<\/span>WPMods<\/span><\/h2>\nOne of the first publications specifically about WordPress that I know that was sold was WPmods. Created by Kevin Muldoo<\/a>n it featured lots of news and roundup posts and was monetised with affiliate links. It was bought by Terran Marketing, now called tactical and was merged with an existing site WPHub.<\/p>\n![\"1\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/117.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: $80,000 | More Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>WPDaily<\/span><\/h2>\nWPDaily was a newly created WordPress news blog by the people at 8Bit, unfortunately the site didn’t fit the business model so was sold off to WPEngine<\/a> who merged it with their new publication TorqueMag where you can browse the archives there.<\/p>\n![\"2\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/216.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: Unknown | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>WPTavern<\/span><\/h2>\nWPTavern was first closed by Jeff, the founder and chief writer, then it was announced that it had been acquired by a mystery third party which was not revealed at the time. Finally Matt Mullenwegg titled a post on there called “Secrets Revealed<\/a>” where he announced that his venture capital company Audrey had acquired it. Since the acquisition Jeff is back blogging there with added staff on the payroll<\/a> of Audrey Capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"4\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/47.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: $14,000 | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Weblog Tools Collection<\/span><\/h2>\nSame deal as WPTavern, Weblog Tools Collection was also acquired by Audrey but this site seems to have been shut down for the time being.<\/p>\n
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\n- Sale Price: Unknown | More Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>WPShout<\/span><\/h2>\nWPShout is one of the better WordPress blogs, started by teenager Alex Denning, real-life got in the way of him running the blog correctly and so he sold it to web consultancy Press Up.<\/p>\n
![\"5\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/55.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: Unknown | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Products<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/span>Standard Theme<\/span><\/h2>\nStandardTheme was a fairly popular WordPress theme created by 8Bit, it was acquired earlier this year by WooThemes and who added the customers to their business and continue to provide support for them but have discontinued the theme itself.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: Unknown | More Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>WPAdCenter<\/span><\/h2>\nThis was one of my own WordPress products that I have sold, it was acquired via Flippa<\/a> by Humming Bird Web Solutions, the people behind Chimera Themes so I was confident the plugin would be in good hands and see continued development.<\/p>\n![\"7\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/75.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: $11,000 | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>WPReview Site<\/span><\/h2>\nWPReviewSite was a plugin created by Dan Grossman<\/a> and was actually one of the first premium WordPress plugins I came across when I was researching my own WP-Answers<\/a> plugin years ago. It sold on Flippa for a respectable $90,000 with monthly net profits of over $10,000.<\/p>\n![\"8\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/85.png\")
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\n- Sale Price: $90,000 | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>PandaThemes<\/span><\/h2>\nPandaThemes was a WordPress theme business which sold themes via their website and also on ThemeForest. It reached monthly revenues of up to $4,000 and sold via Flippa auction for $80,000<\/p>\n
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\n- Sale Price: $80,000 | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Squeeze Theme<\/span><\/h2>\nSqueezeTheme is an internet marketing theme created by the people at Unique Blog Designs, at the time of the sale it had generated $176,864 in revenue which mostly came in a big spike at the start of trading and tapered off. It sold on Flippa for $65k.<\/p>\n
![\"10\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/104.png\")
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\n- Sale Price: $65,000 | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Proud Themes<\/span><\/h2>\nAll the way back in 2011, one of the first examples of a theme company buying out a competitor was when WPZoom<\/a> acquired Proud Themes for “a four figure sum”. WPZoom then folded the 6 themes from Proud Themes into their existing business.<\/p>\n![\"11\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/118.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: Between $1,000 – $9,999| More Info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Theme ID & “Responsive” Theme<\/span><\/h2>\nThe free “Responsive<\/a>” theme on WordPress.org created by ThemeId is one of the most popular themes on there, clocking in with 869,000 downloads to date so it made great business sense when CyberChimps acquired it and added to their existing portfolio of themes to drive traffic and earn revenue from a newly-created pro version.<\/p>\n![\"12\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/125.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: Unknown | More Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>BlogDroid<\/span><\/h2>\nManaged WordPress hosting company Page.ly bought out it’s competitior BlogDroid in June of this year, final sale price was not disclosed in the announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"13\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/135.png\")
