While the issue of sponsored WordPress Themes is still a hot topic, I’d like to address the issue of giving credit where credit is due.
I think a link in the footer of a WordPress Theme to the Theme designer is appropriate. By displaying it, you thank the designer and give them link credit for using the Theme. I like to think of it as a big thank you and virtual hug.
Have you hugged and thanked any of the other contributors to your blog lately?
Here is a list of those who may have helped you to create and develop your blog along the way that might need a little link love and recognition, as well as a thank you, for helping your blog become your blog.
- Your blogging program
- Your blogging program customer support or support volunteers
- Your blogging program’s development staff or team
- The web designer(s)
- The web designer tweaker(s)
- Plugin or Add-on Authors
- Clip art sources
- Photo sources
- Font sources
- Content sources
- Your web browser(s)
- Online validation services
- Online site testing services
- Web traffic analysis services
- Social bookmarking services
- Social networking services
- W3.org for setting the web standards you use daily
- Advertisers
- Search engines
- Pinging services
- Feed services
- Feed aggregators
- News aggregators
- Those you blockquote and quote from
- Sources of inspiration
- Sources of motivation
- Your web host
- Those who link to you
- Those on your blogroll
- Those you steal good ideas from
- Those you emulate
- Your family (who have no idea what a blog is)
- Your friends (who tolerate your blog talk)
- Your co-workers (who wish you’d stop talking blogging)
- Your feed reader
- Your news sources
- Technorati for tags
- Those who made you a favorite on Technorati
- The developers of PHP
- The developers of Apache or your web operating system
- The developers of MySQL
- Your feed subscribers
- Your guest posters
- Your Twitter friends
- Blogging friends who introduce you to new blogging friends
- Fellow bloggers whose ear you bend
- Bloggers you read
- Bloggers you read but never comment on
- The brilliant minds who invented spell check
- The friends who remind you to use spell check
- Friends who tell you when you boo boo on your blog
- Your visitors
- Your readers
- Your readers, even those who do not comment
- Your commenters
I’m sure I missed a few as there are so many who give so much to make a blog work. Bet you didn’t realized that it took so many. It’s a cast of thousands.
Lorelle VanFossen blogs about blogging and WordPress on Lorelle on WordPress.
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