SimpleCart + Thematic Challenge

Posted at 12:44 AM on July 8th, 2009

Instinct, the company behind WP E-commerce, held a contest this past weekend to see who could reproduce simpleCart(js) built by the Wojo Group using a combination of WP E-commerce and Thematic for WordPress. I had the day off on Friday, so I thought I would take a crack at $240 and a chance to dig into WP E-commerce’s new template system. After two hours or so that morning, I sent it off to Dan Milward, ending up with this:

simpleCart Demo

After the weekend was over, I found out that I did in fact win the competition! In addition, I will be releasing the simpleCart theme to the public and may be adding a few theme options as well.

9 comments so far
  1. Dan Milward says:

    And of course we’ll be making sure it integrates very nice with the WP e-Commerce Plugin ;)

    Chris. I’ll send you those Grid View files / mods asap!!!

    Well done mate. Love your work :)

  2. jyoseph says:

    Kick ass man, congrats!!

  3. Guy says:

    Gratz! Great work

  4. Brad C says:

    That’s awesome, looks like WP E-commerce has come a long way since I first played around with it.

  5. Congrats Chris.
    I really liked the simplicity and ease of use in the demo.

    PLus I am a big fan of your site design, and i liked the demo design too :)

    Keep up the good work ! God Bless!

  6. you did that in 2 hours…you deserve to win !

    Fantastic work as always Chris.

    :)

  7. That’s so cool!! Congratulations!

  8. [...] putting this theme together for the WP E-commerce contest, I am happy to release the theme 100% free of charge. It is a port of the simpleCart(js) theme from [...]

  9. Leigh Hunter says:

    So when are we gonna be able to use this puppy?! RadRadRad

Thanks for your interest in commenting, but comments are closed on this topic. However, feel free to send me an @reply on twitter.