WooThemes

WooLove Winner

22. Feb, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

First off, we’d like to say thank you to everyone who participated in the Send Some WooLove campaign; we have a bunch of new users as a result, and we think it was a fun promo all round. So it’s definitely something that we will explore again in the future when we will reincarnate this awesomeness in another form.

Then we probably need to announce the winner of the shiny, new MacBook that we are giving away… Massive congratulations to Adam Pickering from ThemeCouponCodes who generated the most affiliate sales during the WooLove period. Thank you for the loyal support in promoting our products Adam; you’re MacBook is already on its way!

To those of you that participated, but didn’t win, we’d like to say thank you as well. It’s awesome being entrenched in this vibrant & ever-growing community that is WooThemes, and we really hope that in the future we’d be able to do more of these kind of promotions, where we get to interact with our amazing users & fans!

Send Some WooLove

12. Feb, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

To celebrate this year’s Valentine’s Day, we’ve decided to create a unique, little promotion that is sure to attract the attention of your loved ones and friends. We’ve been known to do the occasional “X-for-1″ promotion and whilst we know you adore them, we’d like to challenge you to send the WooLove to others this time.

So here’s the deal: We’ve created a new Valentine’s Day section in your user account dashboard which will allow you to send as much WooLove to as many of your friends, family members, and business contacts as you like. This WooLove will be sent out in the form of a special Valentine’s email that will include your details, and more importantly: a unique 50% OFF discount coupon for individual theme purchases for every friend that you send it to!

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The WooFestive Season 5-for-1 & 20% off Promotion

17. Dec, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

2009 just wouldn’t be complete without another crazy promotion from the WooTeam, would it? And this time around, we’re truly getting into the festive season mood with (arguably) our best special of the year… So no excuses for not cashing in on some WooLove for the last time this year!

Running from today until the 24th of December, you can get 5 themes (on both Developer or Standard packages) for the price of one. That really is 5 themes, whilst only paying for one.** So if you’re the indecisive kind, you can now pick 5 themes all at once, without having to make up your mind on which 2 / 3 would suit your projects / needs best.

In addition to this, we’re also offering 20% off our subscriptions. This means you can pick up our Standard Subscription for only $100 USD and our Developer Subscription for $160 USD. Check out the pricing here.

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Black Friday: 50% Off Promotion

26. Nov, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

To celebrate Thanksgiving & subsequently Black Friday with our American & Canadian users (this is also a great “excuse” for ourselves & our international users to get in on this action), we’ve got a mouth-watering promotion to sink your teeth into.

For the next 24-odd hours, we will be giving you a 50% discount on all new club subscription sign-ups. This means that a Standard Subscription will cost you only $62.50 (down from $125) and a Developer Subscription only $100 (down from $200)**.

So if you’ve been hesitant until now, get all 53 of our themes with this great offer. All the cool kids are doing so anyway!

** Note: The monthly recurring fees for the Standard & Developer Subscriptions are still $15 & $20 per month respectively.

Birthday Time!

09. Jul, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

We didn’t expect anyone to keep track of this, but it’s great to announce that today is officially WooThemes’ first birthday. It is exactly a year ago that we launched WooThemes from the now-defunct Premium News Themes.

A few highlights from the past year includes:

• We released 30 new themes (that’s 2.5 new themes every single month);
• We collaborated with the absolute best-of-the-best designers;
• We have added 3 new permanent members to the WooTeam; and
• About 3 weeks ago we finally launched version 2 of WooThemes (WOO2)!

Pretty WOW, right?

And this wouldn’t be a party if you couldn’t join us in the fun… So instead of our usual x-for-1 promotion deals (which has been targeted at new users), we’ve decided to say thanks and give a little something back to our very loyal WooThemes users. This is what we’ve come up:

• Buy any Standard Package theme for only $15; OR
• Buy any Developer Package theme for only $25.

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WOO2: 4-for-1 Launch Special

17. Jun, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

You’ve come to know us as some crazy kids and we like doing stuff like just giving you some free themes. So as has become fashion around here, we’ve got to celebrate the launch of WOO2 with another 4-for-1 special. I’m tempted *not* to tell you how it works (because if you don’t know how we roll by now, we dunno on which interweb you’ve been living), but here’s the details:

You can basically buy any Standard or Developer Package theme (from our collection), and get any 3 themes of your choice completely free. This offer is available from 17 – 24 June 2009 and we won’t either backdate it to previous purchases or extend it past the 24th.

