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By Jeffro on December 14, 2011
DevPress, a team of highly skilled WordPress developers has announced that Tung Do has become to the sole owner of the business. The quote being published all over the place by Tung Do sums up the situation the best:
After months of inconsistent collaboration, DevPress is left with one remaining co-founder, me — Tung Do. Justin Tadlock, Patrick Daly, and Ptah Dunbar are going to pursue personal projects.
No one man to lead the charge with all individuals having an equal share and no personal responsibility for anything were some of the causes listed for this major change in direction.
It’s too bad really. With the talent that DevPress possessed, (Tung Do, Ptah Dunbar, Justin Tadlock, Patrick Daly) they could have turned so many of their cool ideas into awesome parts of the business. However, all of this translates into a second chance for Tung Do as he now holds the reigns of DevPress. I remember when Small Potato (Tung Do) was one of the first to launch a WordPress theme club shortly before the sale of WPDesigner.com. According to him, the DevPress club will continue and not surprisingly, will focus on just themes for the time being. This shouldn’t bother users in the least considering the designing talent that Tung has. Out of all the WordPress designs/themes that I’ve seen in the past few years, Tung Do still has that something extra that makes his designs/themes stand above the rest.
I’m personally wishing you the best of luck Tung Do and hope you take serious advantage of this second chance.
Justin Tadlock has since published his thoughts on his personal site.
Posted in News | Tagged devpress, small potato, Themes |
By Jeffro on October 6, 2009
Small Potato recently announced on his personal blog yesterday that he was coming back to design WordPress themes. Not only that, but he stated he was going to compete with the commercial theme authors. A bold move by Small Potato but if anyone could do it, he could.
Coming back to WordPress, I wanted to design only. Now, I’m going to code too. I’m coming back to WordPress and I’m going to compete with those premium theme clubs and top theme authors. For those who reads my stuff online, I know you saw this a mile a way. Because of how my last site ended, I can’t help it. I have to come back.
I have no doubt that the community will be keeping a close eye on Small Potato to see if he picks up where he left off or if he plans on taking on these theme authors with a new approach. It’s nice to have him back designing in the community again.
Posted in News | Tagged designs, small potato, Themes, wordpress |
By Jeffro on July 19, 2009
Small Potato also known as Tung Do recently sent me an email regarding a proposition he wanted to send to the readers of this blog. After chatting with him for a bit, I decided to take him up on his offer which is as follows:
Hey Jeff. it’s sp. i’d like to offer free blog redesigns to wptavern blog readers and forum users. No, I don’t have anything to promote, just thought it’d be a cool thing to do and I have the time. This service comes with a catch, the redesigns are PSD only, no code and a generic version of the finished design has to be available for public use [to contribute to the themes community at the same time]. Steps below sums it up:
- wptavern reader comes to me about redesign
- I create the design
- ship it off to that person
- release a generic version of that design for public use
If interested, you can get in touch with Small Potato by checking out his blog here, Kwim.me
Posted in News | Tagged designs, html, psd, small potato |
By Jeffro on May 26, 2009
Tung Do also known as Small Potato has finally reappeared in the WordPress community. Chris Wallace recently published an interview with the man to talk about the decision to sell WPDesigner.com, his thoughts on what has become of the site, and what he’s been up to since selling. One thing I picked up out of the interview is that Tung Do is designing again. Whether it’s by himself or in collaboration with someone, I don’t know.
Posted in News | Tagged small potato, tung do, wpdesigner |
By Jeffro on February 25, 2009
WPDesigner.com the site Tung Do aka Small Potato used to call home finally published a blog post today only the post was about the top five webhosting sites to use. See the screenshot as I believe someone who still keeps the lights on over their has since removed the post.
Small Potato sold WPDesigner.com in 2008 for about $65,000 to a man named Pawel Ciszewski who has not done anything at all with the site since the purchase. Considering someone has removed the post, I imagine someone with administrative abilities still has access to the site and is still maintaining it.
Posted in News | Tagged small potato, tung do, wpdesigner |
DevPress, a team of highly skilled WordPress developers has announced that Tung Do has become to the sole owner of the business. The quote being published all over the place by Tung Do sums up the situation the best:
