which states:

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

I am almost tempted to use this one, because if GPL is boilt down to its core, this is basically what (as I understand) is meant by it. People, companies, evil can do whatever the crap they like with the work GPL’ed.

If those are the conditions to get my 10 something themes re-listed on the themeviewer for the community, so be it. My PR dropped recently from 6 to 5 anyway, so I am clearly not in for the link juice anyway.

WTF PL’ed themes mean you can also remove the footer link/change whatever you like as desired.
It would be nice however to retain it to show some appreciation.

Keep you posted,
jez

You can try the demo on my themeviewer or check out some sample excerpts below.
Resources as usual at http://www.h4x3d.com/themes/feather/rainbow-feather-resources/

Note: In case you are trying the theme and see plenty of ??? instead of the text you will need to install the east-asian language pack for your OS. Since this is a localized version of my Rainbow Feather theme the target group will be able to display the theme just fine. See below screenshots

Now only hours away (I post the first media here today and go public Monday) of a major new release of Rainbow Feather with widget support and several languages I decided to change the license accommodating my work to the Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA, which means you are of course allowed to remix, modify, exchange, distribute, host my themes and material. However two parts of the license remain intact: you need to attribute my work, which I believe is fair since I spent numerous (literally) of hours working on my themes. It is good karma and a nice thing to not remove my attribution; then also, except with written permission, you are not allowed to use my work commercially, which means resell my themes, add your link to add ‘because you are some theme hosting site’ or similar. Again, for specifics, please drop me a line. And now get active, get busy, get remixing!

Questions over questions… I find it really sad that the Themeviewer has been closed to Updates for such a long time.
I have fixed my Rainbow Feather Theme in August 2007 already and still people get the old version from the Themeviewer. I manually contact every single Rainbow Feather user and tell them to get the fixed version which takes care of the Internet Explorer 6 png-transparency issue. Also it is now valid xhtml and css, a good feature that many themes lack!

If the people at the official Themeviewer need help, why not address to the always helping community?
There are so many bright heads out there that fix WordPress bugs everyday without any pay – people developing plugins, people posting news and so on. Still, the Themeviewer is closed down. If you were to ask for help, I would volunteer and I am sure some 100 other people would, too! You can discuss this matter in the official WordPress Support forums

Obviously, some changes are being made: for instance was the theme download counter reset – but not for all I believe. This is weird and I hope Matt can shed some light onto this change. Personally, I have had some 50,000+ downloads in the past 6 months for my WordPress Themes (that look different) – these 50,000 downloads is in so far realistic, when looking at my Technorati Authority and Rank (26,000+ reactions, 390th ranked website) – so this leaves me stumbling, why are some counts reset and others not.
Or were all themes reset and my themes are simply not that well demanded nowadays? Another possibility of course… I must admit!

Look at the following figures for clarity:

My Technorati Ranking

Rainbow Feather Theme on Themeviewer

Talian Theme Theme on Themeviewer

Talian figures

Why are those themes the most downloaded themes? Red Secret for instance has some 900 downloads?

yours,
jez

p.s. also if you dont have posts in the yellow area:
check the single.php or page.php or whatever file and look out for

a function at the top saying something like ?cat=5

this outputs the posts from category 5.
you have to change that to a category which you have.
check the wordpress admin “manage” -> categories and see the id of the category you want shown there.
hope that helps!

Due to an exam that is coming up at 11th January I have to pause my work at the moment – I have finished translating 8 themes so far (it is really a lot of work)

Regarding his question, I hope it is not too bold of me to ask everyone to hang on until the 14th of January for me to send/upload the files.
When I do stuff, I do it right – I want to offer the PSD files (that I was hogging till now) to everyone who wants to translate my work.

I really appreciate every effort and thank you a lot. Happy new year!

& #199; or the easier to remember & Ccedil;

– it is the Latin capital letter C with cedilla who wouldn’t have guessed?!

Anyhow, with work for my mini-company at university stashing up I had little time so far – next exam is coming up at 11th January, so I will kick-start the translations with full-speed. While translating all my themes from English to Portuguese (Brazilian) I will fix numerous bugs and take out some items that people have complained about.

For instance, with the Dragee theme, I have added the “pages” tab- now pages are displayed on all sites (no idea why I did not do that earlier) – also the icons are grouped in one instance and carry one link now only.

Look at the below thumbnails and click them for some additional information.

Oh, also just realized when putting in the Tags for this post that I could add tag support maybe for all my themes!

In connection with Samba BR I am working on Portuguese translations for all my themes.
Also, I got five new themes for WordPress stashed. I will also release widgetized updates of past themes and bug fix a few minor things in the coming days. Please stay tuned. I hope the WordPress Themeviewer will also be “ready on time”. Cannot wait to update my old themes to reflect the new changes.

The themeviewer announced on December 11th that work is being done at the moment: they are trying to establish a SVN-like system for themes (as they have for plugins within days) right now. I will keep you posted with more wordpress news!

Matt writes: (quote)
“Just wanted to do a quick update for those wondering when you’ll be able to add new themes or update existing ones here in the directory. We’ve been working very hard on a new Subversion-backed database for themes that will allow you to upload themes as you did before, as a plain ZIP file, and we’re transparently check it into SVN so changes can be tracked just like we do for WordPress development.

There will also be moderation and review so that we can scan themes for XSS problems, malicious code, spam links, and other ways that people have been distributing malware themes. I’m sorry this has taken longer than I thought it would, but the problems involved with doing things “right” are non-trivial. Most importantly we want to ensure that once the re-launch is done you’ll have easy, fast, and stable access to the best and brightest in the theme world, and you’ll never have to think twice about the code you’re downloading.”

Source: http://themes.wordpress.net/blog/4426/upcoming-changes/