3 Years Old


Tomorrow marks quite a huge and significant milestone for us. Tomorrow is our 3rd birthday, and seeing tomorrow is a Saturday, and most of you will be away from your desks, we though it would be appropriate for us to give you our present today. Yes we giving you a present.

3 years ago Magnus was working a 9-5 desk job, and only fishing & playing golf on the weekends… 3 years ago Adii was not a rockstar, and concentrating on starting a boutique design agency called “Radiiate”… and 3 years ago I was living in London, freelancing from my small bedroom…

WooThemes has changed all our lives dramatically.

Some statistics

Everyone loves statistics right?

  • We’ve grown to a full-time team of 11, in 5 countries on 3 continents.
  • Cater for a community of commercial theme users of almost 40,000.
  • We’ve had over 750,000 downloads of our free WordPress themes (since we started tracking them!), excluding our WordPress.com themes that has around  212,887 installations.
  • Released 97 themes.
  • Our demos, theme listings, sub-sites, and this blog are viewed by over 500,000 monthly unique website visitors.
  • Sent over 23,159 sales and admin emails.
  • Supported 46,421 forum support topics.

Phew we’ve been busy, but we’ve had a helluva lot of fun along the way.

Please understand we are not stating these statistics to inflate our egos, rather to remember the responsibility we have going forward of continuing to innovate in our product releases, impress our community of users, and grow these numbers even more.

Our birthday special offer

As we’ve done on previous birthdays we’ve got a birthday present for you… before we crack open some champagne on our side.

Over the next 3 days we have a special running offering a 5-for-1 on standard and developer theme packages. Use the “HAPPYBIRTHDAY” coupon code when checking out and you’ll also get 30% off the package price.

We’ve also discounted the start up fees on new club subscriptions by 30%. Meaning the start up fee on standard club subscription is $80, with the usual $15 per month going forward to keep it active, and the start up fee on the developer club subscription is $130, with the usual $20 per month thereafter.

We haven’t forgotten about our loyal and existing community of users, but unfortunately you’ll need to wait another month to get your present. It will be worth it. This is in line with what our new team member Warren is working on.

This special offer will be running until Monday 11th July at 5pm Tuesday 12th July at 12am UTC time.

P.S. One more random statistic

As I said above, we’ve had a helluva lot of fun in the 3 years of WooThemes existence. We’ve been on 2 team trips – sightseeing & conferencing in England, and skiing in Austria. If my mathematical formula (Av. number of team members X Av. number of drinks X 14 days of Wootripping) is correct we’ve consumed about 448 pints of beer, and around 112 Jagerbombs. Ouch!

And that folks is why we only meet up once a year…

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130 comments

  1. Tomorrow will mark the first time I had visited this website 🙂

    Rahul Sharma
    July 8, 2011
  2. Congratulations for being 3 years old.
    Wishing you all a Very Happy Birthday and best wishes for the future.

    karan
    July 8, 2011
  3. The Jagerbombs weren’t fun.

    Gavin Elliott
    July 8, 2011
    • They are always fun!

      Magnus
      July 8, 2011
      • Always the best! 😉

        Ryan Ray
        July 8, 2011
  4. Happy, happy birthday WooTeam, you guys are doing a great job.

    David Bell
    July 8, 2011
  5. Your poor livers!!

    Congrats on 3 years, guys!

    Jesse Petersen
    July 8, 2011
  6. Happy Birthday to WooThemes.

    Ashmita
    July 8, 2011
  7. Congratulations, thanks for offering such a great product product

    Vivek Parmar
    July 8, 2011
  8. Happy Birthday.

    Dhaval Pathak
    July 8, 2011
  9. Ohhh we share the same birthday… apart from mine was 24 years ago!! Keep up the great work!

    Nick
    July 8, 2011
    • Happy B-Day to you as well then! Have a good one!

      Ryan Ray
      July 8, 2011
  10. Hi – I’ve just signed up to woo themes as a club member 2 hours ago at full price as this wasn’t advertised on your website then. I wish I’d waited. Can I still get my discount?

    Heather Pepper
    July 8, 2011
    • Contact us via contact page and maybe we can work something out 🙂

      Magnus
      July 8, 2011
  11. Happy birthday WooThemes! Thank you for all the rockstar-Woo-goodness you’ve brought us over the last three years. 🙂

    Jo
    July 8, 2011
  12. Wish You Happy Birthday “WooTeam”! 🙂

    And thanks for birthday special offer.

