Archive for the 'Rules' Category

Theme Submissions and Updates

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

I’ve started getting a few submissions where the author wants to update their theme a few times within a few days after their theme has been posted. This is becoming a problem for me, and the new rule below is intended to address it.

Each time I add a theme to the list, I first have […]

Creating a ‘Drop In’ Ready Theme

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

Since the goal of the competition is to create a big collection of drop-in ready themes for WordPress 1.5, I amended the rule below regarding the theme switcher tag. Please use the additional code listed here so that the themes work even when the theme switcher is not installed.

Here is an example of how this […]

Resources for Theme Designers

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Take a look at these pages if you have questions about how to create a theme:

Blog Design and Layout
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme

Also note that I changed the required theme switcher code in the rules below so that the theme switcher is not required for you to use a theme.

I’ll be updating the already submitted […]

Theme Competition Rules

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Here are the rules:

All themes must be released under a GPL compatible license (if a license is not specified, you agree that you are releasing the theme under the GPL license by submitting it to the competition).
All themes must be received by March 25, 2005, 11:59 PM PST.
All themes must be packaged in .zip format, […]