What happened to Beccary?

Becca Wei owner of Beccary (and unprovoked before it) has been missing from the face of the blogging world since last June. Becca is well known to the blogging specially the wordpress world as a great designer creating some of the most well used themes and smilies. Some of her well known themes are Ocadia, Almost spring and Dusk which have also been available to Blogger users. Unfortunately, beccary.com is down at the time of writing and I cannot provide a preview link to her wonderful work.

I have been a very big fan of Becca’s designs for such a long time and her blog offers a lot of good designer information and fun reads. Becca was actually nice enough to introduce me to what image replacement was (this was last year) when I was wondering how she made her blog title into a stylized image.

Her last entry was in late June last year which was about aethism and I haven’t seen any activity from her since. Does anyone know where the great Becca Wei is? What has happened? Becca the blog world needs you!

  • http://vickiepedia.org Vickie

    I was wondering about the same thing! Now Beccary shows up as a 403. I hope it’s just real life being all wonderful and busy, and that nothing has happened to her…

  • admin

    Yes I hope so too, oh by the way I’ve visited your blog a couple of times as well and I love it :-) big fan of yours too

  • http://www.lastleaf.org mae

    she’s at facebook and looks like she’s busy there… there must be some reason why she’s not blogging right now..

  • http://www.insuredbycia.com Emil

    Hi,

    Don’t know the person, but I can tell you this much, she either lost the domain, or she got hacked. Google beccary.com you will get something like this:

    health insurance in indiana –> Health Insurance Quotes FROM WWW …BEST Health Insurance: –> health insurance in indiana – Official site of the Health Insurance Resource Center by http://WWW.Themes.Beccary.
    themes.beccary.com/ins1.php?61/397770715.html – 34k – Cached – Similar pages
    More results from themes.beccary.com

  • Cookie

    Hi, I was wondering about the same thing.

    Her server could have been hacked, a while ago it gave me a continuous virus alert when entering her site and meanwhile her page seems to be no longer listed in Google. So sad, because I really love all her stuff. I wish she’d bring it back online.

    Cookie

  • http://mmm.debiantips.com/ shamess

    It doesn’t surprise me that her server got hacked; her website was definitely infected with some sort of virus. Every time I went there Norton popped up and said I’ve been infected with a virus from her site…

    She does have awesome designs though! She’s not replied to any of my fixes to her theme (there’s a few broken pieces of HTML) though, which sucks.

  • http://booksloveme.blogspot.com Josette

    Becca’s designs are simply beautiful! I like the Dusk theme and was hoping to see more of her designs. So I googled her website and found that it was not available. Hopefully she’ll continue designing though. She’s awfully talented!

  • http://www.richardsilverstein.com/ Richard Silverstein

    I needed to get the Almost Spring comment.php file & went to her site & discovered what you all have–that she’s gone. Her themes were indeed beautiful. Sorry she’s left us.

    I did try to e mail her a few times when her site was up about various issues & she never replied–something similar to what Shamess describes. Oh well.

  • Susan

    I used her Thirteen theme a long time ago and now I would really, really like to use it on a new blog. Does anyone know where I can find it? Any clues about where to look would be so helpful. I love this theme and it’s the one I’d really like to use. For some reason I can find all the other ones she’s made with no problem, but not Thirteen.

  • Susan

    Found it! Yea! While it doesn’t bring Becca back into the blogosphere, it does mean that her themes haven’t gone obsolete. If anyone is wishing to use her theme designs — or needs just one or two critical files — they can find them here:

    http://dev.wp-themes.org/browser

    Click on the theme you want, then look in “trunk”. You’ll have to download each of the files manually (including images) and create your own folder for them when uploading them to your WordPress theme directory, but as far as I can tell her most popular themes can be found there, updated and complete.

    I’ve finally got Thirteen up & running!

  • Susan

    Found another site — I noticed some people are in need of just a template page or the css in order to repair/complete their themes by Beccary. Should be able to find most of them here:

    http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/

  • Abby

    I miss Beccary too! I check up on her blog for wordpress stuff now and then and just now noticed her site was MIA. Hope she comes back to blog again.

