As you may have noticed, I don’t charge a fee for my themes. Initially I had planned to do just that, but I changed my mind after Brian Gardner announced he would be offering a new set of themes under a GPL open source license. I learned about designing WordPress sites from Brian’s original Revolution themes, which incidentally, I had to pay quite a bit for.
What I didn’t understand at the time was that this was not keeping with the free, open source spirit of WordPress. This wonderful blog and content management system is offered free of charge, no strings attached to anyone who wants to use it. Not only that is regularly updated and improved. WordPress is not the only CMS of this type that is free, but the only ones that rival it’s quality are not free.
The more I thought about it, the more sense it made to offer my themes for free and only charge if people require my expertise in customizing a theme, for hosting or having something custom created. It keeps me in line with the broader community of WordPress and that is important for the continued growth and development of that community.
I’d be glad to help you with any customization or support you might need to use them or any of the themes I’ve created here.
2017 update: We have been charging for themes since 2010.