Most of the WordPress themes I do are pretty custom. Tailor-made for specific projects. Like the one I did for my movie review website. I’ve tried converting that theme into a generic theme, but it didn’t work out. With all the crap we’re using on that site removed from the sidebars it looked awfully empty, and just didn’t work anymore.
Occasionally, I’ll do a general purpose theme. Most of them start out as new designs for this blog and grow from there. If they’re any good and somewhat complete I’ll release them. I do not attach any kind of license to my themes because I want to encourage people to modify them to fit their needs. And if somewhere along the way you end up creating something that only vaguely resembles the original theme, that’s very much OK. In fact, please release your theme so others can benefit from your work as well. Many people have emailed me asking if it was OK for them to change things. It really is. I’d appreciate it if you do leave the credit link, but I can’t make you.
Please bear in mind that my WordPress themes and plugin are provided “as is” with no support whatsoever. If you run into trouble with them, please check that your page is valid xhtml. In 99% of cases something added to the theme introduced errors in the markup, causing browser to render the page incorrectly.
Roy,
I absolutely love your WP template! Everything works so well for my music-oriented blog. However, there’s only one thing that I’m not sure about. Every time when one opens my website on a PC, the following message pops up on the bottom of the screen: “Done, but with errors on page.” Would you have time to tell me why is this so? Otherwise, it works great on a Mac.
MANY THANKS!
Zvonimir
Comment by Zvonimir Nagy — February 2, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Hi Nagy. I test themes on Windows, using IE6 and 7, Firefox and Safari. None show javascript errors, but I did notice some added javascripts in your site. You could try diabling them one by one, adn see whether this fixes the issue. Some scripts may be inserted by plugins, so try disabling them as well. Best of luck!
Comment by Roy — February 2, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
I downloaded one of your themes, Tranquility, for a major site redesign I did a year and a half ago. Beautifully designed, and easily customizable even for a real amateur like me. Thanks for making this stuff and putting it out there!
Comment by Owen — August 26, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
Hallo Roy,
May i ask you how you create the globe moving tag’s
what is the flash plugin name ?
i like the concept, gona save space alot
Regards
Joseph
Comment by joseph roberto — August 27, 2008 @ 6:09 am
Hi Joseph. The plugin’s called WP-Cumulus, and is available from wordpress.org.
Comment by Roy — August 27, 2008 @ 7:26 am