The digital age and the creation of Wordpress themes has become so integrated as a social project into the daily lives of so many people that the creation of themes has become more streamlined than ever before.
Pick any theme available for Wordpress, and I can almost guarantee that it shares common roots with almost every other theme released, save for the ones coded by the left-over remnants of the Notepad-era.
With an open library on the very subject of code, and the helping hands put forth by the community in its entirety, its a wonder to me that there still exist companies that try to sell Wordpress themes that are nothing more than shiny versions of more standard Free Wordpress themes.
Anybody with a little bit of ingenuity and common sense can look at a theme anywhere on the internet and figure out what Wordpress function to use to get the same effect.
Saying that Wordpress is a CMS is saying nothing more than “I can place certain elements in certain places and make them appear when certain pages are shown”.
Manging content is no more complex than categorizing information and making it easy for the end-user to reach said-information.
And I think once people realize this fully, that they can make themes on-par with the ones that are being sold, the whoring of yet another great innovation in the Internets history can stop completely, and we can get back to what it was meant to be.
