All the latest news and announcements, straight from the WooThemes HQ!
WeeThemes Gears Into Business
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02. Mar, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
It’s been a couple of (very busy & hard-working) weeks since we first launched our ExpressionEngine themes and we’re now glad to finally shift WeeThemes into it’s next gear. Considering that we are vastly experienced with WordPress, we’re taking a little bit longer to get accustomed to ExpressionEngine, but both our marketing & education is growing fast.
First change we’ve made is giving ExpressionEngine it’s own home here on WooThemes. You can now get your EE fix there – we hope it now becomes clear why you can (in future) consider EE as an alternative for personal & client projects.
Then more great news is that two of our best-selling business themes – Delegate & The Station – are both now available for ExpressionEngine. This takes our total amount of ExpressionEngine themes to 5, with more coming soon.
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WooThemes Finally Goes Micro
01. Mar, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
We’ve been speaking about tumblogs for quite a while now, so it’s exciting to finally be able to release the two beautiful tumblog themes that are the fruits of our labour. Without keeping you waiting any longer, we’d like to introduce you to the awesomeness of Cinch & Slanted.
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Your Blank Canvas
09. Feb, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
We’re very happy to finally introduce you to our newest creation – Canvas.
In the last couple of weeks Magnus has been spearheading a project to develop a brand-new theme that would add a few touches of uniqueness to our collection. Along with the odd contribution from the rest of the WooTeam, we managed to create a new & improved starting point for your blog.
Canvas started out as a re-write of the starter theme that we were using with WooFramework2, to develop all of our existing themes on-top off. But we seemingly got carried away a little bit and Canvas truly came into its own right, serving its own purpose and satisfying some of your more specific needs.
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Design Canvas
03. Feb, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Here’s a preview of a little something-something that we’ve been cooking up behind the scenes. When we release this beauty next week, you can be assured that it’ll be unlike anything else that we’ve released before. Promise.
Write me a postcard
28. Jan, 2010 by Mark Forrester in New Themes
So you are about to head off on an adventure around the world, or perhaps just an extended road trip up the east coast? You’ve promised postcards to friends and families, but what a mission, post offices are so last century! 
See you’ve decided to buy a domain, install Wordpress and this really cool theme from WooThemes instead. Friends all around the world can track your progress, see exactly where you’ve been and the photos you’ve taken. They’ll share the experience with you, leaving you comments and advice of where and what you should be doing.
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Welcome All Delegates
21. Jan, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Delegate
A quick glance of our Theme Leaderboard shows that our business themes are extremely popular with the WooCrowd. With today’s release of Delegate, we’re pretty certain you’ll appreciate this theme.
So as we described Delegate when we first previewed it last year, we wanted a simple, but shiny, new design that could compliment VibrantCMS. We believe that Cobus has done a bang-up job of really building on VibrantCMS’ success, but more importantly modernizing & improving it.
Built on the new WooFramework Version 2, Delegate includes a handful of different page templates and Delegate-specific widgets to create a true business canvas, where you can truly create something that is representative of your business. We’ve tried to include a lot of functionality, without bloating the code, to make Delegate a truly customizable theme. So it’s definitely worth your time to check out this beauty…
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Welcome to WeeThemes
14. Jan, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes, WooThemes News
This definitely took us a while longer than we expected, but one of the biggest and most ambitious days in our history is finally here – we’re proud to announce the addition of ExpressionEngine themes to our collection. With that we hopefully welcome a whole lot of first time visitors to our site, and ExpressionEngine evangelists.
If you have been following us, you’d see that this is the first of the “bigger” things that we’re announcing this year and hence why we’re so excited & slightly nervous at the same time. ExpressionEngine is obviously a relative unknown to us, but for months now we’ve earmarked our expansion to this platform as a top priority. Today, months of hard work and extreme patience (whilst we waited for EE to roll out version 2.0) comes to fruition at last.
So to kickstart things, we’re releasing two paid EE themes – Coffee Break (our fastest selling theme in 2009) & Fresh News (our best-selling theme ever) – and one free theme in Bueno, which is fast becoming one of our most popular free releases.
To produce these themes, we teamed up with one of our friends & EE developer extraordinaire – Bjørn Børresen – who will be responsible for all the development & technical support work associated with our EE themes. And for those concerned: this means that our WordPress work and the capacity to release themes & new stuff for WP, won’t diminish, as we have added Bjørn to the WooTeam for added capacity.
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Streamin’
12. Jan, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Streamin'
Our new year is now well and truly under way with the release of our first theme for 2010 – MyStream.
This theme spent quite a bit of time in development (we first previewed it in September last year), but not because it was difficult to develop; instead we decided to hold it back a little due to it’s similarities with Therapy (which was also designed by Izuddin Helmi).
So as with both Therapy & Antisocial, we’ve focused our intentions on social media & lifestreaming in MyStream, as that is what you guys & girls seem to be wanting from us these days! We’ve also included the new WooFramework with MyStream and regard this as another step closer to actually integrating it with all of our older themes.
MyStream may not be our most unique release this year (we’ve got some smashing plans for the next couple of months), but judging by the many requests & enquiries about its release, we’re sure you’re gonna have a ball playing with it!
View the demo now and check out all of the theme’s features here.
