Plotting My Next Theme Release

The WordPress Theme Viewer went under an administration change last month around the time they made the decision to stop supporting sponsored themes. Since then, I’ve been unable to upload new themes, or even update the ones I currently have on the site. I’m under the impression that the site is still not accepting new themes until they get all the changes they’re making worked out. (whenever that will be)

If a reader is interested in a theme, they can check it out right here rather than going to a different website.

Since I haven’t had access to that site, I’m looking into what type of set-up I’ll need here on Antbag.com to offer my themes for download and preview. I have a little collection of completed themes that are now ready, but I haven’t offered them due to my reliance on the Theme Viewer. I think this will be a positive change. If a reader is interested in a theme, they can check it out right here rather than going to a different website. Hopefully, the Theme Viewer will be back up to full functionality before long. I would like to offer themes both here and there. The Theme Viewer is great exposure.

WP Themeviewer

On another note, I believe I read that they were having trouble with the “10 most downloaded themes” section. Whether they’re having issues or not, my NetWorker theme is one of the themes listed in the top 10……….so I consider that to be good exposure!

6 thoughts on “Plotting My Next Theme Release”

Frozen in the top 10 … not a bad turn of events Anthony.

It’s a great idea to host them here. Hosting them on a subdomain like themes.antbag.com might be a good idea. I think tthere’s some kind of theme-switcher plugin. Then you’d only need one WordPress install to host all of them which would be a lot easier to setup.

And one feature request … cookies for the comment form, so I don’t have to type in my name, etc every visit.

We’re on the same line of thinking about setting it up. I already have the plugin called Theme Preview, as well as the WordPress Download Monitor which will keep count. I guess I’ll just need to set up a demo site like you say, and test it all out.

As far as the cookies, I’m looking in to it. The only info I’ve found on it so far is on the WordPress Codex, which simply says that cookies are used. If there’s a quick fix for it, please let me know.

I was looking at your comments.php for Fastaway and I see you’ve got the basic “cookie code” in there.

Looks like it should work … maybe there’s some kind of clash with the fade-in effect code.

I think you may be right. I’m gonna turn off the ajax for now, until I have time to look into it a little further.

You’ve got another nice look going here on your site, I think this is my favorite design that you’ve done on this site. I’ve been away from the web for awhile, so I was surprised when I saw another new design on your site.

I think it would be a good idea to host your themes here as well on a subdomain like Shane said. I’m looking forward to seeing what your going to put out next. Also congratulations on NetWorker being a top 10 downloaded theme. That is quite an accomplishment in a short amount of time!

Thanks Clarke. You know, I have several that are done, but just haven’t put them up for download due to the Theme Viewer being closed to uploads. This design is one of the ones I had ready, and decided to put it on here. I just added the logo image and coded the sidebar like I wanted it.

Shane on August 3, 2007 at 3:04 am said:

Frozen in the top 10 … not a bad turn of events Anthony.

It’s a great idea to host them here. Hosting them on a subdomain like themes.antbag.com might be a good idea. I think tthere’s some kind of theme-switcher plugin. Then you’d only need one WordPress install to host all of them which would be a lot easier to setup.

And one feature request … cookies for the comment form, so I don’t have to type in my name, etc every visit.
Anthony on August 3, 2007 at 7:34 am said:

We’re on the same line of thinking about setting it up. I already have the plugin called Theme Preview, as well as the WordPress Download Monitor which will keep count. I guess I’ll just need to set up a demo site like you say, and test it all out.

As far as the cookies, I’m looking in to it. The only info I’ve found on it so far is on the WordPress Codex, which simply says that cookies are used. If there’s a quick fix for it, please let me know.
Shane on August 3, 2007 at 7:17 pm said:

I was looking at your comments.php for Fastaway and I see you’ve got the basic “cookie code” in there.

Looks like it should work … maybe there’s some kind of clash with the fade-in effect code.
Anthony on August 4, 2007 at 2:14 pm said:

I think you may be right. I’m gonna turn off the ajax for now, until I have time to look into it a little further.
ClarkeW on August 6, 2007 at 12:12 am said:

You’ve got another nice look going here on your site, I think this is my favorite design that you’ve done on this site. I’ve been away from the web for awhile, so I was surprised when I saw another new design on your site.

I think it would be a good idea to host your themes here as well on a subdomain like Shane said. I’m looking forward to seeing what your going to put out next. Also congratulations on NetWorker being a top 10 downloaded theme. That is quite an accomplishment in a short amount of time!
Anthony on August 6, 2007 at 1:31 am said:

Thanks Clarke. You know, I have several that are done, but just haven’t put them up for download due to the Theme Viewer being closed to uploads. This design is one of the ones I had ready, and decided to put it on here. I just added the logo image and coded the sidebar like I wanted it.