Written on July 21st, 2009 at 08:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Theme Wars – Where WP Themes ‘Battle’
This is one of the cooler ideas I’ve seen in a while – it’s a WordPress theme site with a twist – ThemeWars.
Each week two WordPress themes are featured and readers are asked to vote for their favorite. While obviously the site’s about selling WP themes it’s also kind of fun and will be interesting to see what themes win each week. The winner gets put into the theme store once the week’s results are in.
Nice idea and the first two themes up for your vote are pretty nice themes too.
40 Responses to “Theme Wars – Where WP Themes ‘Battle’” - Add Yours
Andrew - We Build Your Blog
July 21st, 2009 8:37 pm
Totally agree. I love this idea…and us bloggers (i.e. not designers) can get access to real professional designers as well as some good design ideas.
Plus it gives designers some great exposure…which the good ones truly deserve.
Thanks for sharing.
Andrew
PraShawn
July 21st, 2009 8:55 pm
Great idea. There will be a ceratin moment that bloggers want to battle each other with themes. The time has come. Thanks for sharing.
Paritosh
July 21st, 2009 9:02 pm
Great concept !
More like a user oriented theme designing strategy which satisfies both the end user as well theme designer.
Sebastian
July 21st, 2009 9:11 pm
I like the Idea, so there’s a benefit for both the designer and the user. But i think a littel Comment section would be nice, to hear what the user really like or not!
Zombie_Plan
July 21st, 2009 9:14 pm
Very clever strategy, seeing where the majority of demand lies and making it fun at the same time.
Wallace
July 21st, 2009 9:53 pm
i have no interesting once i see the UBD logo…
S.K SHARMA
July 21st, 2009 10:07 pm
Dareen Really superb idea to get the more attention of users…..
Gordie Rogers
July 21st, 2009 10:28 pm
I checked it out. That’s original marketing. And by bringing the the readers in to vote gives it a touch of social media feeling about it. Good on “Theme Wars”. You stand out and won’t be forgotten by me.
Michael
July 21st, 2009 10:28 pm
I like the idea of “theme wars”, but I wish it wasn’t about premium themes. I guess everyone is just trying to make a buck.
Anthony Olsen
July 21st, 2009 10:31 pm
Ive noticed woothemes.com are doing a showcase showdown where user modified themes go into battle against each other … some interesting stuff there as well.
Seth W
July 21st, 2009 10:40 pm
Very big fan of this idea. it is fun and a great way to check out new designs for blogging.
fas
July 21st, 2009 10:47 pm
UBD has got it bang on with this new venture. I really like it.
Dean Saliba
July 21st, 2009 10:57 pm
Very good concept. I think it might also encourage designers to up their game, trust me some of them need to!
Felix Albutra - SighNetDollars
July 21st, 2009 11:00 pm
Nice idea…
swag lamps
July 21st, 2009 11:09 pm
wanna check it out first…thks for the info…
Felix
July 21st, 2009 11:14 pm
That is a great concept. I want to participate! Thanx for bringing this up.
Casey
July 21st, 2009 11:15 pm
Hope this idea takes off! There’s ton’s of WP themes out there, but most or not that great.
What I would really like is if you could give the themes a test drive and see how they run, how fast they load, how compatible they are… You can’t judge a book (ot a theme) by its cover!
Blogger Templates
July 21st, 2009 11:18 pm
Darren, why you never talk about Blogger templates? ;)
btw this template is gr8, also and the site, will inspire us.
http://www.deluxetemplates.net/
Jacob Stoops
July 21st, 2009 11:50 pm
Excellent concept! Their site is pretty clean too…wonder how they choose which themes to compare & add?
Matt Harris
July 22nd, 2009 12:07 am
Going to cast my vote for Magazine theme. Pretty cool website idea.
Ben Goulding
July 22nd, 2009 12:08 am
Cool idea. We could be seeing some ultra-special wp themes over there. Thanks for sharing!
The Bad Blogger
July 22nd, 2009 12:24 am
creative ideal, but to me, most probably the site had to get more themes to let us choose, two themes a week seems to be less…
Steve
July 22nd, 2009 12:53 am
If only the themes were free, that would be something very nice. I think it would be hard to judge unless you installed the theme and tested it out to truly judge.
Nicholas Z. Cardot
July 22nd, 2009 1:06 am
That’s neat. That’s like getting instant feedback for what kind of themes the WP community is wanting. I think that system has a lot of potential.
Deepak @ BusinessAttitude.com
July 22nd, 2009 3:20 am
Wow this is a very cool idea. If I had the money I would buy it now. It has a great future!
BloggerDaily
July 22nd, 2009 3:57 am
This is cool!
Competition usually brings superb result. And this is the thing that we wanna see =)
Joshua Elliot
July 22nd, 2009 4:05 am
There is always room for ideas. I like it too.
Branko Zecevic
July 22nd, 2009 7:13 am
Tjank you on the tips that every blloger have to implement!
Nuwan
July 22nd, 2009 2:39 pm
Very innovative idea of theme wars. Those two are very attractive themes, hope they will get good sales.
Lee Ka Hoong
July 22nd, 2009 2:58 pm
This is cool! I’ve just visited their site and voted for the themes too. Perhaps this is another technique to sell the themes?
Regards,
Lee
Melinda | WAHM Biz Builder
July 22nd, 2009 5:17 pm
Where’s Brian Clark and Thesis????
Omega
July 22nd, 2009 9:50 pm
Great idea, but the best theme you make yourself. Just be creative and stand ou of the crowd.
That is what your blog makes unique.
BLOGERCISE
July 23rd, 2009 12:16 am
It would be more fun with kittens and you could vote on which is the cutest! Oh wait, that’s been done. How about with hot chicks and you could say if they were hot or not? What, that’s been done too?
;)
Mathew day
July 23rd, 2009 9:01 am
Great new site and just about anything from UBD is gold. I have gotten a few themes from them already.
discount jewelry
July 23rd, 2009 7:29 pm
really make me a little crazy .who can tell me the reason why i can see my message but for a long time waiting
Cher K Markov
July 24th, 2009 11:42 pm
The theme war looks to be a good concept. Of course, there are many designers that want to compete. However, I like UBD the most. It develops the themes on continuous basis.
Article Directory
July 25th, 2009 7:20 am
i like indeed the concept of the theme war!
adıyaman haber
July 26th, 2009 5:44 pm
This is cool! thanks…
Gerard
July 27th, 2009 11:49 pm
Nice idea…it attract the attention of readers and probably stay long enough to read the article also
jeux psp
September 22nd, 2009 5:45 pm
Really like the idea of this…and us bloggers can get access to real professional designers as well as some good design ideas.
Plus it gives designers some great exposure…which the good ones deserve.
Thanks for sharing.
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