Category archives: WordPress

The 80/20 Rule chop and screwed for WordPress

Here’s an interesting quote from Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married” movie chop and screwed for WordPress: There comes a point in time when our software is most likely only able to offer us 80% of what we need. Then there are times when we will find a similar package that fills in those voids, ... Read More

WPFreemium Theme 2.0 Released!

Now that school’s finally over (finals next week), I was finally able to put in some time to update the long over due WPFreemium theme 2.0. It fixes a lot of browser quirks and an overall face lift. The fist release of this theme was a striped down version of what I had developed for bloggingtips ... Read More

WPFreemium – Premium in Quality, Freemium in Price

UPDATE #3: WP Freemium Theme 2.0 is out! UPDATE #2: Demo is up! UPDATE #1: I forgot to mention,  in order to fill all the information being displayed on the author pages, you’ll have to edit your user profile page and fill out those fields accordingly. As promised last week, I’m releasing the theme I originally intended on ... Read More

WP News Theme Update and Matt Mullenweg’s views on Premium WordPress Themes

In this article, I’ll be giving you an update with the progress I’ve been making for my premium WordPress theme as well as Matt Mullenweg’s views on Premium WordPress Themes and what he thinks about it. Premium theme authors be ready for a sight change in business models. WP News Theme In the previous article ... Read More

More on WordPress Premium Standards and Features

In my debate about What Premium in Premium Wordpress Themes mean, I mentioned that WP theme designers need to have some level of premium status and standard feature set in order to be even considered premium. Small Potato tackles this by Raising Personal Standard for Paid WordPress Themes. In that article, he gives his personal opinion ... Read More

What does Premium in Premium Wordpress Themes mean?

As you might have heard, there’s been a lot of discussion lately about premium wordpress themes and whether there here to stay. Seeing lots of popular theme designers like Brain Garner and Adii (and maybe even, Michael Pollock?) jump start the market with popular magazine style layouts (which seems to be the “in” thing now), ... Read More

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