A couple of weeks ago we talked about Weaver II, the brainchild of Bruce Wampler, on The Weekly Theme Show. I finally completed my little side project I mentioned on that show.

Weaver II might have the largest set of options in any theme I’ve ever seen, and its only when they’re all laid out on one screen that you can really feel the heft of it. Weaver II is available on the WordPress.org theme directory.

Screenshot posted just after the jump, as well as a link to the full image.

These options are normally separated by tabs on the options screen. I’ve edited screenshots to list them all on one continuous screenshot.

Click to view full size PNG (heads up, 6MB).

Fun fact: Weaver II has over 18,000 downloads on WordPress.org so far.

There are a lot of WordPress themes that come out every week. I mean, really. I know, because I just went through them all to put together the post you’re looking at right now.

I’m trying something a bit new today. I’ve rounded up every WordPress theme that I know of that released this week, and presented them in what I think is a logical order. I’m curious to know if this is helpful for you, so if you appreciate this kind of post let me know in the comments.

Just after the jump you’ll find the nearly 40 themes that came out this week: from WordPress.org, indie shops, and marketplaces. Let me know if you find it useful.

Free themes on WordPress.org

Every week a handful of themes are released on WordPress.org. Keep in mind that these themes have been reviewed by the WordPress Theme Review Team, and are going to be reliable in all the ways a proper theme should be.

Museum Core from Chris Reynolds

Sunspot from Automattic

Commercial themes from theme shops

I like calling out commercial themes from shops with their own brand. Technically these cost, just like the ones from marketplaces below, but I think they deserve a bit of extra credit for maintaining their own brand, store, and marketing efforts.

Modest by Jake Caputo at ThemeThrift

ThemeThrift made news this week, as a commercial theme that you can pay whatever you want for. You can even download it free, you jerk.

Trim from Elegant Themes

iKonik from Tokokoo

Dealicious from Tokokoo

mag.Press eCommerce from Obox

ScrollCase from ThemeFurnace

ThemeFurnace launched just this week, and these next four themes are all new this week.

Busine from ThemeFurnace

Perosan from ThemeFurnace

Capiton from ThemeFurnace

Marketplaces

ThemeForest and Mojo Themes will bring all sorts of theme qualities. Though the designs can be pretty stellar, there are plenty of reasons to doubt the code quality within. Buyer beware!

Invo

Moderno

Flexum

Basix

Unix Universal

Travel Island

Omnim

Think

InnoTech

Wait, really? InnoTech?

NX01

Metropolis

Vende

Spotlight

Coherence

Electra

inProfile

RealSteel

Locality

Junglet

Symple

Sona Clean

Lisya

Play

Painta

Reason

Good Space

Lofty

TopBusiness

Thoughts on this week’s themes?

A couple of things stood out, as I went through these themes. Lots of business and portfolio themes. Lots of “responsive” marketing. Honestly, it all had me wishing there were more blog themes out there, rather than a lot of these complex business designs. Have you tried out any of these themes yet? If so, share your thoughts in the comments.

If you’re really into WordPress themes (and I think by reading through this list, you qualify) you should check out The Weekly Theme Show podcast that we do weekly (duh) here on WPCandy. We talk about, review, and generally gush over WordPress themes every seven days or so. I hope you’ll check it out.

There are a lot of WordPress themes that come out every week. I mean, really. I know, because I just went through them all to put together the post you’re looking at right now.

I’m trying something a bit new today. I’ve rounded up every WordPress theme that I know of that released this week, and presented them in what I think is a logical order. I’m curious to know if this is helpful for you, so if you appreciate this kind of post let me know in the comments.

Just after the jump you’ll find the nearly 40 themes that came out this week: from WordPress.org, indie shops, and marketplaces. Let me know if you find it useful.

Free themes on WordPress.org

Every week a handful of themes are released on WordPress.org. Keep in mind that these themes have been reviewed by the WordPress Theme Review Team, and are going to be reliable in all the ways a proper theme should be.

