New hosting company!

We are now with NetworkRedux and all is well. Thank you to everyone for your hosting suggestions. In the end, we chose NetworkRedux because of their support of the open source community and the unusual level of transparency they provide with their NOC blog. The rock solid platform and unbridled service are a nice bonus as well. A full write-up of our experience is coming with the relaunch of ChoiceThemes.com soon, so stay tuned!

Support Forums

If you've purchased WP SLIDER you have likely been added to the support forum for that theme. If you have not, please respond to the email that was sent to your Paypal email address requesting your BustATheme username and I will add you to them.

Thank you Smashing Magazine

In case you haven't noticed, WP SMASHING was released today. This special take on WP CALENDAR was brought to you by Smashing Magazine. The most popular design blog in existence. WP SMASHING was released with a couple icon sets as well, so make sure you check them out on the WP SMASHING release post and thank Smashing Magazine for bringing you another great set of freebies. WP SMASHING Link: http://choicethemes.com/wordpress/wp-smashing/

Would you like to support Choice Themes?

Every theme currently on Choice Themes is Free! A lot of you have asked "How can I support Choice Themes?" and our response has always been "In due time". Well, now you can. If you use one of our Free Premium Themes on your site and want to give back a little, remove the credit link guilt-free for $27 You're not obligated to pay anything and truth-be-told, We aren't going to hold it against you if you don't credit us for using one of our themes. But if you are using one of our themes and you can give back a little, we appreciate it!

10,000 Registered Users, Site Redesigned & 2 New Themes

Phew, busy week! I always intended on theming Choice Themes from the beginning, but you know how it goes as a designer — you never make time for your own stuff. Well, I finally made time. I did 3 themes this week: WP CALENDAR, Choice Themes and the soon-to-be-released-for-Smashing-Magazine WP SMASHING. At the time of writing there are still a few things that need to be done: The article pages have no formatting, the comments have not been put back, the footer is empty and there is no feature list for the theme pages yet. The index page and theme gallery turned out nicely though, and I expect to have the site complete this weekend. The WP CALENDAR theme is ... Read Entire Article ...

Follow us on Twitter

There are half a dozen small announcements I've wanted to make in the past 12 hours that I didn't feel warranted their own news post, so I've set up a Twitter account to be used for these things. Follow us on Twitter to get more Choice Themes info! or use our Twitter RSS Feed. Update: To stop receiving email updates, see the Choice Themes FAQ.

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