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1. b0b0
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've seen that recently the Aeros theme has disappeared from the WordPress themes' Repository and from the author website as well:
   sadly it seems to have become a commercial theme ...

   As the theme, up to the 2.0 version, was released under the GPL 3
   

   ...
   LICENSE:
       Aeros is a WordPress theme made by TheBuckmaker.com
       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.
   
       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
       but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
       GNU General Public License for more details.
   
       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
       along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

   what about starting a aeros-free 'derivative work'?

   or at least, would it be possible keeping the last GPLed version on the repository?

   thanx,
   bobo

2. lostinthisworld
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   im looking for the free aeros 2.0 theme. if someone still has it, can you upload it or mail it to: wakeupworld <at> xs4all <dot> nl

   much appreciated

3. vanillaxtrakt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I found it at the following link; it's still under the GPL license (see README.txt), so I think it's okay to post here:
   http://hirewordpressexperts.com/aeros-free-wordpress-theme-2112.html

   They (hirewordpressexperts.com) seemed to have messed it up somewhat from its original state, however. I had to do these 3 things to clean it up:

   1. I got some stupid "Zend Optimizer not installed" error when I first installed the theme. Delete the wp_include.bin file, then delete everything up to this point in functions.php:

   <?php //The Sidebar Widget Function

   2. They put a bunch of junk in the top of the style.css file, replacing the Author, Author URI, and other stuff with their info. I replaced all of that with the first 9 lines from this file, to make sure the real author gets credit for his work:

   http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/themes/aeros/style.css

   3. They managed to screw up the footer as well. I replaced it with the footer.php from the "aerosold" theme (Aeros 1.0.4) that you can download from thebuckmaker.com, once again to make sure the real author gets credit:

   http://download.thebuckmaker.com/aeros/

   I haven't fully tested it yet, but it looks pretty good after doing those 3 steps. If anyone sees anything I've missed, lemme know.

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