Chris Wallace just started a brand new Wordpress theme store, UpThemes and he’s already got a great start by offering both free and some great for pay themes. I’m loving that there’s another competitor on the block to WooThemes. Hopefully all of this competition drives both UpThemes, WooThemes and the myriad of other WordPress theme shops to create fantastic websites for us to build upon or use straight out of the box.

Will Komodo Media make an UpTheme?

Absolutely. Why? UpThemes has a great pay structure. I’ll be making amazing WordPress themes and best of all, I’ll be making a portion of my sales, not just selling a design. I’ll be constructing my themes from the ground-up, which is how I like to do it. UpThemes is committed to quality and wanted to create a relationship with Komodo Media and I’m totally on board. Also, they’ve got a great affiliate sales program that offers 50% off on successfully linked sales — if that interests you, go for it now.

25% off discounts through May!

If you are interested in buying now, Komodo Media can offer you 25% off any single theme or first month’s subscription for either their standard or developer club membership. This offer is good through May 31, 2010 and can be used as many times as you want.

Copy this code and then enter it here when checking out.

Suggestions = Free Theme!

While I’ve got my own ideas bouncing around in my head, I’d love to hear about themes that you’d love designed. You never know, maybe, just maybe your idea will make it’s way into my crazy brain and come out as a theme. And guess what? If you suggest a theme idea that I choose to make, it’s on me. I’ll give you a license to it for free.

The winners are:

• The Unlimited Video Theme Pack from Press75.com worth $295
  Travis Lehman
• 6 Months WooThemes Club Single User Subscription for from WooThemes worth $250
  Brian Feister
• WP Freedom Plan Life Time Hosting Sponsorship worth $100/year
  Binny VA

Thanks again for all the support. This site is nothing without it’s readers. Please feel free to use the comments on this blog as a way to trade prizes if you feel that you do not have a need for your prize.

Congratulations guys!

Sidenote: This is my first in-person appearance on my blog.

The kind folks over at WP WebHost have invited me to participate in the “Wordpress Coolest Blog Competition.” [link to competition and prizes] Prizes range from $500-$125 cash to free themes from Zidalgo to a WooThemes subscription to a lifetime Wordpress Hosting sponsorship!. Cool competition methinks.

So why would I want all this stuff? Am I just a money-grubber looking for handouts from all my readers? I hope you are thinking no. If I win, I’m givin’ it all away . After all, this competition is about the coolest blog and cool blogs give stuff away. Straight up.

So, here’s the deal. Leave a comment here and you will be entered into a random drawing. If I am chosen for the coolest blog, two things will happen:

1. All cash winnings get given to a charity.
2. All non-cash prizes are given to a person who comments on this blog entry by random drawing.

That’s it! All you have to do is comment! I suggest leaving a memorable comment, such as a favorite memory, or the best scene or quote from your favorite movie. Why not?

UPDATE: Komodo Media has been chosen as a part of the top 20 and is now in the voting phase.

Go ahead and vote now.

fmTuner is a small WordPress plugin for retrieving song details from your Last.fm profile and publishing them anywhere in your WordPress theme. It provides options for choosing among your Recent, Loved, or Top tracks, as well as tools to adjust the update frequency and appearance.

Collin at command-tab has whipped up a sweet piece of Wordpress plugin meat, so hop on over there and install this plugin!

Also, many of you have asked about how I styled my last.fm playlist and I plan on writing a blog entry on how to do just that. Keep tuned for that!