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Premium WP Theme News Links

I’m currently considering setting up a sideblog as a nice way to publish all the interesting premium theme news that I come across each week, but I haven’t found a solution that suits me yet. In the meantime, here’s some recent premium theme news:

Premium WordPress Theme Responsibilities: Kyle Eslick discusses his views on what premium theme creators should provide to ensure customer satisfaction.

CelebrityPress theme sneak preview: MediaCore Studios offer a preview of their sexy forthcoming CelebrityPress premium theme.

Plans for the Future of Design Adaptations: The creator of the Cornerstone theme provides an insight into her forthcoming new themes (Cornerstone Press and Solidarity), plus Cornerstone 2.0.

Vibrant New Theme Concepts: Adii gives a sneak-peek of his new Vibrant themes. My favourite is the VibrantCMS.

iThemes Reviews: Andrew of Fun with WP has a long look at these iThemes offerings Essence, Photo Gallery plus Biz Card Theme, Corporate Theme, Deep Order Theme and the Grunge Theme.

The Purple Fever Theme by WordPress Themes Market is now free to download.

Coming Soon: Premium WordPress Theme For Churches: Patrick Daly plans a premium theme for churches. It’s an interesting idea; does anyone remember Vandelay Design’s recent post about church websites?

Chris Pearson’s Thesis Theme has been upgraded to version 0.3., which provides some useful extra features such as a dynamically generated navigation menu, the option of having a video instead of a rotating image above the sidebar. He’s also made some improvements to the styling and css, configuration setup, and SEO of the theme.

Sam Burdge is currently working on his 76 digital remix theme, which he is using on his blog at the moment and plans to release in the summer. The theme will be available in three formats, and will offer an array of innovative features, such as feed aggregation, sliding navigation and comments, and lightbox integration.

Notes from the Field

Blubs by Blog Perfume

Blog Perfume, an invaluable WordPress resource site, has just released its first premium theme, entitled Blubs.

Despite the unusual name, Blubs is an elegant theme with an aesthetic use of whitespace.

Features:

• 2 columns flexible layout
• Navigation Dropdown Menu
• Widget ready sidebar
• Ready for 125px and 250px ads integration
• Separated comments/trackbacks
• Built-in gravatars in comment section
• Print.css stylesheet
• Author Profiles & Archives
• Clean & valid codes – XHTML 1.0 Strict + CSS 2.1
• Cross browser compatible – tested on IE/Win, Opera, Firefox, Safari/Win

Demo | Purchase | Single License: $49 | Developer License: $99

Quiet Radical

Omni Theme

The Omni Theme is a recent release from Bryan Hauer.

The theme is available in four distinct colour schemes (Original aqua/brown, Black, Pink and Tan), each of which give the theme a very different feel and potential audience.

The theme’s funky design would make it a perfect fit with socially-minded bloggers, who would be able to take advantage of its integration of their flickr pics and other social networking profiles.

This double-sidebar theme provides the usual tabbed content interface, a featured video area and flickr pics thumbnail integration.

Omni Theme is WordPress 2.5 compatible and purchase includes lifetime theme updates as appropriate. Hauer provides a support forum, but also offers optional customisation for $95/hour.

Demo/Purchase | Single Use (1 colour): $79.99 | Multi Use (1 colour): $199.99 | Multi Use Developers Pack: $299.99

MooneyQuest

Bikemag

Easy WordPress

Blog Oh! Blog Premium Themes

In between releasing numerous free themes, Jai of Blog Oh! Blog has also released a few quality premium blog themes, none of which are magazine themes.

The most recent themes are in the Modblogger theme series, which is available in tech and news varieties.

Both themes offer the following functionality:

WordPress 2.5 compatibility
Inbuilt Gravatar support
Page-based dropdown menus
Stylish formatted Tags
jQuery based Accordion to display featured news/products
jQuery based Custom News/Gallery scroller
125×125 banner support
Breadcrumbs enabled
Custom Author information box beneath every post
Alphabetized posts on the categories page
Pagination of the blog posts
Recent posts, recent comments, separate Comments/Trackbacks
Two widget-ready sidebars
Fully XHTML compliant
Soothing Orange and Grey colors with an appealing layout
Complete post-sales support

Tech Demo | News Demo | Purchase | Single-Use: $89

This theme is enhanced by the use of a BBC Style News Ticker and a jQuery based scrollable News Section.

Demo | Purchase | Single-Use: $79.99 | Multiple-Use (5 Maximum): $280.00

This attractive blog layout is aimed at money-making bloggers, but would be great for bloggers writing in any genre.

Demo | Purchase | Single-Use: $49.99 | Multiple-Use (5 Maximum): $150.00

Commuter Chronicles

Urban Sake

Avery Ranch

Simple Mom

Fresh News

Fresh News is the latest theme released by the Premium News team, and was mainly designed and developed by Magnus Jepson.

The theme features:

• 6 colour schemes
• Automatic Image Resizer
• Custom Page Templates for Archives, Sitemap & Image Gallery
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Authors & Comments
• Author Profiles & Archives
• Featured news section
• Video Panel
• Traditional Blog Layout Homepage option
• 2 Featured Post Homepage options
• Optional aside/sideblog sidebar section
• Navigation Dropdown Menus
• Sidebar Tabbed Box
• Widgetized sidebars
• Integrated Banner Ad Management
• Integrated Flickr & Feedburner

Demo | Purchase | Single-Use $99.95 | Developer’s License: £249.95

Ecommerce Theme

The iThemes team has released a new theme to enable small businesses and entrepreneurs to host an online store.

The Ecommerce theme includes 6 colour schemes (Black, Blue, Green, Grey, Girly Pink, White) and is optimized for Search Engines.

Demo | Purchase | Single Use: $49 | Developer Use: $199

iThemes has also just announced the launch of a new All-Inclusive Developer’s Package, which includes all nine of their current range of themes (Essence,
Grunge, Photo Gallery, Industrial, Biz Card, Corporate, Brochure, Deep Order and Ecommerce) for $399.95.

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