The next upgrade will be adding the author pages which should be added shortly

The settings for the contact form (address to send the email to, where to redirect eg. a thank you page, and the subject line for th email) are all configurable in the theme options page to save you looking through the PHP.

We’ve also added the new WordPress 2.8 template tag body_class() which adds a number of classes to the body tag to allow you to control the styling of different pages depending on certain criteria.

We’ll be updating our Profectus and Invictus themes later this week. The Artemis theme already comes with these pages. We’re also going to be adding single and multi authors page templates to allow you to easily create an author page for your blog with your profile data on it, and for multi author sites, a list of their posts as well.

If there are any other page templates that you’d like to see available please let us know and we’ll do our best to add them.

Before being accepted we had to provide WordPress with a haiku, a strange request but one which we obviously adhered to. Here is our submission:

Themes for everyone,
Functional yet Beautiful,
One Price For Them All

What do you think of it? Considering I have the poetry skills of a drunk snail, I’m quite impressed that my haiku was accepted

Kevin

For the next 3 days membership prices will drop to:

• 3 months membership – $49 $29 $20
• 6 months membership – $79 $49 $35
• 12 months membership – $99 $69 $50

With 4 themes in our collection that works out at $5 per theme with our 3 month membership package however we are planning on releasing our 5th theme within the next few weeks and our 6th theme shortly afterwards so you really are getting great value with this promotion.

Please note, this promotion is only valid today, tomorrow and Friday. On Saturday 1st August prices will increase to $49 for a 3 month membership, $79 for 6 months and $99 for 12 months. So I encourage you all to take advantage of this great promotion before it’s too late!

If you have any questions about any of our themes please let us know

Kevin

For some reason we didn’t even get 10 people entering the competition. Nevertheless, I am happy to announce that everyone who entered has won a one month membership to Blog Themes Club.

All of the following members have had their accounts upgraded to membership level :

• Dempsey
• Matt
• Ezyblogger
• PJ
• Cananito

Congratulations guys. If you have any problems installing the themes or need some help customizing them, please drop by the forum and let us know how we can help

Kevin

First off, congraulations are in order for Roseli, Gagan, Prasanth, Justin and Fabio, who all won a one month membership via the competitions at DailySEOBlog and Traffikd. Looking forward to working with guys tweak your blog

Remember, you can still win a one month membership via Daniel Scoccos ReTweet Competition or the comment competition at WinningTheWeb.

With regards to the launch competition right here at Blog Themes Club, we have brought forward the deadline by 4 days. The competition deadline is now Sunday 21st June 2009. So we will be announcing all the winners this coming Monday.

Good luck to everyone in our competitions.

Kevin

We wish everyone who is taking part in our competition the best of luck however should you want to increase your chances of winning a membership, we recommend checking out some of the competitions which our friends are running (thanks for helping spread the good word guys!)

Each competition is giving out 3 one month memberships

• Win Free Premium WordPress themes at Blog Themes Club – Mani from DailySEOBlog has a contest which ends tomorrow so please hurry if you want to take part. All you need to do is retweet a message on Twitter.
• Daniel Scocco ReTweet Competition – To win a membership through Daniel from Daily Blog Tips, all you need to do is retweet is twitter message A winner will be decided on Friday June 19th.
• Blog Themes Club – Win a Free 1 Month Membership for Premium Themes – Gyutae Park is offering a membership to the best 3 commenters. A winner will be announced Thursday, June 18th
• Win a Membership to the New Blog Themes Club – Steven Snell, of Vandelay Design, is offering you all the chance to win a membership through his popular Traffikd blog by simply leaving a comment. A winner will be picked randomly on June 17th.

Good luck to everyone who takes part. I look forward to helping the winners with their new designs.

Kevin

To celebrate our launch we have setup a great competition for you guys. We are also reducing our prices until the end of July. We are launching with 4 themes however we will be developing a 5th within the next moth or so and hope to add 3 or 4 more premium themes before the end of the year.

