Chassy Studios

Quarterlives

Dubtastic

WP-Premiums News: Edition 9

New Releases

Another week, another new iThemes release. The Corporate Theme series is a glossy 2.0 styled theme aimed at businesses and professionals wanting an appropriate website for their online ventures. Six colour options are provided (Blue, Green, Orange, Red, Teal, White) and the theme is priced at $29.95 (single-use) or $39.95 (multi-use).

They’ve also released a variation on their Business Card theme, which they’ve called the Brochure Theme. A multiple use license with all 7 colour schemes included only costs £29.95.

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Discussions and News

Are Premium Themes too Expensive? What do you think?

Blog oh Blog is giving away the Trueblogger theme worth $79.99.

Musikator

Kitsap Web Design

The Reader Appreciation Project

Hack WordPress

Fog Magazine

HipHop Makers

WP for Sale

WP-Premiums News: Edition 8

New Releases

Ben Cope releases his new Video Blog Dream Theme, aimed at video-podcasters or bloggers who often use videos in their blogs. Only 100 copies of this theme will be sold; the first 57 buyers will receive the theme for $57, after which the standard price rises to $197.

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PremiumThemes.net opens its doors, and is currently offering 25 premium themes, all of which come with Admin Option Pages to allow easy customisation.

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The Premium News team led by Adii, is planning to release a new premium theme series called Live Wire, and three new themes from that series will be released any moment now.

UPDATE: The Live Wire themes are now available for purchase.

Discussions and Other News

Do You Have A Question About Using Premium WordPress Themes? Simplenomics offers the opportunity to pose questions to Brian Gardner via a teleseminar held on 25 March.

Small Potato On WordPress Weekly: Small Potato, of WPDesigner.com, will be interviewed live on WordPress Weekly on 22 March.

Premium themes giving back to the community: Ben of ProThemeDesign discusses how premium themes have advanced the scope of WordPress theming

The Next WordPress Default Theme: Themeshaper is offering a total of 7 iThemes licenses as prizes for taking part in a discussion about the default WordPress theme

WordPress Dream Theme Review: Darren Hoyt reviews a rival premium theme

Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques: Noupe provides a massive resource list for anyone wishing to tweak or develop a theme

Adicon WordPress Favicon Plugin Download

Update: Eric Hamby has updated the Adicon plugin, please visit his site for more information.

Someone contacted me today to ask for help finding the Adicon Server Plugin which creates and manages those cute favicon ads that I’m using in the sidebar.

Unfortunately the developer’s site expired recently and the plugin doesn’t seem to have been submitted to any of the usual plugin database sites, which might have had their own copies of the plugin.

As a temporary measure for anyone who wants to use this plugin, I’ve linked to my personal copy here for downloading.

Please note that I can’t provide any support for the plugin. Unfortunately the developer’s website cache has disappeared from Google already so I can’t list the official instructions and there’s no readme file available, but you can install it like any other WP plugin and configure your adicons via the options page in wp-admin.

To show your adicons:

<?php AI_Interface::adIconShow(); ?>

If you’d like to allow other people to upload their favicons for your approval:

<?php AI_Interface::adIconUploadForm(); ?>

UPDATE: Page template to display adicons, kindly provided by Adrian Allen:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Adicons
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class=”maincol”>
<?php AI_Interface::adIconUploadForm(); ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Save it as adicons.php and put it in the template directory. Then when you create a new page you can choose the page template “Adicons” and it should then include the form.

Robin Malau

Restoration Gateway

Forest for the Trees

Reader Appreciation Project – Guest Post

In response to a comment that Ronald of the Reader Appreciation Project left on my recent Graphic Design post, I have written a guest post about the current site design and how it could be integrated into the Mimbo Pro theme which Ronald plans to use for the site’s redesign.

Visit the Reader Appreciation Project site to read the post.

Nosemonkey’s EUtopia

Jeffro2pt0

WP-Premiums News: Edition 7

New Releases

The long-awaited Mimbo Pro magazine theme is finally released. The theme features extensive control panel options, custom templates, and loads more.

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The WordPress Themes Market presents its newest Premium Magazine Theme, Content Press.

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iThemes has just released the Grunge Theme; a dirty/glossy theme aimed at artists, photographers and musicians.

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Other News:

• Blog Oh Blog is holding a contest to win their Money Blogger theme
• Alpha Blog Designs is planning to create a Premium Theme in the coming weeks

Discussions

• Wisdump wonders if Premium Admin Themes will be the next industry trend
• Charity Ondriezek, the creator of the Cornerstone Theme, discusses her views on the current debates on Premium Themes within the WordPress Community