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Adii and the Premium News Theme development crew have recently re-branded as the all-new WooThemes. This new branding will allow them to offer a larger variety of premium WordPress themes to the public. Along with their new brand, they’ve added Elliot Jay Stocks, ex-senior designer of web startup Carsonified, to the team, where he will be designing themes for the rest of the crew to develop. Elliot has already released ProudFolio, his first theme for WooThemes. Read more…

Last Friday, like every usual Friday night, I tuned into WordPress Weekly, with host Jeff Chandler and a few guys from the WordPress community.

For the first 35 minutes of the show, Jeff interviewed Patrick O’ Keefe, book author and owner of the online network iFroggy. Patrick talked about managing forums and online communities, and issues that coincide. It was pretty sweet to get the insight by someone with so much experience in the field.

After that interview, Jeff interviewed yours truly, Dan Philibin. Dan was asked questions about our new design and different aspects of it. It was a fairly sudden interview with no previous preparation, but Dan did pretty well, if you ask me.

Next, Jeff talked about the Show125 plugin (via a post by HackWordPress.com) and the All-In-SEO plugin not being supported anymore for future versions (which is now being supported by hallsofmontezuma at WordPress.org). Jeff also brings on Richard Paul who shared his opinions on the All-In-SEO plugin and how it should be implemented into WordPress.

Anyways, I don’t want to spoil all the fun, so check out the episode for more WordPress news. And If you’ve never tuned into WordPress Weekly, there’s one usually every Friday night at 10pm, so make sure to stop on by!

Blogalized is a site that provides well-designed WordPress themes for low prices. They also have a Blog Club for members who are in need of a lot of themes. With the BlogClub, you’ll initially start off with 6 themes and receive another 11 themes (1 a month), for a total for 17 themes. That’s not bad at all for only $49.95. Of course, as an alternative, you can purchase themes separately at the price of $14.00 per theme.

Lucid WordPress Theme by Blogalized

Blogalized Blog Club Theme Features

• Top Notch Support
• Plugin-ready
• Compatible with the latest version of WordPress
• 100% Valid XHTML/CSS
• Cross-browser compatible

To put it simple, Blogalized is an affordable place to purchase themes to freshen up your site. With that being said, Blogalized has provided WPCandy with a coupon for our readers, which is you guys. For the first 25 users to sign up with the coupon code “wpcandy”, you’ll receive 50% off the Blog Club membership fee. The coupon expires on June 25th, so make sure to take advantage of this incredible deal.

Finally! Pawel Ciszewski, the new owner of WPDesigner.com, has introduced himself. In his brief introductory post, Pawel touches on a few questions people have been asking.

Who are you and what are your plans with WPDesigner?

“My names Pawel Ciszewski, the names Polish but I’ve was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI and currently reside in Miami Beach, FL.

I’m an online entrepreneur who actively pursues many differenet internet ventures and actively acquire sites that I feel are valuable resources to the Internet and will be profitable long term.”

What are your plans for WPDesigner?

“I will try to keep the blog posts and blog designs as good as they where by SP but that will be a challenge and nobody will replace SP.

Expanding the themes club will be my main objective. I myself won’t be actively posting or building themes, not by expertise and leave that to those who are.”

What do you guys think of Pawel? Has he made a good first impression? Do you think he will really go on to fulfilling Small Potato’s legacy? I hope so!

Oh and don’t be shy. Go introduce yourself to Pawel.

Matt Lenz, a web and graphic designer, has just relaunched WebRevolutionary, with a new design. WebRevolutionary hasn’t been very active since the end of last year, so I’m really glad to see WebRevolutionary getting back into things, seeing as it was one of my favorite blogs.

WebRevolutionary is a blog mostly focused on design, technology, and the web. WebRevolutionary is probably most known for the ColdBlue and Sharpfolio WordPress themes released in mid 2007. Most importantly, WebRevolutionary is powered by WordPress!

Now onto the design. It’s definitely something different from the last theme WR was running on. Even though it had Web 2.0 written all over it, it was still gorgeous. The new design is more minimalistic with only a few images and a couple of colors. Of course, I love it. It’s perfect, except for one thing. I wish there was a Categories section in the sidebar for easier navigation.

I’m really excited to see where Matt will take WR in the next few months. Maybe another awesome WordPress theme? Maybe even a Premium WordPress theme? We’ll have to wait and see.

Now for all you fellow British WordPress users out there, this came as a keen interest to me. It has been suggested by Tony Scott, that a UK version of the famous WordCamp was requested to be held right at the heart of the country.

The idea of the WordCamp has been floating around cyberspace for a while, but it is now just a case of whether people will attend, at what location, and is it possible for a sponsor to help with costs and fees. There is also a lot of talk about London being the location because it’s really easy to get to there. There are tons of trains to and from London during the day.

If you’re wondering what a WordCamp is, well it’s basically a large gathering of WordPress users and developers that meet in one location and talk about everything and anything WordPress.

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Small Potato has recently sold WPDesigner.com for $66k $65k. I’m not sure about you, but I could definitely think of a few things to do with $65k! SP has also introduced Pawel Ciszewski, the new owner of WPDesigner. Welcome Pawel!

Now that Pawel is running WPDesigner, I’m very excited to see what he’s going to do with it. Even though SP isn’t the owner of WPDesigner anymore, the $5 Themes Club will continue and he will be guest posting on WPDesigner when he can.

I will be getting in contact with Pawel soon to welcome him to the community, as well as introduce myself. I hope he’s friendly! If you would also like to welcome Pawel, leave a comment on WPDesigner.

There has been so much news in WordPress community lately, and I didn’t want to overload you guys by making a post for each, so I’m just going to do a big wrap-up. Wrap-ups are fun, right?

1. Fluency Admin Style Plugin

There’s been a lot of talk about the new WordPress 2.5 Dashboard design. Most people I know don’t like the change, but personally, I like it. It’s something new and refreshing from the previous WordPress Dashboard designs.

For those of you who don’t like the new Dashboard design, you can thank Dean Robinson for creating the Fluency Admin Style Plugin. I installed it the other day to test it out, and I must say, it’s not bad. And if you don’t like the Fluency Admin Style, consider making your own Admin Style plugin.

2. Probama WordPress Theme

I love this theme. It’s so organized and the design is pretty awesome for a free theme. It’s packed with tons of features, from a Control Panel, Dynamic subpage menus, and RSS integration with BarackObama.com.

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