    Suren H
    July 8, 2011
  13. Joyeux Anniversaire à toute l’équipe de WooThemes
    Discovering your new themes is always a pleasure.
    Your Support Forum is helpful, nice and reactive
    You are doing a great job.

    laurent kenzoua
    July 8, 2011
  14. Sorry to miss you on your visit to London, perhaps we could Skype?

    Happy Birthday – and thanks for designing some of the inter-webs best Themes for us WordPress users,
    WooThemes does indeed… rock!

    Sam Downie
    July 8, 2011
  15. Hi, Woothemes A very happy birthday! 🙂 I want to get involved and celebrate too! But i am unable to place an order. Please help!

    Manoj M
    July 8, 2011
    • If you are having problems checking out, please contact us directly so we can help you debug the issue 🙂

      Magnus
      July 8, 2011
  16. Happy Birthday! I’m so glad I discovered your themes a couple years ago … I guess around your first birthday, then. I got started with your free themes, and got hooked 🙂

    Keep up the great work! Your new app themes are really awesome, and are taking WooThemes way above and beyond the standard themes. I’m excited for the future of WooThemes!

    Matthew Guay
    July 8, 2011
  17. Happy birthday guys, you all rock! Will be purchasing the 5 in 1 option anyhow, cos it’s worth it 😉

    Christopher Tock
    July 8, 2011
  18. Congrats Guys! A real inspiration to all us freelancers!

    Dave
    July 8, 2011
  19. Three years? wow, you look like a much more mature company. Congratulations.

    Gerson Perez
    July 8, 2011
  20. Wow, this is a good deal. I reckon you’ll have more sales this weekend than ever before.

    Congrats on three years online!

    Steven Gliebe
    July 8, 2011
  21. Can’t purchase! 🙁 I just get an error telling me I can’t have more bonus themes than specified. Please help!

    Philip Stoker
    July 8, 2011
    • Sorry about that I’ve fixed it now so you can check it with 5-for-1 🙂

      Magnus
      July 8, 2011
      • Sorry, still getting…

        Error:

        ERROR – Limit of the bonus product/products is exceeded! you can not add more products than proposed,
        please contact the admin: info@woocommerce.com

        Lee
        July 8, 2011
      • Sorted – thanks, and congrats on the success!

        Philip Stoker
        July 8, 2011
  22. Happy 3rd Birthday Woo!

    I will have a drink for ya :o)

    Long may Woo continue!

    Freddie

    Freddie
    July 8, 2011
    • Thanks Freddie, enjoy a drink or two for us! 😀

      Ryan Ray
      July 8, 2011
  23. Happy birthday, and congratulations on all that you have accomplished!!! (Three exclamation points for three years.) 🙂

    Mark Bailey
    July 8, 2011
  24. Happy Birthday!
    Does the discount apply to standard package without recurring fees?

    Olivier
    July 8, 2011
    • Yes 30% on all prices 🙂 Just use the coupon HAPPYBIRTHDAY when checking out as stated in the post.

      Magnus
      July 8, 2011
      • Then it’s not showing on 2checkout after I entered the code

        Olivier
        July 8, 2011
        • Sorry about that Oliver, was an error. It should be fine now. 🙂

          Ryan Ray
          July 9, 2011
          • OK thanks. Another question. When am I supposed to select bonus themes (buying supportpress)? After checkout?

            Olivier
            July 10, 2011
  25. Happy birthday!
    I may just have to celebrate your birthday with a theme purchase 🙂
    Is “Listings” part of your offer?
    All the best for the next year!

    Pascal
    July 8, 2011
    • Yup, should receive the %30 off if you use the coupon HAPPYBIRTHDAY. Let us know if it isn’t working. 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 8, 2011
      • That;s great news! But I just tried the coupon code and it doesn’t change the pricing for Listings…

        Pascal Bolla
        July 8, 2011
      • Tried to use the coupon too – didn’t see any changes in the checkout..

        Deni
        July 8, 2011
        • Sorry about that guys, still any issues?

          Ryan Ray
          July 8, 2011
    • Sorry it seems some themes were left out of the coupon 🙁 We’ve fixed the problem now, so go ahead and try again. If you completed the purchase, just contact us so we can discount the sale.

