• The importance of testing themes

    The importance of testing themes

    Today I read one of the best blog posts I’ve read in a long time about What’s Wrong with commercial WordPress themes by Martin Vlachynsky Vicenik (sorry Martin for getting your name wrong!) over on the Foliovision blog. Martin delves deep into the bowels of some of the most popular commercial WordPress themes to reveal how poorly…

  • Refresh going well – normal service will resume shortly!

    Hey gang, Just a quick note to let everyone know that our refresh is going well and nearing completion. We’ll be rolling out the incremental changes in the next day or two and normal less irregular posting service will resume shortly thereafter! Ed

  • Time for a refresh

    So March has been super busy for me. As a result, posts have been thin on the ground the past few weeks – sorry folks. One thing that I’ve been itching to do is to refresh themesforge.com. Our current theme is a custom theme we put together around our relaunch back in late 2009. WordPress…

  • Theme news roundup 7 March

    So it’s been a busy week here at themesforge towers so we’ve been trawling through the feeds and catching up in the goings in WordPress land over the past week and cherry picked our highlights from the fast moving WordPress themes world. Groupon WordPress plugin released. While this is not a theme story it certainly…

  • Theme News Roundup 27 February

    WordPress 3.1 hits the streets It was a big week this week in WordPress land with the launch of WordPress 3.1 – read our coverage. Let the exodus from Tumblr to WordPress begin Ok this might be a bit premature. Tumblr ain’t going anywhere in the near future. But given it’s recent constant problems with…

  • New theme shop BioThemes opens

    Hot on the heels of the WordPress 3.1 release today comes a new theme shop from none other than John O’Nolan (member of the core WordPress UI team) and all round WordPress genius (have you seen the WordPress 3.1 admin area – it’s all nice and shiney and much cleaner under the hood thanks to…

  • WordPress 3.1 Released

    So today is the day that WordPress 3.1 is finally officially released. Originally codenamed “Django” earlier today, Matt quickly changed the name to Reinhardt to prevent mass confusion with the Django project (nice catch Matt). This one has been a while coming and what was initially intended to be a minor release has actually turned…

  • Theme Newsround

    Kicking off a new weekly feature on themesforge is our weekly Newsround of what’s happening in the WordPress theme community. Oh and we’ll also throw in some links to stuff we’ve come across during the week that might have happened weeks and months ago but that we think you will be interested in! So without…

  • Gawker redesign inspired Qawker Free WordPress theme released

    This one just popped up on my radar just now. Sahas Katta of Skatter Tech had some free time last weekend and put together a pretty cool Gawker redesign inspired wordpress theme called Qawker. Sahas claims to not be a professional web designer or developer but from looking at Qawker and the previous work done…

  • New free WordPress theme Nublu released

    Blogohblog.com (love that domain name!) have just released a new free WordPress theme Nublu. As the name might suggest – this new theme is blue! From the blogogblog guys: This is a sleek blue colored theme that comes with a configurable slider, drop-down menus and Cufon-enabled headlines. The theme also sports a twitter bird that…

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