You may have noticed that since they started upgrading the theme viewer there is absolutely no way that you can upload a theme there.

It all started with the taught: “Lets not allow sponsored themes to be uploaded”. This had major effect on the wordpress themes prices and the sponsor links prices. They fell from 50$/1 sponsored link on a theme to 5-10$. Just because of the theme viewer.

But it is a good idea, the free wordpress themes should be clean(as in shouldn’t contain any sponsored links), a designer link is enough.

Back a year ago i used to sell sponsored links on themes, but now as you can notice my released themes contain just a link back to my blog(which some people still remove). An other thing about my themes is that they are pretty high quality themes, i saw some designers releasing themes that look like crap just to brag about them without knowing that it doesn’t give them a good reputation.

Getting back to the point of this post: When all the upgrading started everyone taught that the LOG-IN and Create account problems are just some bugs/errors, but then it turned out that the guys at theme viewer decided to rewrite the whole system.

After a while a notice was posted in the FAQ section of the theme viewer:

Open registration is temporarily closed. Email a screenshot or demo of your theme at wpmoderator[at]yahoo[dot]com, along with your preferred user id, and you will get permission to upload new themes once your theme is approved. This could take upto 3 business days due to high volume of incoming emails.

I sent 2 emails more than 3 weeks ago from different email addresses(yahoo/gmail) but i still didn’t get a reply. I asked some fellow designers to do the same, but they also didn’t get an email back.

Since 11th December the theme viewer is getting a brand new upgrade:

Just wanted to do a quick update for those wondering when you’ll be able to add new themes or update existing ones here in the directory. We’ve been working very hard on a new Subversion-backed database for themes that will allow you to upload themes as you did before, as a plain ZIP file, and we’re transparently check it into SVN so changes can be tracked just like we do for WordPress development.

I’m quite curious for how much time will the theme uploading to the theme viewer be down, but i have a feeling that it’s gonna be for a long time.

If you are a theme developer and you release free themes without sponsored links submit them to Weblog Tools Collection news and if your design gets in a theme release post many people will download and use them.