Comments on: What does Premium in Premium Wordpress Themes mean?

By: casey

casey — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:30:38 +0000

My name is Casey and I really enjoyed your article! I enjoyed it soo much that I only wrote “gffyugddfydgyufl” because I was that excited!
By doing so I encouraged Ptah to edit my comment and reword my excitement into something a little more meaningful.
Sorry Ptah for wasting everybody’s time with my nonsense, it won’t happen again!

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:17:37 +0000

@Steven Snell: anytime, you’ve got some awesome content! I’m a daily reader on your blog.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:28:40 +0000

Thanks for the mention

By: Jason DeVelvis

Jason DeVelvis — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:13:38 +0000

Great discusssion – fits perfectly with a post I made a few days ago: http://pressography.com/wordpress/what-makes-a-premium-theme-premium/

I agree that premium themes are here to stay, and I’m really surprised they didn’t get here sooner, actually. It’s really too bad I’m not a designer, or I’d throw my hat into the ring with designs and make some money

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:46:06 +0000

I agree that there should be some standard features which every premium theme should offer to attain that “premium” status.

At the moment the line between some free and some premium themes is not so clear. I’ve come across some awful premium themes and some fantastic free themes, and at the moment the only real division is the payment issue.

At the same time, if someone wants to charge for their work, fair enough. It’s up to the buyer to decide whether or not to buy, and it’s not like there aren’t thousands of free themes out there, or a growing number of premium themes with great design, innovative functionality and good support.

It’s funny that the only real statement that WordPress (or Automattic) has made about premium themes was the proposal of a marketplace to flog them to the .com users, and allow self-hosted users to use them for free…