After 15 months as a lead developer at iThemes.com, today marks the launch of my very own Premium WordPress Theme business, ModThemes.com. That's right, myself and three other talented individuals, are launching a new business together, and it's time to open up shop. …
BizTech: Free WordPress Theme
If you're looking for a simple, super-easy to modify, free WordPress theme, check out BizTech from the folks at Web Design. Developed by Yours Truly. …
Join the Public Developer Beta for the Prodigy Theme
For the last several months, I've been quietly developing a theme framework for iThemes -- a framework we could use to offer solid code, killer designs, and futureproofing (one of our most common requests at iThemes). A couple of weeks ago, I invited a few people to join a private beta of the theme (called Prodigy, in case you hadn't gathered), and it has been silky smooth. Hardly any complaints or bugs, and TONS of compliments. So, I think the theme is ready for a public beta, and you're all …
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Final Word on WordPress Themes and the GPL?
Matt Mullenweg, the founder and lead developer of the WordPress blogging platform, emailed the Software Freedom Center recently asking about the legality of WordPress themes being licensed under copyright not compatible with the GPL, and they've now responded, which Matt has published on the WordPress Development Blog. The conclusion? The PHP files in WordPress themes must inherit the GPL, but CSS and Images do not. From the email: …
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What Do You Want to Know About WordPress?
Over the next few weeks, I want to take reader-submitted questions about WordPress and answer them here on the blog. Have a question about themes? Plugins? Simple or complicated -- it doesn't matter! If I pick your question, I'll answer it (in as much detail as necessary) here on the blog, and link to you as the source of the question. Hopefully this will be a BIG help to everyone out there, and make for some really good conversation! Leave your questions in the comments. …
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iThemes, WordPress, and the GPL
Since starting iThemes back in early 2008, one thing Cory, and I when I joined the team, were justifiably concerned with was protecting our products, and of course our hard work, from being stolen or used without permission. This was our livelihood, so we couldn't fool around. Even though we both believed that we would have been within our rights to copyright the entire work, we decided that we would license all WordPress code in our themes (function calls, loops, etc.) as GPL, and protect our …