Enjoy the new themes!

Got the T-Shirt? Now get the theme…

18. May, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

So when the WooThemes team met up at FOWD at the end of April, we brought along a very special gift: a limited-edition WooThemes T-Shirt (only a 100 got printed). Now, whilst we know that we’d look extremely sexy modeling these shirts, we thought that we’d get everyone that was lucky enough to get a shirt, to model them for us…

This is what you need to do…

For this next week (Monday, 18 May – Sunday, 24 May), we’ll give you a free copy of any of our amazing themes, when you take a picture of yourself wearing the WooThemes shirt, post it to Twitpic (or similar service) and tweet the link (include @woothemes in the tweet, so that we can pick it up).

What’s more, is that we’ll give the most creative image + tweet combo, a free 3 month subscription, instead of just a single theme. So we dare you to be a little creative and maybe even a little a silly…

We look forward to seeing the sexy, new WooThemes models!

4-for-1 April Fool’s offer… [closed]

01. Apr, 2009 by Mark Forrester in Promotions

Happy April 1st!

Being April 1st you’ve probably already had a few pranks played on you today.

Here at Woo we are scattered all around the world so unfortunately we can’t cover each others computers with post-it notes, or set Adii’s iPhone in jelly, or move ALL the office furniture into Magnus’s office. Sigh…

Instead we are going to try prank you. Or are we…

If you head on over to the themes page and select a theme to purchase you might find a pleasant surprise… Perhaps you might find you can select 4 themes and only have to pay for 1.

Hurry though April Fools jokes are supposed to be made before midday on April 1st. We’ve extended that a bit, cos we nice people, so you have until midday tomorrow (12am GMT, April 2nd 2009)

WooTees – Another woocontest

23. Mar, 2009 by Mark Forrester in Promotions

Download the WooTees design kit

Stop the press. We’ve decided we’ve had enough of wordpress themes and we are now going to be venturing into the t-shirt design business instead.

…… that’s a joke, don’t worry.

April is going to be a monumental month for us at WooThemes as it will be the first time all 5 of us of the WooTeam will be in the same room at the same time!

A few months ago we all decided we would get together for Future of Web Design 2009 in London, England. What better event to attend together to soak up some design goodness from the industry’s best designers.

We’ll hopefully be taking some t-shirts to the event to giveaway and that’s where we need your help – in designing them. We are looking for a kickass design that people want to wear, not your typical promotional tees that get thrown into a cupboard never to be worn. Your design can be trendy, humourous or professional, or even all three – we open to suggestions.

Prizes

- The winner will receive $500, a 6 month developer license, and their name on the collar of the t-shirt gaining you huge street cred.

- The runner up will receive $250 and a 3 month developer license.

- 3rd place gets you a 6 month developer license.

Terms and Conditions

• The design submitted must be entirely your own work.
• By entering this competition you consent to your design concept being used by WooThemes and possibly even avaliable for purchase at a later stage. First, second and third prize will, as already stated, be awarded a cash prize for their work.
• The winners will be required to deliver their design in the required format before payment is made, determined by an inspection of the design source file.

The Permanent 2 for 1

01. Jan, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

First up, we’d like to wish everyone a very prosperous 2009. We are extremely excited about the year ahead and we hope we can count on all of you to join us on this journey. And with a new year, always comes the need to tweak things in order to improve on how we’ve gone about our business before…

So since our previous two sales promotions (the 3 for 1 Halloween & 4 for 1 Xmas Special), being wildly popular – we have decided to take what we have learned from these promotions and integrated it into a new Permanent 2 for 1 Special.

This means that from today onwards, you will be receiving a bonus, free theme (either Single or Developer license, depending on which you have purchased), when you purchase any one of our great themes. With this offer, you will essentially be getting double the value, without having to pay anything extra. This offer also does not have any time limit and will be in place all year long (even though we will definitely do another “4 for 1″ – or maybe even a “6 for 1″ - later this year).

This is just another way that we’d like to show that our users are the most important aspect of our business, whilst we really want to continue increasing the value to our customers. Hope that this latest-value-add will impress all of you even further!

