Tomorrow will be one year to the day since we first launched. A lot has happened in the year (Not least of which is around 150 support topics answered on our support board. I’m pleased to say that not one issue has ever gone unsolved!) and a lot of great sites have been built on our themes.
However, our pace of theme development definitely hasn’t been as I originally planned. We haven’t been lazy; we’ve brought out a tonne of updates to our framework, and updated each of our themes several times as well. But in terms of bringing out new themes; we fell behind, no doubt about it.
That’s a consequence of us being a very small team here. Really, there are just two of us. And as we also do a lot of client work, we haven’t been able to schedule nearly enough time to new theme development for PliablePress.
So far.
One way or the other, things are going to change. Our first 6 months were great. Our past 6 months haven’t been so great (Support and bug-fixes have never paused at any point though! And still a constant stream of new customers, so don’t read this as an obituary either! 
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I need to sit down and work out what is best for PliablePress, and what is best for our customers.
The first step in that is buying more time. All of our individual theme purchases are lifetime payments, so everyone there is sorted already. For our Plus+ customers though, you paid for an annual subscription and as part of that you expected to see more themes than you did. For that, I’m giving everyone who bought a Plus+ membership from us in 2010 an extra year, totally free.
You don’t have to do anything to get it. Your account has already been upgraded, and won’t expire until 2012 now.
I’ll be keeping you updated here as we start to plan the new future for PliablePress! And in the meantime, thank you for joining us and bearing with us as we find our feet!
robert phillips said:
Very nice, Michael!
Propos to you for being so upfront, honest and candid. Not everyone in The Industry is. Does a lot for customer loyalty. Yes, I’ve noticed the issue about new themes, and I suspected that…well, there’s more to doing a startup than meets the eye. I’ve never done one, so I’m not about to pick up a stone.
I’ll have to be honest. I’m putting up a couple of sites and was wondering “what about PPress?” to myself. Don’t like to think ill of anyone, but also don’t like to have a theme suddenly be orphaned (been there, suffered that).
You’ve bought yourself a peck of goodwill. Not, make that several bushels of goodwill.
best wishes,
%%robert
9th May 2011
Michael Martin said:
Hi Robert! It’s really good to hear from you again, I hope you’ve been keeping well!
Thanks for your response to this. You were completely right to be wondering at what was going on, it’s been a quiet few months.
Thank you for giving me the chance to restore that balance. Let’s see if I can’t make up for it…
13th May 2011
Toronto Web Design Company said:
Thanks Mike! This is great news for us
I would recommend ramping up the workforce with like minded folks. Thanks for the wonderful themes!
13th May 2011
Michael Martin said:
No problem! Thank yous for using our themes and bearing with me on this. I’ll try to make sure your investment was a worthwhile one!
13th May 2011
KChristoph said:
Greetings from Hannover, Germany.
It would be nice to become a real feeling by using your framework with one of your clear and fresh themes.
Is there a reduced version to see your work life ?
13th June 2011
Mark Kuge-Kolly said:
I signed up for a plus membership in the hope to see more wordpress themes.
This one more year for free is great, but there is no new themes since, and it’s like a free year for nothing :/
What happens Micheal, no more theme anyway ?
31st July 2011
soulmenj said:
is this still available?
16th December 2011