WPDesigner for Sale

I had been waiting for a good time to give away 50 free memberships to Small Potato’s Theme Club , but now he’s announced that he’s decided to sell WPDesigner.com.

SP has said that he hopes that the new owner will want to continue the Theme Club, but as it stands there are 4 themes available for download via the club.

If you’d like to join the club and have access to these four themes, with the hope that the new owners will provide more themes in the future, just leave a comment below and I’ll send you my special code.

Virtual Help Online

Celebrities Uncovered

Outside Context

This site hasn’t been tweaked much from the original theme, but I had to feature it for the Rambo pic alone.

WP-Premiums Shop – Now Open

If you’re interested in purchasing a Premium WordPress Theme, you’ll probably have to spend ages on loads of different sites looking for themes, trying out demos and comparing features.

There hasn’t been a one-stop Premium WordPress Theme shop to help buyers to find the theme they want, until now.

The new WP-Premiums Shop brings together my favourite Premium Themes into one place. You can search by category until you find a theme that interests you, then read about the theme and give it a through demo, without having to navigate to another site. If you decide to buy the theme, simply press the buy button to proceed to the theme creator’s purchase page.

The shop is powered by the new Market theme, which I tweaked to match the main site. I also added some additional custom fields to allow me to add extra license options on the same page.

To generate the cool lightboxed demos I integrated Kevin Miller’s Lightwindow Script into my pages. Using this script allows you to navigate through the theme demo sites as if they were in a normal browser window.

Even if you’re not in the market for a theme right now, why not check out my shop and let me know what you think?

Jaypee Online

WP-Premiums News: Edition 6

New Releases

Market: Andrew Clemente has released his first premium theme for those wishing to use WordPress to run an e-commerce store, and it only costs $40 for a standard license. I predict that this theme is going to be a massive seller. Small Potato has written a very insightful review of this theme, and I plan to discuss it in more detail in my next post.

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The iThemes guys have released two more new premium themes this week:

Business Card is available in seven colour schemes, which are all provided in a multi-site license for only $29.

The Photo Gallery theme is available in white and black, and is priced at $29.95, which includes a multiple-use license.

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Brian Gardner has continued to release additional free phpBB3 templates to match his Revolution themes. Get the complete set from his site.

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Discussions

Themeshaper: The Future of WordPress Themes – continues previous discussions on this issue, with contributions from 11 well-known WordPress bloggers and designers. A long post, but well worth the read.

Hack WordPress: What is the Future of Premium WordPress Themes? – riffs off the Themeshaper discussion, with thoughts on the advancements which premium themes have brought to the community, the issue of lower-value paid themes, and predictions for the coming months.

Ptah Dunbar: WP News Theme Update and Matt Mullenweg’s views on Premium WordPress Themes – Ptah had the privilege of speaking to WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg, and took the opportunity to ask him his opinion on the premium theme industry. Ptah also provides an update on his own forthcoming WP News premium theme.

Adii: WordPress, Open Source & Giving Back – in response to Ptah’s post, Adii gives his perspective about how premium theme designers give back to the WordPress community, and ends by asking premium theme buyers what they think.

Development of Mimbo Pro is Wrapping Up: Darren Hoyt gives an update on his progress on Mimbo Pro. Looks like it should be released any day now.

Other News

I have won the first prize in the Graphic Design Group Project contest organised by Jacob Cass of Just Creative Design. I’m eagerly awaiting the delivery of my new electric guitar and I’m very grateful to Jacob for organising the whole extravaganza.

Digital Apple Juice

Music Heat XL

Think like an SOB

Bernadot Studios

Global Hip-Hop

Melissa Donovan

WP-Premiums News: Edition 5

New Releases

iThemes seem to be firmly targeting small businesses with their themes. They’ve just released their third premium theme series called Deep Order.

The theme includes all the features you might expect from a premium theme, plus a custom header image option in the WordPress Admin area, with an included PSD file for maximum tweakage.

Deep Order is available in four colour schemes: Blue, Brown, Green & Mix.

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Brian Gardner releases his Revolution Pro Business theme, which is also aimed at small businesses.

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News

R. Bhavesh, creator of WPRemix, is preparing to launch PremiumThemes.net, which promises to provide a range of premium themes to suit blogs and general websites. You can sign up for updates on the launch of this new project by visiting the site.

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Brian Gardner is offering a fantastic contest for affiliates of his Revolution theme. His March Revolution Affiliate Contest will last for the entire month of March and offers the following prizes to the top three affiliates:

• 1st prize: 4 night Bahama Cruise & $500 spending cash
• 2nd prize: Samsung 19″ Flat-Panel HDTV, Revolution All-Inclusive Package or $500 cash
• 3rd prize: $250 cash or gift certificate to your favorite online retailer

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Discussions

• Inspiration or Lack of Creativity? A guest post by Jeff Chandler discusses the issue of similarities between themes, sparked off by the similarities between an earlier version of Justin Tadlock’s Options theme and Brian Gardner’s Revolution Pro Media.
• The Future of Premium WordPress Themes: According to Themeshaper, the end is nigh for premium themes.
• State of the Premium Themes Market: in response to ThemeShaper’s post, BlogTipz makes some predictions about the next year in the Premium WordPress Theme industry.

Dope Swan