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I am very sad too that jcastaneda choosed to remove the theme from the repository, thereby letting many happy users of the incredibly versitile, yet easy to use Suffusion-WordPress theme down.

This jcastaneda may feel justified because some of the recent (silly!) rules of WordPress have not been met, but really, I’d like to tell him: how dare you create vast problems for happy users of Suffusion who never had a security scare because of this theme. Jcastaneda, why won’t you just put Suffion back in the repository and put your energy in fixing real, core WordPress-problems.

I have been using Atahualpa for several years as it is a great and flexible theme. Unfortunately it is not responsive yet, and even worse, read this about the plans for the near future.

As far as I understand, the new free theme will be stripped of a lot of nice features, instead, there will be lots of to be paid plugins and one would even have to pay for a plugin like Live Customizer for control. I don’t mind paying a reasonable price for a theme or for a plugin (if all updates would always be free…), but I do mind to be kept in the dark. And this is what has been happening for too long a time for me.

So, I’ve begun to search for an alternative for the Atahualpa theme. At the moment, I think Suffusion is a surprisingly flexible, great theme! And on the active forum one gets fine answers (mostly by volunteers) to posed questions. Perhaps there are more such very nice customizable and preferably free and tested themes?

Hopefully, the makers of the Atahualpa theme will provide us with some clear information on their new plans for Atahualpa soon, because, after all, I still do love the customization options of Atahualpa and I would regret having to switch to another WordPress theme.