Archive for February, 2005

3 Themes Already!

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Three great themes were submitted in the first 24 hours, fantastic!

All of the themes can be found on the:

Theme Download Page

Special thanks to Matthew, BB and Robin for helping the competition start with a bang.

Resources for Theme Designers

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Take a look at these pages if you have questions about how to create a theme:

Blog Design and Layout
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme

Also note that I changed the required theme switcher code in the rules below so that the theme switcher is not required for you to use a theme.

I’ll be updating the already submitted […]

Theme Competition Prizes

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

The theme competition offers the following prizes:

Grand Poobah - $55. The best overall design. A free text-ad (100 characters) on Blogosphere News for one month.
Plain Ol’ Poobah - $25. The first runner up. A free text-ad (100 characters) on Blog Catalog for one month.
Mini Poobah - $15. The second runner up.
Most Creative Design - $30. […]

Theme Competition Rules

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Here are the rules:

All themes must be released under a GPL compatible license (if a license is not specified, you agree that you are releasing the theme under the GPL license by submitting it to the competition).
All themes must be received by March 25, 2005, 11:59 PM PST.
All themes must be packaged in .zip format, […]

WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Welcome to the WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition blog!

All information about the theme competition, including competition entries, will be posted here.

Rules
Prizes

This contest is being held for one reason: to create a great repository of WordPress 1.5 themes.

Since one of these posts needs a blockquote element to be styled, how about I give a quote:

I was thrilled […]

WordPress 1.5 Released with Theme Support

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Great job to the entire WordPress team on the 1.5 release.