I’m Still Here!
Hey everyone, I apologize for the lack of updates. It’s been a month since I wrote my last post, but it seems that not much has changed over at WPDesigner. By the way, I haven’t sold this blog and I don’t plan to anytime soon. However, Moses, founder of WPThemesPlugin, has sold his and it looks like the new owner is not doing much with it. Hopefully this won’t turn into a trend.
I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t been following too well what has been going around in the WordPress community this past few weeks, but I did pick up a few things:
- Weblog Tools Collection described 24 ways to contribute to WordPress;
- Quommunication released a new WordPress theme for videos;
- WP Elements released and added TV.Elements, which is another video theme, to his collection of amazing themes;
- Adii posted a tutorial on how to create a YouTube Video Tabber.
Another thing that I think is worth mentioning is Smashing Magazine’s post: 40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download. Circular Icon Set by Pro Theme Design, which I wanted to mention before but didn’t, is listed in that post along with other great icon sets.
About this week, WordPress will turn 5 years old on this Tuesday, May 27th! There will be a birthday party in San Francisco and other locations.
Is great to have you back blogging again; and thanks for posting about my little video tabber tutorial!
And yeah - the current trend of WP blogs being bought and then left for dead is not encouraging at all… Don’t sell out! 
I’m the guy that “bought” wpthemesplugin.com last month. Moses’ accounts were hacked into and his site was pretty much stolen from him. I paid the hacker for the site (not knowing of course). I had access to it for a few days and then all my passwords were changed. I spoke with a friend of Moses’ and he filled me in that in fact the site was hacked. Moses is very upset and I’m out a nice chunk of change.
I did, however, performed a backup as soon as I had access and I am keeping the site somewhat alive at a new domain I got, wpthemesplugins.com (with the ’s’ at the end). None of the downloads or demos work just yet but there’s nobody visiting anyway.
Maybe at some point Moses will be able to get his accounts back or at the very least start at a new domain…. But either way, I have a copy of his site and files backed up for now.
If anybody has any suggestions, I’m all ears. You can contact me through the contact page.
Thanks - Joe
@Artur: Was wondering where you were - welcome back!
Yes, it does seem a lot of blogs are trying to ride the wave that WPDesigner started, I hope it does not turn into a trend as well.
@Joe: Wow, that’s terrible…very sorry to hear that. Who is in control of the domain now? This hacker you speak of? Best of luck to you…
@Adii & Leland: Thank you for the warm welcomes. It’s great to be back!
@Joe: Wow, that’s very unfortunate and it scares me that such things can happen to bloggers. It’s good to hear that you were able to perform a backup. If there’s anything I can do to help, please tell me.