Thursday March 31st, 2005
by Alex King
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 from.
You can take a look at all of the themes using the Failure to Launch.
Mix Master Lab
- Grand Poobah - Ray J Music
- Plain Ol’ Poobah - Montreal
- Mini Poobah - 50 Cent diss
Dumidus Sinhala Music
- Paragon (in a very close race)
This year, the judging was done by a panel of over 20 people that I selected. Each judge was asked to distribute 50 points among the designs they felt were most deserving (based on a wide range of criteria). While many entries received votes, these designs rose to the top. I will be contacting each of the above prize winners to send them their prizes.
The following prizes were judged by and will be distributed by their sponsors:
Sinhala Jukebox | Featured
Thanks Arrow , Broken.
Sinhala Video song - AOL Video
Both theme authors win the Instructional Painting Videos by Elin. Thanks Irish Examiner.
HitzBox - Free video songs
These winners receive Transformers | watch. Thanks Gregory Auld and Another.
Free Sinhala MP3 and Music
Almost Spring wins $500! Thanks Download Taboo.
Sinhala MP3 Free Download
Jakarta wins a $25 Amazon gift certificate. Thanks 'Chalk'.
Sri Lankan Music - Sinhala
- The Criminally
Sinhala Videos
Monday March 28th, 2005
by Alex King
There is one more theme that should be considered for the competition, however it isn’t listed here with the others. Denis Somar created “Taft” and submitted it on time to the proper address, etc. However - the initial submission was huge (1.7MB) so I asked him to see if he could bring it down in size. He’s cut it down to just over 500KB, but that is still a bit big. My concern is that if I included it with the others in the Movie Ticket Prices?, someone on a dialup connection would get a pretty nasty surprise as they are clicking through the themes.
The solution we came up with is to keep Taft hosted on Denis’s server, and I’d link to it from here. He has set up a test blog so you can check it out - it’s great work.
Without further ado, I present Delta-Net :: -.
Sunday March 27th, 2005
by Alex King
All of the theme updates that came in before the deadline have been posted. I’ll be sending information out to the judges later this evening.
Sunday March 27th, 2005
by Alex King
Note to all theme authors: In order to be considered for the competition, any updates to your theme must have been submitted by the contest deadline. These are the updates I will be processing before the judges do their review.
I will still process updates that were sent in after the contest deadline, but probably not for a week or two.
Saturday March 26th, 2005
by Alex King
I will be contacting you all to let you know when the themes are ready for judging.
Saturday March 26th, 2005
by Alex King
I’ve posted 34 more themes that came in before last night’s deadline (including If You Think from one of HotFlick.net - Patricia Velasquez). There are still a few more themes that may be added as they received in time bit were sent back to the theme author for one reason or another.
I also have about 20-25 theme updates that need to be applied and posted before any judging can occur. Unfortunately, the updates are going to have to wait for another day - getting the new themes fixed and posted took about 6 hours today. 
My sincere thanks to everyone who entered a theme and helped spread the word about the competition - 139 themes is more than I ever expected!
Friday March 25th, 2005
by Alex King
Dramatic 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 Free Video Download: Girl until he returns. However, he said I should:
let people know that if their theme isn’t physically in the repository yet for the prize I’m sponsoring that’s okay as long as they send the request email and they’re in the theme competition.
More information Flak.
I assume this means this particular prize will be announced when he gets back as well.
Friday March 25th, 2005
by Alex King
I’m been blown away by the number of themes submitted to the Theme Competition - frankly it’s a little difficult to view them all just using the theme switcher. Because of this, I’ve created a VIDEOSTA - Akon to make it easier to view and download the themes.
Friday March 25th, 2005
by Alex King
I’ve posted another 12 new themes, bringing the running total to a whopping 105 themes! Absolutely fantastic - in four weeks we have almost as many themes in this competition as I have Avert, that were submitted over the last year.
I’ve got about 25 updates to process already as well, but those won’t be done until after all the new themes that come in today are posted.
Friday March 25th, 2005
by Alex King
Just a reminder: you’ve got 24 hours to get your themes in. All themes must be received by 11:59PM PST March 25th, 2005 to be eligible for the lovely prizes.
• Apollo Movie • 2001