Today, we’re proud to announce two incredible new additions to what we can offer you here at CyberChimps.

 
First up…

CyberChimps Plus

This one has been in-demand for a long time. An actual membership that gets you complete access to private email support, total pro support for all forums, even the free themes and special support for exclusive users of themes not found here on cyberchimps.com, like Go Daddy customers. That’s not all, incredible savings and even more perks are being developed to follow.

Learn More

 
Second up…

CyberChimps Cloud Hosting

You heard us right, we now are offering up hosting in which you can launch with WordPress and your favorite theme already pre-installed and ready to roll!

Start Free Trial

 
Last, but not least…

Neverending

Here at CyberChimps, development, innovation and our commitment are truly neverending (we’re very tired chimps most nights). We’re working on new themes, getting fully reloaded versions of old themes finished like Business Pro 4 and Responsive Pro which many have been anxiously awaiting.

But, that’s not all, we’ll always have a few aces up our sleeves as far as things we’re quietly working on only to be revealed at the point of finalization.

We know you want better translations, better documentation and better support turnaround, so do we! We’ve been improving and improving and improving slowly, but surely, but now with these new revenue streams we’re hoping for a well-needed revenue boost that will enable us to hire more dedicated professionals to make our team stronger and you the customer, happier.

We Are Listening
(but we need a lot more participation and feedback)

And a warm, sincere and appreciative thank you from myself and the entire team for keeping CyberChimps alive, food in our bellies and roofs over our heads!

Thanks, Bryan

10pm PST on April 25th, 2013

to:

2am PST on April 26th, 2013

We’ve been talking about changes for a few months now and we’re excited to finally get the ball rolling.

You’ll see some drastic changes come tomorrow as well as more to be rolled out over the next week or so.

Stay tuned.

Eclipse Pro 2 lets you create amazing responsive websites that you can control on any touch device including the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. Eclipse Pro 2 also includes the power of a dozen plugins in a single theme allowing you to setup an entire website in minutes with touch friendly Drag and Drop Options on a per-page basis allowing you control the look and feel of every page. We have also added 5 new colorful skins for you to easily select from!

Simply Drag and Drop the new Touch Responsive Feature Slider, Callout Section, Portfolio, Twitter Bar, and other Elements while logged into the Responsive WordPress Theme Options. Want to change to the next image in the Feature Slider? Simply swipe your finger to view the next image. With Eclipse Pro 2 and touch friendly responsive design you can now control your website on any device.

Eclipse Pro 2 is easy to install, and even easier to use with theme options that function just like using an iPhone or iPad. When you purchase Eclipse Pro 2 you also receive free automatic updates for life, excellent support and documentation, plus you can use Eclipse Pro 2 on as many websites or projects as you like.

“Eclipse Pro 2 is now running on the same framework as iFeature Pro 5 which is now fully responsive including the theme options,” said Trent Lapinski, Chief Executive Officer of CyberChimps Inc. “It is the perfect theme for beautifully displaying a Portfolio, or photos.”

Buy Eclipse Pro 2

https://cyberchimps.uservoice.com/

Where you can share your own ideas and vote on other people’s ideas and suggestions.

What do we want you to tell us?

Wrong question.

What do you want to tell us?

From theme improvements, to support to the cyberchimps.com website itself, let us know what you want! We’ll all be able to see the most popular ideas that benefit everyone and we’ll be able to let you know which ideas are under consideration, are planned, completed or that just won’t work :(.

Whatever the case, you all have a say and we can now all stay informed in one place.

Designed by Emil Uzelac, Responsive is clean, feature-rich, and you guessed it… completely responsive! With a Home page template that allows you to concentrate on specific content in a more traditional website layout, all while looking great across any device, this theme is well-suited to anyone hoping to start their website on WordPress.com.

Customizable to your heart’s content with seven widget areas, four custom menu areas, and seven page templates, make Responsive respond to just the level of functionality and desired layout you need. Read more about Responsive on the Theme Showcase or start customizing your own blog in Appearance → Themes.

Use Responsive on WordPress.com.

SAN FRANCISCO-February 26, 2013- CyberChimps Inc today reached an agreement with ThemeID, to acquire ThemeID.com, and their WordPress Theme named ‘Responsive’ which today received over 500,000 downloads on WordPress.org.

 “When I first created ‘Responsive’ I never imagined it would receive half a million downloads in just under a year,” said Emil Uzelac, founder of ThemeID. “It has been an amazing experience, but it has grown so quickly that it has become difficult to maintain alone. I wanted to make sure that ‘Responsive’ and its users continue to be supported, I am very excited to see what the team at CyberChimps will be able to do with what I’ve created.”

Responsive will continue to be available for free on WordPress.org, and CyberChimps will simply be taking over development, as well as customer support.

