Show HN: Themetally – free WordPress theme directory

by justnorris • 9 years ago

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justnorris2• 9 years ago

I've finally finished my side-project - Themetally. This is my first side-project in years, so please be gentle with me :). I've spent months in developing it, and I really hope it's going to be valuable to people who are looking for themes.

So what is Themetally? Themetally a WordPress theme directory. [applause] Thank you, thank you. Good night.

That’s actually almost true, and I think good enough for a short answer. Here is a longer explanation for those who are interested…

A While back I was looking for a nice new free theme for my personal blog. I started browsing the WordPress.org directory and quickly came to a conclusion that it’s bad on many different levels, and isn’t really suitable to browse anything at all. There is no pagination, it’s buggy, the theme demo doesn’t do the themes any justice, and there is no real metric I could use to judge whether a theme has been active, whether it has received updates, etc. etc. - so I decided to attempt to solve those issues with Themetally.

I made Themetally so that it would be easier to discover WordPress themes, with useful statistics, like active installs over time, and theme update recency and/or “project pulse”. On top of that - theme readme usually contains useful information that’s not available on WordPress.org either, so I decided to bundle that right into the theme description - makes it a lot easier viewing changelog.

I think there is still so much room for improvement, and if Themetally takes off I’d like to add a lot more features to it, such as voting system, let authors claim their profiles, add more analytics like relative page-load time, CSS/JS size, etc.

To summarize, Themetally is a free WordPress theme directory with better theme demos, more detailed theme information and analytics.

gabrielcossette2• 9 years ago

Great idea! Always thought that the WP theme directory could use some improvements.

You have about 150 more themes listed in your website than WP theme directory. How is that so?

Also, you could reference Premium GPL themes from this library: https://gpldl.com

justnorris2• 9 years ago

I think I might not be tracking theme deletions yet

Can you pinpoint any single theme that I have that WordPress doesn't have?

gabrielcossette2• 9 years ago

Theme deletions, that must be it then. I don't have a specific example, I just wondered the difference in the total numbers of both websites.

maxraz• 9 years ago

one word - UseFull !

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