WordPress Station

Yeah, Yeah, I’ve heard it all before. However, I think this idea is just different enough that even the most cynical WP user will find it interesting. We all have seen the Classic theme gathering dust in the corner of our install, or worse, it’s been deleted. However, I find it intriguing, and am offering up the idea of a contest in which ONLY the style sheet is redone. No code on any of the template’s change. I know this was done in earlier versions of WP, and with the release of 1.5 and Kubrick, it all became passe, however I’d like to revive it, and be able to offer up for download the new styles that show up. I think that would give new users even more to choose from, not to mention, it gives everyone a chance to participate, as you don’t have to be a coding genius to compete with the stellarly talented designers out there who know the WP code like the back side of their hand.
So, with that said, I have at least one potential sponsor lined up, if there’s enough interest, and would attempt to line up a couple more if there’s really enough interest. As of today, my stats are saying there’s at least 84 of you reading this feed, so perhaps a few of you could chime in on your feelings on such. Perhaps I don’t know that Classic is going to be dumped in a future release, and I’m wasting my time. All of which I’d love to hear. Please, then, chime in, just this once, and let me know if there’s interest in such a contest, and if it’s a worthy contribution to the community.

I will say I haven’t finalized the details, but adding graphic elements would be accepted, the only real rule I’d stick by is the no changing of the code in the templates. Any other suggestions welcomed.

Well, well. I’ve been busy busy with offline work and life, but I’ve been steady working on some fun stuff for WP Station. I’m currently working with gaining a sponsor for a Contest that will be theme related, but with a twist over past WP related theme contests, and am also working on a review of a high profile company’s foray into WP. Along with that, I did find time over the past week to collect a few annoucements, so you’ll see those roll out this evening/weekend. But definitely stay tuned for the contest announcement, as I think it should really be a fun and exciting event. Also a thank you to those who’ve contacted me about releases, I promise to get those in with this next batch of posts, keep them coming!

Binary Bonsai

Is offering up a one year hosting (valued at $95) plus domain registration to any plugin author who can code a plugin that would give a user a notification via Growl, a Mac application that handles a multitude of notifications for various types of applications. It very well appears that others would be interested in this plugin as well, and potentially other rewards would be in store. So fire up the text editor, and commence to coding!

A Jack of All Blogs

So what started out as just a $500 prize from Jack of All Blogs, now includes 2nd and 3rd prizes, a year of hosting and erotic art (I know, you’re thinking about sandbagging to get the third place prize). This contest should not be confused with the other contest which has prizes including the top prize,a 60GB video ipod. So fire up Photoshop and your favorite text editor, and commence to themeing.