My Favorite Wordpress Themes Go Open Source!
October 29, 2008 by Cliff Ravenscraft
It is no secret that I love Wordpress not only for blogging software, but for content management all together. Since the beginning, I’ve helped many of my podcast consulting clients set up some of the best looking and easily navigable podcast sites available.
While I am able to take an existing Wordpress Theme and modify it to meet my client’s needs, I must tell you that I can not take credit for the original designs that I’ve used. I’ve been an affiliate with Revolution Themes for quite some time. And as such, I’ve recommended several clients to use these great themes as the foundation for their online presence.
Effective this morning, my favorite themes are going Open Source with a brand new site named RevolutionTwo.com. What this means is that these themes are now going to be made available for free to the public.
My first thought was how in the world was the team behind these awesome designs ever going to make a living and to continue to be able to provide support for those who use the themes? I learned that they are now offering either a one year or lifetime membership to full support on all their themes.
As a long time customer of theirs, I can tell you that their support for these forums are second to none! Personally, I know the cost of getting a decent web site designed. It would cost no less than $1,000 and likely much more to have a site that looks as good as these themes. For only $99 you get unlimited access to all the Revolution Two Themes and you get full support for 1 year. For only $149 you get a lifetime membership allowing you unlimited support and access to all themes.
I would like to point out that I’m available to help on a one on one basis in learning how to customize these themes to meet your needs. I charge $95 per hour for my services. So you can see how much of a good deal the theme support membership can be!
If you choose to use the Revolution Two themes and/or membership, I’d love it if you would be willing to come to PodcastAnswerMan.com and click on the banner that links to them in the sidebar so that I can get the affiliate commission on the referral.
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Cliff, these new themes look Awesome. Although I purchased the previous WP Revolution theme (and hope to configure it for my main Voice-over site), I hope to use one of these new open source themes for my pain podcast site, and a different one for my wife’s business website.
If I run into troubles, and my budget allows, I will definitely be contacting you to set up one-on-one consulting Cliff!
Wayne
I think I missed something in all of the Revolution2 excitement over the themes being released early. I had read about the support subscription plans that the designers were offering, but I thought that was optional. And I thought that the new themes being “Open Source” mean that the themes themselves would be free. Yes, I know, silly me, but I thought (incorrectly) that “Open Source” = free.
Oh well, your blog entry here helped clarify it (especially after I looked all over the RevolutionTwo site for Download links. Their new themes still look cool, but it will be after Christmas before I can look to using them.
I’m glad your blog post spelled things out more clearly than what I was understanding at RevolutionTwo. I’ll have you in mind Cliff, for when I am able to make the jump. Please keep us posted on the Podcast Answer Man podcast when you, or someone you know of, starts using one of these new themes.
Wayne
Wayne,
I’m not sure I understand… As far as I know, the new Revolution Themes ARE FREE! As far as I can tell, you can download any or all of the new themes for free. However, there is simply no “support” available for learning how to get the theme to do what it is supposed to do with “your” content without either 1 year or lifetime support membership. The support “IS OPTIONAL.”
Have a look at this screen capture from the website. Look at the area I highlighted.
CORRECTION TO MY PREVIOUS POST: Someone on Twitter told me how to find the very small font download link for the “Unsupported” versions. OK, Wayne’s happy now.