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Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Sunday, June 21st, 2009

The first two weeks of 3rdWorld themes, my new project aiming to port hundreds of Wordpress and Joomla themes to Drupal, has been a resounding success. Traffic to the site has been more than I ever could have hoped for and I’ve had some really great feedback, not only from happy end users, but also from the original authors of the themes.

We’ve had just a smidgen over 10,000 page views and around 250 downloads. While these numbers are not big, consider we only have 8 themes and the site has only been online for 15 days and we have almost no search traffic as yet (just a mere 3%). The numbers should really start grow once we start getting back-links and search traffic, and of course I have a lot more themes to add to the site over the coming months.

One big upshot is that in the process of gaining permission to port themes I have come into close contact with a number of WP and Joomla designers, and they have all shown a strong interest in getting involved in Drupal, which is great, and half the reason why I started doing this in the first place.

So all round things are rolling along just fine and I’m looking forward to sustained growth and many more great themes for Drupal.

One last thing, if you want your favourite WP or Joomla theme ported to Drupal for free, please login or register and add the theme, you need to be a member or login with OpenID.

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#1 Great project! Open site registration?

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon (not verified) on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

This is a great project! Letting you know, though, that registration for this site (recommended in this blog post) is currently turned off.

#2 hmmm, does the user/register

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

hmmm, does the user/register page get cached even if I change the setting? I cleared the cache and can access http://3rdworldthemes.org/user/register so it should be good to go, one thing I did note is thats its impossible to login using my OpenID (Yahoo) which is a long standing and as yet unresolved issue for Drupals OpenID module…

#3 Still Haven't Done a Theme

Submitted by Jeff Geerling (not verified) on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

Sorry I still haven’t completed a theme. I ended up not having time two weekends ago… I still plan on doing a couple, especially now that you’ve enabled Zen as a base theme (which I’m much more comfortable with).

#4 Jeff! Seen you been working

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

Jeff! Seen you been working hard on node.tpl.php for D7 so kinda figured your were flat out!

#5 So great idea! Can I

Submitted by Julia (not verified) on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

So great idea!
Can I join?
Before that I used to make themes almost by scratch, only using my css framework, usually.
But now I want to do that with genesis.
I’d like to port one of themes, particularly http://3rdworldthemes.org/wiki/individual.

#6 Brilliant.

Submitted by Hans (not verified) on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

This is really nice stuff, Jeff—designs worthy of Drupal’s prowess as a world-class CMS!

#7 Thanks people

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

@Julia - welcome in Julia, I have approved you as a themer!

@Hans, thanks dude, now you know why I have been so busy;)

#8 jmburnz, thanks so much for

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

jmburnz, thanks so much for this project, I’ve been quietly hoping for something like this for years in Drupal, can’t quite believe its happening and looks like its taking off, awesome and rock on!!!

#9 For fucks sake Jeff build a

Submitted by you know who... (not verified) on Monday, June 22nd, 2009.

For fucks sake Jeff build a new fucken theme for this site, I know you know how ;)

Oh, and the project, well you know I think it rocks also :))

hmmm, looks like all my foul language triggered the captcha, bugger…

#10 @anon - thanks-you, its nice

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009.

@anon - thanks-you, its nice to know I am doing something positive and that is appreciated.

@… yes I know who you are;) Ok, Ok, I’ll do it, I know I’ve been saying it for a long time… he he, but when to find the time?

#11 looks like all my foul

Submitted by UberJohnny (not verified) on Thursday, July 9th, 2009.

looks like all my foul language triggered the captcha, bugger…

#12 @9, 10, 11, well time has

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Thursday, July 9th, 2009.

@9, 10, 11, well time has past and I did build a new theme, if you saw it before,well it was pretty minimal and a bit lame.

I think it looks great now, for a non-designer to come up with anyway:)