“At CyberChimps we pride ourselves on building open source responsive WordPress themes that just work,” said Trent Lapinski, CEO of CyberChimps Inc. “ThemeID’s theme elegantly named ‘Responsive’ fits perfectly into our philosophy of what a responsive WordPress theme should be, and we are excited to welcome ‘Responsive’ and ThemeID into the CyberChimps family.”

As a special welcome to the CyberChimps family, we are offering a $5 off coupon code for any of CyberChimps Responsive WordPress Themes, simply enter coupon code: themeid5 upon check out in the CyberChimps Store (offer is good through the end of April, 2013).

We will be transitioning ThemeID over to CyberChimps so please bear with us as we move servers over the next few days.

Benefits of the deal

• CyberChimps will continue innovating and developing the Responsive on WordPress.org.
• Responsive will remain free and open source (released under the GPL).
• Responsive is now available on Github (https://github.com/cyberchimps/responsive).
• Responsive 1.9 (http://themeid.com/whats-new-in-responsive/) is actively being developed (https://github.com/cyberchimps/responsive/tree/1.9), and will be released soon.
• CyberChimps will be developing and releasing a Pro version of ‘Responsive’ in March to paying customers powered by Twitter Bootstrap and CyberChimps’ responsive theme options panel.
• We will be moving support over to CyberChimps Support Forums, and bringing on ThemeID staff to help assist in the transition.
• Pre-existing ThemeID members will continue to get access to support for free.

About CyberChimps

CyberChimps Inc is a WordPress Theme Shop that develops responsive touch friendly drag and drop WordPress themes you can trust, and is based out of San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2010 by Trent Lapinski, and is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing WordPress Theme developers on the Internet.

For news and updates please follow CyberChimps on Twitter, and Like us on Facebook.

http://cyberchimps.com

About ThemeID

ThemeID was founded by Emil Uzelac, and has been dedicated to servicing the WordPress community and creating powerful yet easy to use WordPress themes since 2010.

http://themeid.com

iFeature Pro 5 was introduced several months ago, yet not everyone was ready for such a serious upgrade and because of this, as a courtesy, we continued to support the legacy version of the theme on the old design and framework.

What This Means?

- We will no longer provide copies of iFeature Pro below version 5.0.
- We will no longer support versions below 5.0 in the forum, troubleshooting wise (we will be recommending that you upgrade to the latest version to receive fixes).

Taking the Plunge

Upgrading is a natural part of the web. As the web itself evolves, so must the technologies used to display it. While you’re not required to upgrade by us, if you wish to stay compatible with WordPress, get new features, fixes and security patches there’s simply no other choice, it’s inevitable.

As always, we’ll do our best to help everyone in the forums with this transition. You’ll have just over a month to workout the details of upgrading:

http://cyberchimps.com/forum-topic/how-to-upgrade/

Many users find it helpful to first setup a test environment to test and refine the new theme options before upgrading their live site(s).

UPDATE – We will be releasing all legacy themes on GitHub for free, iFeature Pro 4 is now available:

https://github.com/cyberchimps/ifeaturepro4

To continue receiving support, updates, security patches, staying compatible with WP and more you will need to upgrade, because again, the legacy themes are no longer officially supported.

Thank You

What you need to know:

• PHP – Must be good enough to troubleshoot bugs, and fix them.
• CSS – Browser compatibility issues, responsive design. Would be awesome if you can re-imagine a PSD in CSS.
• WordPress – Must know better then the back of your hands.
• CyberChimps WordPress Themes – Always a plus.
• Twitter Bootstrap – Our new themes are based on Bootstrap.
• GitHub – Commit and merge with us please.
• Basecamp – project management (how we will assign issues for you to look into).
• People – Must be thick skinned, and be able to assist non-technical customers.

This is currently a part-time work from home position (open to hiring anyone anywhere in the world), we are looking to hire someone within the $15-$25 US range.

This is a great opportunity for a developer who is just starting out. If you prove yourself as a developer there will be more opportunities to work with our development team on bigger projects and room for promotion.

Please e-mail us at jobs [at] cyberchimps.com with a resumé, examples of your work, and portfolio.

Contest winners:

1st – http://completecollective.com/
2nd – http://vanderplas.us/
3rd – http://kuntao.es/

Giveaway winners:

1st – Brandy Bramer
2nd – Jen Reynolds
3rd – Jamie Leigh Martin

Instructions for Winners

Please email us and provide your PayPal email address for payment. Thanks

For the entire month of January we will be running a contest, giveaway and have plenty of great deals for ya.

Contest

Let’s have a good ol’ fashioned website/web design contest.

We want to see all the hard work you’ve done customizing your CyberChimps’ themes into your very own websites. The only criteria is that your website has to be built on top of a CyberChimps’ theme/framework.

