday Links at Holy Shmoly!

Donncha’s Friday Links at Holy Shmoly! — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:35:25 +0000

[...] announced the new WordPress.com Theme Marketplace. Some sites unfairly jumped the gun before Matt posted details of the Marketplace on his blog. I love the [...]

By: Automattic Matt Does A U-Turn With Themes : Wonderful Thoughts

Automattic Matt Does A U-Turn With Themes : Wonderful Thoughts — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:03:57 +0000

[...] from Automattic the creator of WordPress blogging platform made an announcement at the WordCamp Argentina that WordPress will soon have a Themes marketplace to sell premium WordPress themes, how sweet. All [...]

By: Automattic Matt Does A U-Turn With Themes | Techie Buzz

Automattic Matt Does A U-Turn With Themes | Techie Buzz — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:16:41 +0000

[...] Matt from Automattic the creator of WordPress blogging platform made an announcement at the WordCamp Argentina that WordPress will soon have a Themes marketplace to sell premium WordPress themes, how [...]

By: Brian Gardner

Brian Gardner — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:42:45 +0000

I’ll be curious to see if this takes form, and what the time frame would be. I’m guessing that they will still be selective on which themes make it into the marketplace. I’m not sure about charging .com users, but making it free to .org users? Maybe I’m reading Matt’s post wrong, but that’s how I interpret what he’s saying.

Guess I’ll have to put my thinking cap on shall I decide to be a part of this, because my Revolution themes can’t be included.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:04:12 +0000

Wow, 50 per cent is crazy. Plain and simple. I can’t see to many good designers signing up.

By: WordPress To Host Premium Themes Marketplace

WordPress To Host Premium Themes Marketplace — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:11:21 +0000

[...] can read more about the WordPress Premium Theme Marketplace at Blog Herald, as well as my concerns and opinions on the whole [...]

By: Theme Playground | Premium Theme Marketplace from Automattic

Theme Playground | Premium Theme Marketplace from Automattic — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:08:16 +0000

[...] The Blog Herald has some news up about an announcement made at WordCamp Argentina. Even more interesting than the announcement was the commentary from David Peralty. I already commented on it, and would encourage you to head over and check it out as well. [...]

By: » Wordpress To Host Premium Themes Marketplace

» Wordpress To Host Premium Themes Marketplace — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:58:10 +0000

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By: Shortshire

Shortshire — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:32:50 +0000

Sounds like an awesome idea to put all the premium themes in one place. I won’t have to scour anymore to see all the themes.

By: WordPress Theme Marketplace: Hypocrisy from Matt? : The Blog Herald

WordPress Theme Marketplace: Hypocrisy from Matt? : The Blog Herald — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:32:46 +0000

[...] it has been announced that Automattic will create a WordPress Theme Marketplace. I have to admit, that I am not happy about this idea, at [...]

By: Elena

Elena — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:29:36 +0000

Sounds to good to believe this. An official announcement might help.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:10:11 +0000

Ha! Yeah- I thought that I’d let someone else pick up on that little irony…:-)

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:06:41 +0000

50% is a lot — but I suspect that many will still pay the commission. A case of a large part of a small pie, or small part of a very, very, very large pie. And to flog a metaphor, to some designers I’m sure the thought of such a tasty pie is tempting to pass up.

There are other aspects to this as well that harken to the general poo-pooing that Matt has done earlier in the year in the name of open source and whoops … here he is hosting premium themes, standing to make buckets (and buckets, and buckets) of cash.

But I suspect we’ll hear other voices on that matter quite soon about it. :)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:44:47 +0000

Interesting…especially when you see designers like Brian Gardner already doing this off his own back very successfully. Also, larger entities like Template Monster taking far less of a commission.