A question about WordPress Premium Themes

By Lewis Wolfe, Thursday, June 26th, 2008

WordPress requires web hosting

…of some sort - so you can either

  1. Buy some hosting from someone else,
  2. Get some hosting from someone else for free (various alternative exist here… mostly involving someone else’s ads)
  3. Or you can do it all yourself - set up a server on your desktop, and run your own WP site, until you switch your computer off…

WordPress (basically) requires a theme

…of some sort, so you can either

  1. Buy a theme from someone else - these called ‘premium themes’ and are not totally approved of in some quarters.
  2. Get a theme from someone else for free (if you don’t mind their credit links in the footer, and still consider this free)
  3. Or you can do it all yourself - learn XHTML and a bit of PHP if necessary and get something up and running that way…

Same three… So why is it that premium themes receive this vague vilification - or is the logic that nobody ’should’ be running WordPress on paid hosting, maybe?

Which would put quite a dent in the userbase.

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