Sep.23.2007
WordPress-Designer.com is the new TemplatesBrowser.com
- Filed under: WordPress
Wpdesigner and many other blogs wrote about how TemplatesBrowser.com re-packaged many authors’ themes with spam links, more than a month ago.
Right now, TemplatesBrowser.com is down, but another site has taken its place. The new WordPress theme spammer site is WordPress-Designer.com.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Themes that are up for downloads on WordPress-Designer.com have been re-packaged with a spam link to promote a blog about forex trading.
As you can see, even one of my themes, Digg 3 Column, is on that site. And of course, I DON’T support what they’re doing.
hey, that’s not nice! what recourse would theme designers have in this case?
Well that pretty much sucks huh? I hate people who do stuff like this.
At least they didn’t scramble the footer link into a weird php function call newbies would have harder time to remove.
Sucks big big time anyway.
I hate spammers…
In all forms…
Assuming that you did not release your theme under a CC licence which specifically bars redistribution, none whatsoever. Not that it matters much, since there is no contact info on the site.
Did anyone contact Automattic to let them know these people are making unauthorised use of their trademark in the domain name? Matt has used that to try and shut down sites he disapproves of before now.
let’s fuck them up
Right, lets deal with this…
Let wordpress know. You are not allowed to use “wordpress” in a domain name. I can assure you of that. This can be a good start in getting the site down.
Secondly, report them to Google with a DMCA. Copyright issues etc.
Will see if I can dig through the whois privacy and get some contact details.
Hi,
Do you know which forex trading site link it has?
Wow. These people just dont give up do they?
Wordpress should be busting these folks. Not sure what they can do but they should be helping you out with these types of jokers.
I’m kinda late about this but you just have to remove content in the functions.php of the theme.
Make a search on the spam link displayed and remove it from the code.
It’s just added in the php echo in a html link (a) inside a liste element (li).
So remove the part containing : li a thecontentofthelink /a /li
I precise this just in case some people not friendly with coding are stuck…