PROCESS

To take advantage of our permanent 2-for-1 offer you simply select the theme you want from our themes list and click on the “Buy this theme” button.

After clicking this button you will be taken to our signup process:

First select either Single or Developer License

Fill in your details and select the bonus them you would like

4-for-1 Christmas special extended

24. Dec, 2008 by Mark Forrester in Promotions

Today is supposed to be the last day of our Christmas 4-for-1 special , meaning all your Christmas shopping is supposed to be finished.

However, if like me you still haven’t got everything you said you would and you’re now already celebrating this merry time of year we’ve decided to throw you a life line and extend our 4-for-1 special till the end of 2008 , that gives you one more week to take advantage of this fantastic offer!

We thought about changing the offer slightly, and coming up with a clever new catch phrase, but why mess with a winning formula, especially if all you can come up with is this one we found on fail blog .

Happy shopping Woo Users and have a fantastic Christmas!

P.S. See all the special details on the original 4-for-1 offer post here .

P.P.S. This offer will definitely be ending when the clock strikes 12am (GMT) on New Years Eve 2008 . No more extensions.

The 4-for-1 Special

16. Dec, 2008 by Mark Forrester in Promotions

Ho Ho Ho! Santa has arrived a week early here at WooThemes headquarters, bearing lots of gifts and instructing us to dish them out to you in the form of a 4 for 1 special for all our WooTheme visitors!

We’ve run a 3 for 1 special in the past as our Halloween special, but nothing as daring as this. 4 wonderful WooThemes for the price of 1 !

Santa has assured us this is a sensible business move and will help make a lot of people’s Christmas even more merry!

This offer applies to both Single & Developer Licenses, which means you get the following:

• Buy a Single License for $70 USD and get any 3 other themes (on Single Licenses) of your choice; or
• Buy a Developer License for $150 USD and get any 3 other themes (on Developer Licenses) of your choice.

For the single license special, each of the 4 themes comes with an individual license, so you can use the themes on 4 different websites.

HOW IT WORKS

As with everything in life, there’s some “rules” with regards to the special… Here they are:

1. The special is only valid from 17 December (midnight GMT ) until the end of 24 December 2008 (midnight GMT) the clock strikes 12am on New Years Eve 2008 (we extended the special ) as specified above. No previous purchases will be eligible for this. If you miss the deadline, you will not be able to make use of this special.

To take advantage of this fantastic Christmas present simply select to purchase your favourite theme, for example, our latest theme offering, Abstract (which we collaborated with Veerle Pieters on will be launched with the start of this 4 for 1 promotion – details to follow).

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We missed our own birthday… #fail…

04. Nov, 2008 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

Eek… This is kinda embarrassing, but we missed our own birthday, which occured on Sunday, 2 November. We had been planning to do a post about it, but things just never really panned out, considering we were busy finalizing stuff for the WooContest. But better late than never, we say…

So then I think it’s time that we hear a nice big “Happy Bday Woo!” from all of you folks! Now sure – WooThemes itself is only 4-odd months old, but this whole journey started out on 2 November 2007, when I released The Original Premium News Theme (I was also on my own at that stage). Back then, I definitely was not as serious about the business as I am now and it was only when Magnus & Mark joined that things really started to take shape.

In hindsight, our business has far exceeded my wildest expectations and I think all 3 of us are more motivated than ever to continue building WooThemes!

Now, with all of that out of the way, we’d like to give all of you a present (even though it is our birthday). So since The Original Premium News Theme started it all, we’ve decided to release the theme to the public for free. We’ve learned a helluva lot since releasing The Original theme, but that theme is one of the cornerstones on which WooThemes has been built. So we’re sure that everyone will enjoy this free release…

The theme will be released under the same terms as our Snapshot theme i.e. you will need to purchase a support package from us to get access to the support forums & tutorials. Otherwise you will need to enjoy the theme without our help!

So download the theme and enjoy this one as a celebration of the journey we have undertaken in the last year!

WooContest Winners Announced

03. Nov, 2008 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

Well, it’s probably time to get to the highlight of the recently finished (and first ever) WooContest, as I’m sure all of you are waiting to see who’s walking away with the prizes… The contest delivered 188 amazing concepts and we’re extremely happy with the quality of the submissions.

