Well the best thing for us designers is that: - It'll bring PR up for our design portfolios.. so we can sell links off it (I wouldn't personally) - Give us more exposure for our portfolios if people actually visit the links on the bottom of the page => which may lead to clients $$$
Who knows? They might get REALLY stupid and not allow any footer links whatsoever. That will certainly kill off all future submissions! I'd like to think that they're not that stupid but, from my own observations, Matt IS arrogantly stupid when it comes to things like this. I sometimes wonder if he's actually living in the same world as the rest of us. personally I think he's off with the pixies!
Oh yes.... People started making themes in 'bulk' and make only a few changes in their themes. And yes I agree most of the themes are ugly... And again, Matt and all the dorks say that people don't like sponsored themes. Okay, I'd like to hear them explain why some of the themes get over 500 downloads in just a few days? People don't like them? I see around 30-50 new users every day using my themes and that's only on Technorati.... And how can they explain I get so many comments on my homepage from people thanking my for making the themes? *sigh* And yeah, they'll let people leave the designer credit.
Lol we learn from our mistakes eh? then lets hope it becomes a disaster for WP.net so they'll bring it back
Well I just bought Myname.com yesterday so I am gonna start a portfolio for Coding and Designing hopefully we can keep Designer links in the footer
Yup... but again, we're designers we're suppose to be quite "fluid" when it comes to these type of things (earning $$ with designing) atleast no one depends on it for their sole income lol
Well you actually make some pretty damn fine themes from what I can remember, Katy, so it's quite understandable in your case. Cammie.
Actually, I'm amazed that Matt ACTUALLY made a decision! He likes to let others argue his point for him a lot of times. Then again wasn't he the guy that sold 100,000 links himself? He might say he's learned from his mistakes but it's more of a case of Google teaching him his mistakes! I'm sure if he could get away with it he would do it again in a flash. People with namby-pamby boundries are just annoying!!
Haha, this is funny! I posted on Matt's blog that I don't agree with him and he deleted my comment! I think I understand what kind of person he is....
this is just stupid. i believe even if they do it after sometime they'll regret it since the number of themes will drop dramatically. and then they'll have to allow them again!
theres still a lot of sites that accepts sponsored links for wordpress themes. i think we should start to support them.
Here is how I see the things that are happing now: CONS: - very much themes will be deleted, I believe that the most themes in the last 3-4 months were sponsored so there will be deleted a hundreds of themes - coders&designers will start using other WP theme galleries, so on themes.wordpress.net will be just a few new themes monthly - that means that visitor base will drop down - themes.wordpress.net won't make any money from AdSense (no clickers ) PROS: - 0 sponsored themes - themes that remains will get more downloads, will be more popular than now - site is going to be finally faster because of no visitors - Matt will be probably happy I think we must join together and build a strong WP theme gallery. I think money and ideas are no problem for us. And if don't build a new site, we should at least strongly promote other sites, so they become popular. BTW: Why the hell just Matt don't created a 2 new tags: Sponsored theme, Not sponsored theme??? Much less work (he just could send out a e-mail to members to update their themes) and everything would be okay.
Hey, either way sponsorshipping themes will still stay strong maybe decrease a bit but eventually it'll go back to the top It's not like WP will create a rule that you can't use sponsorlinks in their CMS.. or lets hope they won't
8everything, you are right. If they rule that, they just can close the source and start charging bloggers because they use blogroll or have sold links on their blogs.
People are using WP to earn $$$ in so many ways, they can't close them all! But hey, they're popular they should be proud that almost everyone uses their CMS