Category Archives: Competition News

Includes information related to the Sandbox Designs Competition, such as progress developments, new resources, etc.

The closing of the competition

August 8, 2007 – 2:55 am

First things first. Yesterday I neglected to mention and thank one of the trio of elements necessary for the competition to have moved forward (the other two being the participants and the judges). I speaking about the sponsors.
So I’d like to thank Matt, Lisa, PressHarbor, Maja, and Jonathan. Their support for this all-volunteer program is [...]

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Submissions have closed! Judging begins!

July 29, 2007 – 12:03 am

The time is now 8:00 pm here in New York and that means it’s 12:00 AM (UTC). In other words, submissions have closed. I’d like to thank everyone who has submitted and design and is participating. My inbox is overflowing, but I can safely guess there are 45–50 total designs.
Submissions have closed! Live previews will [...]

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Thirteen days remaining for submissions

July 16, 2007 – 2:18 pm

Today marks the one-day-less-than-two-weeks point in the competition. Submissions are still due by 12:00 AM (UTC) on July 29, 2007. Lots of Sandbox-related questions have been answered over in the Sandbox Forums and I have received several submissions already, as you can see from the Participants page.
So stop reading this and get back to [...]

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Sandbox and WordPress 2.3

June 26, 2007 – 4:33 pm

What should surely be of great interest to all participants is the news that the Sandbox theme is slated for moving in to the WordPress core at version 2.3. Check out ticket #4517 on the WordPress trac for more info.
While not carved in stone, this has been discussed for about a year now (see Sandbox [...]

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Out of the box

June 15, 2007 – 1:15 am

For all those WordPress enthusiasts out there, I thought I’d briefly mention WordPress Meetups. The WordPress meetup for June in New York is this Saturday at 4 PM, so if you’re in the city, you should stop by. (Ja, the organizer and great guy, refers to me as “member and resident enigma.”)

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