Posts Tagged ‘buddypress themes’

Selling of FreeBPThemes.com

// November 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress

A few weeks ago I sold Free BuddyPress Themes and the domain names that go with it. After setting up the site about 9 months ago, it turned out to be a fairly good investment for the amount of work that was put into it.

Hits were about 5500 on average each month and the site was pretty well listed in the search engines for keywords based around “BuddyPress Themes”. I had a few ads on the site and was making a small income from them each month.

I offered the site to a fairly well known business involved in the WordPress MU community and I think they’ll do a great job with it. It needed some commitment and dedication and I just didn’t have the time to commit to it.

Vote for the Best BuddyPress Theme

// June 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress, Contests

As of today, all submissions to the BuddyPress Theme Contest have been uploaded to Free BuddyPress Themes and voting as begun.

Voting will be open for the next 2 weeks which after the winners will be annouced.

Thanks for everyone who entered the theme contest – there weren’t as many entries as we had have hoped, which just proved that not everyone can design a BuddyPress Theme!

Get your votes in!

BuddyPress Theme Contest

// May 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress, Contests

Looking at my search engines stats, you are probably here becuase you searched for “BuddyPress Themes” or something similar, so I am taking this opportunity to remind you about the BuddyPress Theme Contest that is currently running.

Thanks to WPMU DEV Premium, we are offering you the chance win 12 months premium membership valued at US$250. All you have to do is submit your original theme and let our visitors decide which theme deserves this fantastic prize offered by the guys at WPMU DEV Premium.

Karaokefreezone.com have also offered to give 2 free t-shirts to the winner in each category!

Here is how the contest will be run:

  • There are 2 categories in which you can submit a theme for; Home theme and Member theme
  • Submissions will be open from April 30 – May 30, 2009
  • All submitted themes will be uploaded to FreeBPThemes.com on June 1, 2009 for public voting
  • Voting will commence June 1 – June 14, 2009
  • The winners will be announced June 15, 2009
  • 12 months FREE WPMU DEV Premium membership (valued at US$250) will be awarded to the theme with the most votes in each category.


How to Enter:

  • Design an original Home or Member BuddyPress theme
  • Submit your theme to FreeBPThemes.com using our online form by May 30, 2009

If you are thinking of designing a member theme, then check out the Skeleton Member Theme.

It is as simple as that!

Wanted: BuddyPress Themes

// February 10th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Buddypress

I launched “Free BuddyPress Themes” about a month ago and so far the uptake has been fairly slow. While hits have been fantastic, there are still only 3 themes available for download and two of those are the default themes that are packaged with BuddyPress, the third is the member theme that I modified for Explore With Me.

With the imminent release of BuddyPress v1.0 I am hoping that theme designers start submitting their themes to the site. I have seen a few themes that users have created for their own sites, however they are not being made public. The majority of BuddyPress site I have seen are using the default themes however there needs to be some custom themes created otherwise every single BuddyPress based site is just going to look the same.

As far as I know Free BuddyPress Themes is the only site that is offering BuddyPress themes available for download, but there are a few other BuddyPress related domain names that have been registered lately that will most probably offer the same service. But for now we are in a  good position.

I am hoping that with the first official release of BP that theme designers will get started designing some themes that they want to share with the BP community. I might even have a crack at it myself!

So spread the word – we want your BuddyPress themes! I might even have to have a contest in order to encourage users to develop some themes to share with all of us. If you want to donate a prize to the content then let me know!

Introducing BuddyPress

// February 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress

BuddyPress 1.0 is due to be released on February 12…for those of you who have yet to see it and use it, then check out the below video.

Will you be using BuddyPress?