WPDesigner Now For Sale

I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t sad to see a post pop up in my feed reader today that WPDesigner.com is for sale. Small Potato has been a major part of the WordPress community and has developed quite the following. Not only has he been quite successful, but according to the WordPress Top 40, it looks like he has the #1 ranked WordPress blog, including a PageRank of 7.  On a personal level, he has touched a number of lives.

According to Small Potato, regarding the decision to sell WPDesigner:

If you’ve been reading this blog and my personal blog, you know the first and main reason is I’ll be traveling abroad for the rest of this year. Initially, I was hoping I could juggle traveling, maintaining this blog, and continue creating WordPress themes, but that’s more than likely not the case. Because of that, I’d rather hand Wpdesigner.com to a solid team of developers with enough man hours and better management skills to do this site justice.

Second reason is I’m at a crossroad in life. In the last two months, I changed my love and family lives. Now, it’s time to make career choices; I don’t have to, but I want to make a change. Although I still have the desire to compete with fellow WordPress theme authors, I would love to have the time and opportunities to explore and actually get away from the computer (my lower back acts like it’s 90 years old, but it’s actually 21). Letting go of Wpdesigner, sadly, will leave room for me to do that. (I’ll probably become a fisherman at one of the Thailand islands. I kid. I kid.)

Third reason is I don’t like giving theme support. Hahaha.

The website developer in me says “Wow, what an incredible domain name and great price for an established site,” but truthfully I am saddened by this news. When I think about people that have contributed the most to the advancement of WordPress, Small Potato is towards the top of that list with Matt, Lorelle, and some other great company. He’s always been very helpful and always tended to take a creative approach to things, whether it was his blog, theme club, or whatever else.

Small Potato, best of luck to you in your travels. The next owner has a lot to live up to!