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Getting Ready For 100 Themes

Posted on 28. Jul, 2011 by in Blog

If you’ve noticed this little counter in our site’s footer, you’ve seen that it’s ticking dangerously close to 100 themes. Now, as far as I’m aware we’re the only theme shop with this many themes available for you to choose from. This is only made possible by our designers & developers relentless drive to keep [...]

Sometimes Less Glamour is More Valuable

Posted on 21. Jul, 2011 by in Development

I’ve been doing a bit of thinking lately about which of our themes & individual theme features are most valuable to users and I’ve come to a very simple conclusion: sometimes it is the least glamorous feature that is also one of the most valuable features. I was specifically thinking of our “Custom Logo” function, [...]

Canvas Gets a Portfolio Module

Posted on 14. Jul, 2011 by in Blog, Development

A portfolio module has been one of the most popular requests for our Canvas framework theme. We’ve however always been cautious adding such heavy functionality into the theme and bloating the code. At least we have been until now… With the recent launch of Canvas 4 a couple months back we are now hugely confident in [...]

Editorial Case Study

Posted on 13. Jul, 2011 by in Blog, Development

We recently released Editorial, a magazine theme that aims to mimic familiar features of traditional print media, like newspapers and magazines. This post takes a look at the thought process that went into designing Editorial, and the implementation and development of some of those ideas. Editorial’s design is very much inspired by traditional newspaper layouts, [...]

Growing An Empire?

Posted on 12. Jul, 2011 by in New Themes

Then we have just the theme for you! A few months ago we were introduced to Ryan O’Rourke, via our “Submit a Design” page. He sent us a beautifully polished theme design catering for real estate agents listing their properties in a pixel perfect featured slider with sub-featured listings, and what looked like lots of [...]

Empire

Posted on 12. Jul, 2011 by in Business

Empire is a multi-functional business theme with clean typography & coloring and subtle box shadow styling. It has a customizable slider, uniquely styled widget regions, a portfolio section for products or galleries, and a team page template.

Hackathons & Teams

Posted on 11. Jul, 2011 by in WooCamp

In our continuous effort to improve the way we work, we’ve recently implemented two new concepts in our workflow: hackathons & teams. Before I share the details of these concepts, I need to provide some context. Basically when we started WooThemes 3+ years ago, Mark, Magnus & I did so without any type of “best [...]

3 Years Old

Posted on 08. Jul, 2011 by in Promotions, WooThemes News

Tomorrow marks quite a huge and significant milestone for us. Tomorrow is our 3rd birthday, and seeing tomorrow is a Saturday, and most of you will be away from your desks, we though it would be appropriate for us to give you our present today. Yes we giving you a present. 3 years ago Magnus [...]

The Grow Academy – A Canvas BuddyPress Case Study

Posted on 07. Jul, 2011 by in WooThemes News

In this post we cover our recent involvement with the launch of a training academy and how we put its website together using WordPress, BuddyPress and Canvas. Over the past couple months WooThemes has been involved in a joint-venture with GivenGain, Silulo, RLabs, and Web Growth in creating an academy for school leavers to be [...]

A Help Desk App Built On WordPress?

Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by in New Themes

It’s been only just over a month since Jay and Mike released FaultPress – an advanced bug tracking application theme, but they didn’t just stop there, they went straight back to the drawing board, read all our community’s recommendations and suggestions and started developing a new, more general usage support theme catering for a wider [...]

SupportPress

Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by in App

Now Compatible With WordPress 3.2

Posted on 05. Jul, 2011 by in Development

Independence Day was celebrated in style at WordPress headquarters with the launch of their latest version of WordPress 3.2 (dedicated to noted composer and pianist George Gershwin), that after 15 million downloads of WordPress 3.1! If you haven’t already seen what the faster, cleaner version 3.2 offers watch this great video by WordPress which summarizes it’s new [...]

We Waggishly Welcome Warren

Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by in WooThemes News

Today we welcome a new team member to WooThemes Headquarters in Cape Town. Warren Holmes joins the development team to help with the heavy lifting of the WooFramework and theme building. Warren grew up in Zimbabwe and is a keen golfer and fisherman, so we are quite sure he’ll get along with Magnus at the [...]