BlogmyQuery – BMQ

Spencer, the developer here at Function, has been working on putting together a simple ticket or bug tracking WordPress theme. The theme allows for easy creation of a ticket/support system right within WordPress, for free.

Spencer worked on this entire project himself, it was a one man project, and it turned out great, so please direct all comments and praise towards him.

Theme Demo & Download

View the Demo | Download Theme Free.

To get a true feel for the theme and it’s potential make sure you check out the demo. For more details, as well as a download link please read Spencer’s Post and make sure you let him know what you think of the theme.

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About the Free Theme

It’s a lightweight solution to a common problem, perfect for individuals or small teams to keep on top of tickets, or bugs, or any other uses you can think of.

It can be built on or expanded for much more extended use, but some of it’s standard features make it real alternative to other expensive systems.

The idea is to provide a base “framework� of sorts, that creates the core functionality needed for ticket tracking, but leaves room for the user to take it in any direction they want.

Thanks to Spencer

Once again I’d like to thank Spencer who worked on this full project himself, please follow him on Twitter and let him know your thoughts on the theme.

For anybody who may have missed it, last week we announced on the WPBundle progress blog that we were joining forces with the awesome WooThemes on our latest project, the WordPress Bundle, or WPBundle.

The new partnership means an even more exciting future for the project that we’ve put so much love into.

Brief Overview

The partnership allows us to offer our customers the save level of support that people know and love over at WooThemes. The guys at WooThemes have a solid support system in place that is well known for it’s high quality and efficiency, and now anyone who buys from WPBundle will receive the same level of support at no extra cost or monthly fee.

All of our themes will now be built on the WooFramework, the exact same framework used in all of the WooThemes products.

The Framework allows some extended controls, features and functions and allows us to have a standardized framework  across all of our own themes, which is great news for future updates and additional features.

Anybody who has used a theme by WooThemes before will be instantly familiar with how our themes will work, but likewise, for new customers you’ll find it easy to pick up, with everything already well documented.

We’re still in full control of the design & development of the themes, so none of designs will change, and none of our ideas will have to change as a result, so it’s a very positive partnership that helps us move forward with the project that we’ve put so much work into already. Exciting times ahead for sure.

Full Details

We’ve put together the full details of the deal and what it means for the project, or you can also read ho WooThemes announced it on their blog.

There’s still a lot of details & announcements to come, but for now we’re happy to have such a big player on board to help us on our journey, and it’s amazing to have some of the same amazing things that people love about WooThemes available now to our own customers.

Follow the Progress

As part of the build up to the launch we’re sharing previews on the progress blog. Here’s some of what we’ve been working on:

Each new shot gives you an insight into the quality of design work that goes into each theme, but also gives you a chance to see us build the bundle and see some of the ideas behind each one.

Make sure you follow us on Twitter too for more updates.

Grab the full WordPress Themes Bundle for only $80, plus your chance to win an iPad with WPBundle. The special offer is only available until July 4th 2010 and could even win you a brand new 16GB Wi-Fi iPad.

Grab A Bargain and a Chance to Win.

Back our project & Pre-Order to enter. Not only will you be helping support our project, but you’ll be grabbing the Bundle at only $80. That works out currently at less than $10 per theme. This is a special pre-order price and is only available until July 4th 2010.

Anybody who wants to be a part of the project and buys the Bundle at this price will also be among the list of potential winners for the iPad 16GB Wi-FI. Only backers who pledge $80 for the Bundle or more are eligible.

On top of this there are multiple rewards available for anybody backing the project, read about the rewards on the KickStarter page. Learn more about WPBundle or just Enter the Competition.

The Details

The model we are giving away is the iPad 16GB Wi-Fi. Anyone who is on, or joins the list of backers will be in with a chance of winning. If the project on KickStarter gets 100% funding or more, we’ll look through the list of backers on July 4th 2010 at 7:07 EDT, and chose one lucky person at Random. This lucky winner will then receive an iPad with their WPBundle as it becomes available, or we could even arrange to have it delivered earlier.

We will record a video screencast of the selection just to make it fair, and we’ll ask if possible for the winner to send us a picture of them with the iPad when it arrives at their home.

