Theme Wars: The Battle is on Vote For The Best WordPress Themes

July 21, 2009

Theme Wars has gone live. Theme Wars isn’t your ordinary WordPress theme store. It’s a community of blog designers and bloggers with a Weekly War – a contest to design a particular type of theme as voted in by the community the previous week. Any blog designer can submit their original design entry into the “Weekly War”. The top two designs, by community election, will be sold in the Theme Store. The winning designers will receive 25% and 10%, respectively, each time their winning design sells. Winning designers become eligible to produce new themes for Theme Wars and share in the profits.

Designers and Bloggers both gain.

For Theme Designers, Theme Wars is an opportunity to gain exposure and earn money by submitting their designs into the Weekly War. In addition to receiving a percentage of each sale, winning designers will also gain a spot in the “Featured Designers” page for even more marketing and brand exposure.

Bloggers will benefit from not only the access to a stream of themes from the competing designers, but from the feedback loop that Theme Wars sets up, enabling bloggers across the board to feed into the design process thus ensuring that designer are truly listening to the needs of the blogging community. Bloggers get to vote not only for the types of designs they would like to see, but also on the specific theme (e.g, business, entertainment) that will be created. The resulting themes will be released under the WordPress GPL so bloggers will be able to use the themes on as many sites as they wish.

Price

Themes are be priced at $69 for a multi-use license to $149 for a developer license – including Photoshop files. A monthly membership to Theme Wars at $20 per month plus a one-time payment of $147 gives you access to all past, present and future themes, video tutorials and theme updates, as well as unlimited access to the support forum.

A developer access pass costs $27 per month plus a one-time payment of $177. This provides access to all past, present and future themes, as well as unlimited access to the support forum, documentation, video tutorials, theme updates and Photoshop files.

The First Theme War has begun – Vote Now !

Designs and designers are ready

to battle it out at Theme Wars

Go check it out now!