Happy Birthday WPCandy!

Happy Birthday WPCandy!Happy Birthday to us, happy birthday to us! Happy Birthday dear WPCandy, happy birthday to us! And many moreeeeee…….

It’s been a year since WPCandy was launched, and it’s been a great year at that. I’m pretty proud and excited that WPCandy has grown to where it is now. Let’s see what’s happened at WPCandy in the past year!

Some big stuff we’ve released/launched:

We’ve had a number of popular posts in the past few months. Here are some of the best:

We’ve also seen an amazing surge in visitors since our whopping 2,681 uniques last October! Every single month since we launched we’ve seen a steady rise in traffic, topping 25,000 unique visitors in September. A few more notes on traffic…

  • Alexa Rank: 139,183
  • Technorati Rank: 5,311
  • Delicious Bookmarks: 526
  • Twitter Followers: 728
  • RSS Subscribers: 2428
  • 436,966 Total Hits
  • 138,630 Unique Visitors
  • Around 15,000 downloads on resources we’ve released
  • We’ve also been mentioned and linked on sites such as Smashing Magazine, Noupe, Positive Space Blog, and Six Revisions.
  • Gallery Sites: 159
  • Total Published Posts: 366 (including this one)

I’d also like to thank kid genius, Dan Philibin. He’s been a huge help and great partner here at WPCandy. Even though he insisted I don’t mention him in this post, I did because he definitely deserves it! Most importantly, I’d like to thank YOU! We couldn’t have come this far without all our loyal WPCandy readers, subscribers, visitors, followers, etc.

To celebrate our first birthday, we’re holding a small contest for our readers. Leave us a congrats comment on this post and you’ll be entered to win a free turnaround from WPCoder! The winner will be picked at random and can give us one PSD to slice up into a theme at any time they want.

Anyway, it’s been a blast thus far - and we’re just getting started! Look for another announcement at the end of this month. Cheers to another successful year!

~The WPCandy Team

Michael Castilla October 1st, 2008 News

62 Responses to “Happy Birthday WPCandy!”

Sir Ali
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:39 AM

Woah man congrats!

John Joubert
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:44 AM

Nice one! I’m looking forward to another year of great WordPress info and resources!

NaldzGraphics
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:48 AM

Just wanna greet a happy birthday and best wishes!!!.congrats to all the success in here;)more power and keep up the good work!!!!

Greetings from naldzgraphics.com

Furkan
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:50 AM

Oow good years. I’m following on RSS daily. :) Good blogging :)

Sumesh
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 7:02 AM

Well, some amazing stats there - congratulations on getting links from SM, Noupe and Six Revisions (I saw the link to you only on SM, which I read regularly).
2k subscribers is certainly rewarding - I’m just wondering why uniques and page views are low. Must be because of the niche, and also the fact that you don’t write as much link/traffic bait as others.

Looking forward to more great stuff on WPCandy, as always….. :)

Ivan
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 7:21 AM

Happy birthday!
You are the best, keep going

Toni
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 7:37 AM

Happy Happy! :)

Matt Pippen
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 7:37 AM

Congrats! It’s amazing to see how much of an influence the WordPress CMS makes.

Vitaly Friedman
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 8:05 AM

Congratulations, guys! Happy birthday :-)

Håkan Liljeqvist
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 8:11 AM

Congrats from me in Sweden! You rock! :)

Brian
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 8:48 AM

Wow, I’ve been following WP Candy for the past 11 months now - and you have all come up with some truly incredible work. Great job, good work, and cheers to another successful year!

K-IntheHouse
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 9:12 AM

You have been doing an excellent job since the beginning and I regularly turn to your site for info when I am working on my WordPress projects. Coincidentally, hackwordpress.com, another resource I love are also celebrating their birthday today. Congratulations! :-)

Michael
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 9:39 AM

Congratulations WPCandy! Happy Birthday and the best wishes for the future.

nicolas
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 9:44 AM

Happy birthday !
I am looking forward to wish you the next one as well.

Nouman Saleem
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 9:51 AM

I remember the days when it was WPCandy and WPDesigner up on my Netvibes homepage, then of course we all know what happened but luckily you guys stayed through and even upgraded your site providing the whole community with amazing projects and posts.

Thanks so much :)

Andy Sowards
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 9:56 AM

That IS a nice cake ;)

Congrats and happy b-day!!!

Sonny Gill
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 10:01 AM

Nice cake ;) Congrats to your anny and many more!

Ben Debnam
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 12:13 PM

Happy Birthday Guys! :D

Thássius V'
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 1:19 PM

Congrats Mike! Congrats Dan!

Keith Dsouza
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 2:02 PM

Wish you a happy birthday and looking forward to more good things in the future.

Jeremy Newton
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 3:18 PM

Congrats on having such a great year. You’ve helped me and many others at with wordpress and you are a greatly appreciated part of the wordpress community. Keep on trucking for many more years.

~Jeremy Newton

Ryan Johnston
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 3:33 PM

Happy Birthday WPCandy! Love this website, I go here first, before all other sites for keeping up with the wordpress community and finding out a solution to a wordpress issue. Keep up the great work. You guys are doing great things for the community!

Can’t wait for next year’s anniversary!

Cheers!

Michael Cromarty
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 5:28 PM

wow a whole year now mike, its great to see how much wpcandy has grown, I so regret leaving haha

Michael Castilla
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 5:42 PM

Thanks for the warm wishes everyone! It’s been a good year, thanks to you guys. Cheers!