      Magnus
      July 8, 2011
  26. Happy birthday, guys. Can’t believe this level of success is achieved by a 3-year-old company.

    PS: Trying to buy SupportPress, HAPPYBIRTHDAY doesn’t seem to work yet. 🙂

    Stephen Ou
    July 8, 2011
    • Fixed it now! Thanks 🙂

      Magnus
      July 8, 2011
  27. Oh, btw, thank you very much for your work! Russia appreciates you, happy birthday!

    Deni
    July 8, 2011
    • Tell Russia hello! 😀

      Ryan Ray
      July 9, 2011
  28. Awesome, that’s awesome year

    Jauhari
    July 8, 2011
  29. Trying to use de cupon but doesn’t seem to work yet.

    Ricardo Stancato
    July 8, 2011
    • Are you still having trouble? Shoot us an email if you aren’t getting the discount to work. – info[at]woocommerce.com 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 8, 2011
  30. Happy Birthday! Bon Anniversaire!

    Thanx for everything!

    Cain
    July 8, 2011
  31. Here’s to many more — cheers!!!

    Karen Kouf
    July 9, 2011
    • Cheers to you Karen! 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 9, 2011
  32. Happy Birthday to You! Thank you for this information, I will try this.

    thekrim
    July 9, 2011
  33. Happy birthday to WOO! 🙂 and thanks for the promotions!

    TutsPress
    July 9, 2011
    • Thanks! Hope you’re enjoying them! 😉

      Ryan Ray
      July 9, 2011
  34. Hi guys! Please tell me, if I’ll buy SupportPress theme (http://woocommerce.com/2011/07/supportpress/) I can download 4 theme more?

    Pawel
    July 9, 2011
    • SupportPress is an enterprise themes so it doesn’t come with bonus themes. It’s a hugely powerful theme though.

      Mark
      July 9, 2011
  35. Congratulations. Having been a spectator since day one of WooThemes journey, I can say you guys have done really wonderful job.

    Also you guys could have included a list of innovations done by the team that actually changed/ influenced a great deal into the way of WP theme development.

    Kudos.

    R.Bhavesh
    July 9, 2011
  36. Awesome, guys, you’re always a good inspiration.
    Happy Birthday!

    Carlo Rizzante
    July 9, 2011
  37. Well done guys, big fan of your themes!

    Phil
    July 9, 2011
  38. Happy Birthday dream team!

    keep up as you are, don’t change anything!

    Ghio
    July 9, 2011
  39. WooThemes,Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!

    Mir Imran Elahi
    July 9, 2011
  40. Feliz cumpleaños, WooTeam! =D

    Can you explain how this offer applies to the “Enterprise” themes?
    I’m guessing that the 5-for-1 deal works for regular themes only, and the 30% off is what applies to enterprise themes.

    Gosh, it would be swell if I was wrong, and it was actually buy-1-get-1-free (of equal value) or buy-1-get-2-free (of lesser value) on Enterprise themes. 😉

    el rafa
    July 9, 2011
    • Hi

      5-for-1 are normal themes only, but Enterprise themes have 30% discount 🙂

      Magnus
      July 9, 2011
  41. Happy birthday Woo’s! We love you 😉 Thanks for such a nice present. Stay well and productive in the future. Blessings.

    Johnny Helleland
    July 9, 2011
  42. Happy Birthday WooThemes!!

    Great themes, great offers and now you´re being even nicer to us all. I like this kind of birthday 🙂

    Blessings and keep it up!!

    Henrik
    July 9, 2011
  43. Happy Birthday WooThemes. I couldn’t ask for a more precise theme company.

    Daniel Rice
    July 9, 2011
  44. Happy Birthday!! Love your themes! Keep up the good work. I think I’ll shop for a new one right now.

    Misty Jame
    July 9, 2011
  45. Happy Birthday to you!
    Happy Birthday to you!
    Happy Birrrrrthdaaaaay dear WOOOTHEMES!
    Happy Birrrrrthdaaaaay tooooooo yooou!

    Can you hear my slightly off key birthday song?

    So happy to watch you grow up and evolve into the company that you have become. Through all of your growing pains and successes, thanks for sharing and inspiring us all!

    Tiffany Britt
    July 9, 2011
  46. Happy Birthday Woo!

