Thanks to the uncontrollable awesomeness of Rogie King, you can now download the transparent .png versions of every single brush we’ve ever released. Perfect for Fireworks users. Use them how you like & don’t forget to thank @Rogie

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WPBundle turns 1 year old today, and to celebrate we’ve added a new theme, and you can grab any individual theme for only $15, grab the full bundle for only $115. Full details, as well as a run-down of all of our themes are available here.

New Theme: Imminent

The introduction of our new theme Imminent brings our total number of themes in the Bundle to 14. Imminent is a “coming soon” or countdown theme with a live activity stream in the sidebar so that you can keep visitors up to date on any new products or websites you might be launching.

Buy Imminent Now $5 or Demo Imminent Theme or Dark Variation

Imminent Dark Variation

The Imminent Dark variation is optimised to be easy to use with large dark backgrounds. The transparent sidebar elements means that it’s super easy for you to create a whole new look simply by adding a new dark background image.

A very simple theme, but one that we think would be perfect for a “coming soon” or pre-launch page. Imminent offers a different approach to a static “coming soon” page, with a live activity feed in the sidebar. We’ve also made it super easy to integrate with Campaign Monitor, Feedburner etc.

Just a reminder, we’re also celebrating our birthday!

Buy Imminent Now $5

We’re happy to announce that from today you can now buy individual themes at WPBundle for only $50. Any individual theme sales include free support, updates and child theme variations, plus access to our ever growing Icon set. We’ve also reduced the price of the full Bundle to only $200.

What’s New

- Individual Theme Sales. $50/each.
- Dropped full Bundle price to $200.
- Plans for Mini-Bundles
- New Payment system and Digital Delivery via Quixly
- New Support Forums
- Design tweaks to the main site.

Why we’ve done this

From the start of the project we’ve had a lot of people requesting individual theme sales. We’ve never been against the idea, but there was a few reasons why we didn’t feel right doing this, one of which was our name! It felt strange moving away from bundles, because of that, but we understand the demand and need for cheaper options.

Our partnership with WooThemes is no longer in effect. We’re still using their framework, plus we’re still really good friends with the WooThemes guys, but WooThemes quite rightly didn’t not want to be part of the new direction as they have to focus their attention on their own products and they felt that the new direction was a little too close to what they already do. It was all very mature and organic, but it does now mean we can take WPBundle in a new direction.

Mini-Bundles Coming Soon

We decided that we’d like to stick with the Bundle aspect, and look at offering Mini-Bundles. Customers can pick and choose their own items and put together their own Bundle at a cheaper price.

This feature isn’t possible yet as we’re waiting on a new system that will allow this sort of thing, but for now we’ve decided to just open up the bundle and offer individual theme sales.

The Benefits of the New System

There’s many benefits to the new direction. Especially for existing Bundle buyers. We’ll now be adding brand new themes to the Bundle, not just variations. We’re constantly increasing the value of the bundle, adding new items and giving them to existing buyers at no extra cost.

Information for Existing Customers

All you need to do is set up your new password.

If you do this we will you a username and password to the email address you used to sign up with us originally. Once you have done this you can then login to the new Support Forums. This is completely separate from your WooThemes account and will not effect it in any way. This is a new system and the two accounts are completely independent.

10% off for the next three days

For the next 3 days you can use the coupon code: WPBUNDLE2011 to get 10% off any purchase.

We’re back with a brand new set of soft and subtle grunge brushes. You can use these super soft and subtle brushes to build up your own textures in your designs with incredible ease, it’s also really easy to manipulate them in your own way to build up unique patterns and textures.

Example of Brushes

Obviously you can use these however you want, but our best advice is to build up layers of texture in a subtle way. Play around with the various brushes – and build up the realistic textures by varying colours, opacity and placement. What you should aim for is something that looks natural and organic.

Share These Brushes

If you find this set useful we’d like you to pass them on to other who you think might appreciate it. You can do this easily using the share links below the post, or share the short URL below, as well as using the full URL in the address bar.

The URL to share is: http://bit.ly/gpJog6

Important, you must link to this article when sharing the set, you must not upload these files to your own server when sharing.

Download full set for Free

Download Free Brushes | .zip Format |  9.3 mb

Optional. Pay if you want.