Museum Core from Chris Reynolds

Sunspot from Automattic

Commercial themes from theme shops

I like calling out commercial themes from shops with their own brand. Technically these cost, just like the ones from marketplaces below, but I think they deserve a bit of extra credit for maintaining their own brand, store, and marketing efforts.

Modest by Jake Caputo at ThemeThrift

ThemeThrift made news this week, as a commercial theme that you can pay whatever you want for. You can even download it free, you jerk.

Trim from Elegant Themes

iKonik from Tokokoo

Dealicious from Tokokoo

mag.Press eCommerce from Obox

ScrollCase from ThemeFurnace

ThemeFurnace launched just this week, and these next four themes are all new this week.

Busine from ThemeFurnace

Perosan from ThemeFurnace

Capiton from ThemeFurnace

Marketplaces

ThemeForest and Mojo Themes will bring all sorts of theme qualities. Though the designs can be pretty stellar, there are plenty of reasons to doubt the code quality within. Buyer beware!

Invo

Moderno

Flexum

Basix

Unix Universal

Travel Island

Omnim

Think

InnoTech

Wait, really? InnoTech?

NX01

Metropolis

Vende

Spotlight

Coherence

Electra

inProfile

RealSteel

Locality

Junglet

Symple

Sona Clean

Lisya

Play

Painta

Reason

Good Space

Lofty

TopBusiness

Thoughts on this week’s themes?

A couple of things stood out, as I went through these themes. Lots of business and portfolio themes. Lots of “responsive” marketing. Honestly, it all had me wishing there were more blog themes out there, rather than a lot of these complex business designs. Have you tried out any of these themes yet? If so, share your thoughts in the comments.

If you’re really into WordPress themes (and I think by reading through this list, you qualify) you should check out The Weekly Theme Show podcast that we do weekly (duh) here on WPCandy. We talk about, review, and generally gush over WordPress themes every seven days or so. I hope you’ll check it out.

WordCamp San Francisco 2012 has released their sponsorship package prices and once again, the prices almost demand that you include your first born with the top spot. In 2009, the top sponsorship spot for the event was $15,000. In 2010 the top sponsorship spot would have cost you the same amount, $15,000. Last year, the top spot would have set you back $40,000. While the sponsorship prices are astronomical compared to any other WordCamp in the U.S., the real issue lies within the fact that there appears to be a double standard when it comes to setting caps for sponsorship money.

An article on Perezbox that talks about the issue has so far, generated a number of comments from WordCamp organizers. It was disheartening to read so many organizers with roughly the same complaint. Here are a few excerpts from their comments to give you a better idea of the crux of the matter.

Couldn’t agree more. I remember being told by the WP Foundation that the highest level sponsorship package for WordCamp Philly was too high. The price was $2,500, so we were forced to bring it down to $2,000. So our HIGHEST level was identical to their LOWEST level.- Brad Williams organizer of WordCamp Philadelphia

I organized Chicago in ’09 and ’10. The 2010 camp hosted 580 attendees and in Chicago, that is no small task. Each city has its own things to deal with … in Chicago its unions. 2010 cost us roughly $42,000.00 (and, in my opinion, it was a bare bones camp) – – and we raised that much through sponsorships, so we broke even. That was a couple of months before the Foundation took over. I was told that $30K for a local WordCamp was a ridiculous amount and way too much for a local camp…which is why the Foundation would be taking over to help local camps deal with these financial issues. – Lisa Sabin-Wilson organizer of WordCamp Chicago

As last years organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas I can totally understand and feel the frustration with the sponsorship package limits being set in place by the foundation, especially once you see that the price points for WCSF are so far above and beyond what is allowed. Overall I think the limits that are put in place for all of us common folk to follow is pretty low and should be revisited as the cost of WordCamp’s can vary on geographical location. – Shelby DeNike organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas

I am one of the organizers of the Seattle WordCamp. We have almost 900 people in our local Meetup community and I know we easily could have packed in a 600 person crowd between us and the rest of the community with no problem, and we wanted to! We ran into a brick wall with the Foundation limitations that wound up restricting us to a 300 person venue due to lack of flexibility primarily in sponsorship abilities. – Ben Lobaugh organizer for WordCamp Seattle

If the WordPress Foundation is going to tell WordCamp organizers what the limit is on their sponsorship packages and quite possibly make it too low which can make or break an event, WordCamp San Francisco should be held to the same procedures. If WordCamp San Francisco can not put on a successful event because of the regulations of the WordPress Foundation, they should change its name so they can hold an event without anyone telling them what to do. But, I don’t think they’ll be doing that anytime soon.

