A month and a half ago, I put up a group of untested WordPress themes hoping that people would help review them (so they could be added to the theme browser and main theme list). So far, only one person (thanks Trevor!) has reviewed any of the themes1.
While I know it takes a bit of time to review each theme2, I’m a bit disspointed that more themes haven’t been reviewed. If you or someone you know is a competent PHP programmer and use WordPress, consider taking 20 minutes to review a theme as a way of giving back to the community.
- As a result, a few were removed and a few were added to the ‘final review’ list. [back]
- Trust me, I know. I reviewed the 135 that are currently in the theme browser (and many of those multiple times as the authors kept sending in new versions). [back]
Popularity: 5% [?]
ladylazarus adds this Comment:
what kind of skills do a reviewer must have? because i would like to help but i do not know if I am competent enough
October 13th, 2005 at 12:09 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Take a look at the previous posts.
October 13th, 2005 at 12:15 am
Trevor adds this Comment:
I’m really planning on doing some more - but I’ve been a bit nailed at the moment! Sorry! It’s tough work, though!
October 13th, 2005 at 10:09 am
Jeff adds this Comment:
I’d review them, but I don’t think I know php well enough to properly review them. I’m sure that I could use them and see if they work functionally… but to source any problems back to the code… it would be pretty difficult for me.
October 13th, 2005 at 11:27 am
blau adds this Comment:
grimelda.zip does not qualify. The zip file contains a long windows directory tree.
October 13th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Thanks, removed it.
October 13th, 2005 at 2:21 pm
Mark adds this Comment:
I am confused as what constitutes a good theme. Last years winner breaks thru the footer as well as does several others you have listed. ie Pink Lilies, yes a beautiful theme but it does not hold up to the mustard test.
October 13th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
One more time, here are the links to the previous posts.
October 13th, 2005 at 2:32 pm
Jeff Wheeler adds this Comment:
I feel I’m competent. I’ll help out tomorrow.
I didn’t earlier because I expected you to have tons of people.
October 13th, 2005 at 3:30 pm
blau adds this Comment:
This plugins may or may not qualify:
Elvgren1-01.zip Radmod.zip, Tictac-Wuhan.zip, white-onion.zip also contain a _MACOSX folder with _junk inside, besides the plugin folder.
adventure.zip, clearbluetheme.zip, whiteasmilk.zip does not contain its own directory, which is uncomfortable.
Just my two eurocent.
October 14th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Alex adds this Comment:
That’s the sort of thing that can be easily fixed, just remove the unused folders and re-submit the theme.
October 14th, 2005 at 8:54 am
HART adds this Comment:
I don’t know if Ishould be worried, as my site is using the Grimelda theme (comment #5) .. I am still looking for new designs but, am not competent to test. But - I did see your original posts before. I might have tried them or tested design and see if any problems, had only the original zip been offered and no link back to a ‘demo’ site in action or a screenshot. (my canadian 2cents)
October 18th, 2005 at 11:33 pm
Jeriko One adds this Comment:
And Black Met White (black.zip) qualifies in terms of security and validity, although it includes a file navigation.php (secure), which I didn’t found any reference to.
March 12th, 2006 at 4:57 am
Hjorthen adds this Comment:
I have very little knowledge of php and can’t be to much help, but I’ve tried out a couple of the themes, and the theme called Renovation seems to be missing a stylesheet. At least I can’t get it to work on my blog.
October 21st, 2006 at 9:31 am