The Pirate's Log

The Adventures of Themeisle

T ’was the year 2012 and the seas of WordPress were awash with themes. Sometimes using these themes was like walking the plank and finding easy-to-use, high-quality theme was like a treasure hunt. With that in mind, a band of four friendly pirates marooned themselves on an island with the goal of making everything easier.

After a month they had their new approach to WordPress themes: build one store with themes built for specific purposes without the feature burden that made learning WordPress a chore. They started with little money, few skills, and no knowledge but they were willing to learn.

And, for our hearty crew this marked the beginning of their adventure on the high-seas.

Continuing the adventure

The spoils of Zerif allowed Themeisle to bring more crew on board and add WordCamps to their pirate’s code. In 2016 Themeisle docked at two of the biggest WordCamps in the world: WCEU and WCUS. For the first time, the crew from Romania, France, India, and St Lucia met to volunteer at a celebration o’ WordPress. This tradition gets bigger every year with a crew wide trip to India for WordCamp Pune, 2019.​

Sharing the loot

O’er the years our WordPress work has helped fill our coffers but we’re not plunderers. Each member of the crew has a tale to share about their work in the WordPress community. We’ve added patches to the core, helped with translation, reviewed themes, and spoken at WordCamps across the seas from India to Bucharest.

As a company, we have sponsored WordCamps in Bucharest and in Pune 2019. We partnered with WordCamp Europe in 2018 and 2019 to provide media coverage. We share the spoils and donate pieces of eight to worthy internet causes and we buy the odd coffee for growing developers.

Every year, you’ll find our buccaneers organizing and volunteering at WordCamp Europe. Members of our crew have led WordPress Meetups including the very first meetup in St Lucia, the home away from home for true pirates.

We’re all in the same boat

On the good ship Themeisle you’ll find over 20 crew members from harbors all over the globe. Th’ crew pays no heed to where yer from, be you lass or laddy, your willingness to help people build something great pirate-ness is what’s important. So, whether ye be a salty sea dog or a green novice, we’d love to talk to ye.

Further adventures

From four hardy pirates who marooned themselves on an island to a global team Themeisle is ready for more WordPress adventures. All hands hoay!