If you follow this blog regularly, you will know I am obsessed with the Thesis Theme. LOL. I do not understand it myself but there is something in that theme that attracts me. Maybe it is due to it’s uncluttered layout and the clean typography couple with it’s unmatched SEO codings. This obsession is the reason which lead me to come up with this Thesis-Like Theme.
This theme has all the looks of the original Thesis Theme in it’s 2 column form. From the navigation bar at the top to the so-called media box in the sidebar. Of course, the media box is nothing close to the original, as it is just a box I created by adding a php file and some css codes. However, it has almost the same functions as you can add images, use it as a “About me” column or insert whatever Ads you want.
I have also included some extra “classes” so you can have different color backgrounds for certain part of your post which you want to highlight. Like what you see below:
Disclaimer: This is not the real Thesis Theme. It only looks like the Thesis. As always, I advise all my readers to get the real Thesis Theme if they can afford it.
A feature which I am proud of is the Threaded Comments. Yes, threaded comments is enabled in this Thesis-Like Theme. Finally had the time to scour the net for extra information on adding threaded comments and found what I was looking for. This feature is not even available yet for the real Thesis Theme, though it will be when version 1.5 of the Thesis Theme is launched and I believe the design will be better looking than what I have here.
I am the final process of testing this Theme live in my blog here. All the work was done off line in Xammps and even though it seems to be working fine offline, sometimes the codes gets screwed up when it becomes live. It will be available for download in a couple of days when I am sure everything is working fine for this Thesis-Like Theme. advertisements
Costa, this is your chance to take down the theme before you receive a cease and desist letter from my lawyer, before I contact Google, and before I release the rest of my internet hounds on your site to shame you into oblivion.
You have until tomorrow morning, which is when my lawyer will be sending out the letter.
Thanks for taking your time to state your stand. Will do as requested plus a public apology.
With all my respect to you as one of the well known people in WP theme community, you lost my respect for you on your comment about Costa “thesis-like theme”.
If you say that he is wrong and unethical to do, then i think you should reflect on your own business model when it comes theme selling for WordPress and also licensing….
As a WordPress theme developer, no matter in any circumstances, you should not have two package-personal and developer edition and restrict people in modifying the theme, resell or redistribute the theme. This violates the GPL licensing, as every WP hooks that you used for your theme is GPL licensed…
Whether costa release “The Thesis-like theme” or he wants to resell the theme under another name, it is nothing to do with you and you have no legal affidavit to bring costa to court. In fact, he has the right to release the theme and if wants to sell it at a price as per GPL license as long as he did not use the theme’s picture where the pic license is belongs to you…
With your snobbish comment here, i should call on all WordPress enthusiast start to ban WordPress developer like you who is violating the GPL license and making money in an unethical way. Shame on you…
Cupid,
Wow thanks for standing by me this way. Thanks!
Anyway, like I told all my concerning friends who emailed me, it’s okay. I’ve taken harder knocks than this and most of the time, I prefer to take the non confrontational route. I feel it’s better for both parties this way.
Thanks again. I appreciate it.
Just fyi, below is a post i just left at pearsonafied:
Chris,
did you give that poor guy over at blog gigs a hard time? Okay, cool if you have legal issues with him, but as the Lord is my witness, I found out about you and Thesis from a stumble across his blog. so when i got his post today, I must say, I hoped that as an olive branch, you’d offer him a free upgrade to your developer liscence that he drools about IN PRINT, with adorably pathetic an worshipful prose. So, 2 points I must make:
1. As a graduate of the Cooper Union Art School, lesson numero uno – the best way to learn is to copy from the greats.
2. I watched this post of yours a week or so ago. Maybe, with all due respect, you should learn from your own finger wagging. In the world of WP Themes, you are a celebrity. this guy is your biggest fan. Like I said – I respect your legal issues 1000%, but be a mensch and send the guy the darn license upgrade!
and feel free to visit me at my blog, isitjustme.com – which i am upgrading this week to your fab Cutlines. I will be trying out thesis on some other projects – but having made some simple modifications and learned just a bit about Cutlines, I just figured I’d stick with what I know.
Best,
Karen
Karen,
Thank you for standing up for me. Really appreciated it. After reading Mr. Pearson’s reply I think I see his viewpoint and I have to agree with him about his dilemma.
Thanks again.
I love your site’s articles and plan to subscribe to the RSS feed. I have 130+ websites on various topics that interest me and plan to convert them all eventually to WordPress. I guarantee you I will not be using any theme by Chris Pearson, and if he feels my themes happen to look too much like his I welcome the opportunity of kicking his lawyer’s butt in court. Apologizing for offending somebody is one thing, no matter how baseless their claim, but you don’t need to justify your actions. Please forget this fly speck and go back to the great content you’ve been releasing.
Thanks Bill.
Yup, I have put this silly “fly speck” behind and am back to normal blogging. Will be a while before I do another theme though. LOL.
So, is anyone going to call out the Thesis developers (including Chris Pearson) on what appears to be blatant violation of the GPL license that wordpress uses?
This topic comes up a lot in the general wordpress community, but nobody ever mentions thesis. Is there a loophole?
Also – what exactly is Chris so worked up about? Use of the word Thesis (have they trademarked this name? Could they even have done that?) in this FREE theme? The layout?
The arrogance permeating this theme and it’s community disgusts me. I’ve used it with a client also – and its poor. There are better themes out there, which follow the rules, and are easier for developers to work with.
I too, have lost any respect for Chris Pearson.
Chris Pearson = cyberbully
I’m sure Google would just be so behind violating the GPL. I think you should contact them Chris.
Costa, if someone releases a copywritten stylesheet, fine, if they release a copywritten theme minus GPL bits, fine. But Chris Pearson put something out in the wild under a GPL license.
He deserves to have his “internet hounds” turn on him and his business drown in his own stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance.
I can haz GPL!!!!!!!!!
you should add a blockquote style tag and some padding on the bottom of your p tags inside of the comments area.
Wow Chris Pearson, you sure are a tough guy, and you have “internet hounds”! how can i become a db like you?
Thesis rocks! Chris is the best WordPress Theme Designer out there. I’m using Thesis on my blog and I think it ROCKS!
i hope both parties get good solution..
OUCH!
Cyberbullying at its worst.
Sort of reminds me of when Justin Tadlock released his successful Options theme which was based on the successful Revolution Pro Magazine:
http://www.wpdesigner.com/2008/02/26/inspiration-or-lack-of-creativity/
Brian Gardner didn’t mind the competition.
Chris Pearson is such a douche.