Revolution Magazine Theme – Bring It Back?

06.07.09 156 Comments

Please do me a favor and read this post in it’s entirety before leaving a comment. I wanted to ask a question to anyone who has purchased the original Revolution Magazine theme – would you have a problem if I updated/restyled the theme and brought it back onto the StudioPress site?

Now bear with me, as I promised before – I would not release the theme as it was originally designed to protect the integrity of the circumstances in which is was purchased. However, what I am proposing is to take the original theme, updated it (again) for WordPress 2.8 and restyle it so that the appearance varies from the original one.

The theme package would be made freely available to anyone who purchased the original theme at no cost. My plan is to have the theme updated for WordPress 2.8, thoroughly optimized by Joost de Valk (as all StudioPress themes will be), updated for auto-thumbnails with the TimThumb script, provide additional page templates, localized for translation for any language and then supported on the StudioPress site.

Before making any decisions, I wanted to get general feedback (both from those who purchased and anyone else with an opinion) on this. I value the WordPress community, which is why I’m asking.

Here’s a screenshot of the orginal theme for your reference:

Revolution Magazine Theme

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Kicking off 2009… A Bit Early

12.29.08 90 Comments

Well I just wanted to write a follow up to my Heading into 2009 post and fill you in on some things that I have planned for 2009. So far I have been able to finish 1/2 of things on the list, and only have 5 more of the Revolution themes to update.

As mentioned in this post, there are some things that are changing a bit. As of January 1, 2009, the Revolution Two themes will become paid themes that will carry the GPL license.

This will not affect anyone who has purchased a theme/package so far, as you will still be able to access the theme download and will receive support for the theme(s) you signed up for. Those who have purchased the Pro Plus All Theme package (or inherited it as a result of purchasing the Revolution One All-Inclusive package) will still be entitled to receive all Revolution Two themes and support, so there won’t be any changes to that as well.

To be clear, the spirit of open source and the GPL are being kept intact, and this decision is a result of some clarification that has been made about premium themes and how they can fit into the WordPress community.

On another note, I also wanted to mention that I am in the process of developing another WordPress theme project that will hopefully be launched in the coming weeks. I won’t go into any details at the moment, but I will say that this site will act completely independent of Revolution. More info on that to come…

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Streamline Theme Beta Version Released

12.24.08 69 Comments

Now before you yell at me for working on Christmas Eve, just know that it’s 6:00 in the morning and my family is still sleeping. And I’m really doing my best to get a few things done before Christmas comes.

That being said, I just wanted to announce that the Streamline theme beta version is available. As mentioned, I am releasing the theme in beta version, so people can use it and find any potential bugs before I officially release it as a 1.0 version.

Take it for a test drive and let me know what you think!

On a side note, there will be a few small changes to the Revolution Two site effective January 1st – I won’t get into those details of that beforehand, so please don’t ask. But in the meantime…

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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