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08. Feb, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in WooThemes News
We know we should’ve done this a long, long time ago, but when things are moving so quickly (and you’re releasing 3 / 4 awesome new themes every month), the smaller things tend to fall from the radar. But better late than never, right?
The Playground is a WPMU setup, which allows you to test-drive our themes and experiment with the backend features (which has been impossible on our demo’s). So if you’ve been contemplating buying one of our themes, you should seriously consider playing with it first and making sure that it’s the right fit for you.
8 February 2010 at 6:46 am #
Nice Work +++
8 February 2010 at 6:46 am #
This would give the great exposure to the existing and new buyers. This is the great move by wooteam
8 February 2010 at 6:52 am #
Nice idea, this really allows folks to get down and dirty with potential Theme candidates before making a committment.
8 February 2010 at 6:55 am #
Awesome stuff guys. The videos are a great way of displaying the framework functionality but there is nothing quite like getting your fingers dirty and actually using it. Who will be able to resist the shiny new woo framework?
8 February 2010 at 7:01 am #
Hopefully no one will be able to resist the awesomeness that is the WooFramework!
8 February 2010 at 7:26 am #
Im guessing this now means all themes are fully WPMU compliant?
8 February 2010 at 7:28 am #
They have been WPMU compliant for a long time
Only problem we’ve registered has been the image resizer, but we’ve added fixes for that in our framework.
10 February 2010 at 7:55 pm #
image resizer is not working in the ‘canvas’ theme that was just released on the sandbox site here:
http://test.woothemes.com/shawn/
not sure if you have updated the framework on the test site or not yet, but just in case figured I would mention it
11 February 2010 at 12:24 am #
Looking into this now!
11 February 2010 at 2:43 pm #
thank you. I thought it was a little strange.
One huge request on this:
I use wpmu with domain mapping enabled. It took me forever to figure out how to properly setup timthumb to work with mapped domains, as you are not ‘really’ pulling from an outside domain to save the image. Either I ended up with ‘remote host not allowed’ or ‘unable to save image into cache folder’ errors over and over again.
It took a fair bit of fancy coding to get it working with wpmu + domain mapping.
I’m hoping your image resizer will take this into account, as domain mapping is very important to my customers… without it I would have no customers.
thanks
11 February 2010 at 3:43 pm #
looks like you got it fixed already.
I would still suggest testing it on a ‘mapped domain’ to see if it still works. I would do it on the demo site, but there is no option available to me at this time.
8 February 2010 at 7:39 am #
awesome, tx
8 February 2010 at 7:57 am #
That’s a really cool idea – might have to borrow it
What are you doing to stop people from posting/ abusing the blogs?
8 February 2010 at 8:06 am #
It’s deleted after 24 hours; so any “damage” should be limited.
8 February 2010 at 8:39 am #
oh – I see that on the signup page now as well. Makes sense. Still really cool idea.
8 February 2010 at 9:36 am #
Tried it. Its something awesome and totally unique among all the Premium Wordpress Theme Sites. One suggestion if you may like, A Demo Content should be pre-installed on the blog. Helps test well and takes less time !
8 February 2010 at 10:21 am #
I’ve added a link to our dummy post xml file so you can import it… http://www.woothemes.com/playground/
8 February 2010 at 1:29 pm #
This is a great idea. You guys don’t disappoint. Keep it up!
8 February 2010 at 2:00 pm #
Wow, what a great idea! I think this is really a good “feature” and that’s the kind of initiatives that sets you ahead of other premium themes provider. Really good work as usual.
8 February 2010 at 11:12 pm #
Pretty awesome, should definitely help close sales with those who are on the fence because they can’t try the theme before buying it
9 February 2010 at 2:19 am #
Brilliant Idea, wish more WP theme developers did the same. Such a simple idea, yet so very good on so many levels…
9 February 2010 at 11:24 pm #
BLESS YOU !!!! I HOPE EVERY THEME DEV SEES THIS AND ADOPTS THIS METHOF OF A PREVIEW
11 February 2010 at 6:52 pm #
Why are you going to delete the accounts within 24 hours? Can’t you delete the accounts within a month or so if there’s been no activity or something more? Otherwise I’ll end up creating accounts everytime you release a new theme to test it out and see if it will fit my latest endeavors.
11 February 2010 at 11:41 pm #
Good point. We haven’t deleted any accounts yet and before we start doing so, we’ll monitor the activity and system resources used by the Playground.
17 February 2010 at 9:48 am #
Could a Developer subscription include an extension or elimination of this 24hr barrier?
17 February 2010 at 10:48 am #
At this stage, we’re not enforcing the 24-hour limit. So for now – feel free to play as much you’d like.
1 March 2010 at 1:17 pm #
Woothemes its was dreams are mede off… (WP Webdesigner’s dreams)
(name “Woonderland” you next theme!!
)