We Will Rock You
10. Dec, 2009 by Mark Forrester in New Themes
It is with great pleasure that we can FINALLY announce the launch of our awesomely unique niche blog design for bands and musicians, entitled Backstage.
Backstage was first conceptualized by the talented British web designer extraordinaire – Elliot Jay Stocks way back in June. We thought Elliot was well suited for this kind of design as he himself is quite a musical genius.
Fox has spent the past few months, off and on, hard at work creating powerful widget goodness and theme options for Backstage. With custom category templates for the discography, latest news, video and image archives this theme really helps empower artists and bands with the tools they need to promote themselves. An upcoming shows widget helps manage your events, whilst a home page featured slider can easily be enabled/disabled via the theme options panel.
It’s probably best letting the images below, and the demo, do the talking don’t you think?
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Get Sophisticated
02. Dec, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Sometimes it happens that we tend to drag our feet a little with a theme once we have previewed it; and that is exactly what happened with SophisticatedFolio (unfortunately, because it is a great theme!).
SophisticatedFolio was designed by Tony Geer and when we approached him about a collaboration, we wanted him to create something that was similar in style & function to his own, awesome portfolio. The result is a – erm – sophisticated-looking portfolio design, which includes more than enough “space” for your blog posts & information pages.
We think SophisticatedFolio makes another great addition to our range of portfolio themes and hope that you’ll enjoy the 3rd last release of 2009 (yep – there’s only two more themes coming after this one). Read up on the theme’s features or check out the demo right away.
Everything is just Bueno
25. Nov, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Bueno is Spanish word, roughly translated to “good” or “all right” in English. And that’s exactly why we decided to call our new free theme, Bueno; it is simply awesome (okay, we took some liberties with our word usage there).
We don’t always get around to release as many free themes as we want to (due to time constraints), but when Ajmal Eylia submitted his design to us, we knew that Bueno would make a great addition to WooThemes. So Bueno is our 9th free theme (and our 5th in 2009) and we’re sure that you will really enjoy this one!
Check out the demo over here or have a read through all of Bueno’s awesome features.
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Join us at The Farm
16. Nov, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Digital Farm – which was designed in-house by Mark – is the second “recycled” design that we’re releasing here, after my previous blog design (now Rockstar) made it into our themes collection. But where Rockstar was nothing more than a pretty cool free theme; Digital Farm should impress the hell out of you with a bucket load of premium features.
To give you a little history… Mark first launched this version of (his) Digital Farm on his own website about 3 years ago and if you’ve been following him since then, you’d know that this was the design that got him massive acclaim in international CSS design galleries (and pretty much kick started his career as an extremely talented designer). The great thing about this design is that it was still awesome & trendy enough to be featured on Mark’s site as late as a couple of months ago, when he redesigned and relaunched the next version.
So since we’re not the kind of company that enjoys wasting great design, we figured that Digital Farm could be repackaged and released on here. This is how we’ve transformed it…
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Headlining Act
05. Nov, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
You only need to have a quick look at the Themes Leaderboard to realize that Magnus has designed a whole lot of our most popular themes since we started out. It should also be evident that it would be total ignorance from us should we deny the fact that Magnus’ signature design style has greatly influenced the overall look & feel of what we offer with WooThemes (even more remarkable considering we’ve worked with some of the best designers in the world)…
And with his new design – Headlines – that’s exactly the situation once again.
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Dual Releases, 50 Themes & 4-For-1’s
28. Oct, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Offer now ended. Thanks to everyone that bought themes for our 50th theme release celebration, and helped us raise some money for Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Today is a very special day for us. The great thing about it (for you), is that we’re totally into sharing that special feeling.
Our very first theme was released on 2 November 2007. Now almost 2 years down the line, we’re extremely proud to announce that we’re releasing our 50th theme today. This is a significant milestone for us and one that we will definitely enjoy with a celebratory drink (or two) later.
A quick count of our themes collection would tell you that there were only 48 themes prior to today, which means that the two beauties (literally) we’re unleashing onto the world today will be theme numbers 49 & 50 respectively. To make these two themes even more significant, we need to mention that this is the first time ever that we’re releasing two themes on one day, AND both of these themes also celebrate the end of our Breast Cancer campaign for the month of October.
So you can understand why we’re pretty excited, right? Wait till you see those themes…
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Give Your Work Some Exposure
15. Oct, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
This is Exposure
It’s not every day that we can sit around the (virtual) Woo boardroom table and get this excited about an unique new theme that we’re releasing. But I think – and I believe the whole WooTeam would agree with me here – the release of Exposure is one of those kind of themes to make you sit up and notice.
So here’s my grandiose claim for the day: Exposure is one of the most unique WordPress themes – albeit inherently simple (will get to that now) – that will be released this year. Think I’m being silly? Gimme a few minutes to explain it to you (and then you can decide whether it’s all just smoke & mirrors)…
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Therapeutic WordPress
08. Oct, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
Therapeutic WordPress
We know we’ve been sending so many new theme teasers your way and that some of you feel like those teasers never get released, but this time that’s not the case. Exactly a month ago we showed you a teaser for Therapy and today Therapy is available for purchase.
The only themes that ever get released this quickly (on WooThemes), is the kind of themes that Magnus ends up designing & coding in a weekend, so whilst not unprecedented, it’s also great for us to be able to push out a theme a month after teasing it.
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