This site reaches thousands of people. I’m especially interested in hearing from WordCamp organizers. I want to know if the experiences described by others were also experienced by you.

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In what I believe is the first of it’s kind, PressNomics aims to bring together the various commercial entities that are successfully making a living around WordPress. The conference is being held in Chandler, Arizona which by the way, is a great name for a city between November 8th and 10th, 2012. There is room for around 150-200 attendees with ticket prices starting at $150.00. The tickets go on sale starting in June but most of the attendees will be personally invited. While Joshua and Sally Strebel are among those organizing the conference, this is not a Page.ly focused event. Among the list of confirmed speakers thus far include Mark Jaquith and Mikkel Svane, the CEO of ZenDesk.

When I asked Josh why he’s helping to put on this event, here was his response:

I had this idea for a while and finally decided to execute on it after discussing it with others. People seem to agree that having a meet up of sorts to discuss best practices and learn from each others experiences and stories would be helpful. The programming is for the benefit of the businesses that drive the WordPress economy, not so much the end user of WordPress. + it is a good excuse to get together with our peers.

Sounds like a great idea to me. There is already a lot of collaboration between commercial WordPress entities in the community but I think this will do a lot of businesses some good to get together in person, especially to share success and failure stories. One thing worth noting is that this is definitely not a WordCamp event as illustrated via their disclaimer.

This is not a WordCamp, and it has not been endorsed by or is affiliated with the WordPress Foundation. WordPress is a trademark of the WordPress Foundation, respect.

While organizing an event like this is not easy, it has to be considerably easier to be able to put on a conference about a specific aspect of WordPress with 0 restrictions.

Related But Not Required Reading:

– The Concept Of A PressNomics Conference

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This episode of Aftertaste takes place after the recording of WP Late Night #7. We thank Josh for joining us for the episode, choose our episode title for the week, and Brad has even more fun with his sound board.

You can also grab the show on iTunes, via the RSS feed, or download the MP3 file directly. I would also recommend the master shows feed of all WPCandy podcasts, either on iTunes or via RSS.

This episode of Aftertaste takes place after the recording of WP Late Night #7. We thank Josh for joining us for the episode, choose our episode title for the week, and Brad has even more fun with his sound board.

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You can also grab the show on iTunes, via the RSS feed, or download the MP3 file directly. I would also recommend the master shows feed of all WPCandy podcasts, either on iTunes or via RSS.

The SEO overlords say “Thou shalt provide links on your 404 page”, or something to that effect. Consider this quick tip simply a word of caution for you power users.

Typically a WordPress 404 page will not be cached by your performance plugin of choice or even Varnish in most cases. And a typical 404 page template may look something like:

• wp_list_pages( 'title_li=' );
• wp_list_categories( 'sort_column=name&title_li=' );
• wp_list_authors( 'exclude_admin=0&optioncount=1' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=monthly' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=postbypost );

All fair and good, right? 95% no harm no foul. Except in possibly these two following circumstances:

1. Your site has 500, 1000, or even 10,000 posts/authors/categories/tags etc.
2. Your permalinks get botched by a plugin, and everything but your homepage is 404′ing. (We see this at Page.ly from time to time; some plugins just love to rewrite permalinks — poorly.)

Here is the cascading effect of multiple 404 pages on a big blog under a large amount of traffic:

• the web server opens a connection,
• pings Mysql to make these queries (grabs 242 pages, 634 categories, 25 authors, 6325 posts…),
• holds open the connection while Mysql burns,
• more connections to the web server stack up, waiting,
• New Zealand falls into the ocean.

