PremiumThemes.net

Mr R.Bhavesh, creator of the popular WPRemix theme has also been busy releasing a series of paid themes (27 to date) at PremiumThemes.net.

These widget-ready themes are designed in a traditional blog layout. Each theme includes the logo as a photoshop file for easy editing. The themes also feature an admin options page to configure the logo, page alignment and width, text size and colour, sidebar position and advertisements. The themes can be integrated with Gravatars, and the PageNavi, ShareThis, and PostRatings plugins as necessary.

R.Bhavesh is currently hosting a contest to win one of his themes, which is running until 30 June. continue to read »

Marmalade Photography Blog

Walking in Daydreams

Christa Parrish

iCompany by iThemes

The iThemes team has added to its range of small business website themes with iCompany.

Features:

• Integrated blog
• Home page template
• Wide layout for content heavy sites
• Widget ready sidebars and feature areas
• Drop-down navigation
• Search engine optimized

The introductory price offer of $29.95 for single use and $39.95 for multiple use ends on Monday 2 June, so don’t delay if you like this theme.

Demo | Purchase

Web 2.0. Magazine Theme

In addition to several free themes, Web 2.0. Themes are offering their own take on the Magazine Theme.

The theme comes with several features which you would expect of any decent premium theme, plus a couple of unexpected ones:

• Admin Options (Banner options, Feed urls, Feedburner counter and subscription form, Featured categories, Colour scheme, etc.)
• Post Thumbnails
• Tabbed Featured Post Area
• 5 Colour Schemes (Orange, Blue, Red, Green and Pink)
• Easy Video Embedding in Posts
• Ad-ready (468×60 , 4 x 125×125, 3 widget blocks, 1 banner after every post)
• Video post widget
• Tabbed Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Popular Posts and Tags widget
• Gravatar support
• Integrated Related Posts (using Contextual Related Posts Plugin)
• Integrated CSS style for NextGEN Gallery Plugin
• Integrated CSS style and function code for WP-PageNavi Plugin

Not bad, eh? My only issue with this theme is the price, which puts it into direct competition with most of the top-notch premium themes. I think a 50% price cut would be appropriate for this theme to really do well.

Demo | Purchase | $100

K5 Media

Update: These themes are no longer listed on the K5media site, but Black Splat has now been released as a free theme.

K5 Media first came to my attention last year when I came across SweetCorners, a free/sponsored theme created by them (which is no longer available).

They currently have three attractive themes for sale, each of which are widget and Adsense ready.

Black Splat

Demo | Purchase | $75

Minty Blue

Demo | Purchase | $75

White Bytes

Demo | Purchase | $75

Rock n’ Review

Funk Thirteen

JeremyEnke.com

28 Fantastic Free WP Themes

For a change I thought it might be fun to share some of my favourite free themes. There are some amazing free themes out there, a few of which could be seen as rivals to premium themes in terms of functionality and good looks. Here are my personal favourites; some are very popular but others may be less well-known.

Great Blog Designs

Dirty Girl (I love that name.)

Source | Demo | Download

Revolution Blog

Source/Demo/Download

Night Life

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WP-Premium

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Freicurv

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Chronicles

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Skittlish

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Artistic Designs

Colorise

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Speakr

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Lay of the Land

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Japanese Cherry Blossom

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Textured Designs

Club Jeans

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Natural Essence

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Charred

Source/Download | Demo

Image Conscious

Unstandard

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Aperio

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CSS Gallery

Source/Download | Demo

Mac Daddies

Retro MacOS

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iTheme

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Leopress

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Magazine Themes

Options

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Mimbo

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Checkmate

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OpenBook

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Purple Fever

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Minimalicious

Sharpfolio

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WPCandy v1

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Vostok

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What are your favourite free themes?

Lake Area Blues Society

VGen TV

SNDCHK.tv

MindTWEAKS

Premium News Themes Offer and Contest

Adii is offering a great deal on his Premium News Themes for this week only (until Sunday, 25 May): buy one Premium News Theme and choose another theme of your choice free. So if you’ve been unable to choose between Fresh News and LiveWire or Gazette Edition and Flash News, you don’t need to make that choice – get both!

Adii’s also offering the chance to win an All-Inclusive Premium News Theme Developer’s Package worth $499.95 via WPCandy, which also ends on Sunday 25 May.

Schwarzwolf Outdoor Blog

ImJustCreative™

DeepBlue by WTM

WordPress Themes Market (WTM) has released another premium WordPress theme to add to its range. DeepBlue is a bold and brashly-styled theme for sites with frequently updated content.

Features:

• Featured articles styling
• Customized author pages
• User avatars support
• Customized category and search results
• Matching bbPress forum styling
• Integration with plugins for popular posts, related posts, and post-thumbnails
• Ad ready (468×60, 300×250, 150×600)
• Widget ready
• Free updates
• Installation support
• Valid XHTML/CSS

Demo | Purchase | Single Site License: $50 | Multi-Site Licence: $199

Press Box by Creative Synthesis

The Creative Synthesis Collaborative, which specialises in research and education has released a theme which is available as a free download, and as a premium theme with extra features.

Creative Synthesis use the theme on their site, so they’re clearly eating their own dog food. Also check out leonardo bonanni’s site for an example of a site using this theme as a portfolio.

The free download doesn’t include the portfolio view or the more flexible page templates, prohibits the removal of the credit link and is released under a Creative Commons license.

The premium version of this theme provides:

• A nice range of page templates, so you could have a normal blog layout, or a full-blown portfolio site, or something in between. Page templates for archives and links are also provided.
• Four colour schemes: Simple, Constrasty, Dark, and Professional
• Support for widgets, categories (with descriptions), multi-authors, tags
• Two sidebars – one for the home page only and a “mini bar” for everywhere else
• No requirement to keep credit link
• Future updates
• 3 months of email support

Demo | Purchase | Single-Use with 3 months of support included: $45 | Single-Use with Extended Support: $45 + $10 per month | Multiblog License for up to 5 websites and 3 months of support: $125