justnorris

I think I might not be tracking theme deletions yet

Can you pinpoint any single theme that I have that WordPress doesn't have?

I've finally finished my side-project - Themetally. This is my first side-project in years, so please be gentle with me :). I've spent months in developing it, and I really hope it's going to be valuable to people who are looking for themes.

So what is Themetally? Themetally a WordPress theme directory. [applause] Thank you, thank you. Good night.

That’s actually almost true, and I think good enough for a short answer. Here is a longer explanation for those who are interested…

A While back I was looking for a nice new free theme for my personal blog. I started browsing the WordPress.org directory and quickly came to a conclusion that it’s bad on many different levels, and isn’t really suitable to browse anything at all. There is no pagination, it’s buggy, the theme demo doesn’t do the themes any justice, and there is no real metric I could use to judge whether a theme has been active, whether it has received updates, etc. etc. - so I decided to attempt to solve those issues with Themetally.

I made Themetally so that it would be easier to discover WordPress themes, with useful statistics, like active installs over time, and theme update recency and/or “project pulse”. On top of that - theme readme usually contains useful information that’s not available on WordPress.org either, so I decided to bundle that right into the theme description - makes it a lot easier viewing changelog.

I think there is still so much room for improvement, and if Themetally takes off I’d like to add a lot more features to it, such as voting system, let authors claim their profiles, add more analytics like relative page-load time, CSS/JS size, etc.

To summarize, Themetally is a free WordPress theme directory with better theme demos, more detailed theme information and analytics.

I never expected you to admit that there might be a slightest sliver of copy paste here. Your explanations are very believable, if you want to believe them.

Anyway, I never realized that it was the proper way to write articles on the web. I also didn't know that editors sometimes claim ownership over articles that someone else wrote. As I said - I'm not a writer, so I learnt a lot today.

There is a lot of gray area. You want people to find you on "page builders" on Google, and so did WPExplorer, so you both hired the same guy to write the same article, with different wording, images, and a couple different items in the article.

So, the take-away for me is: Same Author, Same story with different wording and graphics = perfectly acceptable form of content authorship. I get it now - It's not your fault, it's the way the world works, for example, peeps at HTC were very inspired by iPhone 6: https://www.google.com/search?q=htc+that+looks+like+iphone

I just didn't know the same principles apply everywhere, but I'm noticing that trend more & more in lots of different areas of business.

All good, Cheers.

Thank you for pulling out that tweet from deleted Twitter history and posting it here.

Of course content is going to overlap, however, affiliate links specific to a single site do not.

A part of your staff added a WPexplorer link in an article of your instead of the actual link. That link wouldn't appear there unless there were some copy pasting going on, the details don't matter, I saw the end result, and commented on it based on the information available.

p.s. Tom Ewer is Raelene Morey ? The post is attributed to Raelene Morey, so I'm not quite sure I understand why are you explaining how nice of a guy Tom is in real life. I'm sure he is, but the article isn't written by him.

Have a fantastic day yourself, today I learned a couple of things about the internet, thank you for that, I truly appreciate all your time spent on the discussion with me.

So what ? I'll enjoy my 3 months free trial anyway. Since when is "Login with Facebook" a bad thing ?

I'm so glad to hear you like the design :). We actually switched to the notebook style later on, the initial idea was completely different (more like a Metro style).

That's why developing an application and selling it for 99c is so nice. You build it for yourself, you get it out there, and if people like it, you'll still be motivated to update it later on!

I was thinking about the Lite version, and I know I probably should release a Lite version (I probably will...)I just didn't think that there is that much risk. What you see is what you get in this case - It's a pretty simple app, you'll get what you expect from it :)

This is where I like Google Play market more, where you don't have to take risks. You can just buy the app, and if you don't like it, you can get a refund. Apple should have done that a long time ago.

That's what happens when you don't monetize your projects, you never find the time to add the features you'd want to, because the initial enthusiasm has worn off. It looks nice btw :)