Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

WordPress: the World of GPL Violations

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

It seems that the world WordPress themes is chock full of questionable use of GPL code.  I really wonder if there is someone I can report this to.  Let me give an example.  There is a site that sells a “membership” to download their themes.  Great, always happy to see someone getting paid for their hard work.  But then I read about the license on this individual’s work.  So just like so many other WordPress themes, it is questionable whether or not you can create a theme at all that isn’t under a GPL compatible license.  What was even more shocking was this bad English: (more…)

Fix for Freshy2 (2.0.6) on WordPress 2.7

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I have been having a problem with the Freshy2 theme for WordPress 2.7.  So with a little bit of hacking, I tracked it down to two problems.  You just have to edit two lines of code in the functions.php file in your freshy2/ directory:

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