EmmaB
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 7:22 PM

Happy Birthday WPCandy! You have grown very successful over the year since your launch and I am very happy for you! Warmest wishes!

Cosmo Kramer
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 8:44 PM

Happy, Happy Birthday from all of us to you. We are glad it is your Birthday so we can party to…

Thanks for being one the best places for wordpress related news.

Daniel Brusilovsky
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 11:14 PM

Big congrats to you guys! I am a big fan of WPCandy! Keep up the good work :)

Hafiz Rahman
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 5:57 AM

Congratulations guys! Keep it up!

Max
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 AM

Keep up the good work!

Muhammad Haris
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 AM

I love the Wordpress help sheets built by WPCandy.. They are the best.

Congratulations on WPCandy and Wordpress success. I wish Good luck to both of them and more success in the world of blogosphere.

Thanks a lot!

Giselle
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 AM

you’ll be entered to win a free turnaround from WPCoder! The winner will be picked at random and can give us one PSD to slice up into a theme at any time they want.

lmao so what do you win? anyhowww who cares, that’s cute a whole year. i’m proud of you <33

illtemper
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 9:20 AM

A year already?! Damn time flies (when your having fun : )

Dainis Graveris
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 PM

Congratulations, friends! Cheers, to the next great year! :)

Zach Kollegger
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 PM

Congrats, Mike, Dan. Good Luck with another year! :-)

Stephen Chinnadorai
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 PM

Happy Birthday guys! Here’s to another year of WPCandy!

Ptah Dunbar
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 PM

Congrats on the first year! Hopefully I’ll have more time to pitch in and make next year an even bigger hit!

P.S. Looking forward to hanging out with the you and dan at next year’s FOWA Miami, that should be fun!

Brian
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 PM

You guys ROCK!!!!

Jeff White
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 PM

Happy B-Day WPCandy! Looking forward to another great year!

Artur Kim
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 AM

Happy Birthday WPCandy! Hey Michael, you already know that I’ve been following this blog since the day it launched and have seen it grow to what it is now. Keep up the good work and best of wishes for the coming year!

Ryan McCue
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 AM

Wow, only two days before mine! :-)

Happy birthday WPCandy and congratulations to the entire team on their efforts.

SE7EN
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 7:41 AM

Happy birthday WPCandy! wow time flys so fast. I can’t believe it’s already a year.
There’re wp-this, wp-that but it’s rare to find quality site that last long like WPCandy.

I love help sheets, Template Hierarchy Diagram and starter theme.

Darren Hoyt
Posted on October 4th, 2008 at 12:21 AM

Happy birthday, guys - keep up the good work.

Nathan Barry
Posted on October 4th, 2008 at 1:38 PM

Congrats on the birthday!

I have enjoyed the resources on your site quite a lot!

CrazyTaxi
Posted on October 6th, 2008 at 12:14 PM

congradumalations! the wordpress starter theme is in heavy use here, and I am especially grateful for that.

Joel
Posted on October 6th, 2008 at 10:24 PM

Congrats guys! I have been reading wpcandy for about 1 month or two now, and I’m utterly impressed with you guys!

Brady Valentino
Posted on October 8th, 2008 at 7:55 PM

Congrats on one year Mike.

River Girl
Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 4:04 PM

Congrats on the 1 year anniversary - awesome site!!

barrycryan
Posted on October 12th, 2008 at 10:24 AM

wow congratulations. Im not just wrting this for the free wp turnaround but you guys have give me the tools and info to make a difference in my lie through the sites i have. thanks and hope you have another great year.

P.s when do you announce the winner : )

Grant Friedman
Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 6:39 AM

Congrats Michael!

Ryan Johnston
Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 12:42 PM

Who won the contest?

Michael Castilla
Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 8:01 PM

Michael Preuss of WP Engineer won the free turnaround. Thanks to all who left a comment, and we’re looking forward to our second year!

Micha
Posted on October 15th, 2008 at 3:41 PM

Wow.
Since I’m also a coder and quite frankly I do the PSD and WP-theme turnaround quite often, I would rather have a little contest, for people who are not so good in coding. If WP-Candy is ok with it, I will start a contest on my website, where everybody can send me a nice PSD design and after a month all PSD Designs, which were sent in get published. Every reader can vote for their favorite one and the best design will be converted to a WP Theme, it would be even better, if the owner of the PSD file would give the theme to public, but it’s not required.
Of course I would mentioned, that the price is coming from WPCandy, who where so generous at first place.

Efrain
Posted on October 16th, 2008 at 2:14 AM

Congrats! Hope I win :D

Aloke Pillai
Posted on October 17th, 2008 at 11:26 PM

Congrats guys! Cool Contest idea! ;)

SE7EN
Posted on October 18th, 2008 at 5:24 PM

Congrats Michael P. I’m a fan of WP Engineer too ^_^

erick
Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 8:53 PM

Congratulations and happy birthday too !

Thássius V'
Posted on November 4th, 2008 at 8:23 PM

Mike and Dan, congrats! Keep up the amazing work.

nadya
Posted on November 9th, 2008 at 2:13 AM

ughhhhh,,,,,,se7en,,se7en,,,HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,,,,,,,,,,I hope you will come to Indonesia and to meet me!!! and once again happy birthday !!!!!!! missss you so mucH

jaz
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 8:27 PM

wonderful. Congrats mike..I hope you double the output and results by your second b’day!

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