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WPWebHost is hosting a contest to find the best-designed WordPress blogs on the internet. Your website will be placed into one of five categories depending on its design style: Clean/Minimalist, Retro/Vintage, Grunge, Hand-Drawn, and Modern/Elegant. After all submissions are collected, the team at WPWebHost will choose ten sites per category and put them up for voting by the community. After all is said and done, the site with the most votes in each category will receive a badge for their site, $200 in cash via PayPal, and a lifetime hosting subscription to WPWebHost - not a bad deal!

How to Enter

To be considered for the award, your site be an original design or extensive modification to an existing theme. If your site fits that criteria, entering their contest is as simple as writing a post on your site that mentions the contest and what category you’re entering your site into.

For more details, be sure to visit their blog for the full scoop. While you’re there, be sure to check out their hosting plans - 50GB of storage, 500GB of bandwidth, up to 50 domain names on a single account, and a support team that simply loves WordPress - all for just $5 a month!

We’ve thrown WPCandy and WPInspiration into the ring for WPWebHost’s contest. If we make it to the final round, be sure to vote for us!

ThemeForest is the newest and hottest marketplace from the same awesome people who also created the famous PSDTuts, NetTuts, and FreelanceSwitch. ThemeForest allows people to buy and sell HTML/CSS templates, themes for WordPress and Joomla, and more. Templates and themes are going anywhere from $10 to $75, depending on the the complexity and quality the file.

Authors and Referrers

Authors receive anywhere between 25% and 50%, depending on if you agree to keep your templates exclusive to ThemeForest. Affiliates take half of a new buyers first deposit, which is one hell of a deal if you ask me! Read more about the Referral Program here.

ThemeForest File Samples

The Enterprised Blueprint by arunkurian92

The Cobalt Core Blueprint by arunkurian92

Our Community by kailoon

ThemeForest Contests

An awesome contest is being held for ThemeForest authors. Whichever author(s) has the most approved files in the Site Templates, WordPress Themes, and Joomla & Misc. Themes categories during the month of September will win $600 to spend on an Apple Cinema HD Display. For your file to count, it has to be approved during 12:01AM 01/09/2008 and 11:59PM 30/09/2008 AEST.

WPCandy is also holding a small contest. We’re giving out 5 sets of $25 to spend on ThemeForest files. All you have to do is comment on this post below, giving your opinion on ThemeForest, before Wednesday, September 10th, 2008. Of course, the more elaborate comments will be taken into account when deciding on winners. Winners will be announced on Friday, Semptember 12th, 2008.

* The winners have been selected and contacted! Thank you all for participating.

As you might know, Weblog Tools Collection just started their WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5.

The WordPress Plugin Competition is in it’s third incarnation targeting the 2.5 release of WordPress.
Last year the contest generated some great plugins like Who Sees Ads, WordPress Automatic Upgrade, MyDashboard, and the grand prize winner, OneClick.

Now that it’s happening again this year, the WPCandy team thought about entering the competition, winning the prize and giving it to our readers!

The deadline is in two months, giving us enough time to create a plugin or two, and enter it into the competition. If you have a plugin idea and would like to enter it into the competition but don’t know how to develop it, leave a comment and we’ll vote on the best ones.

If your plugin gets chosen, we’ll give you credit inside the code and with a post here linking back to your blog. Remember though, your idea can’t be something that already exist! It has to be totally new and of course, it’s going to be GPL.

In the next few weeks, I’ll post another update covering which plugin(s) we’ll be entering in the competition.

How do you get a piece of a pie which lots of people are after? You’ve got to fight for it! Sometimes though, a little bit of madness goes a long way too.

Well, that’s what’s happened over at Alpha Blog Designs. We’ve gone nuts!!

Over the next few of weeks, we’re going to be proving to the WordPress blogging community, the awesome benefit of having talented designers, who are, quite literally, mad!

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The $5 Themes Club is a themes club where you get unlimited downloads of at least 12 WordPress themes a year (guaranteed). And the best part about it is, well, that it’s only $5 a year (with no hidden fees). These aren’t just any regular themes either. With the themes club, you get more than what you pay for. “I don’t release any theme that I wouldn’t personally use. Check out the themes for yourself”, says Small Potato. Want a free account to the themes club? Continue reading to get one!

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Depending on where you live, it’s probably pretty cold during this time of year. Thanks to WordPress, you can now proudly walk the streets with a hip WordPress hoodie. They’re made by American Apparel, so you can ensure good quality, softness, comfort and most importantly, warmness.

WordPress hoodies are now available for purchase over at the WordPress shop for $32. But why buy one when you can win one right here on WPCandy?

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Getting back on track with our posts, first up, we have our winner for our Holiday Contest. And we’re happy to announce Jordan is our winner! As stated in our original post, Jordan has won a copy of Adii’s Premium News Theme and a set of 4 Hell Yeah Dude coasters. Congratulations Jordan!

To everyone else who participated, I hope you had fun with this contest and had a great time during the holidays, I certainly did (even though I’ve spent more than half my holiday break working on the new WPCandy).

So the holidays are coming up and we want to give you a present (or two). You’re probably thinking, “Wait, what happened to the last contest? No winner was announced!”. I take all the blame for that and I’m truly sorry for any inconveniences. When I went to go choose the winner, the winners’ site was down so I just did nothing (lame, I know).

Anyways, Hell Yeah Dude recently opened up a store for their sweet coasters and we’re going to be giving away a set of 4 coasters! We’re also going to be giving away the Premium News Theme we still have saved up.

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