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Thanks everyone for sharing your opinions through the comment form and the contact form when I initially shared my ideas of a theme club.
I am leaning towards a slightly different idea for the theme club.

How about letting people become a member to my WordPress Theme Shop by paying an annual fee?

This way, if someone wants only some themes from the shop, they would buy them individually and if they want to have access to all of the themes, then they would buy an annual membership.

Of course, As each of my theme is currently selling at about $24, I would have to price this membership fee to a minimum of $100 per year.

What do you think about such a move? Will it work? You think you would join? Please let me know.
Thanks.

The moment WordPress started supporting “Custom Header Image”, I am implementing this feature on as many themes as I develop. In fact, all my popular WordPress Themes like MistyLook, NigaRila, PalNila etc have this feature built into this theme.
All you have to do is, login to your WordPress, go to Presentation / Design and look for the option called “Custom Image Header”. Here you will be able to upload your own image, crop its size to fit your theme and save it. It shows up on your site’s header automatically.

I would like to know how many of you are actually using feature?.
If it is used by a lot of people, why is it not a popular feature in themes done by other people? Please post your thoughts on this.

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I released a new free WordPress Theme at my WordPress Theme Shop.
RevBlue2 - is a two column, fixed width theme, with one sidebar at the right and one footerbar down below. Both the sidebar and the footerbar are widgets compatible.
It also contains all the usual page templates like “Archives”, “Contact” and “Links” page templates.
It supports tag when used with WordPress 2.3 or above.
It also supports Gravatar when used with WordPress 2.5 or above.
Check it out at the free WordPress Theme section at WordPress Theme Shop.

When I started designing WordPress Themes for the first time, my machine was set to 1024 x 868. If you look at my designs like “FastTrack“, “GreenFlower” etc, you would see that they are designed for people using 800 x 600 resolution.

Recently I saw a post titled Blog Re-themeing on some website. The owner of that website moved away from FastTrack as he felt it is “too narrow”.

I would like to ask you people for your opinions. Are we at a point where we can safely ignore the 800 x 600 and start designing for 1024 x 768 resolution?
Please pour in your thoughts.
Thanks.

As you know, the latest version of MistyLook Theme for WordPress is fully internationalized. It means people can use it for their own sites in their language, without editing the theme files.

Right now, I have 3 people submitting their translations [.mo files] for the MistyLook theme.
1.German Translation File by Ulli.
2. Dutch Translation File Jozef Schildermans.
3. Russian Translation File by Elf.

You can download these files from the theme page, but how do you use them?

1. Set your language in WordPress Configuration.
To do this, you have to open wp-config.php file in your WordPress installation’s root folder.
Here you will be looking for a setting called wp_lang.
define ('WPLANG', '');
and to change the settings to German for example, change it to
define ('WPLANG', 'de_DE');

2. Download the respective language file from our theme page, and put that file [de_DE.mo for german for example] in the theme folder.

You think there are more steps? no. thats it. Go ahead and view your site.

I am just putting down my thoughts about the “theme club” that I am going to start pretty soon.
Nothing is written on the stone, so feel free to contradict with me if you want.

All Themes at the Launch Date
I am planning to release 10 themes for the club members. All 10 themes available at the time of launch.
Nobody knows what will happen in the future and so I do not want to charge you for a theme that I am yet to release.
I have seen many people feeling dejected after joining the SP’s theme club. Even though it was just 5 dollars and he already gave 4 premium themes, people still feel dejected because they expected to get 12 themes for the 5 dollars. I do not want this to happen to my club members.

No Need for License Removal Fees
Club members can use the theme as they like and they do not have to pay any fee to remove the link in the footer. If you are a web designer, you can use it for your clients too without paying a penny to us.

Theme Customization Support
If you have been to our support forums before, you would know how many different theme customization requests we do solve every day.
Club members will get the same kind of support.

Support for Future versions of WordPress
Within an year, there will be 3 to 4 new versions of WordPress released. We will make sure we update our Club Themes to work with the different versions.

Quality of the Themes
I have been building the WordPress Themes since the day WordPress started supporting Themes [from WordPress 1.5]. I have released a whole lot of free WordPress Themes and Premium WordPress Themes. You can also see a demo of them here and there.
So, I do not need to explain what you can expect.

OK…what will be the yearly fee and when can we join?
I am finalizing the fee amount for the club, and if you would like to be the first to know,
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Your Opinions
I welcome your Opinions on this club. Please post it as a comment to this post.

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