Piggy

Nonce?

I’m not sure whether or not it was supposed to, but it had me laughing.

(wonders how many realise ‘nonce’ is slang for something else in the UK)

I’m inclined to agree with jhorbury, I’m afraid.

I’m no designer myself and I really DO appreciate the efforts that people put into designing themes for us all to play with, but what’s happened to the originality that used to be plentiful around here? Everything released lately looks exactly like the ten before it, just with a different header pic, or in a different colour! Dare I say, themes lately have become rather, erm, boring?

I expect some will jump down my throat telling me to come up with something better, or that I’m insulting the designers – but before they do, let me just restate once more…

1. I DO appreciate others efforts

2. I’m not a designer, so I recognise the fact that I probably can’t do any better

3. The same theme in ten differing colours does not equal ten new themes

4. Not EVERY theme release is wonderful, amazing or fantastic. Some of them are indeed crap.

I sort of remember saying the same kind of thing during the recent theme compo fiasco’s and was ripped apart by the baying fan-boys, none of whom really understood just what I was trying to say – namely, that there’s no longer any excitement around new theme releases any more, probably because we all know exactly what they’ll look like before they’re released (ie: just like the one before it!).

On a more positive note, Sadish is one of those that DOES inject a little originality into his themes – in fact some of them have been beautiful to look at.

This one wasn’t one of them.

Okay, I’m ready. Let the lions in now.

42 thousand??? Oh my gawd!

Hopefully, someone will be able to help.

And *hopefully* sometime soon here, there will be a way to import/convert from phpBB to bbPress. But, we’ll have to see though..

Hopefully very soon

Bumping twice within the space of 24 hours might be part of the problem, sequence-inc :@)

Give people a chance to respond in their own time.

Or perhaps no-one has an answer for you yet.

I think this a problem with Technorati, more than WordPress.

I too notice this frequently. Sometimes it picks up on my posts, sometimes it doesn’t. But I don’t know why this is the case.

Manually pinging doesn’t seem to be any help either.

I’ve suffered this too!

Oh wow!

I LOVE THIS!

Bit of a tacky advert at the end of recorded comments, but hey, I suppose it’s a cheap price to pay!

I’m going to use this one a lot, I imagine.

I also won’t be surprised to see this popping up in lot’s of places.

The admin theme is indeed nice!

Me too! That’s fab!

‘Explicatives’ – now there’s a good word. I like that.

This is the most entertaining post I’ve read in ages!

I find myself agreeing with whooami though – you DO seem to have a bit of a way with conversation, bubazoo.

I think I’d respond in exactly the way whooami did.

I’d like to download it, but…

“Error 404 – Not Found

Search bar and other tools go here! If you’re reading this, it needs to be implemented, remind me!”

Personally, having downloaded and tried it, I quite like it.

A screenshot or something beforehand would have been nice though.

Also, a couple of plugins are required. It might be worth you mentioning which they are before people download the theme.

Ladydelaluna’s right – patience is what’s required and a bit of reading.

Make use of the ‘search’ function here – it may not be fantastic, but it DOES help.

At least you’re making an effort to learn, which is great. Something some other people on here (not in this thread, I hasten to add!) could do with respecting, sometimes. We all started somewhere, after all.

With your own patience, some searching and reading, you’ll get there in the end.

Just like the rest of us.