I’m pleased to announce the prize winners of year’s WordPress Theme Competition. However, I’d like to offer my sincere thanks to everyone who participated in the competition and helped spread the word about it. As many people have already said, real winners here are the WordPress users who have so many great themes to choose […]
I will be contacting you all to let you know when the themes are ready for judging.
Matt e-mailed me today to let me know that he will be unavailable until April 4th and won’t be able to set up access to the repository for designers to check their themes in until he returns. However, he said I should:
let people know that if their theme isn’t physically in the repository yet for […]
Weblogs.us is generously sponsoring a $500 prize (via PayPal) to the theme that is most “visually appealing to all cultures”.
The criteria for this prize:
Appeals to a global audience; easily adapted to any language/character set (including a language file for any added strings would make translation easier - ak). No country specific images/colors (not red, […]
Fellow contributing WordPress developer Dougal Campbell has generously added an “Out of the Box” prize to the competition.
Prize: A ThinkGeek or Amazon wishlist item of up to $30 value. If the theme author doesn’t have a wishlist, a gift certificate will be substituted.
Criteria: Too many of the themes are “boxy”. This prize will be given […]
Lead WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg has generously donated another prize. $150 to a random theme in the competition that is also checked in the the Subversion repository on wp-themes.org. From Matt:
I’ll pick the winner by assigning a number to each theme in both the repository and the competition and using the random number picker on […]
We’ve added yet another prize to the mix - this early in the competition the prizes are coming in almost as fast as the entries. 
two thirty media is donating a copy of the twotiny.com icon set for the:
Best pixel perfect design. The layout that gets everything right, spacing, colours, gradients, lines, etc.
This prize will […]
There are now two additional prizes added to the pot:
$25 Amazon gift certificate for the best theme that looks like a real paper diary. (thanks Alex Gontcharov, USONYX.NET Singapore Broadband Hosting Service)
$40 Starbucks card for the “most versatile design”. This is an award given to the best theme under the following constraints:
Theme must use no […]
We have added two new prizes thanks to Craig Hartel:
Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag’s book, The Zen of CSS Design
Dan Cedarholm’s Web Standards Solutions
These will be awarded to two lucky recipients at random. As Craig put it:
(it is) a way to emphasize that all entries are welcome and appreciated.
The theme competition offers the following prizes:
Grand Poobah - $55. The best overall design. A free text-ad (100 characters) on Blogosphere News for one month.
Plain Ol’ Poobah - $25. The first runner up. A free text-ad (100 characters) on Blog Catalog for one month.
Mini Poobah - $15. The second runner up.
Most Creative Design - $30. […]