  • http://www.dagwolf.com Daniel

    Good luck to you, Becca Wei, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing! I love your designs, I think they stand head and shoulders above the thousands I’ve seen.
    Actually I’ve had some permanent vision loss in both eyes in the last couple of years… so your designes are the best I will have ever seen. :) I’m glad I got the chance.

  • http://bamaverse.com bama

    I Googled and dug around and found in a post published Feb 2008 that Becca is/was working at E.Webscapes with Lisa Sabin-Wilson;

    http://justagirlintheworld.com/how-i-hired-some-great-talent-in-48-hours-through-social-networking/

  • http://bamaverse.com bama

    Becca was living in Hong Kong at the time that post was written. So Lisa might know something. And I found Becca listed at Facebook, but you have to sign up and request to be connected to her to see any of her posts or profile or anything.

    http://www.facebook.com/people/Becca_Wei/513306406

  • http://xangelo.nookish.com Angelo R.

    It could also be that she just didn’t renew her domain name in time and it got unlisted. Maybe she doesn’t want to post anywhere else until her domain name comes back.

  • http://offlineblog.net dinu

    Hi, I was wondering about the same thing.

  • http://www.rhyspippard.com Pipps

    Thank you – this info has been really useful!

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  • http://flipside3.kintiko.net Adam E

    Has any progress been made in finding out what’s happened to her/her website?

  • http://www.eligio.org Eligio

    I was also looking for her theme and found out that the site is down, then i stumbled this site thinking that i might download here the theme that matt cutts is currently using

  • http://www.dullest.com/blog/switching-things-around/ Switching things around

    [...] and copied the MySQL database from mattcutts.com to dullest.com. – I changed my blog layout from Almost Spring to the excellent Thesis [...]

  • http://momscashblog.com jj-momscashblog

    This is kind of off subject in regards to “where’s Becca”. I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of Themes by a young guy named or his company/theme was named Grunge Pd Themes? I had found these themes once about 5 months ago, and thought for sure that I had bookmarked it but I’m unable to locate this guy & his themes.

    Some of the themes looked like spray paint, graffiti, ect. If you can help me out could you contact me either here, or email at jj@momscashblog.com.

    Thanks so much.

  • http://kirtiklis.com anastasia

    I’ve downloaded thirteen from the site susan mentioned about, but am getting some broken code. Any advive?? thanks ~Anastasia

  • http://alidmisli.com Alid Misli

    Yes, I’m looking for her to, I used to be one of her visitor at becarry.com. I took noted from Lisa Sabin-Wilson (Writer of WP for Dummies) said she is currently working with her at E.Webscapes, which is a blog design studio.

  • MK

    I know about e.webscapes but does she still work for them?

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    anastasia,

    I just loaded it without a problem:)

    Use this link and download 2 ; http://web.archive.org/web/20080122152139/beccary.com/goodies/wordpress-themes/

  • MK

    Hmmm… I’m guessing some of her themes are future proof then

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  • L

    beccary.com expired december 17 so she probably just didn’t want to continue with her site.

  • Beccary’s fan (Raymond)

    I think she is Taiwanese (?)

  • http://domainshane.com Shane

    Her domain expired and sold at auction for over $10K

    Http://www/DomainShane.com

  • MK

    oh so sad she had to give up on it

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  • http://www.buxup.com BuxUp.com

    Just a small correction to Shane’s comment: The domain name: Beccary.com has not been sold yet and can be withdrawn at any time within 30 days.

    The domain name was taken from her and redirected to http://www.beijiali.com and expired quite recently. I guess, the guys at http://www.beijiali.com/ did not benefit from the domain name and let it expire. Now it is on the auction for $10,005 plus $10 reg fee.

    Cheers.

  • http://wpleo.wordpress.com Leo

    Thanks for the useful links.
    She probably just has a good job, busy working out amazing designs.

  • http://hjemmeside.wikispaces.com/ Dr.Manish

    Cool of you to take the time sharing this with us, This is what makes the Internet so great

  • http://www.ibnjuferi.net menj

    I remember her, alright. She had amazing designs, although I didn’t use her themes. Hope she comes back.

  • Webdoc

    I worry and wonder about Becca too. I hope that she is alright.

    Looks like her website is back online as of march 2010

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    That domain is now selling links (by the looks of the last two posts)