Before I tell you all about the site and our great launch offers, I will talk a little about who we are and show you the themes we have on offer.

Who is behind Blog Themes Club?

Sarah Anderson

Hailing from Buckinghamshire in England, Sarah is a PHP Developer and a WordPress Plugin Developer and has been blogging with WordPress for years. She knows the script inside out and has helped thousands of bloggers with their WordPress blogs over the last few years.

Kevin Muldoon

Owner of several blogs and forums, Kevin is probably best known in the blogging world as the owner of BloggingTips, a blog dedicated to helping bloggers. Over the years he has used hundreds of different WordPress themes, which has helped him become very familar with the WP template system.

Our Themes

We have 4 great themes available to download at launch. Here is a brief description about each theme.

Eagle eyed readers might notice that Blog Themes Club itself is powered by our Profectus theme.

Blog Themes Club Membership

Our membership will cost $49 for 3 months unlimited access to our members area, $79 for 6 months and $99 for 12 months. Members will get full access to all of our themes, updates to existing themes and full Premium Forum Support.

However, to celebrate the launch of Blog Themes Club we are dropping our prices until 31st July 2009. Until then you will be able to join our club for the following :

• 3 months membership – $49 $29
• 6 months membership – $79 $49
• 12 months membership – $99 $69

Considering most Premium WordPress Themes sell for between $49 and $99, we believe our prices to be very competitive

We will be helping all club members customize their theme in our Support Forum. If you would like to know more about the benefits of being a Blog Themes Club member please refer to our Membership Frequently Asked Questions page.

Individual Theme Purchase

We appreciate that many of you are just looking to purchase one theme and are not interested in getting access to several. Which is why we also offer customers the chance to purchase our themes individually for use on a single domain.

We have tried our best to keep our individual prices very competitive. Which is why the purchase of a Single Use License will not grant you access to the member area of our forum. We will of course answer payment related queries and fix any problems that are found with the design, however we will not spend time helping the customer customize their theme.

Unfortunately, providing daily support to members takes up a lot of our time so in order to keep our Single Use prices down we had to remove premium support. However, if after purchasing a theme you decide that you would like some help customizing the theme you can pay $15 for one month of access of Premium Forum Support or alternatively, upgrade your account and become a full Blog Themes Club Member. To learn more about purchasing a Single Use License please refer to our Single Use License information page.

Until July 31st 2009 you can get 25% off the purchase of any Single Use purchase by entering the discount code LAUNCH25 during the checkout process.

Blog Themes Club Launch Competition

To celebrate the launch of Blog Themes Club we are giving away 10 membership accounts for free to readers. These accounts are valid for one month. During that time you will be able to download all of our themes and get daily support from both myself and Sarah.

Entering our competition is easy. All you have to do is help us spread the word of our site via Twitter. All you need to do is:

• Follow us on Twitter @BlogThemesClub
• Tweet or ReTweet the folling message via Twitter :
  

  @BlogThemesClub have just launched their new wordpress themes club http://tinyurl.com/n7rhnh – 10 memberships up for grabs in a competition

• Leave a comment linking to the status link of your tweet

The deadline for this competition is Sunday 21st June 2009. Therefore, no tweets after midnight Eastern Time (New York Timezone) on Sunday will be counted. We will select the winners randomly and do our best to announce the winners the following day.

Please note, in order to leave a comment you must be signed in. Registering will only take a second and will allow you to post comments on our blog and ask questions about themes in our Public Forum Room.

Also, please be aware that if you do not leave a comment about your tweet on this page and you are not following @BlogThemesClub, you will not be eligible to win a prize in this competition.

Overview

We are looking forward to bringing you all more great WordPress themes over the next few months and we will be doing our best to help bloggers who are not familar with HTML, PHP or CSS, customize their blog design.

If you have any questions about one of our themes, our membership or our competition, please leave a comment in the comment area. We’d love to hear from you