Jason Schuller, who I previously interviewed about ThemeGarden, has just opened it to the public.

So far, ThemeGarden only has a few themes for sale and are currently accepting author applications so hopefully we’ll see some new themes for sale soon. If you’re a theme author, take note of their requirements on the previous link.

• Sellers get 100% of theme sale revenue after paying a monthly fee ($25 for up to 5 themes, $50 for unlimited).
• First three months are completely free for sellers.
• Themes must be 100% GPL licensed (including artwork and CSS).

I know you’re probably thinking about the monthly fee in order to list themes, but keep in mind this would probably be easily covered in one or two sales. If you have a popular theme, a fixed cost per month would be considerably less than percentage-based fees in other comparable marketplaces.

If you have a crappy theme, chances are it wouldn’t be accepted in the first place so hopefully sellers wouldn’t worry too much about losing money by listing themes for sale.

For more background information, I’d suggest browsing through the ThemeGarden site or reading through my interview with Jason Schuller.

It’s worth noting that the site has not “officially” launched, although it appears to be completely functional at this point. I wish Jason and all the future marketplace participants the best of luck with ThemeGarden!

Related posts:

1. Interview with Jason Schuller on the ThemeGarden Marketplace
2. Revolution Theme To Become Open Source
3. I Have Lots of Domains for Sale

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— THEME INSTALLATION —

STEP #1:
Extract the iView.zip file on your PC using WinRAR. WinRAR is a popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility. You can get the free version at http://www.rarlab.com

STEP #2:
After you unzip the iView.zip, upload the complete folder of the theme to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/themes. FTP-client can do this task for you. We recommend filezilla. It is free and you can get a free copy at http://filezilla-project.org/

STEP #3:
5 required plugins needed and there are attached in the zip file. Please upload them all to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins.

STEP #4:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Plugins” tab and activate Smart Youtube, WP-PostRatings, WP-PostViews, WP Page Numbers and BlogStats PCC.

STEP #5:
Click the “Settings” tab and click Smart Youtube.
1. Tick show border and autoplay videos
2. To fit the smart youtube plugin with our layout, set the width of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 720 and set the height of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 400

STEP #6:
Click the “Ratings” tab and click “Rating Options”.
1. Select “squares” rating style. This one best fit with our layout. Then set 10 as max ratings, click “update individual rating text/value display” and click the save changes button.
2. Remove the default ratings templates variables and replace with the following code. Important.

Ratings Vote Text: Votes: <strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong><br />Movie Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Average Rating: <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%<br />%RATINGS_IMAGES%

Ratings Voted Text: Votes: <strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong><br />Movie Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Average Rating: <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%<br />%RATINGS_IMAGES%

Ratings No Permission Text: %RATINGS_IMAGES% (<em><strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong> votes, average: <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong> out of %RATINGS_MAX%</em>)<br /><em>You need to be a registered member to rate this movie.</em>

Ratings None: <strong>Not Rated</strong><br />Movie Score: <strong>n/a</strong><br />Average Rating: <strong>n/a</strong><br />%RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE%

Highest Rated: <li><a href=”%POST_URL%” title=”%POST_TITLE%”>%POST_TITLE%</a><br />Movie Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Average Rating: <strong> %RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%</li>

Most Rated: <li><a href=”%POST_URL%”  title=”%POST_TITLE%”>%POST_TITLE%</a> – %RATINGS_USERS% votes</li>

STEP #7:
Click the “Settings” tab and click Page Number. Select “classic” and click the update setting button.

STEP #8:
Click the “Settings” tab and click PostViews. Select count views from everyone and replace default view template variables with the following
Views: <strong>%VIEW_COUNT%</strong>

STEP #9:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Appearance” tab and activate the iView theme.

— HOW TO ADD A POST —

1. When you want to display Youtube video in your post, copy the video URL to your post and change http:// to httpv:// (notice the ‘v’ character)

The video will be automatically embedded to your post in the proper way.

Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9szn1QQfas

If you want to post a high quality/HD video  you would use httpvh:// (’vh’ for video high)

2. Add a custom field: thumb and paste there your movie thumb URL. Technically you don’t have to upload the thumbnail to your server. You can grab it automatically from youtube’s server.
Example, for movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9szn1QQfas, the thumb url for this movie is http://img.youtube.com/vi/L9szn1QQfas/2.jpg

3. Select category, add TAG and you are done.

— THEME MODIFICATION/SUPPORT —

Minor tweaking or modification is free. Please kindly contact us at http://www.zinruss.com/themes/contact-us

Live Demo | Download [ 4 ]

 — THEME INSTALLATION —

STEP #1:
Extract the movieXpress.zip file on your PC using WinRAR. WinRAR is a popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility. You can get the free version at http://www.rarlab.com

STEP #2:
After you unzip the movieXpress.zip, upload the complete folder of the theme to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/themes. FTP-client can do this task for you. We recommend filezilla. It is free and you can get a free copy at http://filezilla-project.org/

STEP #3:
3 required plugins needed and there are attached in the zip file. Please upload them all to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins.

STEP #4:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Plugins” tab and activate Smart Youtube, WP-PostRatings and WP-PostViews.

STEP #5:
Click the “Settings” tab and click Smart Youtube.
1. Tick show border and autoplay videos
2. To fit the smart youtube plugin with our layout, set the width of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 596 and set the height of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 400

STEP #6:
Click the “Ratings” tab and click “Rating Options”. Select “squares” rating style. This one best fit with our layout.

STEP #7:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Appearance” tab and activate the movieXpress theme.

— HOW TO ADD A POST —

1. For best view, please kindly set the width of the movie posters to 119px and height of the movie posters to 171px.

2. Upload movie poster’s images to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/movieXpress/movie-poster

3. Add a custom field: poster and paste there your movie poster image URL.

4. When you want to display Youtube video in your post, copy the video URL to your post and change http:// to httpv:// (notice the ‘v’ character)

The video will be automatically embedded to your post in the proper way.

Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9szn1QQfas

If you want to post a high quality/HD video  you would use httpvh:// (’vh’ for video high)

5. Select category, add TAG and you are done.

— THEME MODIFICATION/SUPPORT —

Minor tweaking or modification is free. Please kindly contact us at http://www.zinruss.com/themes/contact-us

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Colour Stripes 2 WordPress Theme

Free wordpress theme with popular posts, twitter integration, post thumbnail, flickr photos, youtube video, google adsense, theme options page and more.
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