Why there are no new WordPress themes here
Some time ago my themes were kicked out of the WordPress repository because ClockWorkBlogger was hosting banners for Elegant Themes (and it still is). Obviously the creators of WordPress had a problem with … I really don’t know what it is they have/had a problem with, but there are always people willing to step in to fill the void – in this case the almost completely empty themes repository was quickly filled by more compliant developers.
This removal was the straw that broke the camels back and although I very often thought of making another theme I just did not have the motivation to do so. I have to confess, I like popularity – the 100 comments below a post and being number 500 on the list of 1000 most popular WordPress Theme/Plugin developers. Since they decided to take that away from me I lost motivation to contribute. It’s just as simple as that. Everyone expects some form of gratitude for their work.
From that time on my themes have been hosted on dropbox, which is a much nicer alternative than the theme repository, no crappy subversion, no revisions, no waiting – just create a new version package, change the links and your updated theme is live. But the lack of motivation remains. Thus no new themes.
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