The WooThemes Blog

We’re working on so many awesome things at the moment and we will be making some significant announcements (erm, cough, WooCommerce, cough, too) in the next couple of weeks. Before that though, we’ve got theme releases #99 & the big #100 to attend to. Here’s a sneak peak…

#99 will be a new niche theme that we’re calling Announcement. Designed by Matthew Smith, the theme is geared at – you guessed it – making specific announcements. But there’s a twist though… The theme includes something new in a widget which is called “Woo – Component” and the only thing we’ll say about this now is: drag & drop, baby!

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Jay & Mike (the guys behind the beautiful FaultPress) are at it again with the upcoming release of SupportPress. Since the release of FaultPress, we’ve had many enquiries about a more “generic” version of the theme which could be applied to multiple niches. SupportPress is our answer to those enquiries.

SupportPress is a help desk & knowledgebase all rolled into one theme (much like the beautifully designed hosted service, Tender). We think this will be a superb application (theme) for managing your customer support elegantly and most importantly: on a budget. Expect the release shortly. Teaser below…

So with our recent WooTeam trip to the UK, where we admittedly didn’t do much work, we’ve been a bit behind schedule on theme releases this month. Luckily for you though, we totally anticipated this, which means we had been working on the new themes for June even before we left for the UK. Yay us!

The first new theme you can expect this month, is a brand-new, minimalist photography theme. This has been a very popular suggestion in recent months and we anyway felt the need to release a more modern (in terms of the functionality) version of Exposure (which was popular in its own right in the past). The new photography theme, Statua, is packing some serious punch and was designed by Chris Rowe, who also recently did Simplicity & Delicious Magazine (both that has shot up the popularity chart).

Here’s a little teaser:

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We haven’t released any video-specific themes for ages and when Sacha Greif submitted his design for a new video theme, we just knew that this was the design that would spice things up for us.

The new theme, Premiere, is almost ready for release and we’re building quite a few additional goodies into the initial release. We’ve also added an elaborate membership system to the roadmap for Premiere and whilst this won’t be ready for the first version, we’re planning on shaking things up considerably with this functionality.

This is what you can expect to be hitting your computer screens shortly…

Following up on the release of Delicious Magazine (and Chris Rowe’s honorary addition to our design team), we have a superbly flexible and elegant business theme, Simplicity, which we’ll be launching soon.

Prior to starting this design, we asked Chris to spend some time researching all of the most popular business themes out there and combine the best-of-the-best. Our opinion of the final product is that it’s absolutely fantastic and a guaranteed best-seller. Guaranteed we say.

Here’s a little preview:

Ever since the birth of WooThemes (more than 3 years ago now), we’ve never been afraid to ask for some outside help and this has seen us collaborating with some really well-known designers. We’d like to think that these guys & girls represent the best of the best.

In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be continuing this legacy by collaborating with the likes of Cameron Moll, Matthew Smith & Orman Clark, which obviously means that you can expect some extreme awesome on the design-front.

We’ve done this, because this obviously helps out with the capacity in terms of designing new stuff, but also supplements our own design work in keeping the styles & ideas fresh. One of our collaborative designers that has become more prominent in recent months, has been Chris Rowe, who we just recently worked with on themes such as Elefolio, Air & Spectrum. These designs (themes) have all proved to be very popular, which has resulted in us taking our collaboration with Chris to a new level.

Spectrum is now our 14th best-selling theme of all-time

Chris has signed up to become an honorary member of the WooTeam for the next couple of months, which will see him working on at least 6 new designs for us. Our decision in this regard was easy based on the quality of Chris’ design work and we’re hoping that we can leverage the relationship we’ve built to improve our future collaborative designs even further.

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We trust that all of our users and fans have had a very blessed festive period and hope that you guys & girls have an amazing 2011. We promise to pull out all the stops from our side to make your WordPress & WooThemes 2011′s better than ever!

With that said, we’d like to show you a lil’ preview for our first theme of the year – Biznizz. Biznizz is a sweet new business theme, which will add some variety & spice to our existing collection. Expect the release in the next couple of days.

