Professional WordPress Themes

March 2011

  • Mar 14, 2011
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    Test Drive Pro Theme Design Themes

    One of the things I am commonly asked, is if people can test Pro Theme Design Themes for themselves. I always used to say no, but that’s not a word I like to say too often – so I got to thinking about how I could solve this. Today I am pleased to say that… Read More ›

February 2011

  • Feb 27, 2011
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    Elemental Hub, For all Your Elemental News

    I find that creating Elemental, my WordPress Theme Framework, is a very organic process. I last mentioned a theme update in July last year, however I am constantly updating and tweaking the theme – in fact Elemental is probably updated at least twice a month, often more frequently. Sometimes the changes are small, simple bug… Read More ›

  • Feb 4, 2011
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    Save Money on your Web Hosting with Cool Handle Hosting

    I was recently contacted by a new web host called Cool Handle Hosting. They wanted to offer you, our customers, a discount on your web hosting. Always wanting to save people money we took them up on their offer. So available now, for all Pro Theme Design customers, is a new series of coupons to… Read More ›

  • Feb 2, 2011
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    Top WordPress Themes

    I am incredibly interested in business, and as such really enjoy it when people give inside information on their products. As such I thought it would be interesting to show you what my most popular themes are. So, I setup the Top Themes Page. This page lists the top 10 themes, by sales, for the… Read More ›

January 2011

  • Jan 16, 2011
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    Meteora – New Portfolio and Magazine Theme

    Meteora is the latest theme from Pro Theme Design. Designed originally for Portfolio websites it was adjusted to be ideal for many types of site. Traditional blogs, and magazine sites would work equally well with the flexible nature of the homepage design. The homepage has many options that allow you to tweak it quite considerably…. Read More ›

  • Jan 4, 2011
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    Translations and Localisation For all Themes

    One of the more popular feature requests is proper localisation in themes and I am pleased to say that we now have fully localised themes. Localisation is the art of making something suitable for different regions. In terms of WordPress themes it is making sure that all of the text in the theme can be… Read More ›

December 2010

  • Dec 14, 2010
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    Customising Pro Theme Design Child Themes

    The biggest problems with WordPress child themes is that you can’t create children of them. This makes customising them more difficult. This post will explain how I solved this issue with the Elemental WordPress Theme Framework. Unfortunately I can’t control all themes, but for those I can control I have built in a simple system… Read More ›

  • Dec 1, 2010
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    WPAdvent – WordPress Offers for the Holiday Season

    To celebrate the end of year holiday season we thought it would be cool to offer WordPress users some of the best offers around. So I started contacting all of our WordPress development friends and managed to get a massive collection of offers. In fact the partners page reads like a who’s who of WordPress… Read More ›

November 2010

  • Nov 21, 2010
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    Pro Theme Design Helping Alzheimer’s Research

    A few years before he passed away my Grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease – a disease that affects more than 26.6 million people every year (more than 1 in 100 people). Alzheimer’s Disease is a deterioration of the brain. It was described to me as a series of small seizures that happen at irregular… Read More ›

October 2010

  • Oct 21, 2010
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    User Site Showcase Released

    We really enjoy seeing how people are using our themes, so we thought that perhaps others would enjoy it too. As such we decided to build and release a theme showcase website. Somewhere that shows off the customisations that people have made to our themes. The showcase splits the themes up by category, according to… Read More ›

About Us

Pro Theme Design began in 2007 as a collaboration between two web designers...

Darren Hoyt
Darren Hoyt

Charlottesville, VA, USA

Established in the WordPress community for projects like Mimbo and Agregado, Darren also has 14 years experience designing websites for businesses and startups. His role at Pro Theme is taking what Ben builds and making it beautiful and simple to use.

Ben Gillbanks
Ben Gillbanks

Exeter, England, UK

Ben is a WordPress ninja, best known for creating Regulus. More recently he took over the development of the image-resize script TimThumb. He spends his time at Pro Theme Design turning Darren's ideas into reality.

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