Win some WordPress swag for guessing what “JP” could be

By 491 days agoJanuary 11, 2011

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Today was Matt Mullenweg’s 27th birthday, and in a reflective post he listed off his big launches of 2010: VaultPress, the new Akismet, his Ma.tt WordPress themes, a number of WordPress mobile apps, Audrey Capital, and the WordPress Foundation. We don’t typically cover other people’s blog posts like this; we just link them up in our weekend WordPress community links posts. But there was something else said in Mullenweg’s post, when he was listing his goals for 2011:

Launch secret new thing, code abbreviation JP. :)

Naturally, that has us thinking. Just what could “JP” stand for? What is the secret thing Mullenweg wants to launch in 2011? We don’t know, but we figured we can have some fun with it. Take your best guess in the comments, and whenever that project of his launches (whether next week or December 2011) we’ll revisit this post and award the closest guess with their choice of WordPress swag from the WordPress Swag Store.

Think you know what it will be? Just to recap:

  1. Leave a comment here with your best guess as to what “JP” stands for. One guess per person.
  2. We’ll wait. We’ll all wait. When it launches, we’ll pull this post back up, and the closest guess will be deemed the winner.
  3. WPCandy will send the winner a gift of their choosing from the WordPress Swag Store.

Keep in mind, “JP” could be a personal project, or another core Automattic product like ValutPress. There’s really no way to know right now, except that Mullenweg is excited about it.

So what do you think “JP” could be?

Win an AppSumo WordPress Blogger Bundle from WPCandy

By 562 days agoNovember 2, 2010

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The bundles for this competition have been given out. Thanks for participating, everyone!

AppSumo has taken on the WordPress cause recently, offering up a WordPress Blogger Bundle valued at $957 for $32. This is a great deal, and worth checking out. But we thought, why not take it a bit further and give away a couple of bundles for free?

What we have for you

We have two full AppSumo WordPress Blogger Bundles (say that five times fast!) packaged up and ready for two members of the WPCandy community.

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Like WPCandy and attend new WordPress classes for free

By 615 days agoSeptember 9, 2010

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Courtesy of WPClassroom.com we’re happy to offer two free passes to attend their upcoming WordPress classes later this month. And all you need to do to win is fan the WPCandy page on Facebook.

WP Classroom is offering two classes at the end of this month: WordPress for Beginners and Extending WordPress for Beginners. The normal price for attending both of these classes is $40, but if you like us on Facebook you could be attending these classes for free.

We have two free passes, and we’ll draw the two winners tomorrow afternoon. This is one of many upcoming Facebook-only giveaways, so even if you aren’t interested in the classes it wouldn’t hurt to send a like our way.

Giveaway: Win your choice of 5 WordPress books

By 623 days agoSeptember 1, 2010

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Richard, commenter number 11, has won a book. Thanks everyone for giving it a shot, we’ll be posting another giveaway soon! Richard, we’ll be in touch soon to see which book you would like to receive.

If there’s one thing we really enjoy around here, it’s giving away awesome WordPress goodies. We love that you get excited about it (which is great!) but we also love being able to promote the great work being done by members of the WordPress community, be it themes, books, or Plugins.

This week we’re giving away a WordPress book. One of the interesting things about WordPress is that it lends itself to being used in a number of different ways. Developers and designers can use it, bloggers can use it, and entrepreneurs can use it. So books about WordPress vary on topic, from for beginners books, to how to build a business with them.

Available to win this week, we have:

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WPCandy giveaway: Win 1 of 4 themes

By 630 days agoAugust 25, 2010

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Commenter KostasNi is the winner this week. Congratulations KostasNI, we’ll be in touch with you to find out which theme you would like. Everyone else, thanks for commenting!

After the awesome success of last week’s book giveaway, we just couldn’t let another week go by without another giveaway. Today we’re giving away a theme, but as usual it’s up to you which one you receive if you win.

The four themes up for grabs today are:

Find out what you can do to win one of these themes, after the jump.

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WPCandy Giveaway: Win 1 of 4 WordPress books!

By 637 days agoAugust 18, 2010

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The four books you'll get to choose from. Photo by Ashley, @arae on Twitter

Update: Ryan Marganti is the winner this week. Ryan, we’ll be in touch to get you your book of choice. Everyone, thanks for joining in, we’ll have another giveaway very, very soon!

It has been an exciting week on the site. We appreciate the praise, the encouragement, and that you’re all still reading after all this time. To make sure we start things off on the right foot, we would like to give away a WordPress book—pages and pages of fresh WordPress knowledge—to a a lucky member of the WPCandy community, just for commenting.

If you win you will be asked to choose one of four books to receive, shipped to you free courtesy of WPCandy. The four available books are:

Rules on how to win are after the jump.

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Tweem Giveaway: Winners Announced

By 1034 days agoJuly 17, 2009

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Thanks to all of those that dropped by and left a comment in the Tweem giveaway post. Without further ado, the five randomly drawn winners are:

  1. Rafie,
  2. Kel,
  3. webbografico,
  4. JB, and
  5. Richard Howell

Congrats to those who won, I’ll be sending your copy of Tweem to the emails you posted with in just a moment.

To everyone else, thanks for jumping in, and hopefully we’ll get you something in a future Theme Playground giveaway. A big thanks to Shopping Themes for partnering with us on this one. Remember, if you’re still jones-ing for a copy of Tweem, head over to ShoppingThemes.com and pick one up.

Tweem Giveaway: 5 Copies for the Playground Readers

By 1037 days agoJuly 15, 2009

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Update: Comments are closed because the winners have been chosen.

After the review of Tweem yesterday, I now have 5 copies to give away to you guys. Are there 5 of you out there that would like to run your own Twitter microsite?

Tweem is an awesome theme for creating your own Twitter microsite on a sub domain. Save yourself $15, though, and win a copy by picking one up in this post.

Screenshot of Tweem

So what do you need to do to win a copy? Just leave a comment explaining why you love Twitter so much, and what you’ll do with Tweem. On Friday I’ll choose 5 comments at random and send each over a copy of Tweem.

Get commenting. 48 hours to go!