I am a big fan of WordPress, there is no denying on that. When other companies and platforms attack it, I am among the first to defend it.

That being said I also believe that we should be impartial with our opinions, and there is one issue that is bugging me for some time already: the WordPress Theme Viewer.

The theme viewer is essentially a place where WordPress theme designers can upload their themes, and users can download themes. It is a feature-rich website, so you can filter your research with several parameters, leave comments, rate themes and so on.

I used to love this website, and would visit it almost daily. Somewhere near the end of 2007, however, they just disabled the upload feature, so no new themes could enter the system. Then they posted a note on the website, on December 11th. Here is a quote:

Just wanted to do a quick update for those wondering when you’ll be able to add new themes or update existing ones here in the directory. We’ve been working very hard on a new Subversion-backed database for themes that will allow you to upload themes as you did before, as a plain ZIP file, and we’re transparently check it into SVN so changes can be tracked just like we do for WordPress development.

Cool, I thought, a revamped website is coming with new and better features. So I waited. Then I waited some more, but nothing happened. We are already in April and the Theme Viewer is still closed to new themes, and that note is still there.

I know that the WordPress team is probably working hard to put the new site live as soon as possible, but perhaps it would be the case to get more people involved? For one thing, I tried to use the contact form on the current website, without much of a success. I sent more than 3 emails, asking updates and related questions, and I never got a reply back.

Do you know what is going on there or when the new website should go live?

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