“Hey, where can I download those open sourced Revolution themes? I can’t find them!”
A couple of months ago, I’d posted about the change of heart (and licensing) of the Revolution WordPress themes. Since then, there were certainly plenty of goings-on over at the Revolution theme site, including a “branching” of the regularly supported premium themes and the appearance of the new Revolution 2 open source themes.
However, even though you may have found the new open source theme site, you may have experienced trouble finding the downloadable themes.
The Old Revolution
Perhaps you started your search by dropping by the old Revolution theme site.
Er-- Isn't this still the same old stuff?
“Hmm, this stuff looks exactly like the old stuff! It’s still not open source!”
Yep, you’d be right. But if you clicked around that site to find out more information, you’d eventually come across an unusual redirect to the new Revolution 2 theme site. (Or you just ran a Web search and found what looked like the new site anyway…)
Clicking that footer link will send you to the new Revolution 2 theme site...
The New Revolution (Two)
Once you land on the Revolution 2 site, you’ll be able to browse the open source themes… but wait! Where do you actually download the themes? There are plenty of links that seem to support purchasing a premium theme, but what about the free ones?
Look for that terse "download" link in the asterisked warning, toward the bottom of the theme detail page.
You need to review each of the offered themes, and on each of the detail pages (not the demo pages), you should see an asterisked note stating that you get benefits with purchasing a Pro or Pro Plus package. The “Download unsupported version” statement and link should allow you to download the comparable open source version of the same theme.
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I think the download link has been removed or hidden. I can’t see it on the page. I think they’re forcing people to pay for a package.
Hi, Mark!
Yes, unfortunately, I think you may be right… I just visited the Revolution 2 site, and I noticed that the small link that I documented no longer appears to be available, on all of the advertised themes.
This is quite a curious turn of events… does anybody know if there’s been a change in Brian’s open source and availability policy over the past few weeks?