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Credits

This area of our site is to give credit where credit is due.

Our system is working on a very cleaver piece of software/code, some of you will know the name as it’s from the popular WordPress.

Why not give credit in the themes and plugin pages?

Well our site is not aimed at technically minded people, we want it to be as simple as possible, and by linking out to other sites that could be consider more technical could confuse people more often than not. So with that in mind, we’ve created this page, so credit will still be given, if we miss your name, then please let us know and we’ll add it here.

Plus when offering free sites to people, we don’t want to plaster tons of links to other sites, this will just put their users off and in turn ours.

And last but not least, we can’t guarantee those sites will have content our members and users want to see, how are we to know if those sites ever change their content to something illegal or explicit, also what happens if those site domains are not renewed, we’re then left with dead links in our members websites or even worse a drop page full of commercial links. That’s not good and certainly won’t help with our search engine ratings, at least here it allows us to keep an eye on things, and not annoy our members.

But what about themes licensed under the Creative Commons?

Themes and plugins released for WP, rely on WP to function, and are therefore an extension of that system and thus inherits the GPL licence, however images are not the same and work with or without the WP code and therefore can be licensed separately, most of the themes we’ve used have had there images changed, so this is no longer applicable, however those with the images intact have kept the credits on the theme and in here too, to comply with the Creative Commons licensing.

But this is GPL?

The GPL states credit must be given if the code is re-distributed and that we have done when enhancing themes and releasing them back to the WP community. According to the GPL providing the credit remains in the source code, then this is acceptable, however we’re not re-distributing all the themes.

Despite all that, we’ve created this here credits and thanks page, if we’ve missed you out, or you want something adding or altering then please get in touch us.

Themes (In absolutely no order at all):

Shaddow - Angelic Theme - Neckdoll for the art (Images Original)

Becca Wei - Almost Spring Theme

Andreas Viklund - Daleri Dark (Images Changed)

Ask Graphics - Dark Blue (Images changed) - Now light blue

Ask Graphics - Black Green (Wigetised, and code edited)

Ask Graphics - Black Green (Wigetised, code edited and customised for use as main PT Theme) - Now Admin One - Also re-released edited version on wpmudev

AskGraphics - Dark Magic (Images changed)

Gothic Love - (wigetised, other minor code changed) - Also re-released edited version on wpmudev

Dezzain Design - Dark-O-Fluid

Antbag - Dark Water (Image Changed)

Jim Whimpey - Day Stream (Images Changed)

Arcsin - Decayed (No change)

MCANGELI - DelusionsMU (No change)

Infected-FX - Halloween

Small Potato - Digg

Jennifer Ledbetter - Dixi Belle (Image Change)

Cory Miller - Duct Tape

enQuira - enQuira

Kaushal Sheth - Contaminated (Image Change)

Fredrik Fahlstad - F3Green (No Change)

Razvan Teodorescu - Falling Dreams (Image Change, Minor code change to fix atom feed)

Tina Matanguihan - Falling Stars (No Change)

Sadish Balasubramanian - Fast Track

Bob - Dot Blue

Phu Ly - Flex

Fredrik Fahlstad - Flight

iWebNet - Flowers

Derek Punsalan - Foliage

Plugins

Simple Forums - Andy Staines.

Gregarious - Ankur Kothari.

Polls - Lester Chan.

Stats - Lester Chan.

Skype - Alper Haytabay.

PDF - Antonello Cicchese.

Social Bookmarking - Apostolos Dountsis.

Users On-line - Lester Chan.

Main System

Word Press.

Will you release modified themes and plugins?

Yes.

We’ve already done so, and will continue to do so, it’s only fair as the original creators having given us a great tool, some great plugins and themes too.

If we notice a bug in a plugin and we fix it, we will then give feed back to the original developer so that they too can make the fix for others to use.