Our Featured designer today is Moses Francis of wpthemesplugin.com. You may know some of his themes already. In fact I used his theme fourWPTP when I first started this site! You can find a listing of all his themes on his WordPress Theme page. Over the last few months I have learn a great deal looking under the hood of his themes.
The Interview with Moses Francis:

Could you tell us a little about yourself?
Well I’m a 20-something Malaysian that has been involved in making money online since 2004, I was more of a Mambo cms fan in my earlier stage but I switched to WordPress and have never looked back since.

Tell us what it was like to do your first WordPress theme?
It was exciting and scary, I pretty much suck at coding and most of my newer themes have been coded my a friend (outsourced), I had been designing logo’s and banners and stuff but WP Themes were something else.

Do you primarily develop your own designs or port others to WordPress?
Unique, that what I’ve tried from the start and so far I’ve not ported any template out there to WordPress.

What software do you use to develop your WordPress themes?
Adobe Photoshop CS

How much time do you take with each theme?
It depends, my first theme took me 2 weeks, haha and it got better with the second theme (completed in 1 week), nowadays I outsourced most of the design work too.

What is your favorite WordPress theme you designed, and why?
My fav so far is my current theme at wpthemesplugin.com (WPTP-Chocolate), because for me it looks like a complete, clean and simple theme, I haven’t released it to the public yet but in due time i shall do it.

With all the WordPress themes on the net today What Theme is your favorite?
Well, that’s hard to say but I have utmost respect for themes designed by WPdesigner, Brian Gardner and Design Disease.

What advice would you give a new WordPress theme designer?
Don’t give up easily, the net is now flooded with “How-To’s” to get you started with designing a theme from scratch and finishing up with
the coding work.

How long will you continue developing themes?
Well, i love WordPress, so most probably as long as I live or as long as the domain wpthemesplugin.com belongs to me.

As long as the domain belongs to you?
Yes, I have received some private offers to purchase the site lock stock and barrel.

If you were not developing WordPress themes, what would you spend your time on?
My football (soccer) skills or traveling.

You can learn more about Moses Francis from his website wpthemesplugin.com

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