How do Premium Mod add values?

[Jeffro]

Foress, glad to see you taking up our suggestions and whipping up some ideas. Looking forward to seeing what you do in the future.

[Elpie]

I, too, had considered launching a "theme fixer-upper" site but most of the time anyone comes to me with theme issues I end up having to do almost a complete rewrite. Working with other people's code (especially when its bad code) is a real pain in the neck.

Reworking these themes so they are cleaned up, optimised, and using validating XHMTL & CSS would be adding real value.

Some commercial premium theme developers complain that they don't get feedback and code contributions. Improving on their code is a win-win for everyone: users get better themes and the new code is also released under GPL so can be used by the commercial theme developers to improve their offerings.

I like what you have done with the tutorial on how to change the admin options page. How-to's and tutorials like this also add value. Good job!

[ryno267]

There's usually a lot of bloat and self promo in premium themes... I'd say better optimize code and have the latest updates (like new code for 2.9 for exp) before the other guys. I'm not a huge fan of theme option panels... but I'm a dev. I think most of these themes at premiummod would be used by devs anyways so having the overhead and bloat of all that extra code and stuff plugins do better isn't cool.

thx for what you do man...

[Len]

Although we're probably in the minority I'd have to agree with a few others who mentioned theme options pages. I really dislike a theme option page, particularly one that adds a gazillion settings to the database.

Extra page templates are a nice touch. Although they are easy to create I wish more premium themes would come packaged with them.

[foress]

Thanks again for the suggestions.

I'm giving it a try, on optimizing a premium theme, removing all the bloated settings and theme options. I will post it here once it's done (the mod will be called 'ThinLine').