Show HN: 53,039 WordPress Themes

resimit.com

4 points·victoriap··3 comments

About half the preview images are returning 404s. Screen shot here: http://imgur.com/aiqgX97

Regardless, this is an interesting concept. Currently, you have to pending hours carefully crafting a web site layout or choosing from a selection of pre-built templates. Instead, in the future, it would be awesome to provide a set of parameters that are then used to generate a compelling site.

One thing I've noticed - the templates look very similar to each other. And it's hard to find one that "looks good". Have you considered incorporating human feedback? Something like Hot or Not, but choosing between themes instead of faces.

You were right about screenhots, they are now fine.

Currently design decision parameters come from a statistical analysis of a few thousand existing themes.

The 5 star rating, preview and other user feedback will be used to train machine learning algorithms to generate better ones..

Finally the example content may trick people to think themes are the same, but they are indeed ensured to be different..

Thanks for the valuable feedback.

Could anyone point to one theme there that looks really good? I had a quick look and none of the themes coming up seemed worth examining further. Hopefully I'm wrong; the idea of algorithmic design seems interesting.

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