[theme-reviewers] Number of Free WordPress Themes

[Noumaan Yaqoob]

@angelo just checked the requirements for theme review and it looks so
complicated. These requirements and guidelines do ensure quality I
suppose. People who are distributing their themes as Premium themes,
how do we know that they have a quality theme that follows similar
guidelines as Official Theme Repository?

So how people can be encouraged to develop free themes? How about
Wordpress starts giving some sort of stickers/buttons/banners to the
people who contribute free themes? A sticker that just says I am a
WordPress Theme Contributor or something like that?




On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Angelo Bertolli
<angelo.bertolli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 07:25 AM, Noumaan Yaqoob wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking around for data about the number of Free WordPress
>> themes uploaded to WordPress.org's Themes repository.
>>
>> I feel that the number of high quality Free WordPress themes is
>> decreasing and someone should do something about promoting GNU/GPL
>> licensed wordpress themes. I have nothing against Premium themes and I
>> think it is fine if people want to get paid for the effort they put
>> in. But I also believe that we should keep the community spirit of
>> free software alive.
>>
>> So any ideas on how GNU GPL licensed free WordPress themes should be
>> promoted and how we can encourage more people to contribute?
>
>
> Part of the reason is probably because barrier to entry increases over
> time.  The time and skill needed to make a WP theme now is much
> different than it was for WP 1.5--and I think that makes a difference.
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