Gintoki
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- Mar 24, 2012
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Hi fellow BHW members!
First of all, I don't know if this has been posted before, or if this is the appropriate section for this thread. If any of these two cases happened then I am sorry. I just wanted to give something back to this community.
So I have seen some threads lately about people asking for certain wordpress themes. Some requests were successful, some were not. But today I want to show you a method that can get you almost any wordpress theme for free, and there isn't much work involved.
This method is based on google, and people who don't know how to set up a robots.txt properly/don't care/don't even know what it is. So here is the thing: if you don't set up your robots.txt properly, google might index pages that you don't want it to. This includes the wp-content/uploads directory where uploaded themes are stored.
All we need to do is search for these pages. Go to google, and input the following line:
Obviously, "infocus" is the name of the theme you are looking for, I just used infocus theme as an example. This will not work with themes that gives its zip file random names like "asd7qrS", since you can't guess it. You always have to guess the name of the zip file, but in a lot of cases it is identical or a longer/shorter version of the theme's name. In some cases finding the theme isn't enough, because the theme requires a serial key or ID&PW to work. In these cases you can't use the theme. If you are pro in PHP you can try to break their protection though. I have to mention that in some cases I have found cracked premium themes with this method, so not all is lost 
Now I will give you an example. Lets stay with the Infocus theme. I checked it on the "do not share list", so this shouldn't be a problem.
As you can see here I simply entered "Infocus", which seems to be included in the zip file's name so I found it no problem. Click on the link, you should see something like this:
Here among other might be interesting things you can see the zip file (theme) you are looking for. Just click on it, and the download starts. In some cases the page is indexed but you get access denied message. Unfortunately this means you will have to look for another site.
I hope this method was helpful to you!
First of all, I don't know if this has been posted before, or if this is the appropriate section for this thread. If any of these two cases happened then I am sorry. I just wanted to give something back to this community.
So I have seen some threads lately about people asking for certain wordpress themes. Some requests were successful, some were not. But today I want to show you a method that can get you almost any wordpress theme for free, and there isn't much work involved.
This method is based on google, and people who don't know how to set up a robots.txt properly/don't care/don't even know what it is. So here is the thing: if you don't set up your robots.txt properly, google might index pages that you don't want it to. This includes the wp-content/uploads directory where uploaded themes are stored.
All we need to do is search for these pages. Go to google, and input the following line:
Code:
(htm|html|php)intitle:?index of" + ?infocus? (zip|rar)Now I will give you an example. Lets stay with the Infocus theme. I checked it on the "do not share list", so this shouldn't be a problem.
As you can see here I simply entered "Infocus", which seems to be included in the zip file's name so I found it no problem. Click on the link, you should see something like this:
Here among other might be interesting things you can see the zip file (theme) you are looking for. Just click on it, and the download starts. In some cases the page is indexed but you get access denied message. Unfortunately this means you will have to look for another site.
I hope this method was helpful to you!
