At the WooHQ, we’re obviously all about theming… So we recently created this WooVille comic, which formed part of a little promo package that we sent to some cool online guys & girls, which we respect & love. The idea of the comic, is just to explain WooThemes (and obviously the theming-bit of what we do) in a tongue-in-cheek way.

Kids: Don’t do drugs & say no to Defaulto.

Last week, we announced our brand-new iPhone app – Express – and the (free) WooTumblog plugin that can turn any WordPress-powered website into a tumblog with an iPhone app for mobile publishing. Soon thereafter, we also updated our flagship theme – Canvas – to support Express out-of-box.

So our work is done for now. But here’s where your work starts…

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Looking back at WooThemes’ history, we can probably identify a few “pillars” on which we’ve built the company. One of those pillars is the quality of our magazine themes; which is also one of the founding pillars of premium WordPress themes in general.

So with that in mind, we teamed up with design genius, Simon Collison (Colly), to create our newest magazine theme, Continuum.

Quality Continuity

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Canvas has been a crowd favorite ever since it was released, which is why it is our “flagship” theme that receives most of the latest functionality. Version 2.0 gave you additional page templates (Magazine and Business) to play with, and now we are adding our latest WooTumblog functionality (no plugin required) so you can use our new Express iPhone App to publish to your Canvas powered blog!

For those that don’t know what Tumblog means, it means making your blog function like Tumblr, which allows you to very easily publish snippets of content, whether they be images, videos, audio, articles, quotes or links.

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Today is a big day for us. Our first WordPress plugin release AND our first iPhone application launch. That’s right a plugin and an iPhone app released on the same day. Why? Because they work beautifully together.

The Woo Tumblog Plugin

Jeff has been quietly and stealthily been working on a free plugin that brings the functionality behind our popular tumblog themes to plugin format. That means you can turn your custom WP theme, or whatever theme you use, into a WordPress tumblog – easily posting images, notes, links and quotes to your site from your WordPress dashboard, or by using our iPhone app.

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Overview

This plugin works with any WordPress theme and activates a custom taxonomy that you will find accessible from your WordPress backend. You can then post to the custom taxonomy from the tumblog quickpress widget on your WordPress dashboard page.

Posting tumblog content takes seconds and it is clearly differentiated from your normal blog posts thanks to some in-post styling icons.

Find out more at the WooTumblog listing page in the WordPress plugin repository.

A niche restaurant theme offering a heap of help!

Yesterday was the launch of our first Shopify themes. Today sees the launch of something quite different, yet we are equally excited about – our first restaurant/bar specific niche theme called “Diner”.

Diner is undoubtedly one of the most powerful restaurant themes available for WordPress. It boasts an impressive feature list including:

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Today we can finally announce a collaboration we have been working on with the smart guys at Shopify for the past few months.

Shopify is a very easy to use, hosted solution for anyone, especially those without programming skills, wanting to sell products online – in minutes you can create your online store! Cost effectively. The Shopify App Store allows you to purchase additional features to further enhance the functionality you offer your customers, whilst the theme store allows you to skin your store however you like, fitting your brand identity. It provides a specialized e-commerce solution for a different type of user to that of WordPress.

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Coming soon...

We’ve been in-undated with emails, tweets and blog comments on the expected release date of our much anticipated e-commerce WordPress WooThemes. This post sheds some light on the progress we are making, to keep our community of users in the loop, and not create any false expectations of a unrealistic delivery date.

Nearly there

We’ve been working on the e-commerce themes for a good few months now and made solid progress, BUT not without hiccups along the way! We’ve worked with some great developers on the e-commerce framework, but the sobering news for our eager early adopters is that the project has been larger than we originally anticipated – given our very high standards, and us not wanting to put our names behind something that is only half baked.

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Occasionally at WooThemes we find some time to work on theme designs ourselves, whilst the bulk of it is spent finding and collaborating with other great freelance designers, then developing, marketing and supporting those themes. Both Cobus and myself were lucky enough to jump into Photoshop and push around some pixels a few weeks ago.

Diner - A restaurant theme

Diner is a restaurant based theme that boasts lots of niche functionality empowering restaurant owners with a tool to market their restaurant using a unique food menu page template, boasting custom post types, a contact page with Google Maps & directions integration and even possibly a booking plugin to reserve and manage tables. Expect is very soon.

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