Buy the set $5 Donation | .zip Format |  9.3 mb

The price is completely optional, it’s more of a donation than anything. Buying the set gives you nothing extra, (apart from my respect) it’s simply a way of you showing your appreciation. Feel free to just take them for free if you wish.

A Big Thank you to our Contributors

As many of you know, I did this set a little differently. For the first time ever we looked for outside help for gathering the original textures used in the set. I asked people to take pictures of interesting surfaces and send them to me, the following awesome people played a big part in making this such an awesome set:

Design Shard – http://www.designshard.com
Caleb Kimbrough – http://lostandtaken.com
WeGraphics – http://www.wegraphics.net
Succodesign- http://www.succodesign.it
DS Squared.com- http://www.dssquared.com
ESWAT – http://www.eswat.ca

There was many more, but the above ones are the people I know I used for sure. If you think I’m missing you let me know and I’ll add you to the list.

We’re going to try something a little different for our next brush set. We want you to get involved & send us your textures. We’ve thought of a very simple and quick way for you to send them to us & we’ll give you full credit if we use them.

How to Send us your textures

Upload your Photos using wetransfer.net and put brushes@wefunction.com as the recipient. I’ll then look though the submissions and start putting together Part 3 of our Subtle Brush Sets.

What we need

We’re looking for original textures, photographed by you. The kind of things we are after include: Natural Paper, Cardboard, Wood, Concrete, Fabric or any sort of organic surface with an interesting pattern or combination of textures within.

I think the main thing I’d like you to send me is Natural Paper textures. I’ve found these to be quite popular textures, and the ones that I have trouble finding and photographing.

Size & Quality of Images

You don’t need to worry about size or quality, I tend to optimize them for the web, and I’ll tweak the crap out of them to make them look subtle, so don’t stress about levels or contrast. Anything you can send will do, I’ll make sure they work. Anything from iPhone snaps to high-quality photos will be considered.

Why are we doing this?

Our brush sets have been downloaded thousands of times by designers all over the world, all I’m asking is for you to return the favour and help us put together a really interesting set of brushes. Also because @TrentWalton is a swine! It’s pretty much his fault I’ve kicked this into life.

IconJar is a simple concept. An icon store with a never-ending set of icons. You make one small payment you get the icons already made sent to you, plus we’ll send you all of the new icons we design to you as they are made.

Details of the IconJar Icon Set

As it currently stands there is 139 icons to kick you off with. We’re planning on releasing a huge amount more. The set is very much a pixel based icon set, so it’s made with small sizes & tiny details in mind. The current IconJar Icon set comes at 32px in size, with .png and .psd files, we’re looking to re-draw many of these in 16px icons too. These will be available in future updates free of charge.

Anybody who has already purchased WPBundle will already have access to this Icon set and the free updates as it was included as a free bonus. The only difference now is that we’ve gave it a shiny new home and “branded” it.

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For one Week Only: $23

The standard price for the ever-growing set of icons is $45. But for the first week only we’ll be selling it for only $23, so now’s your chance to buy the Icon set with free updates at a huge discount.

You can view the full set here which shows you everything that is included in the set. If you want to follow updates you can check out the IconJar Twitter account, this is where we’ll post details of releases & screenshots of upcoming releases.

Spencer, the developer here at Function, has been working on putting together a simple ticket or bug tracking WordPress theme. The theme allows for easy creation of a ticket/support system right within WordPress, for free.

Spencer worked on this entire project himself, it was a one man project, and it turned out great, so please direct all comments and praise towards him.

Theme Demo & Download

View the Demo | Download Theme Free.

To get a true feel for the theme and it’s potential make sure you check out the demo. For more details, as well as a download link please read Spencer’s Post and make sure you let him know what you think of the theme.

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About the Free Theme

It’s a lightweight solution to a common problem, perfect for individuals or small teams to keep on top of tickets, or bugs, or any other uses you can think of.

It can be built on or expanded for much more extended use, but some of it’s standard features make it real alternative to other expensive systems.

The idea is to provide a base “framework” of sorts, that creates the core functionality needed for ticket tracking, but leaves room for the user to take it in any direction they want.

Thanks to Spencer

Once again I’d like to thank Spencer who worked on this full project himself, please follow him on Twitter and let him know your thoughts on the theme.

The new partnership means an even more exciting future for the project that we’ve put so much love into.

