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- Mononuclear, on 10/10/2007, -2/+47Why is this guy crying? He can't make money making wordpress themes? Hardly anyone makes any money for skinning applications web based or desktop. It's usually a hobby sort of thing. If this guy wants to make some money he needs to get a job as a web designer and make real websites instead of skinning wordpress crap.
- pak314, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13A majority of the WordPress users are doing it as a hobby and probably don't want to spend the money when there are free ones around.
- JerodSlay, on 10/10/2007, -9/+20the paradox is that WP is always falling victim to the digg effect at 40 diggs or so.
- Archon810, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Wait wait wait, an article about WordPress. Powered by WordPress? And down after only 6 digg comments? Impossible!
- iashraf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Wordpress can handle load, some of the most popular blogs are ran using Wordpress. The problem with the digg-effect lies with the server, cheap-o shared accounts.
- thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's because WP makes so many database calls when dynamically rendering a page. It's been proven before that WP blogs that cache their pages have no problem with Digg. It's about time WP didn't just have this as a plugin feature, but as part of the core of WP code (cacheing).
- mouthster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Welcome to the real world son. Small potato indeed.
- kingkilr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Another thing to do is offer the same style but offer to change colors, and details(sort of like if you were customizing a PC), presumably this increased the sales volume for each one.
- WorldRTomi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3so basically he complain because his business model is broken ?
Welcome in the real world. - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The goal is to make money, Template Monster are the industry leader (I assume?) in that niche. It's pretty normal to use the industry leader as a benchmark.
The real argument is that there is little to no value placed on wordpress themes and it doesn't seem like the numbers add up to it being worthwhile. - teknotant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I was thinking the same thing. Although, a base price for a custom wordpress theme is around $250 (designed/coded and of so-so quality) through freelancers on online forums. This would get him close to his $300 goal. yeah, $300 is not bad money but if that is all you make all week that would suck.
- Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4And failure to use the wp-cache plugin.
- fLUx1337, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5I don't understand, why would you NEED to compete with TemplateMonster?
As long as your store looks good (best not to use some crappy OScommerce template), your prices are good (If somebody sees a template they really like on your site for just $10US, they are proberly gonna jump at the offer, where as if it was $50, they will put it on their maybe list, giving TemplateMonsters mass of templates more of a chance, and less chance of a sale for you), and overall your templates are of good quality, as near as possible to true XHTML and isn't tacky......then you will sell your templates! (of course, the more you promote your site, the more profit you will make!) - _wayne_, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Welcome to the commoditization of design. Did someone move his cheese?
- sparkweb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Sigh...
http://www.duggmirror.com/design/WordPress_designe ... - thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong. I've set up a WP website on one of my dedicated servers, and I can tell you that WP makes many unnecessary queries to the database, and is CPU intensive. I've seen the response from the server to page loads and it's not impressive: CPU spikes, caused by multiple SQL queries. WP should cache the common elements of the page such as the navigation. What you have are blogs with multiple categories with number of posts parenthesized next to each category - WP actually makes a separate SQL query per category to retrieve number of posts. It's no coincidence that other well known blog apps don't have the bad reputation WP has on Digg. There is a cacheing plugin for WP, but WP should have this ability built in.
- SavageBlackCat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Calling bullsh1t.
- davewashere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ummm, you bury some links back to your website in the theme. The link gives you a higher PageRank in Google and better rankings in most search engines. You put ads on your site to monetize the boost in traffic. I thought everyone understood how this game worked.
- ernieoporto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Maybe concentrate more on your underlying web server layer before jumping up to the application layer and crying about your templates and themes. No one can see the damn thing if it's down. WP-Cache FTW!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Template Monster has butt ugly stuff, all their designs look like things I see on adware/spyware/virus web sites, sites that steal other peoples content or SEO spamblogs
- jjmelo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Please...authors...bloggers, enable wp-cache.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1WordPress designers need to stop mucking about with the space-time continuum.
- Tysto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have the same problem selling my hand-crafted love beads and tie-dyed shirts, man. What a conundrum.
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6Is it like a law that you have to run WordPress in a VM on a server that's running in the background on your computer with 256MB RAM?
- btnnetd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Pricing it lower doesn't always equal more buys. Some people view high prices as better quality. The article suggests that if you want to make it profitable, create awesome designs at higher prices, but it still wouldn't be worth while and sustainable.
- maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Sure there are. It's not WP that's the problem at all, it's cheapie webhosters that try to put too many WP sites on a single CPU box that wouldn't even make a decent desktop machine that is the problem.
Put it on a proper cluster of quad-core servers with the DB and webheads separated and it positively FLIES under front-page Digg load.
Did it. Done It. Got the T-Shirt. - Ravish, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1The website is back and running fine.
- Ravish, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Bloggers don't make money from Firefox, they do with Wordpress. Why don't they bother to share success with the platform and developers behind their blog?
- DesignerScott, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I think you're the only person who got to read this before wordpress failed!
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -10/+8WHY CANT I GET MORE MONEY FOR MY MSPAINT ART WTF PPL SUCK
- Ch3n3yTh3D1ck, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4another day, another untalented whiner gets front page
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5The only thing I can say to this is... WordPress Error!
- spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3Is there no server with wordpress on it that can handle being dugg?
- vonskippy, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Wordpress Designer = OxyMoron
- benguild, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3LOLZ WORDPRESS.
- desqjockey, on 10/10/2007, -11/+4Ban wordpress sites from Digg, or at least add a filter that can do it.
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