DaPino

Aperture

Although originally conceived as a photo-blogging theme, Aperture by WooThemes is flexible enough to run a portfolio / blog for artists, designers, photographers or even just ordinary bloggers who regularly use images to complement their writing.

Aperture’s homepage contains a recent posts slider and an image navigation section (with a slick mouseover effect) that promotes selected categories.

Blog View

Photo Category View

Features:

• Home page slider displaying latest posts
• Home page visual category boxes with javascript hover effects
• Category archive template with images with javascript hover effects
• Blog category and sitemap template
• Home page management module
• 6 widgetized areas (4 footer and 2 sidebar areas)
• 7 custom Woo widgets
• 12 colour schemes
• Theme Options
• Automatic Image Resizer
• Threaded Comments for WP 2.7
• Gravatar Support for Comments
• Drop-down menus for your main navigation

Demo | Purchase | Single License: $70 | Developer License: $150 or Join the WooThemes Club

The Cricket Insider

WP-Clear

The WP-Clear theme by Solostream is a magazine theme with a clean style. The homepage provides a gliding autoscrolling area for featured articles which uses an image-based tab interface, positioned above 2-4 columns of recent category-related posts.

Features:

• Featured article glider for home page
• Tab section
• WordPress 2.7 optimised
• Theme Options Panel
• Threaded and Styled Comments
• Gravatar integration
• Advertisement management (300×250, 120×600, 125×125)
• Post thumbnails
• Logo image integration
• Drop-down menu for sub-categories and sub-pages
• Author page and author profile with Gravatar support
• Widgetized sidebars
• Basic SEO optimisation
• Photoshop files

Demo | Purchase | Single-Use: $79 | Multi-Use: $179 | Developer: $279

Northbound Design

Anne Jackson

Allure Theme

Allure is a pretty theme which would be ideal for a site aimed at female interests. It has a similar layout to Chrome, but its use of soft colours gives it more of a feminine appeal.

Features:

• Available in 2 colour styles: Allure and Allure Dark
• Drop-down page and category menus
• Featured video section
• WordPress 2.7 ready
• Theme Options page
• Page Templates for Blog, Archives, Full Width, Categories and Featured Videos

Demo | Purchase | Single Theme Package: $59.95 | Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $199.95

Bloggingstream

Bloggingstream is a personal blog theme with lifestream integration by WooThemes. It packs in a lot of content, with a latest article area at the top of the content area, two columns of recent articles, and two sidebar columns.

Features:

• 2 different layout options for the featured area and the header
• 7 ad spaces (468×60, 300×250, 125×125) in total
• Sidebar video player
• Lifestream integration
• 2 widgetized areas (homepage middle column, site-wide sidebar)
• 8 custom Woo widgets
• 11 colour schemes
• Theme Options
• Automatic Image Resizer
• Threaded Comments for WP 2.7
• Gravatar Support for Comments
• Drop-down menus
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Ad Management

Demo | Purchase | Single License: $70 | Developer License: $150 or Join the WooThemes Club

Massive News 2.0

The popular Massive News theme has been given a premium upgrade by Press75. Version 2.0 is a 3-column magazine theme with a fluid layout (try compressing and stretching your browser window when viewing the demo – it adapts to the available space beautifully). Check out the video demonstration for more insight on the potential of this theme.

Features:

• Featured Content Area
• WordPress 2.7 ready (threaded comments, etc.)
• Theme Options Panel
  • Add your own logo
  • Manage or hide pre-configured sidebar elements
  • Add and manage featured content items
  • Manage advertisements (125x125px)
  • Include Google Analytics tracking code
• Fluid layout
• Press75 Simple Post Thumbnails and Simple Video Embedder plugins for easy inclusion of images and videos
• Quote of the Day feature

Demo | Purchase | $75

Welcome to WPLuxe

Welcome to WPLuxe (formerly known as WP-Premiums), which will continue as the top resource on Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins.

WPLuxe has a new look to go with its sexy new name; a major improvement on the previous design. The new theme is still a work in progress, so please let me know if you encounter any problems when using the site, or have any general suggestions.

There’s no need for current feed subscribers to update their subscriptions, as you will continue to receive site updates, and urls on the old domain will redirect to the equivalent location on the new site.

If you have been linking to the site or any specific posts on the site it would be great if you could update your link(s) to the new domain name to help with the search engine link love.

I’ve got some great new features planned for the site to be revealed in coming weeks, so make sure you subscribe to our feed to avoid missing out.

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Best of March 2009

Here are my 5 favourite site designs (in alphabetic order) featured here during March.

By Marina | Influx

Dreaming Green | Arthemia Premium

Flexcode | Over Easy

Hudson Moon Productions | Thesis

Scrap for a Cure | StudioPress Office

Sour Fuzz