So Pawel Ciszewski has finally made his presence known over at wpdesigner.com. In his own words he describes himself as an “online entrepreneur who actively pursues many differenet internet ventures and actively acquire sites that I feel are valuable resources to the Internet and will be profitable long term.” Oh shit… wpdesigner.com is done.
I don’t mean done as in it will not be visited by anyone, I’m saying it’s the end of an era (albeit a short one) on the site. The departure of Small Potato, a young, passionate wp designer and enthusiast and the insertion of an online investor means big change. Here’s what I mean.
Pawel, in his own words commented about the future of the site
Expanding the themes club will be my main objective. I myself won’t be actively posting or building themes, not by expertise and leave that to those who are.
Panic. Ruined. Done. Ok I take back what I said in the last post on this topic… Pawel shouldn’t have said anything.
The theme club was an after thought for the site after it already had a small legion of fans coming daily to see and read what Small Potato was up to and what his thoughts were on the wordpress community and themes. People joined the Theme Club because they were excited to see what Small Potato would do next, he was advancing at a rapid rate in his layout, design and theming for Wordpress skills.
I’m actually a member of the club, not because I thought the designs that are there now are great or usable for me in any way, shape or form, but because of the potential of what Small Potato might put out there every month.
Maybe I’m jumping the gun here and I’m sure I’m going to get bashed a bit (…sigh) but I’m going to make a prediction about the future of Wpdesigner.com. Here’s what I see happening in the next 12 months. (drum roll please)
- Pawel will make major mistakes with the site (monetizing with ads, not adding content, etc. ) and visitors will flee.
- A new batch of visitors will come in that join the Theme Club who never knew who Small Potato was or what wpdesigner.com used to be.
- Pawel will enjoy moderate success and struggle to make back his investment and possibly sell the site to someone else
- Small Potato will reappear after his journey and will launch something via his blog that directly competes with Pawel’s site and Small Potato will regain his standing as the go-to guy for all things Wordpress crushing “the guy that ruined my site”
There you have it. That’s my guess… only time will tell. Until then.
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Dude you’re a funny guy. Your sensational posts crack me up. I especially like the one about the interview that sp did with jeffro2pt0. Classic!
You are writing some critical posts lately, which is good.
Well, I hope the future will look some brighter for WPdesigner!
People are always quick to judge. Why don’t you wait to see what Pawel does with WPDesigner.com before you critique somebody who you probably know nothing about. Wasn’t WPDesigner built on the theme of “community”, than why are all of its ’supporters’ doubting its existence. It is quite easy to judge, because it takes no effort. I suppose giving back some positive information or useful feedback that might actually help obviously takes too much time and work. Nothing comes easily and to think that anyone can pickup WPDesigner and fill SP’s shoes within a week, who he himself worked on for over 2 years, is unrealistic and simply naive.
wow…
A little fan boy madness from Tony.
What’s wrong bro? Couldn’t think of anything positive to say about the post?
malan: your negativity only hurts the WordPress community.
phil : horseshit. one person states their opinion. it’s just an opinion. malan isn’t going out of his way to launch a crusade against pw. he’s calling it likes he sees it. more people should post their rave reviews of pw. if what you preach is “be positive”. why don’t you start it off by demonstrating the very things you and phil preach…….contributions and positivity.
tony : your premise that because malan does not know pawel is moot. couldn’t the same thing be said about your post to malan?
he’s not going on long-winded diatribes to bash pawel. he stated his opinion. he BLOGGED his thoughts. he’s actually sharing and he’s also posted that he hopes it continues to grow.
mr. pot?
meet mr. kettle
Your justified. The idiot above must just not like you for 1 reason or another.
This guy is a joke (Pavel) and in the last almost 2 months there has been no activity…what a freaking joke. SP has def lost some credibility….
I also signed up for the Themes club to support SP in his theme development work. None of the current themes are of much use to me. Now, a couple of months later, I’m trying to decide if I should just remove WPDesigner from my RSS reader. Disappointing.
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