I started WPCandy with Michael Castilla, hoping to stay until the end, but after a long and painful discussion with him, I’ve decided to leave WPCandy. My reasons for leaving have nothing to do with the site or Mike himself, but because I know longer have the time or effort to post on WPCandy. It’s difficult to juggle personal life, with college, work, and then still have time for WPCandy. I have barely an hour a day to myself!
I will still be around, replying to WPCandy’s posts and answering questions in the comments. I may be leaving WPCandy in terms of staff, but I’ll still sick around as a reader and supporter of WPCandy. In the future, if my free time does become more flexible, then I may well return.
Mike has done very well to hold together WPCandy while I’ve been absent and I praise him for that! He’s a great guy and over the last 9 months or so of getting to know him, we’ve become great friends and I’ll continue to support his work.
I hope you, as readers and fellow bloggers, understand that we didn’t expect WPCandy to become as successful so quickly. I’m leaving Mike with a lot of pressure, so if he hasn’t posted for a couple of days, don’t think WPCandy is going down the pot, hes trying his hardest!
I’d also like to thank all the readers and supporters of WPCandy for making it so successful. It’s been a pleasure working along side Mike and I am sorry to be leaving.
Thank you for taking your time to read this message and see ya’ll around!
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Posted February 8, 2008
Thássius V. said:
We appreciate the time you spent on WPCandy and hope you have good news for us soon. And for Mike, I wish good luck keeping WPCandy by himself.
on February 8, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Michael Martine said:
Sorry to see you go, dude, but good luck with everything.
on February 8, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Jimmy G said:
Sad to see you go man, but I know how difficult it can be to keep working on a site while trying to live the rest of your life.
I’m sure Mike (Castilla) will take this opportunity to show just how great he is – and keep on making WP Candy THE BEST WordPress site there is!
Cheers, and good luck in the future.
on February 9, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Michael Cromarty said:
Thanks for your kind words people.
I have one more post to do for Mike before I leave which should be up within a couple of days.
on February 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Thilo said:
Too sad that you decided to leave, i really adore WPcandy,
but have in your last post a typing error it needs to be “Auf Wiedersehen” if you want to say it in german.
Good luck in future.
on February 10, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Michael Cromarty said:
Mikes the editor
I’ll leave that one with him lol 
on February 10, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Jermayn Parker said:
Lets just hope the quality stays
on February 10, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Pasquale said:
Gosh, does this mean you want my help?
on February 12, 2008 at 9:04 am
Trisha said:
@Mike Cromarty – you will be missed! I have enjoyed your posts in the past, but can totally empathize – I’m struggling with the same issue myself (no time to post on my own blog anymore), so I wish you the best of luck!
@Mike Castilla – good luck with keeping up WPCandy – it’s one of my favorite sites to visit daily. You might consider asking some of the WP heavyweights to contribute the occasional guest article to help alleviate some pressure (I’m sure there will be a lot in attendance at WordCamp Dallas next month
)
on February 12, 2008 at 11:32 pm