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  • Great new Bug tracking theme from WooThemes – FaultPress

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    WooThemes have launched a cracking new WordPress theme this week called FaultPress. FaultPress is a highly advanced WordPress theme that transforms WordPress from a publishing platform into a full featured trouble ticketing system. This certainly isn’t a new concept. We’ve seen the Quality Control theme late last year, but what is interesting about FaultPress is…

  • New WordPress Theme Twenty Eleven – First Look

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    So it looks like the Theme Wranglers over at Automattic are getting close to completing the first version of the new Twenty Eleven WordPress theme which is based on the excellent Duster theme created by Automattic and recently released in the theme repository in April. The team are working hard to ship V1.0 of Twenty…

  • Genesis Framework powers over 200,000 websites

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    In amongst the comments in the Hypercritical Analysis of WordPress themes post over on WPCandy came an interesting stat from Brian Gardner of StudioPress. Rough numbers indicate that a 1/4 million sites are running Genesis. I’d say that’s a stable environment to build for. That’s a huge number in my opinion – especially as the…

  • An Analysis of WordPress theme pricing

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    Some great stuff from WPCandy this week that has prompted us to publish a highly irregular post 🙂 First of all go read the excellent Hypercritical Analysis of $35 WordPress themes. Theme developer Mike McAlister takes us through his thoughts on why he think commercial WordPress themes are priced too low. Mike makes the very interesting…

  • Genesis Framework V1.6 Released

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    We’ve not posted a lot this month while we play around with some exciting new developments here at themesforge (more on that later this week) but we’ve popped up for air to let you know that Genesis 1.6 has officially been released. We’re big fans of the Genesis WordPress theme framework and it’s our framework…

  • Theme news roundup 7 March

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    So it’s been a busy week here at themesforge towers so we’ve been trawling through the feeds and catching up in the goings in WordPress land over the past week and cherry picked our highlights from the fast moving WordPress themes world. Groupon WordPress plugin released. While this is not a theme story it certainly…

  • Theme News Roundup 27 February

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    WordPress 3.1 hits the streets It was a big week this week in WordPress land with the launch of WordPress 3.1 – read our coverage. Let the exodus from Tumblr to WordPress begin Ok this might be a bit premature. Tumblr ain’t going anywhere in the near future. But given it’s recent constant problems with…

  • New theme shop BioThemes opens

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    Hot on the heels of the WordPress 3.1 release today comes a new theme shop from none other than John O’Nolan (member of the core WordPress UI team) and all round WordPress genius (have you seen the WordPress 3.1 admin area – it’s all nice and shiney and much cleaner under the hood thanks to…

  • Theme Newsround

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    Kicking off a new weekly feature on themesforge is our weekly Newsround of what’s happening in the WordPress theme community. Oh and we’ll also throw in some links to stuff we’ve come across during the week that might have happened weeks and months ago but that we think you will be interested in! So without…

  • Gawker redesign inspired Qawker Free WordPress theme released

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    This one just popped up on my radar just now. Sahas Katta of Skatter Tech had some free time last weekend and put together a pretty cool Gawker redesign inspired wordpress theme called Qawker. Sahas claims to not be a professional web designer or developer but from looking at Qawker and the previous work done…