Make a WordPress Theme In Minutes
A good friend of mine Joe Kaplan just launched ThemesPress.com which is a site to turn any standard HTML template or design into a fully functional WordPress Theme in minutes.
The best part, it’s all automatic, so people with little to no PHP or HTML skills can make a WordPress theme from any design they have or purchased from a design site.
If by chance you do have a little HTML or CSS skills, you can also fine tune things before you purchase the theme.
You can even preview your theme before you purchase it to make sure everything looks exactly how you want. What more could you ask for?
There is a $10.00 per theme charge but that is really low for this I think.
I was one of his beta testers for ThemesPress.com and now that the site is done and ready for public release, I wanted to let others know about this great service and help spread the word about it.
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Comments / What do you think?
October 3rd, 2006
wow, it’s like someone took what I wanted from oswd.org and created a website just for me!
I’ve alwasy wanted to take some of those templates and use them as a WP theme. This is excellent sean, great find!
October 3rd, 2006
Tell you’re friend if he makes it a subscription service (like $30-$40 per month instead of per site), he’d have at least one more customer.
October 3rd, 2006
a service like this only makes sense monetarily when you are paying by the piece. with a subscription rate, people could just leech non-stop and ultimately the service suffers.
October 3rd, 2006
there are nearly 1000 free themes on ThemeViewer and dowonload hits 1million times. Unless you want to have a wp theme like cssremix or csselite, but i doubt if themespress could handle it.
October 3rd, 2006
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October 3rd, 2006
Hi ibechase.
I agree with you. A subscription rate would get leeched on to some degree.
$10.00 a theme is a really good price. You can’t get custom work that cheap anywhere.
October 3rd, 2006
Hi anada.
Indeed you can get 1,000’s of free themes from ThemeViewer but what Joe is offering with his ThemesPress.com site is the chance to have a one of a kind theme for your site and for $10.00, that’s a sweet deal.
It might not be for everyone but I feel this is a service that will be welcomed by many who don’t want a cookie cutter theme that’s being used by 100’s if not 1,000’s of WordPress users.
October 4th, 2006
Great service, But someone will eventually undercut the price.
October 4th, 2006
Hey PreZ. Indeed someone might undercut the price at some point in time but $10.00 USD is really a great deal.
I’ve actually had Joe help me out when I was just learning the WordPress codex and he knows his stuff, so that’s something else you get from him and his site, support and service, so that alone is worth the ten bucks I think.
Oh and for anyone who might be wondering, I also pay the fee by using his new site, which I have done, so I’m not only trying to help get the word out because he’s my friend, but I also use and believe in his work.
October 4th, 2006
Hey cool, your friend used one of my open source templates! So cool…
October 4th, 2006
Hey J David.
Indeed Joe is a huge supporter of Open Source. He also contributes a lot to the community as well.
October 4th, 2006
anada:
This service is a result with my experience with people willing to pay ten times that amount to get their own design ported to WordPress, when usually it’s a simple job that a service like ThemesPress can handle. They’re thousands of free WP themes out there, some of which I made too, but sometimes people just want their own design.
J David:
Indeed your design is great and it’s exactly what I needed, a nice and clean, yet attractive design. BTW, You didn’t leave a link to your site on the template, just your name, If you had put a link, I would’ve left it there.
October 4th, 2006
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August 17th, 2007
I will try it for my educational site and directory site http://www.moroccodir.com
Thanks for web address of Themespress and Information.
November 1st, 2007
I do love the classics.
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December 15th, 2007
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
March 15th, 2008
i’m looking for a great theme for my wordpress travel and dating blog
July 10th, 2008
Hmm, luckily I’m perfectly capable of designing my own themes, just too damn lazy.
Also, your acronym @ PHP is off. It says Pre-hypertext Processing, while the actual acronym is recursive:
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessing
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I think a good design is the foundation of any blog without it pepole just wont read it
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