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Good luck with it Joni – let me know by email when you have it ready for release ok 🙂

‘redirection limit for this url exceeeded’

Ummm.
Can I just jump in here and say my little piece and then perhaps we can all move on.

I may have reacted too strongly in this thread but it came from a whole range of factors and culminated at this point. My apologies for causing any ‘tension’.

I set up the WordPress reference Centre some time ago, basically because at that time, I wanted a place to keep all of my links and resources for anything to do with making a WP site, all in one place.

As things happened, it grew and a few others started to get involved but at all times we kept it relatively neutral and tried to keep it as simple as possible – a resource – nothing more.

A few sites started to pick up on it and as we moved on to newer versions of WP, I recently spent a bit of time, like 24 hours straight almost, tidying it up, adding more resources and just trying to make it a good point for reference in finding things.

I had also spent a great deal of time compiling the Unofficial WP 1.5 Themes List which I hosted on my own blog and mirrored on the WRC. A few minor issues developed between macmanx and myself during this time but were soon resolved. From what I can see, macmanx is trying very hard to maintain the list within the Codex. I highly respect him for this but I personally [note: just my opinion at a personal level] do not like the Codex much. It confuses me and I find myself giving up on things. This is most likely related to my low intellect. I really do not know or care. As I say, it is just how I operate at a personal level.

A few other people started to appear on the scene in relation to the themes list and before we knew it, there seemed to be this ‘race’ between lists to have the biggest or best. Now at this point, I was beginning to think – it’s time I let the list go and move onto other pursuits. I offered to work with one of the list keepers but she declined and said she preferred to do things in her own way. No problem there I thought to myself – each to his/her own.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=28600 [This may make things clearer here]

I had trouble with servers during all of this which complicated matters considerably. In the end I decided to move the list from my personal blog and keep it within the WRC so that it is neutral and nothing more than a resource for myself and others.

So, can I please say.

1. I am not remotely interested in being involved in a theme list race. The credit for all these themes should only go to the designers themselves. All I do is keep a list.

2. I try to display every one of the themes at the WRC using Ryan’s Themeswitcher. Over 80% work as soon as you drop them in the folder but a few create headaches. I can do without headaches so I tend to leave those ones out. I asked Alex King if he would like to share his theme browser with me so that people could have an easy way to view the themes but he declined. If you would like to help make something in this area it would be much appreciated.

3. The WRC http://wrc.os42.com is open to anyone and everyone. Use it or ignore it. It makes no difference to me to be honest. We are always welcoming new contributors and it is not there to compete with any other resource. It is simply a resource, presented in a simple, clean fashion.

I hope this clears up any issues and hope we can now return to the happy pursuit of running our own sites 🙂