Our next free giveaway is one that will directly GIVE BACK to WordPress ….
Instead of a limited giveaway, if you donate $50 or more to the WordPress Foundation from today (Jan. 13, 2011) until Jan. 31, 2011 (full details below), we’ll send you a free shirt.
Go to our iThemes ‘Give Back’ site to learn more details here and the steps to get your free shirt here.
Also, don’t forget to tweet out about this and let others know that by giving back to WordPress they can get a bonus shirt!
We just sent out e-mails to the 50 random winners for this month’s giveaway. But a lot of you commented in for a second entry. We were incredibly impressed with all the sites you submitted that are Powered by WordPress! Well done WordPressers. But we had to pick 5 specific ones we thought were particularly cool.
If one of these is your site, be checking your inbox today! You’ll have one of these soon.
Remember we’re also giving away 50 shirts to random e-mail list subscribers. So even if you’re not in this list, you could still win if you’re subscribed to the e-mail list. If you’re not subscribed yet, sign up at the end of this post to get updates on new contests and enter for future free WPShirts!
In no particular order, I give you the winners. Awesome designs, creative uses of WordPress, a cool simple food blog and even a site that was liberated from the clutches of Flash! Let’s give a round of applause to Rhett & Link for ditching Flash and now being Powered by WordPress.
Thanks for all the entries and congratulations to the winners.
The people have spoken, the votes have been counted, and the shirts have been ordered.
The next WPshirts giveaway will be the navy Powered by WordPress. Thanks for all the suggestions you provided in the comments. A special thanks to Jaddie Dodd for the comment that inspired this shirt. Check your e-mail, Jaddie.
So how can the rest of you win this shirt for free? There are two ways.
Method #1. Sign up for our e-mail newsletter. We’ll pick 50 people at random from the list. So if you’ve already signed up for the e-mail updates, you’re already entered!
Method #2. Show us your awesome site that is Powered by WordPress! Leave a link to your site in the comments. We’ll pick what we think are the 5 coolest WordPress-powered sites and the winners will get free shirts! So if don’t think you’re lucky enough to win a random contest, there’s a way to win on pure merit. Excited to see everyone’s amazing WordPress sites and blogs!
Deadline to enter is November 20.
Since our first free shirt giveaway is ending today … it’s time to start thinking about the next one!
We readily acknowledge we don’t have all the best and brightest ideas …. so we need your help.
Leave a comment on this post … or reply @wpshirts on Twitter with your ideas and we might pick one as our next giveaway!
This is our first shirt we’re giving away on the blog. Our goal with these shirts is to get people talking about how awesome WordPress is. There’s no better way to get people to ask you about WordPress than to ask people to ask you about WordPress!
We really like it. We hope you do too.
To be eligible to win, you gotta show us some Twitter love by midnight October 7 (central time). You can improve our grammar or be more creative if you want. We actually prefer it. Just keep our @wpshirts and a link in there somewhere.
Need to easily make a complicated form? There’s a plugin for that.
Want to make your images pop up all fancy? There’s a plugin for that.
Need to back up your site and move it to a new server? There’s a plugin for that.
It’s WordPress. So you know there’s basically a plugin for everything you need a web site to do. And plenty of things you don’t need it to do. We love WordPress. We love plugins. We love t-shirts. So, here you go. We still have a few of these left.
My blog could beat up your blog. The shirt that started it all. At first, we bought a small run for our team and to give away to a few of our favorite WordPressers. They were such a big hit, we printed another 500 to give away at WordCamp Chicago.
We don’t have any of these left now. But you might be able to go on eBay and buy one. Remember, we can’t sell these if we wanted to. We give them away to promote WordPress in the most obvious way we can think of — wearing it.
Our cause here is simple. We want to see more people use, embrace and love WordPress as much as we do.
We want to promote and spread the use of WordPress as the premiere online software tool for blogs and websites it is, by giving away free WP shirts that get people asking and talking about all things WP.
Viva WordPress!