Help Share this & Make your Pledge Count.

As we need the project to reach 100% funding before we can pick a winner we need as many pre-orders as possible to make your 80$ pledge count, we’d love it if you could help by tweeting about this offer or sharing the URL: www.wpbundle.com/ipad/ with a small few people who you think might actually be interested in the offer.

For many people, this is the first you’ve heard of this. We’ve not really spoke about WPBundle before, we’ve just had our heads down working hard on it for a few months now. WPBundle is a Bundle of WordPress Themes we’re busy building and we’ve just launched the WPBundle Progress Blog.

What is WPBundle

WPBundle or WordPress Bundle, is as it sounds, a WordPress Themes Bundle, built by Function. It will include 10 core themes, and multiple style variations. We’ll be adding style variations throughout the life of the project to offer you regularly updated designs to work with your themes, as well as core fixes and upgrades. Each theme has its own  design style and unique functionality. The idea is that the bundle will give you the chance to have a theme for any kind of site and style.

The Bundle will contain all sorts of extra treats, not to mention one massive set of icons that we’re designing especially for the set.

A Video Overview.

We’re giving you the chance to pre-order the themes, or just back us and show some support, so we’ve launched WPBundle through KickStarter. We made a video for this, which is a quick run down of what we’ve got planned.

Open Source Code

We’re going to be opening our code up to the public completely open source. The code behind our projects will be available to anybody to see, edit and tweak. We’re hoping to encourage community input and improvements as well as show our support for the WordPress community. On top of this anyone who purchases our themes will do so under GPL, giving them unlimited access to use the themes over and over again without restriction. We’re just trying to make the Bundle as easy and useful as possible.

Follow our Progress

While we build the themes, we want you to stay as involved as possible, which is why we’ve launched the Progress Blog. This is where we will keep regular updates as the Bundle is being finished off. We’ll also be updating via Twitter if you’d like to follow our progress that way.

Pre-Order & Back our Project

The WPBundle site is currently a progress blog. While we are busy working on finishing up the themes we’ll be releasing screenshots and updates for you to explore. On top of this we’re opening up the development process a little further to anybody who pre-orders the Bundle for $80.

Backing the project will give you access to receive the bundle a week before anyone else, as well as access to early theme beta’s and demos. In return we’re just looking for some useful and solid feedback and bug reports.

Blog about this

If you’re looking to share this on your blog make sure to check the screenshots gallery, download our logo pack and link back to wpbundle.com. Please try to keep logos and screenshots as they are and try not to distort or modify them.

If, like us you are a fan of soft & subtle brushes then you’re going to love this new set. The focus on this set is to give you the tools to build up realistic textures in your designs, by using multiple brushes on multiple layers.

Details of the Pack

This set is completely free, you can use them anyway without the need of giving credit. The brushes are best used on projects meant for web use. They can be used elsewhere, but the way we made them, and the size of them make them ideal for use in web design rather than print.

The brushes all fade out around the edges, just so you don’t get any messy looking edges or straight lines in your grunge work. There’s a massive variety of textures & surfaces, 42 of them in total, all at different sizes and shapes. This set is a follow up to our popular first set.

The sort of thing you can expect from this set is really soft; Chalk, Concrete, Denim, Fabric, and Paper textures. All fixed up nicely and ready to use.

The set also contains some “harsher” brushes, such as some chalk strokes and some paint roller brushes. These kind of brushes are perfect for borders or masking layers.

Example of How to Use Them

Obviously you can use these however you want, but our best advice is to build up layers of texture in a subtle way. Play around with the various brushes – and build up the realistic textures by varying colours, opacity and placement. What you should aim for is something that looks natural and organic.

Share These Brushes

If you find this set useful we’d like you to pass them on to other who you think might appreciate it. You can do this easily using the share links below the post, or share the short URL below, as well as using the full URL in the address bar.

The URL to share is: http://bit.ly/dn4K4J

Important, you must link to this article when sharing the set, you must not upload these files to your own server when sharing.

Download The Set

Download Free Brushes | .zip Format |  9.3 mb