Comments on: A new name for premium themes: Themes

By: Call that premium? - Fun with WordPress

Call that premium? - Fun with WordPress — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:24:02 +0000

[...] week I argued that we need to get rid of the whole concept of ‘premium’ themes because that creates a two tier system which makes it OK to release poor themes because “they [...]

By: What Kind Of Theme Is This?

What Kind Of Theme Is This? — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:01:04 +0000

[...] days, it’s getting harder to define what exactly a premium theme is. Andrew Rickmann over at Fun With WordPress tries to give us a better understanding of what premium means now a days as well as providing a [...]

By: Webdev

Webdev — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:03:46 +0000

As always there were non-premium themes, always will be too. Of course, at a point most of the designers/developers can reach the level of developing great, multi-purpose, configurable themes, but novice, beginner developers can’t share premium themes at first. There is need for an evolution :) Everybody have to go through a period of learning the basics.

Ps. installing subscribe to comments plugin won’t be a mistake :)

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:54:34 +0000

The term “premium themes” is not exclusive to WordPress. I purchase a number of premium Blackberry themes for my Blackberry Storm. There are premium Joomla themes I believe, as well as other software.

The term premium is used to imply that it is “better”, but in fact means there is a cost associated with it. Like Leland mentions you have all sorts of terms like freemium now, so the only true way to separate them are free and purchased. Then there are GPL paid and non-GPL paid, etc. :)

It truly never ends unfortunately. Great post!

By: What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium?

What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium? — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:41:47 +0000

[...] our friend Andrew of WP-Fun.co.uk wrote an interesting post titled A New Name for Premium Themes:

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:10:44 +0000

I tend to think that as well Leland and I would like to stop. I really think there is a difference between premium and commercial, although the commercial authors clearly have a much greater incentive to get things right and that tends to make them more premium.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:52:10 +0000

When I think “premium” themes, I automatically think “themes that cost money,” not necessarily quality themes or feature-filled themes. Some have even started labeling their paid themes as “commercial” or “pay-for-use.” I’m not even going to get started on the whole new “free premium” or “freemium” phenomenon. Although I think the term is way overused, I don’t think it’s going away any time soon.

By: John (Human3rror)

John (Human3rror) — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:42:17 +0000

hmm. thanks! nice that someone’s keeping tabs on the dloads.