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\n- Sale Price: Unknown | More Details<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>NextGen Slider<\/span><\/h2>\nThe NextGen Slider was the most popular free gallery plugin on WordPress.org with over 5million downloads so it made sense when Photography Theme company Photocrati<\/a> acquired it and added it to their portfolio.<\/p>\n![\"14\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/144.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Sale Price: Unknown | More Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Automattic Acquisitions<\/span><\/h1>\nAs Automattic<\/a> have the biggest check-book and have bought many businesses over the years I thought they deserved their own section. These are just some of the products and businesses they have acquired over the years.<\/p>\n![\"15\"](\"https:\/\/wplift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/153.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Cloudup<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lean Domain Search<\/a><\/li>\n
- Poster<\/li>\n
- Simperium<\/a><\/li>\n
- CodeGarage<\/a><\/li>\n
- Plinky<\/li>\n
- After The Deadline<\/a><\/li>\n
- Blo.gs<\/a><\/li>\n
- Poll Daddy<\/a><\/li>\n
- Intense Debate<\/a><\/li>\n
- BuddyPress<\/a><\/li>\n
- Gravatar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WPDaily was a newly created WordPress news blog by the people at 8Bit, unfortunately the site didn’t fit the business model so was sold off to WPEngine<\/a> who merged it with their new publication TorqueMag where you can browse the archives there.<\/p>\n WPTavern was first closed by Jeff, the founder and chief writer, then it was announced that it had been acquired by a mystery third party which was not revealed at the time. Finally Matt Mullenwegg titled a post on there called “Secrets Revealed<\/a>” where he announced that his venture capital company Audrey had acquired it. Since the acquisition Jeff is back blogging there with added staff on the payroll<\/a> of Audrey Capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n Same deal as WPTavern, Weblog Tools Collection was also acquired by Audrey but this site seems to have been shut down for the time being.<\/p>\n WPShout is one of the better WordPress blogs, started by teenager Alex Denning, real-life got in the way of him running the blog correctly and so he sold it to web consultancy Press Up.<\/p>\n StandardTheme was a fairly popular WordPress theme created by 8Bit, it was acquired earlier this year by WooThemes and who added the customers to their business and continue to provide support for them but have discontinued the theme itself.<\/p>\n This was one of my own WordPress products that I have sold, it was acquired via Flippa<\/a> by Humming Bird Web Solutions, the people behind Chimera Themes so I was confident the plugin would be in good hands and see continued development.<\/p>\n WPReviewSite was a plugin created by Dan Grossman<\/a> and was actually one of the first premium WordPress plugins I came across when I was researching my own WP-Answers<\/a> plugin years ago. It sold on Flippa for a respectable $90,000 with monthly net profits of over $10,000.<\/p>\n PandaThemes was a WordPress theme business which sold themes via their website and also on ThemeForest. It reached monthly revenues of up to $4,000 and sold via Flippa auction for $80,000<\/p>\n SqueezeTheme is an internet marketing theme created by the people at Unique Blog Designs, at the time of the sale it had generated $176,864 in revenue which mostly came in a big spike at the start of trading and tapered off. It sold on Flippa for $65k.<\/p>\n All the way back in 2011, one of the first examples of a theme company buying out a competitor was when WPZoom<\/a> acquired Proud Themes for “a four figure sum”. WPZoom then folded the 6 themes from Proud Themes into their existing business.<\/p>\n The free “Responsive<\/a>” theme on WordPress.org created by ThemeId is one of the most popular themes on there, clocking in with 869,000 downloads to date so it made great business sense when CyberChimps acquired it and added to their existing portfolio of themes to drive traffic and earn revenue from a newly-created pro version.<\/p>\n Managed WordPress hosting company Page.ly bought out it’s competitior BlogDroid in June of this year, final sale price was not disclosed in the announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The NextGen Slider was the most popular free gallery plugin on WordPress.org with over 5million downloads so it made sense when Photography Theme company Photocrati<\/a> acquired it and added it to their portfolio.<\/p>\n As Automattic<\/a> have the biggest check-book and have bought many businesses over the years I thought they deserved their own section. These are just some of the products and businesses they have acquired over the years.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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<\/span>WPTavern<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>Weblog Tools Collection<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>WPShout<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>Standard Theme<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>WPAdCenter<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>WPReview Site<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>PandaThemes<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>Squeeze Theme<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>Proud Themes<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>Theme ID & “Responsive” Theme<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>BlogDroid<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>NextGen Slider<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>Automattic Acquisitions<\/span><\/h1>\n
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