Andrew Ooi

I was surprised to find out that WPDesigner.com - now a PR7 site has been sold for USD 66K. I’ve used themes done by the author before and I’m sure the author’s face familiar to many WordPress users. He is better known as small potatoes, a 21-year old Thai blogger with a great talent for designing WordPress themes.

For me this is the image I remember him most because he uses that in his many templates as sample pages

The final bid for the website was won by Pawel Ciszewski.

You can check out the bid at

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/22287

This is the first example I’ve seen of a PR 7 blog being sold. USD 66K is about RM 205,000!!

The reason small potatoes gave for deciding to sell his blog is..

If you’ve been reading this blog and my personal blog, you know the first and main reason is I’ll be traveling abroad for the rest of this year. Initially, I was hoping I could juggle traveling, maintaining this blog, and continue creating WordPress themes, but that’s more than likely not the case. Because of that, I’d rather hand Wpdesigner.com to a solid team of developers with enough man hours and better management skills to do this site justice.

 

Second reason is I’m at a crossroad in life. In the last two months, I changed my love and family lives. Now, it’s time to make career choices; I don’t have to, but I want to make a change. Although I still have the desire to compete with fellow WordPress theme authors, I would love to have the time and opportunities to explore and actually get away from the computer (my lower back acts like it’s 90 years old, but it’s actually 21). Letting go of Wpdesigner, sadly, will leave room for me to do that. (I’ll probably become a fisherman at one of the Thailand islands. I kid. I kid.)

 

Third reason is I don’t like giving theme support. Hahaha.

However is not completely gone from the blog:

The new owner is Pawel Ciszewski. If you haven’t been following the auction, I recently sold Wpdesigner.com here.

 

Other than introducing Pawel, below are some news and review:

* The themes club will be continued.
* I will stick around and blog on Wpdesigner.com from time to time while traveling. To get in touch with me, my personal site is at Braintied.com.
* If you have any question about the sale of Wpdesigner, I will be a part of a one-hour interview at Jeffro2pt0.com on Saturday March 22nd, 9PM EST.

To the small potatoes, thank you for your support and understanding.

So if you are a web designer, go for designing WordPress themes. Great prospects in getting popular fast if your themes catches on

(Abner, you get the hint ?)

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