Looks like another site has popped up offering maliciously altered WordPress themes for download. Weblog Tools Collection reports of Blogstheme.com doing something similar to Templatesbrowser.com. As usual, please only download themes from either a trusted site such as the WordPress Theme Viewer or the author’s own site itself. This way you’re assured a clean, unaltered-by-a-third-party copy of the download. Keep your eyes peeled for malicious sites!

This particular warning is thanks to an astute reader who pointed out another such site called blogstheme.com. They also provide “premium WordPress themes for free” but have modified the footer to suit themselves. The “WordPress” link in the footer of every theme distributed by that site links back to blogstheme.com and the downloads are not pristine as intended by the designers of the themes. The footers are also tainted with sponsored links that the original authors did not put there.

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