Phew!

I think I heard the huge collective sigh of relief from bloggers the world over this morning when they checked their email and read that their Premium News Themes are compatible with WordPress 2.5.

Here is a portion of the blurb that Adii sent out:

We are happy to announce that all of our Premium News Themes (Original, NewsPress, Flash News, Gazette Edition & Live Wire) is compatible with WordPress 2.5 and that you can upgrade to the new version (of WP) without worrying about any incompatibilities.

The only incompatibility we found, whilst testing was related to the Popularity Contest plugin. According to the plugin author, he is working on a fix and will release an updated, WP2.5-compatible version soon. Unfortunately we can’t update the plugin accordingly and thus take no responsibility if you upgrade to WP2.5 and find that the plugin doesn’t work.

Oh well, no great loss. I suppose we can all live without the Popularity Contest plugin for awhile… much better than finding out that your sidebar ends up in the header in Firefox or something equally horrific.

BTW, I use Adii’s Premium News Theme on my RosalindGardner.com blog and will be upgrading to WordPress 2.5 as soon as it is available through Fantastico.

Brian Gardner, developer of the Revolution themes for WordPress is holding a contest for his affiliates in March.

If you’re not familiar with Brian’s work, I run his Revolution News theme on my travel blog and it was the theme chosen for a blog coaching club that we’re doing now.

Other themes include the original Revolution, as well as Revolution Pro Business, Magazine, Tech and Sports. Most of the themes sell for between $79.95 for a single user licence and $199.95 for a developer’s license and affiliates earn 25%.

The most expensive product he sells is the Revolution All-Inclusive Developer Package for $399.95. It is for webmasters who want to create sites using any of Brians 6 Revolution themes. You will also receive any future Revolution themes as well. With the purchase of this package, you can use any of the themes as many times as you wish.

The March Revolution Affiliate Contest has some pretty nifty prizes including:

1. A 4-night Bahama cruise for two plus $500 cash
2. Samsung 19″ Flat-Panel HDTV, Revolution All-Inclusive Package or $500 cash
3. $250 cash or a Gift Certificate to your favorite online retailer

The contest began on March 1st and goes until midnight on March 31st. To qualify you must
be one of the top 3 sales generating Revolution affiliates during that timeframe and link to contest details from your blog — which, take note, is a very smart traffic generation strategy on Brian’s part!