    I love the woo-goodness I get from using the themes!!!

    Chukwuemeka Fred Jnr. Agbata
    July 9, 2011
  47. By the way guys, can I select say 3 themes now and then select 2 later?

    CFA
    July 9, 2011
    • Whichever ones you aren’t sure of at the moment you can leave blank, then just email us once you know. Just note, we don’t add themes released after your original purchase date. 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 9, 2011
      • Hi Ryan,

        I chose Canvas and Optimize for now, how do I get the rest when I finally decide?

        CFA
        July 11, 2011
  48. Great!
    How to proceed to apply that and buy 5 themes now?
    I´m not a member yet!
    Do you have a step by step?
    Thanks
    Flavio Jose | Triatlete

    Flavio
    July 9, 2011
  49. Ops …. I gorgot to say “Feliz Aniversário” – Happy Birthday !!!

    Flavio Jose
    July 9, 2011
  50. Trying to buy 5-for-1 but cant find the “press here”.Have you forgotten to put a button to push and submit an order or I am too blind to see that.

    Ahmad Fatemi
    July 10, 2011
    • Think when you go to buy one theme they give you an option to select the other four “bonus” themes.

      Hash Milhan
      July 10, 2011
    • Are you looking on a specific theme page? There’s usually a big green “BUY THIS WORDPRESS THEME” button on the theme pages. It’ll walk you through the process from there. 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 10, 2011
  51. Happy Birthday and I am impressed with your fast development, big full time team and great products so far 🙂

    David
    July 10, 2011
  52. Happy Birthday guys! Today was the first time I was going to buy a theme. And guess what, I ended up getting 4 more for free! I completely forgot to enter the coupon code to get the 30% off. Yet, I am not complaining (though it would be really cool if you guys can kinda sort that out! only if you can).

    Been playing around with Canvas for a few hours, and blown away by the possibilities. I would say that your themes are great value for money, or rather a bargain (when you look at how much people charge for developing a wordpress theme these days!)

    Keep up the great work, and keep the themes rolling! And YAY to Jagerbombs!! haha!

    Hash Milhan
    July 10, 2011
  53. Guys,
    I understood how to do now.
    Question : Can I choose only one theme now and have a credit to got my choose my other 4 bonus other day after July 11st?

    Flavio Jose
    July 10, 2011
    • Hi,
      Yes we can, see on FAQ http://woocommerce.com/frequently-asked-questions/#2-for-1

      Dewa Indrayana
      July 10, 2011
    • Flavio,

      As Dewa pointed out you can leave your bonus themes blank for now. Just note, we don’t normally add themes released after your original purchase date. 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 10, 2011
      • Damn it, i have already got my other 4 themes :-S

        Hash Milhan (@hashir)
        July 10, 2011
  54. Happy birthday Woo Team,
    and the present is for us, Woo Happiest member 🙂

    Dewa Indrayana
    July 10, 2011
  55. Your themes rock guys. This is always the first place I come to when I have a new website to do for a client. Happy birthday!

    Herrin Larkan
    July 10, 2011
  56. Thanks for your great job and happy birthday to the team.
    WooFan

    Emmanuel Armand
    July 10, 2011
    • Many thanks Emmanuel. 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 10, 2011
  57. Have 2 different credit cards but can not pay with neither of them get a message like “Do not honor…” What is the problem? Card are valid and accounts problem free!

    Ahmad Fatemi
    July 10, 2011
    • Ahmad, have replied to your emails and sent you your details. Hope you’ve received them, you should be good to go from there. 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 10, 2011
  58. I have succumbed to temptation and bought the Club Subscription, now I just need some more websites to build!

    Happy Birthday

    SarahS
    July 10, 2011
    • Woo! Look forward to seeing some site Sarah. 🙂

      Ryan Ray
      July 10, 2011
  59. Hello WOO people! I purchased the present option but when everything was “successfully ” done I received this message:Parameter Error
    A parameter error was encountered when attempting to process this sale.
    Please notify the supplier so that this can be resolved as soon as possible.

    Ahmad Fatemi
    July 10, 2011
    • So sorry about that, have sent your details via email. Let us know if that doesn’t work.

      Ryan Ray
      July 10, 2011
      • It works fine thank you. Now I have downloaded the themes but how can I replace the existing self hosted wordpress theme with woo theme? Please!

