It was recently discovered by a local Turkish member serhat5858 and Soulsmasher that many of his themes were being released by another member as their original work. Upon investigation, the copied theme code was almost exactly the same, in some instances identical, except that the original acknowledgements and copyright information was missing.

This will not stand! There is zero tolerance for this kind of violation. As a result of this discovery, the member concerned was sent a warning, the reply to which was extremely dismissive. He has now been permanently banned from all PHP-Fusion sites, including the NSS sites, and his submissions have been removed. Not to mention his name in the Open Source community as a whole is now worthless.

To do this to a person who freely gives so much help and support to anyone who asks is beneath contempt. So, to anyone who's thinking of trying to do the same to make themselves seem a better coder than they actually are, be warned! You will eventually get caught and exposed! It is theft, nothing less. We've been quite courteous and polite in matters like this for a number of years, but we hereby inform you that if you get caught in behaving in such a way, we will take swift actions as soon as we spot it from this day and after.

Please note, that AGPL does cover Themes, Infusions etc as well as the whole of PHP-Fusion, if you as a 3rd party developer breaks the license, you have forfeited the whole license as such.

The only requirement the Open Source community asks of anyone wanting to use their code is that you leave any copyright info intact, that's it! Without this one hard and fast rule, the quality of the code gets diluted and lost leaving talented people with no incentive to continue.

We understand the overwhelming majority of members would never do this and many thanks to those who have reported such people to us over the years.

The theme submission is finally working again thanks to Christian (PMM).
So please submit your themes and i'll be happy to approve them, before you submit your theme make sure you have read our guidelines.

I'm "Barspin" temporarily in charge of the theme site from now on, if you have any questions please feel free to send me a pm.
There is some great thing going on right now v7.01 will be here soon and our three sites will merge together.

Quote: The Management Team has also decided to merge our three main sites, this one, the MOD site and the Theme site into one single main site with one login for all users and crew. This will take place after we've moved our sites, we will certainly experience some data losses, even some confusion initially but in a longer perspective it is the sensible thing to do, today every user must log on to multiple sites, as well as crew and we quite simply need to focus our efforts and make this project more easy to grasp for everyone, which we will achieve with a merger of the three main sites.
However, the merger of the sites will take some time, for which I hope you will have patience with us.

Lately there has been a lot of great themes submitted by both new and old theme-creators. I'm very pleased with the work that's been done, and the themes shows a multitude of styles and variations. This is what this site is all about. As we speak there is a total of 347 themes in the database, 196 v7.x compatible themes and 151 v6.x compatible themes.

We all need to consider a few things when we submit our work to the themes database. This so that everybody who uses the themes have a pleasant and painless experience. Therefore I have written a little more detailed Theme-submissions guide that you'll find HERE.
The one that submit themes and the one that review them will also benefit from this. The time it takes for your theme to be accepted - and the time we spend reviewing each theme - will be shorter. So I urge both new and old "themers" to take a look at this document.

If you're experiencing trouble submitting a new theme, please pay attention to the messages you get. Most likely you have missed one or more element mentioned in the Submissions guidelines.

Happy themeing!

There was quite a few people that was up for joining the Design Team. I'm very grateful for that, it proved what I already knew: this community has a lot of resourceful and dedicated designers. So I basically had to pick and choose.
The choices were made by the criteria set by the MT, and the things I knew each member had done in the PHP-Fusion community.
The group of people that forms the Design Team can be found HERE.
Thanks to everybody who showed interest in joining this team, you are all precious.

-Sveinung

The PHP-Fusion Management Team (MT) has decided that we should recreate a Design Team. Therefore we are looking for people that are familiar with PHP-Fusion and its design. We need people that are skilled when it comes to design, graphics, themes, PHP or marketing. If you have skills within some of these areas, and want to participate in forming the future of PHP-Fusion and its theme-engine, please read on.

This site will be undergoing some maintenance work during the weekend. As a result of that, the site will be unavailable for a shorter period of time.

In advance - thank you for your patience :)

I made a small alteration to the themes database today. To make all themes show I removed the options to search by valid html and css from the advanced search options (at least for now).

Please note - follow the Theme Submission Guidelines when submitting a new theme.
Sadly I had to reject (for now) a few themes that did not follow these requirements.
1) Remove any Thumbs.db files from you archive
2) The archive MUST contain a licence text file (i.e. AGPL.txt or similar)
3) Make sure the keep ALL files that is not a necessary component of your theme inside the extras folder (like screenshots, PSD files and so on).

Thank you.

Update: March 13 2009 : three new themes since yesterday? Great - and they are all approved

It's been a little while - but I approved nine new themes today. Thank you for these nice submissions - keep up the good work.
Matonor is busy with his studies at the moment, so I'm giving a helping hand. Hopefully I will not break anything while doing so :)

That's all for now, and take care.

Hi :)
Due to my lack of time in the last few weeks there was a small pile of themes ready for approval again. I approved them all and I'm happy about the submissions activity here. There are themes from many different users, alsl with different styles and ideas. Keep it up, guys and girls! To view the latest submission, I recommend using the Theme Database gallery function once again.
bye
Matonor

Hi :)
I finally got the chance to approve all the fine themes you all submitted. I just finished uploading 769 files and approved 15 themes.
As the Latest Themes Panel is far too small to view them all, I'd recommend you to use the Theme Database gallery function to take a look at them.
thanks
Matonor

I finally received the last votes of an important jury member (I'm sorry for all this delay, but it was hard to get hold of them in the post-v7-release holiday-spirit) and thus I may now announce the results of the theme contest:

The top three are:

Third: Orange Slush by googlebot

Second: DarkZik by ProZillaZ

...and the winner is: BlueStar by orosznyet

Congratulations to the winner and thank you once again to those who participated and those who influenced the final results with their votes (Read more to see how the community poll did change the contest result)

The three winning themes can now be downloaded. The other themes will be added soon.