But wait, there must be an easy fix you say! Indeed there is: use the limit, depth, number, and other arguments that will typically add a LIMIT or more narrowly focused SELECT to the Mysql queries. This will help a 404 page render much faster.

So we would modify our list above to look like this:

• wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&depth=1' );
• wp_list_categories( 'sort_column=name&title_li=&depth=1&number=10' );
• wp_list_authors( 'exclude_admin=0&optioncount=1&number=10' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=monthly&limit=10' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=postbypost&limit=10 );

The W3 Total Cache plugin also has a setting to handle 404′s, basically letting the web server serve up the default (and less attractive) 404 page, with no pain of loading the WordPress stack.

And of course, always try to identify your 404′s thru your access logs and 301 redirect them to a working page.

Happy blogging.

Additional resources:

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_categories
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_authors
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_archives

The SEO overlords say “Thou shalt provide links on your 404 page”, or something to that effect. Consider this quick tip simply a word of caution for you power users.

Typically a WordPress 404 page will not be cached by your performance plugin of choice or even Varnish in most cases. And a typical 404 page template may look something like:

• wp_list_pages( 'title_li=' );
• wp_list_categories( 'sort_column=name&title_li=' );
• wp_list_authors( 'exclude_admin=0&optioncount=1' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=monthly' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=postbypost );

All fair and good, right? 95% no harm no foul. Except in possibly these two following circumstances:

1. Your site has 500, 1000, or even 10,000 posts/authors/categories/tags etc.
2. Your permalinks get botched by a plugin, and everything but your homepage is 404′ing. (We see this at Page.ly from time to time; some plugins just love to rewrite permalinks — poorly.)

Here is the cascading effect of multiple 404 pages on a big blog under a large amount of traffic:

• the web server opens a connection,
• pings Mysql to make these queries (grabs 242 pages, 634 categories, 25 authors, 6325 posts…),
• holds open the connection while Mysql burns,
• more connections to the web server stack up, waiting,
• New Zealand falls into the ocean.

But wait, there must be an easy fix you say! Indeed there is: use the limit, depth, number, and other arguments that will typically add a LIMIT or more narrowly focused SELECT to the Mysql queries. This will help a 404 page render much faster.

So we would modify our list above to look like this:

• wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&depth=1' );
• wp_list_categories( 'sort_column=name&title_li=&depth=1&number=10' );
• wp_list_authors( 'exclude_admin=0&optioncount=1&number=10' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=monthly&limit=10' );
• wp_get_archives( 'type=postbypost&limit=10 );

The W3 Total Cache plugin also has a setting to handle 404′s, basically letting the web server serve up the default (and less attractive) 404 page, with no pain of loading the WordPress stack.

And of course, always try to identify your 404′s thru your access logs and 301 redirect them to a working page.

Happy blogging.

Additional resources:

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_categories
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_authors
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_archives

Kevin Muldoon has put his WordPress blog, WPMods, up for sale on Flippa. At the time of this writing the auction is at $30,000, though in the comments he mentions he set the reserve price at $60,000. The Flippa auction has another five days left on its nine-day listing, a listing length which Muldoon said he chose because the last 30 day auction asked buyers to wait too long.

In the listing, Muldoon says WPMods has an average of 105,000 page views per month and an average gross revenue of $1,300 per month. Muldoon also argued for the site’s potential in the comments of the listing:

The site has not really been monetized yet. I only started selling ads via buysellads and selling paid reviews two weeks ago so it should increase beyond $2,500 very soon. It’s real strength lies not with ads but with the site being a platform to push quality WordPress products and services to WordPress users. This is something that many other websites simply don’t have.

The last WordPress site I remember seeing sold on Flippa was WPVibe. We actually discussed WPVibe, WPMods, and even as far back as WPDesigner’s sale (remember that?) on the latest episode of WP Late Night, if you’re interested in this sort of stuff.

(Oh yeah, Flippa also saw WordPress auctions with the Pro Photo Theme and We Love WP sales.)

What do you think of the WPMods auction so far? Do you think Muldoon will hit his reserve price of $60,000?

Disclaimer: WPMods is a publisher site on the Pressed Ads advertising network, which I run.