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Show HN: Themefinder – Interactively find wordpress themes

18 points by mariovisic 12y ago

Click the arrows either side of the preview to navigate, you can also use the LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys. The previews are also responsive, so you can resize themes to see what they would look like on a smaller device (phone/tablet)

quaffapint 12y ago
It just seems to be a bunch of ads/demos for themeforest themes with your affiliate id - or am I missing something?
riffraff 12y ago
I honestly have no idea what I am supposed to do on this page
antonwinter 12y ago
i was expecting it to be a little like www.singlepage.guru but for wordpress. but i cant seem to get it going.
cauliturtle 12y ago
a finder without search
avalaunch 12y ago
Viewing on iPhone I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do until I came back here and read the comments of others. Even then it was hard to find the arrow to press. Then it keeps crashing safari. I tried multiple times but it always crashed either when first loading the page or when first pressing the arrow key.
keithpitt 12y ago
This is awesome!
mmmm 12y ago
I don't get this, I only see one theme and I can't find a button to find something else? Am I doing something wrong?
- AltanS 12y ago
  It's the same for me. Trying to access /wordpress/ gives me a 404...
  - mariovisic 12y ago
    Just hit the arrows to the right / left of the preview, you can also use the left/right arrow keys to navigate.
jonathanleane 12y ago
Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar: http://www.themebeacon.com/ http://www.themebeacon.com/ I even posted about it to HN the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745) but it seemed to vanish in about 30 seconds...
- ozh 12y ago
  My 2 cents: cannot filter by number of columns or left/right sidebar, and results are wayyy to slow to check out (it would be better to be shown small screenshots and decide which theme you actually want to try live)
  - jonathanleane 12y ago
    Hey thanks! Re number of columns and left/right sidebar, a lot of themes are customisable in this respect (particularly the sidebar bit). I'll look into it though - it's a good point. Re result loading... yeah :( I have tried to improve this by 'buffering' the next theme in a hidden div, but it doesn't always work. Actually, the loading screens are really just set on timers, so sometimes 5 seconds is too long, other times it's not long enough... I initially didn't have a loading screen on there at all, but it kind of ruined the user experience a bit if someone clicked the next button and the theme hadn't even started loading - they were basically just staring at an ugly grey screen with nothing happening. Ultimately the problem with the current approach used on both my and the OP's site is that we're really at the mercy of the servers we're loading the demo themes off. Some are super quick, others are insanely slow. I think that I may have to do as you suggested and move to some kind of a screenshot / thumbnail first system.
- mariovisic 12y ago
  Oh nice, themebeacon seems much more comprehensive than themefinder. For the speed issue; I was playing around with an idea of preloading the iframe previews to speedup loading; it worked but the browser would crash due to high CPU/memory usage eventually. Maybe you'll have better luck?
ianfhunter 12y ago
It'd be great if you could filter on free/paid also
nghuuphuoc 12y ago
My cents: - Add search box - Free/Paid filter

18 points by mariovisic 12y ago

quaffapint 12y ago

It just seems to be a bunch of ads/demos for themeforest themes with your affiliate id - or am I missing something?

riffraff 12y ago

I honestly have no idea what I am supposed to do on this page

antonwinter 12y ago

i was expecting it to be a little like www.singlepage.guru but for wordpress. but i cant seem to get it going.

cauliturtle 12y ago

a finder without search

avalaunch 12y ago

Viewing on iPhone I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do until I came back here and read the comments of others. Even then it was hard to find the arrow to press. Then it keeps crashing safari. I tried multiple times but it always crashed either when first loading the page or when first pressing the arrow key.

keithpitt 12y ago

This is awesome!

mmmm 12y ago

I don't get this, I only see one theme and I can't find a button to find something else? Am I doing something wrong?

AltanS 12y ago
It's the same for me. Trying to access /wordpress/ gives me a 404...
- mariovisic 12y ago
  Just hit the arrows to the right / left of the preview, you can also use the left/right arrow keys to navigate.

jonathanleane 12y ago

Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar: http://www.themebeacon.com/ http://www.themebeacon.com/ I even posted about it to HN the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745) but it seemed to vanish in about 30 seconds...

ozh 12y ago
My 2 cents: cannot filter by number of columns or left/right sidebar, and results are wayyy to slow to check out (it would be better to be shown small screenshots and decide which theme you actually want to try live)
- jonathanleane 12y ago
  Hey thanks! Re number of columns and left/right sidebar, a lot of themes are customisable in this respect (particularly the sidebar bit). I'll look into it though - it's a good point. Re result loading... yeah :( I have tried to improve this by 'buffering' the next theme in a hidden div, but it doesn't always work. Actually, the loading screens are really just set on timers, so sometimes 5 seconds is too long, other times it's not long enough... I initially didn't have a loading screen on there at all, but it kind of ruined the user experience a bit if someone clicked the next button and the theme hadn't even started loading - they were basically just staring at an ugly grey screen with nothing happening. Ultimately the problem with the current approach used on both my and the OP's site is that we're really at the mercy of the servers we're loading the demo themes off. Some are super quick, others are insanely slow. I think that I may have to do as you suggested and move to some kind of a screenshot / thumbnail first system.
mariovisic 12y ago
Oh nice, themebeacon seems much more comprehensive than themefinder. For the speed issue; I was playing around with an idea of preloading the iframe previews to speedup loading; it worked but the browser would crash due to high CPU/memory usage eventually. Maybe you'll have better luck?

ianfhunter 12y ago

It'd be great if you could filter on free/paid also

nghuuphuoc 12y ago

My cents: - Add search box - Free/Paid filter