I told you I’d have a new theme club sometime or another, didn’t I?
Well, here it is — ThemeHybrid.com
This thing has been months in the making, and I’m happy to announce the launch of the new site.
Theme Hybrid is all about the WordPress community. And, I believe we’ll have a lot of fun with it.
New themes?
Well, there’s one new theme and a whole lotta’ updates!
I’ve been busily working on updates for the Options, Structure, and Visionary themes, so you should have some cool, new stuff to play around with.
I have a few things coming soon too that I think you all will like.
I want to thank…
everyone that’s been involved up to this point. Theme Hybrid has been entirely paid for through user contributions, which I definitely appreciate. So, we have hosting for the next year.
I also want to tell Ian Stewart thanks for really expanding on the ideas behind WordPress and for doing more than his fair share of work by pushing me to think creatively with themes.
Then there’s Reinar Svendsen who helped out with some user testing, helping make sure the site was running.
Without everyone’s support in the last couple of months with the project, I would definitely be much further behind than I am now.
Things to look forward to
I won’t go into too many details at the moment. You can read the welcome post on the new site for more in-depth information.
I will say that I’m pretty excited about everything. I have quite a few theme projects I’ll be looking to bring out in the next few months.
The things you can really look forward to are a rethinking of how we use WordPress themes and how we’re going to reshape the WordPress theme market to something entirely new.
So, go check out the new site already!
Note: If you were a member of my forums here, then your user name and password should still work on the new site, so you shouldn’t have to sign up again.
Good luck, Justin!
great job justin
I’m in your Club Justin
i’m the Paid member of your theme club!
Best of Luck Justin!
Well done…
Finally the moment that I waited so long have arrive…
For paid membership, wonder what else the different from free member besides the premium child theme every month…
Cool
going there right away 
Well, Project M is finally ThemeHybrid. Honestly, you are the next WordPress Matt, Justin.
Sorry Justin… but I’m “leaving”. Im starting to hate something like this – You are making one of the best free themes for Wordpress. And now? And now we have membership like pay-for-theme or go away. Nah… ;(
Ian
Thanks. I hope things go well.
Epat
Thank you.
indian
You were the first official member to sign up for the exclusive club!
Pangeran
I have a few upcoming things in the works for paid members that will offer a few things more than just the child themes.
The child themes will come with their own special features too.
dinu
I’m looking forward to having you around the new site.
J Mehmett
Well, I don’t know if you can compare me to Matt, but it’s definitely a great compliment.
Kasnomn
I think you may be misunderstanding what I’m doing with the new site. As I’ve always said, theme downloads will remain free. It says so right on the front banner on the front page of the new site.
You never have to pay anything. Exclusive members will just get some extra, super-cool WordPress things every month that plugs into the parent themes.
I plan to offer at least two child themes every month with their own features for the exclusive members. Free members or non-members can still download things without paying a single cent.
Kudos Justin
I love the hookline of ThemeHybrid =)
Heard that Collis will open something like FlashDen for themes…
That might kill the socalled “Premium” developers….
i saw your post in the Night time(IST). saw ThemeHybrid.com, i got 27$ in my PayPal
simply sent you 25$ for Theme Club. Anyways i’m the first official Theme Club Member Hurrayyyyyyyyyyyy!! 
Best of luck Justin.. The site looks great and fresh.
Keep growing.
Best smile,
Tharique Azeez
I want to add to what I said in the last comment.
What I’m doing with Theme Hybrid is just moving my WordPress stuff to a different site because the forums, documentation, and theme pages were too scattered across this site. With the new site, everything will be easier to find. Plus, I kind of just want my blog here at JustinTadlock.com to just be my blog again.
milo
Maybe I’m out of the WP loop a bit, but who or what is Collis? Anyway, it sounds great.
indian
Yep, first official exclusive member! And I’m happy to have you on board.
Tharique Azeez
Thanks. I’ve still got quite a few bugs to work out, clean up the code, but that’s a project for another day.
Plus, I’ll be releasing the “Hybrid” theme (current theme for Theme Hybrid) at some point. I’m really doing some neat stuff with my development version of it and child themes.
Check this pls:
collistaeed.com
the guy from NetTuts making this
themeforest.net
Cool
But, Theme Hybrid should be unique, isn’t it?
And what we will have for free? Themes… only themes what will be actual for 3-4 weeks. Im shure that membership extends will be actual much more – every week…
milo
Thanks for the links. Looks interesting.
J Mehmett
Well, in actuality it’s not unique other than style and custom functions for my site. I won’t be releasing those, of course.
I built it off Structure to start with, but then just kept going with custom theme hooks to make something a bit more robust.
It’s just a basic blog setup to tell you the truth. I’ve just plugged in things like the front page welcome message and latest theme with hooks, which would all work from the child theme.
Kasnomn
I still don’t think you understand what I’m doing here.
I’m simply moving my WordPress stuff over to a new site. On the new site, there’s an “exclusive members” section where those members get some extra stuff.
I very seriously doubt I’ll release a new theme every 3 – 4 weeks. Maybe every 2 months. I like to actually spend time developing something that works instead of releasing a few mediocre themes every month.
And, as mentioned on the new site, exclusive members get two child themes every month.
Normal members and non-members get the same access to the parent themes without ever having to pay anything.
Looks really interesting, I blogged about Theme Hybrid earlier today. Good luck with it!
Absolutely awesome Justin
Good man! Moving the essentials to a new website and build on this breaking concept is a great idea – a very good and future safe package.
@Kasnomn: My clear understanding is that it will make no impact on you or me as users! If we wish to use some of our savings we can get some extra goodies; however the existing themes and new themes will obviously continue their lifecycles and future developements…
Hang in there
Leland
Thanks for the blog post. I had a few kinks today, but all seems to be well at the moment.
TheElder
That’s all part of it — just letting things evolve and planning for the future. I had been pulling in about 9 or 10 new users a day for the last few months, and things were starting to get hard to maintain on this site. I just needed a new location for the WordPress stuff.
You’re right about the memberships. This won’t have an effect on users at all if they don’t want to become exclusive members. I’ll continue creating new themes and developing the current themes as if I had never changed sites.
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Hmmm… Cool site, Justin.
I Have one question – can other people earn money on this site? For example, someone (ok, it’s me) have a cool child theme and…
Justin, just wanted to send you a hat tip for the lovely play on the advertising you did for your themes club – as a response to another so called “themes club” that launched recently. Absolutely brilliant!
Good luck with the themes club by the way!
Most people won’t know what I’m talking about, it’s a developer thing
brainsolid
It’s something I’m considering — allowing others to make money. I would definitely have to set up some kind of system for it though. It would be some time before I would consider it as a definite option. Step over to the ideas forum and bring up the idea.
Maybe if enough people were interested, we could work something out.
Hyder
Thanks. By the way, FreshPress and Fresh Tweet are pretty cool. I always like the themes that mimic cool sites. I need to update my old Facebooked theme sometime.
I really like what you are doing. Giving away free themes, unlike other WP Theme Club that you have to pay just to get their themes. Oh Well…
Keep up the Good Work Justin!
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You themes are great, I am more and more thinking going away for Joomla for a Wordpress set up with one of your themes !
WordPress is super simple to use, Jean. I’m not a big fan of Joomla myself, but there are some cool themes to use with it.
We’ll be happy to have you join us over at Theme Hybrid.
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great blog justinn,
Thanks for sharing useful tips. I will check ThemeHybrid.com