Someone Stole My Dream On WordPress Theme
- Filed under: Wpdesigner.com
Thanks to Jenny of PJMommy.com for bringing this to my attention.
Someone took my Dream On theme, stripped the footer message, and replaced it with a sponsored link to a web-hosting review website.
Here’s the stolen version:
Here are the stolen version’s theme page on the WordPress Theme Viewer and test-run link.
It’s been only seven days after my GPL announcement. Not all Wpdesigner themes have been re-released under GPL yet and someone already stole one of my themes. This is the kind of thing GPL theme designers have to deal with.
On one hand, I should go after this person to tell everyone it’s not okay to do such a thing. On the other hand, the theme viewer’s manager already has enough trouble on his hands. Bothering him about this on a case to case basis isn’t going to help.
Like I’ve been saying, the theme viewer needs to change into a manually filtered database and it needs a moderation area to review new themes before publishing.
I’m not writing this post to say, “FOUL!” This is simply for exposing the people manipulating the theme viewer, their techniques, and loop-holes.
That’s bullshit! SUE! jk - really though, that’s BS. It’s one thing to make your own theme a sponsored theme, but to make someone else’s theme a sponsored theme and then claim it as your own is ludicrous.
Link building via stolen themes, I thought I had seen everything man!
Pretty lame indeed.
That’s crappy…theme is removed now. But you’re damn right:
“the theme viewer needs to change into a manually filtered database and it needs a moderation area to review new themes before publishing”.
What I don’t understand, a lot of people would like to help, but nothing changed except of the footer link:
Maintained by The undersigned/Wiinyt.
That is crappy! I guess all we can do is mention this to other bloggers, and try and run those evil-doers off.
This one is the main matter with the open license.
Everybody thinks to be allowed to just change the footer link and to increase his own popularity this way.
It’s just as I would change the signature under a famous picture with my one.
IMHO the creative commons license was better to avoid this problems.
Not have copyright?
I thought it looked fishy. Glad I found it for ya.
Yay for Jenny!
I saw that theme on another site, but I didn’t realize that it wasn’t where I had seen it originally. I’m sorry people do that crap.
Sigh. Much of the WP community is turning down a sad path. Hopefully people like SP will continue to hold the torch. I’ve debated switching back to WP and just waiting until Habari fleshes out more.
There is another one!
http://financial-insurance-blog.com/…
Fuckers
Anto - I think the site you linked to, just removed the credit link. They didn’t claim credit.
I guess so. But its still bent.
hanks to Jenny of PJMommy.com??
I said this!
Anto - I wrote that post back then because Jenny brought this up to me while browsing the theme viewer.