Oh dear. Last week I appear to have scared a lot of people :(
I guess a modicum of scaring is a good thing as it makes people aware of the dangers and traps that it is easy to fall into. I was perhaps a little bit hyperbolic when I said “anywhere else.” I should have said “Why you should never search for free WordPress Themes in Google or Any Other Search Engine.”
However, I hope that my post hasn’t had everyone jumping ship to Drupal as tweets like this would have you:
Update: I have written a post about where you can find free WordPress themes. So once you get to the end of this and are suitably concerned you can check it out for some great places to find your themes.
A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words “free WordPress themes,” builtBackwards’ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh’s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for “Free WordPress Themes” are.
