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Christmas sale

Written by Thibaut in Communication

Since we launched Peaxl, a lot of people have shown interest in our themes and many of you actually bought them.

While waiting for some fresh themes coming early 2012 and as a thank you for your support, we’d like to offer you the opportunity the get the full current collection (or to complete yours), with an all-in-one package.

For just a little bit more than the regular price of a child theme, you can get the other themes. More, you can get them all. Valid until Christmas. ;)

Merry Christmas.

- The bundle sale has ended, thanks! -

Support as a community

Written by Thibaut in Communication

Community people

Wow, there is a lot of news from the Peaxl HQ these days! A few days ago we talked about our upcoming themes, we launched our Affliate Program and yesterday we made another move.

As you may now, we used Zendesk to manage the support requests we receive from our customers. This web app is really great… but not for us.

We think that solved support requests may help other users. We want to think the support as a community. So one of the main features of Zendesk (its private ticketing system) doesn’t meet our needs.

This is one of the reasons why we decided to drop Zendesk and to use a custom made solution, based on bbPress 2.

The deal remains the same, globally. Our customers have access to the entire forums and -obviously- can post and answer to any topic. And just like before, the full themes documentation is still free and public.

We hope you’ll enjoy our new community forums.

Concours : Peaxl offre des pass pour le WordCamp Paris

Written by Thibaut in Win

This post is about a contest to win a pass for a conference in Paris, France. We expect the participants to speak French.

Les deux gagnants du concours sont @parcevaux et @agencehorizon. Merci à tous pour votre participation !

A l’occasion de la première édition du WordCamp Paris qui aura lieu le 25 novembre 2011, nous avons le plaisir de vous donner la possibilité de gagner 2 × 1 ticket donnant accès à la journée de conférences du WordCamp.

Pour gagner un des deux pass et avoir la chance, ô combien inestimable, de voir notre ami Francis sur scène, il vous suffit de tweeter et faire retweeter grâce au bouton ci-dessous avant ce mercredi 16 novembre à minuit :

Si vous préférez le faire à la main, n’oubliez pas le hashtag #pxlwc2011 :

Gagnez votre pass pour le WordCamp Paris 2011 grâce à @peaxl #pxlwc2011 http://cl.ly/Bnq0

Les gagnants seront tirés au sort parmi les tweets valables mercredi matin. Assurez-vous de suivre le compte Twitter @peaxl afin qu’on puisse vous contacter si vous êtes un des gagnants.

Si vous avez des questions, laissez un commentaire ci-dessous. Bonne chance !

Rappel : si vous avez raté le précédent article, sachez également que Peaxl propose maintenant son système d’affiliation.

Affiliation, upcoming themes and team changes

Written by Francis in Business, Updates

You did not hear from us since a few weeks but we had good reasons: we are working hard to deliver our new themes, which we will talk about later in this article, but also because we worked on some other things we wanted to deliver as soon as possible. Affiliation is one of them.

Become a affiliate!

We did not have the affiliation offer available at launch because we were waiting for our payments and downloads provider, Digital Delivery App, to give us access their affiliation system. We gained access to it last week so we directly started working on it and we are happy to release it today!

What are the benefits of being an affiliate?

By becoming a Peaxl affiliate, you will get 35% on each theme transaction made through the Peaxl banners or links you will put on your website. For example if you have a banner in your sidebar and someone clicks on it, comes on our website and buys a theme, you will get 35% of that sale. Interesting, right? You can also promote our themes in an article and use your affiliate link to redirect it to our website. You will also get 35% on every sale generated through that link.

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More details on our offer and what’s coming next

Written by Francis in Communication

When we started thinking about launching a WordPress themes boutique, we were planning to sell “normal” premium WordPress themes,not parent and child themes. At the time, I was working on clients projects where I had to deal with customizing WordPress themes my clients had bought. On one of these projects, I ended up making so many changes that creating a new theme from scratch would have been cheaper! And the theme was not flexible AT ALL so that I had to rewrite most code. That is where the idea of working with child themes was born.

Parent and Child themes

When you buy a WordPress theme, most of the time, you spend a lot of time removing things from it. You want it to have its own identity, its own personnality. Check out showcases of the same theme customized for different competitors websites and you will see that the results are sometimes far away from the original theme. Yet, if this is the case then, why not provide themes with less design touch and let the customer apply his own right away? This is why we decided to create and offer minimalist parent themes. No need to remove things. They are like dynamic wireframes, powered by WordPress, waiting for your own design layer.

“Ok, but where do I do my mods/customizations ?” In a child theme “bien sûr” !

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