Other than that, the sky is the limit on how you’ve designed your site, whether that’s simple and clean, professional, creative or innovative or whatever. I’ll be picking 3 winners, 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

1st Place Winner Prize – $100 Cash (via PayPal)
2nd Place Winner Prize – $50 Cash (via PayPal)
3rd Place Winner Prize – $25 Cash (via PayPal)

How to Enter – Simply comment below with the URL to your site, that you’re entering (so it clearly must be ready, live and public).

Rules – Only one website submission per person (and that website must be owned by the person submitting it).

Giveaway

Love CyberChimps? Help spread the word. Let’s make 2013 the year of the Chimp.

3 winners will be randomly chosen from those that enter the giveaway.

1st Randomly Selected Winner – $100 Cash (via PayPal)
2nd Randomly Selected Winner – $50 Cash (via PayPal)
3rd Randomly Selected Winner – $25 Cash (via PayPal)

How to Enter – You must do all of the following, let’s go viral!:

Retweet

- AND -

Follow @CyberChimps

- AND -

- AND -

Then, simply comment below (this will serve as your official entry) and indicate that you’ve shared us in the 3 ways listed above. Sharing is caring.

But, I already Follow and Like you. – The Retweet is the most important part, but you will have to do something to make up for the remainder of your entry. You’ll need to join our affiliate program and promote our themes with a Tweet and Facebook post.

Deals

Deals for everyone, whether you enter the contest or giveaway or not.

Store Link

Use coupon code NYTEN upon checkout for $10 off any order.

Can I do all 3?

Absolutely. If you wanted, you could buy one of our themes using the $10 off coupon, then work on customizing it and submit it to the contest. Then share us with your social profiles/follow us (as indicated above) to enter the giveaway.

Expiration

The contest, giveaway and deals will all expire on January 31st, 2013. Winners will be chosen on February 1st, 2013.

♥

Good luck everyone and I hope you have fun! If you need any help or clarification feel free to comment below. I’ll do my best to keep this post up-to-date with any new info to help clarify.

Happy New Year Everyone!
Thanks, Bryan

UPDATED INFO:

#1. Comments Not Appearing – Signing up and using a Disqus account will help. Apologies about some comments not appearing right away. Because we’re asking you to share your URLs in comments, this is naturally triggering the spam filter.

No worries, and please don’t try commenting again and again. We received your comment the first time and I’ll personally and actively be watching this contest and comment thread to make sure they all get approved.

This will thoroughly be checked over and over I can assure you, especially on the big day to make sure no one gets left out.

We actually started the year as CyberChimps LLC, but incorporated in July. We started the year with only two barely full-time employees and 1 part time employee, and ended the year with 3 full time employees, and several other part-time designers, programmers, and support staff.

We have had over 242,000+ active installs of our free themes in the last year from WordPress.org alone.

We started 2012 with just 3 major themes, and ended the year with 6. While iFeature Pro still remains to be our most popular theme, Eclipse Pro has become a strong second favorite, and our other themes have each found their own niche.

In 2012 we introduced Drag and Drop functionality, as well as responsive design to all of our themes and saw a significant boost in sales after the introduction of both. At the end of 2012 we introduced our new fully responsive front-end and responsive Theme Options framework based on Twitter Bootstrap, as well as iFeature Pro 5.

CyberChimps Inc was founded by Trent Lapinski in 2011, and is one of the fastest growing WordPress Theme companies on the Internet, and currently ranks in the top 17,000 websites on the Internet.

We have sold 11,412 Pro versions of our themes in 2012, and earned just over $335,000 in revenue.

We accomplished all of this on CyberChimps.com alone. We do not sell our themes on any other market place, all of our free themes including our new framework are open source, and are released under the GPL. We also do not charge extra for updates, and we are committed to providing great customer support. Our themes are priced reasonably, and we don’t nickel and dime our customers or make promises we cannot keep.

We are very proud of what we have accomplished this year, and are extremely grateful to the WordPress community, and the support we have received from our amazing customers. We are humbled by the success we have had in 2012, and continue to work tirelessly to give back to the WordPress community.

Hello San Francisco

We are also happy to announce that we are officially moving CyberChimps Inc to San Francisco, California, on January 1, 2013. We look forward to getting involved in the WordPress and startup community in person.

2013 and Beyond

2012 was a game changer for us here at CyberChimps Inc, we realized a dream, and made it a reality, but we are no where close to being done. We will be moving all of our themes to our new framework in the beginning of 2013, as well as releasing several new themes. We are also working on some amazing new projects, including more free themes, and we hope to enter the plugin market later this year.

2013 is going to be even better then 2012, and we cannot wait to share what we are working on.

Thank You

I would also like to personally thank Bryan Hadaway, Hugo Saner, Ben Mueller, Surya, and Thomas for believing in CyberChimps and making this company a reality. As well as continued support from WordPress.org, including Emil Uzelac, and Chip Bennett.

Thanks guys!

Trent Lapinski

CEO of CyberChimps Inc

@trentlapinski