        Ahmad Fatemi
        July 10, 2011
        • Shoot us an email and I can send some directions your way.

          Ryan Ray
          July 11, 2011
  60. Perfect! This is the best time to become a club member of WooThemes! 😀

    Happy Birthday WooThemes!

    Mummy Ninja
    July 10, 2011
  61. Congratulations WooTeam.

    You know that Artepick born 1 july 2008, a few days before you. Good things and ideas borned at july 2008. Happy birthday.

    Artepick
    July 10, 2011
  62. Hey guys, congrats for 3 years and great work. I still love your headlines theme on my DIY blog getting always great responses cause of the design 😉 By the way: 112 jagerbombs are really heavy – but tastes also great at the moment! Greets from Germany.

    Matthias
    July 10, 2011
  63. Congratulations on your 3 years of Success!

    Cheers,

    John
    July 10, 2011
  64. WooooHooo .. I just bougth my firts Woo Theme and I´m very Happy. It will be applied on my Business site mGm Athlete com

    Thanks Guys and Congratulation Again !!!
    Feliz Aniversario from Brazil !!!
    Keep TRI … flaviojoseTRI com

    Flavio Jose
    July 11, 2011
  65. Ops … just download the files from my dashboard but I´m receiving error when I try to unzip the file. Any idea?

    Flavio Jose
    July 11, 2011
    • Send us an email with the error, we may need to repackage it on our side. – info[at]woocommerce.com

      Ryan Ray
      July 11, 2011
  66. Wishing the Woo Team a VERY Happy Birthday…and many more to come!

    Steve Thoeny
    July 11, 2011
    • Thanks Steve!

      Ryan Ray
      July 11, 2011
  67. Happy Birthday WooThemes! All the best for the coming days!

    David
    July 11, 2011
  68. Happy B-day

    Anders
    July 11, 2011
  69. Happy Birthday WooThemes! 🙂

    Mezanul
    July 11, 2011
  70. Just a little confused. The offer expires Tuesday July 11, at midnight, which technically is past. But the page is still up. So is the offer still on and good until then end of Tuesday, or was it until the end of Monday?

    Bill Calamita
    July 12, 2011
    • Offer is officially over, but we left it on for late comers 🙂 It goes off at 12pm UTC (two hours).

      Magnus
      July 12, 2011
      • I guess I’m late – even the banner on the top is still visible 🙁

        Maybe next time 🙂

        Michal
        July 12, 2011
      • any hope you could make it till the 13th july 00:01 UTC? I found out late about this offer and weould like to buy one dev club account 🙁

        niko
        July 12, 2011
        • Go ahead and purchase the dev accont and contact us via our contact page afterwards, and we’ll give you the discount 🙂

          Magnus
          July 12, 2011
          • thanks 4reply, will do in about 2-3 hours [the time to get to my CreditCard@home 😀 ]

            niko
            July 12, 2011
  71. What happened? The coupon code is expired?? I saw the tweet yesterday saying the sale was extended until 12th July and also saw the banner updated at the top of the site. 🙁 🙁

    Mark Ellison
    July 12, 2011
    • I was waiting on some info from my partner re: site requirements so I could get the rights theme.. them I went onto Woo to make my purchase.. but alas, the offer is over… 🙁 I guess I thought it expired at 5pm UTC.. is there anything you can do?

      Mark Ellison
      July 12, 2011
      • Shoot us an email. – info[at]woocommerce.com

        Ryan Ray
        July 12, 2011
        • Okay, thank you Ryan. Done.

          Mark Ellison
          July 12, 2011
  72. Im so sad.. I just found this deal in my spam box :o(

    nikki
    July 12, 2011
    • Sorry Nikki. 🙁 Email us and maybe we can work something out. – info[at]woocommerce.com

      Ryan Ray
      July 13, 2011
  73. Very quick question woo gang. For your birthday you had a thin strip showing an offer across the top of the woo website. Is there any plugin that you were using for this or is it a custom addition? I am nosey yes 🙂 and trying to do something similar here myself. Thanks

    James O'Sullivan
    July 14, 2011
    • Nope just some html and CSS 🙂

      Magnus
      July 14, 2011
      • haha dammit 🙂 ok time to get my css going. cheers for the update Magnus

        James O'Sullivan
        July 14, 2011

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