Matt Cutts & Matt Mullenweg Start a Gay Relationship

Firstly, I’m not suggesting Matt Cutts & Matt Mullenweg are gay or having sexual relations, what I’m referring to is the big gay totally-blown-out-of-proportion hoo-har in the Wordpress community about the use of ’sponsored themes’.

Sponsored themes can be used by anyone who uses Wordpress, free of charge, with the actual design of the themes supported by advertisers whom pay to have their URL at the bottom of the theme. The designer or creator of the theme receives money for their handy work.

Well that’s cool - right? Yeah, you would think so.. I mean, look at Template Monster where designers put Wordpress themes up and charge $300+ for the use - what sponsored themes for Wordpress do is allow anyone to use great looking themes for free, the only ‘cost’ is keeping the advertisers link at the bottom intact. You know, like software supported by advertising.

A bit like… search engines (and their staffs pay packets) supported by advertising.

A bit like… Wordpress supported by Matt Mullenweg creating un-related pages on asbestos, debt consolidation etc to game the search engines not so long ago using the high PR power of Wordpress.org from guess what? Having the ‘Powered by Wordpress’ link on every single damn un-modified Wordpress blog out there.

So I really don’t get why Matt Cutts or Matt Mullenweg have beef and are speaking out against sponsored themes. Sure if it was themes that were malicious or had hacker exploits in them, remove them from Wordpress.org etc - else just ensure sponsored themes are labelled, explain what that means and leave it as such.

Sponsored themes rock-on, not everyone can afford the cost of custom themes or the high price tags on Template Monster, and most ‘free’ themes are garbage, it only takes a brief look on Alex King’s popular Theme Viewer to notice that.

2 Comments

1. Wow, so WordPress is belongs to G a y ’s Blog After Now ? OMG, l dont hate them but even also l dont accept these kinds of relationships . l ve a gf 10x GOD

   Comment by recep — April 18, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

2. yes that’s the average joe web publisher for you. no less hypocrite than anybody else. rather more me thinks

   Comment by hypocrites suck — November 24, 2007 @ 4:13 am

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