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Last week’s sharing of some of the WPBundle teasers seems to have gotten you guys & girls even more excited about the upcoming launch of this great new collaboration between ourselves and the WPBundle crew. So here’s the second 5 (of 10) themes that will form part of the first bundle going on sale soon…

Essence: Sell Your Portfolio

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Since announcing our collaboration with WPBundle, this has been one of the most anticipated WordPress releases of this year. So whilst Liam & Spencer have done a great job in teasing some of their progress, we wanted to step things up a notch as we get ready for launch.

Launch date is imminent (no exact day has been decided yet) and we can confirm that the initial bundle of 10 amazing themes will be selling for $250 (lifetime updates & support, along with the PSD’s). So here’s a look at 5 of those 10 themes (the next 5 will be teased next week), ranging from magazine / news publishing to personal and microblogging to business & photography. It’s all there…

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I’m not even sure that title makes sense, but it does somewhat describe the next two upcoming themes, and was the title of the email Cobus sent me with the teaser graphics.

Firstly, we have Ryan Downie’s personal portfolio theme design that he originally designed for his own personal use – fueled by his passion for Coffee, Red Bull and lunchtime pot of noodles according to his Twitter stream.

This theme’s release is literally around the corner and boasts more custom post type integration and a great summize of your online presence on the home page.

Caffeinated by Ryan Downie

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Some things take time as a result of indecision and inefficiencies. Other things deliberately take time, because they are aimed at being perfect, and developed specifically to outperform anything else that could be deemed as competition.

In recent months, you may have been able to criticize us for a *supposed* lack of updates, theme releases at a fast rate & maybe even innovation. But we have been quietly working on things that will absolutely blow your mind, and the best news is that these will be available to you within the next 6 – 8 weeks.

First up, we have a brand-new real estate theme that will revolutionize the way you are building these type of websites with WordPress at the moment. On show today, is Realtor:

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We realize that we’ve been “tinkering” with our theme releases as of late, and as a result it may have seemed like we have been in an overly experimental mood. Whilst that holds some truth (we are definitely exploring new niches), we can assure you all that our next few releases will be much closer to our tried & tested methods which have resulted in all your favourite themes being best-sellers.

This means that you can soon expect some more business, portfolio, blog etc. themes from us again. In fact, we have these two beauties; both going out to beta in the next day or two. Boast (the first teaser below) is a business + portfolio type design, whilst Diarise (more of a niche release) will surprise many of you with it’s amazingly, unique functionality… Check out the teasers…

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After the success of Postcard (most notably for it’s niche use and integration of Google Maps), we decided to team up with Sam Brown (another top designer joining our collaborative design team) to produce another epic, niche theme that uses Google Maps.

So below is a preview of our upcoming theme, CityGuide, which went out to beta recently. If all goes well, CityGuide should be released next week, so keep watching this space!

As we prepare to bombard you with some absolutely amazing new themes in 2010, we wanted to give you at least a little bit of a sneak preview of the new stuff before we close out the year.

Our new batch of themes (i.e. these are designs that have been completed and are ready for development) includes collaborations with the likes of Sam Brown, Liam McKay, Ryan Downie, Mads Esjing, Kirstin Pauk & Chris Rowe; so there’s bound to be something you like in the new year.** The batch also includes themes across all of our ranges i.e. magazine, portfolio, business & personal blogs.

Here’s a very sneaky preview (we’ll follow up with more detailed previews closer to the respective theme’s release dates)…

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We’re an excitable bunch over here at the WooThemes HQ and nothing excites us more than working with great individuals and getting to share upcoming theme concepts with you lot! This time around we’ve got a new design from now-WooThemes legend collaborator – Liam McKay – to show you…

We approached Liam in July and asked him to design a follow-up theme for the hugely popular Gazette Edition theme (which is also one of our all-time best-selling themes). The result is a superb, content-rich magazine- / news-style design titled The Daily Edition. Let’s have a look at the design…

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A while back we posted the first part to this post, where we kinda just got you curious about the themes that we were planning to release soon. Since then we’ve worked on quite a few other things, but these designs have now been finalized (and some of them have even gone into development). So now is the time to actually show you what why we believe that some of our upcoming themes will blow your mind.

Note… Whilst these themes’ designs have been finalized and some of them has been coded, there’s no clear ETA on any of their release dates. So it’s not gonna help if you ask us in the comments. All of these themes will however be pushed out in the next 3 months; so even though we’re being vague, you won’t have to wait too long…

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