In reply to trentlapinski.

There is no connection between Audrey, employees, and what is going on with featured themes and plugins. I don't even know what criteria has to be met for a theme to show up in the featured area. Ex Astris is a free theme created by Sarah Gooding in her free time and she decided to make it available to everyone by submitting it to the repository. Maybe it's just a good theme and that's why it's featured, I don't know.

With regards to what I write about, 95% of the time, the stories I write are about things that interest me. One of the hardest things to do as a writer is write about something you could care less about. Have I seen CyberChimps products and emails in my inbox? Yep. But nothing I've read or seen makes me stop what I'm doing and go "wow, this sounds cool". Thus, I haven't written about CyberChimps. It's that simple really.

Feel free to continue emailing us new products and solutions to customer problems. Eventually, we'll see something that catches our eye and write about it.

As for TeslaThemes, I specifically wrote about their 1 year anniversary because I interviewed them when they launched 1 year ago. They had some pretty cool looking themes that utilized post formats in a cool way. They use the theme club model and I've heard so many bad things about the model and have also seen a few companies fail because of it. So it was interesting to me to see a company be successful using the model while being able to push out 2 themes per month throughout the year. People want to read and hear about products and companies they've never heard of. The established players can get sort of boring if they're not innovating all the time.

The random theme shop, plugin company, product, or service are always on my radar. Those are almost always more interesting than what a 3-6 year old company is doing.