Brief Overview

The partnership allows us to offer our customers the save level of support that people know and love over at WooThemes. The guys at WooThemes have a solid support system in place that is well known for it’s high quality and efficiency, and now anyone who buys from WPBundle will receive the same level of support at no extra cost or monthly fee.

All of our themes will now be built on the WooFramework, the exact same framework used in all of the WooThemes products.

The Framework allows some extended controls, features and functions and allows us to have a standardized framework  across all of our own themes, which is great news for future updates and additional features.

Anybody who has used a theme by WooThemes before will be instantly familiar with how our themes will work, but likewise, for new customers you’ll find it easy to pick up, with everything already well documented.

We’re still in full control of the design & development of the themes, so none of designs will change, and none of our ideas will have to change as a result, so it’s a very positive partnership that helps us move forward with the project that we’ve put so much work into already. Exciting times ahead for sure.

Full Details

We’ve put together the full details of the deal and what it means for the project, or you can also read ho WooThemes announced it on their blog.

There’s still a lot of details & announcements to come, but for now we’re happy to have such a big player on board to help us on our journey, and it’s amazing to have some of the same amazing things that people love about WooThemes available now to our own customers.

Follow the Progress

As part of the build up to the launch we’re sharing previews on the progress blog. Here’s some of what we’ve been working on:

Each new shot gives you an insight into the quality of design work that goes into each theme, but also gives you a chance to see us build the bundle and see some of the ideas behind each one.

Make sure you follow us on Twitter too for more updates.

Grab the full WordPress Themes Bundle for only $80, plus your chance to win an iPad with WPBundle. The special offer is only available until July 4th 2010 and could even win you a brand new 16GB Wi-Fi iPad.

Grab A Bargain and a Chance to Win.

Back our project & Pre-Order to enter. Not only will you be helping support our project, but you’ll be grabbing the Bundle at only $80. That works out currently at less than $10 per theme. This is a special pre-order price and is only available until July 4th 2010.

Anybody who wants to be a part of the project and buys the Bundle at this price will also be among the list of potential winners for the iPad 16GB Wi-FI. Only backers who pledge $80 for the Bundle or more are eligible.

On top of this there are multiple rewards available for anybody backing the project, read about the rewards on the KickStarter page. Learn more about WPBundle or just Enter the Competition.

The Details

The model we are giving away is the iPad 16GB Wi-Fi. Anyone who is on, or joins the list of backers will be in with a chance of winning. If the project on KickStarter gets 100% funding or more, we’ll look through the list of backers on July 4th 2010 at 7:07 EDT, and chose one lucky person at Random. This lucky winner will then receive an iPad with their WPBundle as it becomes available, or we could even arrange to have it delivered earlier.

We will record a video screencast of the selection just to make it fair, and we’ll ask if possible for the winner to send us a picture of them with the iPad when it arrives at their home.

Help Share this & Make your Pledge Count.

As we need the project to reach 100% funding before we can pick a winner we need as many pre-orders as possible to make your 80$ pledge count, we’d love it if you could help by tweeting about this offer or sharing the URL: www.wpbundle.com/ipad/ with a small few people who you think might actually be interested in the offer.

Every theme these days has theme options, and there are a ton of guides on creating theme options. So now instead of it being about actually having the Options page, it’s turned into how many options can you squeeze into your theme.

A Growing Problem

But I see a problem with this. Not only are people resorting to creating custom pages so they can have 10+ tabs on the single page just so they can fit all the options, but they are creating redundant options. Sometimes I think Theme Developers are completely forgetting how huge the Plugin Directory on WordPress is. So when you are creating your theme, is there really a need to have an option to put “Stat Tracking” code? If the user actually wants that option, they can do a quick Plugin search and find over 300 stat plugins.

Making the Most of the Basics.

The point I am trying to make is, why confuse people? By creating these “custom” option pages, not only can you end up confusing the user by giving them a completely different environment, but you end up overwhelming them with options they may have no clue about. So instead of cluttering up the options that really need to be easily changed, with something that has been done hundreds of times in a Plugin, just give them the basics.

I think if someone is really interested in customizing their theme, they will probably already have some knowledge on how to do it. Or just let them ask in the Support forums; that’s what they are for right?

One of the theme’s I’m working on right now only has two options on the Theme Options page (which could really even be one.) So instead of spending an hour rummaging through 100+ different inputs, checkboxes, dropdowns, they can start adding their content almost instantly.

Less is more.