Comments on: Annoucement: The Gorilla Project WPSynergy Project, Open Source WordPress Themes

By: Jeeremie

Jeeremie — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:08:44 +0000

Yes, that’s a pity. More than 40 people joined us but unfortunately none of them (except Chris) were dedicated and contributed to this project. But Chris and I are not loosing faith and keep working on it regularly when we have some spare time. We made some good progress. We have 3 themes almost ready for release and are now completing the wpsynergy.org site. Hopefully, once the site is live and users can start to download our themes, more people will join us.

By: Camaleo

Camaleo — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:51:33 +0000

very nice idea, though about something similar some time ago. Its a pity that there is no involvement from the community…

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:50:38 +0000

geat Awesome…

By: Jeremie Tisseau

Jeremie Tisseau — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:18:32 +0000

I can’t really say. There’s been little involvement from the WordPress community unfortunately. And since last October, I have been too busy to do anything to contribute to this project. That’s a shame.

By: steven

steven — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:47:26 +0000

Does this realy gonna happen? Because I haven’t heard about it for ages.

By: Jeremie Tisseau

Jeremie Tisseau — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:58:57 +0000

Yes, we will need two or three themes to start with. So far we have Pignews, Oneroom and Synjob. Even better if you and others want to add their own themes to the repository. We were also thinking to release the WPSynergy theme (screenshot above) which receive a lot of postive feedbacks.

Our project is opensource. We do this because we like it. Now, here’s the reality. We all work on our spare time and we cannot work on it as much as we would like. If we really want this project to be succesfull we will need to find some funds. I was thinking to offer paid support. We would still offer free support to users on our forum (maintained by volunteers), but some people might be interested to pay to receive a more personalized support. The money we would get from that would be used to hire talented designers to create stunning Worpress themes. Another or complementary way to fund this project would be to create a site using Synjob (a job board theme) and charge recruiters to post their job offers. Just an idea. We will have to explore this.

When will we be ready to launch?! Hmm, hard question. I can’t really say at the moment. My involvement (and other’s) in this project depends a lot on my (their) workload (a reason why some fundings would help us be more involved and move this project to the next level).

All in all, our plan is really to remain opensource. We will never charge end users to use our themes.

Does it answer your questions?

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:59:09 +0000

Thanks Jeremie Tisseau for clearing that up for me. I know you can’t just accept anything, but I also know that you will need some themes to launch with as well. I went and read over more of the wiki/dev blog/etc and I can tell you guys are working hard on it. Out of curiosity, when are you trying to launch? Cause it’s hard for me to imagine that you guys are not going to get paid when this project is finished, but it’s totally cool that you are doing it for the greater good.

By: Jeremie Tisseau

Jeremie Tisseau — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:28 +0000

Thanks iklan. Don’t want to join WPSynergy with your ClassiPress theme

By: iklan baris

iklan baris — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:42:43 +0000

very-very nice design… goog job

By: Jeremie Tisseau

Jeremie Tisseau — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:04:30 +0000

Hi John. Thanks for asking. That’s an interesting question. Anyone can submit his own theme. However, to ensure we always release quality themes for the public, we have two criterias when approving a theme: 1) theme stands out by its design or 2) theme comes with many features, options page… If theme doesn’t comply with at least one of these two criterias it will be rejected. But we are really open about it and if we think a theme has the potential to become a quality theme, we will add it to our repository and submit a list of improvements or bugs to fix. A good example maybe is OneRoom. This theme comply with the first criteria but not with the second. So before we can release it, it will have to be revamped.

Chris created an options page framework (SYNTOF). This framework gives us a lot of flexibility and allows us to enhance any theme in just an instant by calling SYNTOF in functions.php:

^?View Code PHP

// Include the theme options framework
// Kept outside theme route locally for easier SVN updating
switch ($_SERVER['SERVER_ADMIN']) {
	case 'chris@localhost':
		require_once dirname(__FILE__) . "/../syntof/init.php";
		break;
	default:
		require_once dirname(__FILE__) . "/syntof/init.php";
		break;
}

Last word, all the themes will be available in the SVN repository but only the best ones will be featured on our official site at http://wpsynergy.org, again, to ensure we only release quality themes.

In any case, feel free to contact us at joinus{at}wpsynergy{dot}org and submit your theme. We will be glad to review it.

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:54:02 +0000

Jeremie Tisseau, This is by far one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a while. I took a second to read over everything, including your developer blog. Now I’m a theme designer, so what if I want to contribute a theme? I know you are designing your own ‘theme backend’ and all that, but would you take one or would you rather start from scratch? Good luck!

By: Jeremie Tisseau

Jeremie Tisseau — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:59:16 +0000

Hi Adri, feel free to join us. First of all, you should join our team at dev.wpsynergy.org (register to the site). Some other related links: Trac: http://trac.wpsynergy.org/ SVN: http://svn.wpsynergy.org/

By: Adri

Adri — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:45:17 +0000

Wauw, I really like the idea.
I discovered how to creat WordPress Themes, one month ago. I’ve made 2 complete WordPress themes now (that can be downloaded for free once my site is up) and I really like the idea of a large Free (Premiumlooking) Themesreleasing Community.

So can I be able to help on something, I’m maybe in the world of WordPress although I understand completely on how to create themes and I can work with WordPress very good but also with forumsoftware (phpbb, smf, ipb, vbulletin). Finally I would say that I’m more a Coder (XHTML/CSS) than a (Photoshop) Designer.

Adri

By: Jeremie Tisseau

Jeremie Tisseau — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:30:47 +0000

No, not yet. It is going to take some time anyway. Everyone has a full time job and we are doing this on our spare time.

By: Csaba

Csaba — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:12:28 +0000

Good idea guys unfortunately its not live yet.