Obviously with a competition of this nature, there’ll be some people who walk away as winners and others who’ll get another opportunity to win next time (there’s no such thing as losers in our book). We have decided to award a 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize, whilst we have also contacted another 7 designers to buy their submissions. This will then make out our Top 10.

Before we get to the winners, we’d also like to thank Elliot Jay Stocks, Liam McKay, Brian Gardner & Jason Schuller for acting as guest judges and providing us with some valuable input. We considered their votes, along with ours to finalize the following list:

1. The Groovy Series by izuddin.helmi – $2000 Winner!

Choosing the ultimate winner for a contest like this, is never easy – but with three great variations in the series, we absolutely had to pick this one! We love the style, customizability and the different layouts, which ultimately clinched the first prize in our minds.

2. myweblog by Spencer.Gurnk – $1000 Winner!

We think this concept is a typical WooThemes design and that’s probably the reason why we like it so much. They say that one shouldn’t “try fix something when it’s not broken“, so this slick theme will fit into the hugely popular WooThemes theme recipe book easily and we believe that it’ll proof just as popular with our users.

3. Store WooTheme by jonikox – $500 Winner!

With our recent push to get into the commerce / business themes market, we think this one will go down really well. The grunge design is definitely popular and we’ll be sure to add a few more styles to the design before it’s ready for release.

4. Irresistible by izuddin.helmi

There’s something truly mystical about this design and we love it. We’re sure that with a bunch of different colour schemes, this theme can turn into one of the most popular themes on WooThemes.

5. Prouder Studio by thecraigvine

Another design that can count itself unlucky that it didn’t make it into the Top 3. Irrespective though, we’d love to develop this theme and add it to our growing list of portfolio themes.

Completing the Top 10…

Then, in no particular order, here are 5 more outstanding submissions, which just didn’t make our Top 5. We have already contacted these designers about purchasing their concepts, since we’d love to develop these and add them to the WooThemes stable.

• Newsport by Armono Wibowo
• Bloggingstream by fir.da.us
• TypeBased by Armono Wibowo
• Gotham News by onvo
• Personal Blog Theme by onvo

So a big congrats to all the designers that have made it into our Top 10 and especially to the three winning designers for their amazing concepts! What do you think? Do you like the designs we picked? Or do you think we missed one of your favourites?

The Halloween Special: Can we haz crazy special deal for yooz?

30. Oct, 2008 by Adii Rockstar in Promotions

Who ever said that we don’t at least try our best to please all of our fans? If it’s not 4 new themes in one month, it’s design competitions and now there’s this so-called Halloween Special thing as well… So what’s all the fuss about?

THE DEAL

From the moment that this post has been published, this Halloween Special will be available and it will run until midnight on Friday, 31 October 2008 (at which time, the scary Halloween ghosts would have haunted you enough already). This is what you can get:

The 3 for 1

We’re basically offering you the opportunity to get 3 of our brilliant themes for the price of 1. This offer applies to both Single & Developer Licenses, which means you get the following:

• Buy a Single License for $70 USD and get any 2 other themes (on Single Licenses) of your choice; or
• Buy a Developer License for $150 USD and get any 2 other themes (on Developer Licenses) of your choice.

3 Months Free

We also have a special offer for those of you interested in becoming a member of our amazing WooThemes Club… You can buy any 3 or 6 month subscription and we’ll throw 3 months in completely free of charge, which means you’ll get a 6 or 9 month subscription for a very, very low price.

HOW IT WORKS

As with everything in life, there’s some “rules” with regards to the special… Here they are:

1. The special is only valid for the time as specified above and no previous purchases will be eligible for this. If you miss the deadline, you will also not be able to make use of this special. So you basically have a 36 hour window from the moment that this post has been published.
2. Once you have bought your individual theme (on a Single or Developer License), please e-mail us at support@woothemes.com and tell us which 2 free themes you’d like added to your account.
3. If you buy a subscription, you don’t need to do anything – we’ll have you on record and the 3 months will be added automatically. Do however note that the 3 free months will only be added once your paid subscription comes to an end.

And that’s it! Happy Halloween everyone and we hope you celebrate it in some WooThemes-style! Enjoy the special!