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Elegant WordPress Themes

In recent weeks, an impressive selection of themes have been made available from Elegant WordPress Themes. For the incredible price of just $19.95 per year you can gain access to all of these themes and any others which are released during that time.

All of the themes have the following functionality:

• Cross-browser compatible (Netscape/Safari/Firefox, IE6, IE7, Opera)
• WordPress 2.6 compatible
• Gravatar ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Adsense ready
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS

ArtSee

The ArtSee Theme is a beautiful theme which would be ideal for a portfolio or an image-orientated blog. Check out the jquery slider area in the sidebar.

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Gabfire Themes

Gabfire is the brainchild of Mehmet Ozekinci. In additional to several free themes, he has produced a couple of premium themes which deserve a closer look.

NewsPro

NewsPro is a hard-working news theme, which presents a lot of content with ease.

• Three colour schemes (Default, Green and Red)
• Installation guide
• Built in Flickr Support
• Featured Video Area
• Ajax tabs
• Unique newspaper style design
• Easily customizable using CSS
• Advertising Space (125×125 sponsor ads)
• Custom 404 Error page
• Gravatar support
• Dropdown navigation
• Widget support for sidebar
• Valid XHTML and Valid CSS
• Support by e-mail & chat

Demo | Purchase | Single Use License: $59 | Multiple Use License: $159 | Developer License: $259

WPShowcase

WPShowcase can be used as a portfolio, css gallery or to showcase images or videos. I like the sidebar links section which can be used to link to a list of useful resources.

• Ad ready
• Jquery effect to display bigger images
• Easily customizable using CSS
• Custom 404 Error page
• Widget support for sidebar
• Valid XHTML & Valid CSS
• Support by e-mail & chat

Demo | Purchase | Single Use License: $59 | Multiple Use License: $159 | Developer License: $259

Best of July 2008

Here are my 5 favourite site designs (in alphabetic order) featured here during July, all of which have also received a public rating of at least 4 out of 5.

GoMediaZine | Fresh News Theme

Green Your Decor | Thesis Theme

Karafe | WP Remix

ParadiMedia | Revolution Pro Media

Vagablond | Livewire 2.0

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Digital Gallery 1

Digital Gallery 1 is Shutter Themes’ latest theme, which provides an easy way to showcase your photography online.

• Automatic Image Resizing for Thumbnails
• Upload your own logo online via WP Dashboard
• Search engine optimized
• Integrated blog component
• 3 Featured Areas

Demo | Purchase | Multi-Use License: $49.95

Pass It On

Pass It On is the newest theme by WordPress Designers. It’s a magazine-style theme which displays a lot of content without allowing it to become overwhelming, and is currently in use at Outlaw Design Blog.

Features:

• Social bookmarking links
• Related posts section
• Optional Adverts at bottom of posts
• Green checkmark against visited links
• Widgetized
• Built-in comment Gravatars

Demo | Purchase | Single License: sale price $85 (normally $99) | Developer’s License: $250

WP-Vybe

WP-Vybe is the latest and most advanced theme from Solostream, which utilises some of the newest functionality from WordPress version 2.6.

10 separate colour schemes are provided with WP-Vybe, which may be selected via the admin settings page.

Features include:

• Theme settings page
• 2-column or 3-column layouts
• Optional featured article glider for home page
• Gravatar integration
• Optional banner ad integration
• Optional built-in post thumbnails
• Optional logo/header image integration via control panel
• Built-in drop-down navigation for sub-categories and sub-pages
• Built-in author page and author profile with Gravatar support
• Widgetized sidebars
• Comment and trackback separation
• Post author comments highlighted
• Basic SEO techniques integrated
• Original Photoshop files (PSDs) available for download via control panel

Demo | Purchase | Single Use License: $99.00 | Multiple Use License: $199.00 | Developer License: $299.00

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Revolution 3.0 Updates

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The above quote is especially true when thinking about Brian Gardner’s Revolution themes, which have become a mainstay of the premium theme industry. If you’ve been thinking about purchasing a Revolution theme, and haven’t already been persuaded by the gorgeous themes themselves, the thriving community forums and/or Brian’s stellar reputation, then it’s time to check out the amazing Revolution customisations that are out there.

Galleries:

All Revolution Themes | Revolution City | Revolution Theme | Revolution Magazine | Revolution News | Revolution Pro Media | Revolution Real Estate | Revolution Sports | Revolution Tech

In recent weeks Brian has been updating several of the Revolution Themes (Revolution, Magazine, News, Pro Media, Sports, Real Estate, and Tech), to version 3, adding features including widget-ready sidebars, a theme options admin page, gravatar integration in comments, and extra page templates. In addition to these backend changes, some of the themes also have had changes to their external styling and/or have been styled in additional colours.

Revolution Theme 3.0

All of the homepage content is now customisable via the themes options page, and two additional colour schemes have been provided (black and blue).

Revolution Pro Media

The theme options page is built using text area, which provides flexibility for those who wish to use custom AdSense code, and embedded video code from a variety of video hosts.

Revolution Sports

There have been some changes to the styling in order to optimise some of the CSS elements.

Revolution Real Estate

Three additional colour schemes have been released for this theme. In addition to the ability to control the homepage via the themes options page, the featured tabber section doesn’t require the use of custom images any longer.

All of these updates have been provided to existing customers free of charge. With all of these new features, if you haven’t already purchased a Revolution theme it’s a great time to do so.

Purchase | Single License: $79.95 | Multiple-Use: $199.95 | All Inclusive Developer License: $399.95

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