Iconpaper

An awesome customisation of Elegant Theme’s eGallery theme. The chrome logo, icons and tooltips really complement the site’s focus on mac design.

Republica

Republica is a clean CMS / business theme with a large slideshow, recent blog posts and a widgetized section on its homepage.

Features:

• Theme options panel
• Fully customizable front page slideshow
• Widget ready right sidebar and front page bar
• 4 level page oriented dropdown menu
• Threaded comments
• Additional full width page template
• CSS & XHTML valid
• Cross-browser compatible
• Theme compatible with WordPress 2.8
• Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)

Demo | Purchase | $46

The Big Easy

The Big Easy is a portfolio blog theme with impressive typography, eye-catching colour combinations and a range of interesting background graphics (including a leather case from the 70′s and a book cover from 1934).

My favourite feature of this theme is the image preview on the portfolio posts, which is a nice way to show multiple images which belong to a specific project.

Features:

• A unique widgetized home page with 3 custom widgets displaying portfolio items, blog posts and category archives
• An automated custom portfolio post display with a js tabber displaying screenshots
• Widgetized sidebar with 6 custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required
• 6 colour schemes
• Theme Options
• Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
• Integrated ad spaces, which can accomodate both image banner ads or AdSense embeds

Demo | Purchase | Standard Download: $70 | Developer: $150 or Join the WooThemes Club

Rich ShowCase

The Rich ShowCase theme by RichWP is an ultra-clean photoblog theme which organises images in hierarchical galleries and albums. The theme allows you to choose between having a featured photo slideshow, a photo album overviews, a list of photos or the standard blog view on the homepage.

The navigation options are understated yet powerful. A dropdown menu appears when you hover over the top navigation link.

On individual post pages, a small group of icons above the current image facilitate browsing of related gallery images, a link to the gallery album view and an image download link.

Post view

Lightbox view

Gallery

Features:

• Gallery & Blog Theme
• Easy banner integration for 234×60px, 250×250px, 125×125px banner
• Two colour schemes – Bright and Dark
• Widget Ready
• Automatic image size generation
• Threaded comments support
• Gravatar support for comments
• Sitemap page template
• Front Page Templates: Slideshow, Blog, Gallery
• Compatible up to latest version of WordPress (v2.8.2)
• Works in all the latest major browsers

Demo | Purchase | $69.90 or $249 for all RichWP Themes

MagFolio

MagFolio is an elegant portfolio / gallery / blog theme which would be ideal for a web designer’s portfolio or a css gallery. The homepage displays a hybrid gallery view alongside excerpts of recent blog entries. Throughout the theme, gallery images are elegantly-styled with an integrated lightbox. Twitter, flickr and advertisement support are also integrated into the theme.

Features:

• Fully customizable front page
• Light and dark colour styles
• Custom Control Panel
• PSD File Included
• Localization Support
• Drop Down Menu
• Breadcrumb Navigation
• Gravatar Support
• Threaded Comments
• Ad ready
• Search Engine Optimized
• Widget Ready with custom widgets
• Valid, Cross browser Compatible

Demo | Purchase | Single Use: $59 | Multiple Use: $159

deLuxe

deLuxe is a gorgeous blog theme with an elegant background design. The homepage accommodates a trio of images which could be used to promote services or special deals, etc. The sumptuous design leads itself to lifestyle-related businesses.

Features:

• Customizable homepage subheader
• Superfish multi-level dropdown menu
• Nice image effect (rounded corners, shadow) with image overlay
• Subpage teasers (optional)
• Threaded comments
• Javascript comment form validation
• Page templates: full width (no sidebar), archives page, bookmarks page
• Widget areas: sidebar (general), sidebar home, sidebar category, sidebar post, sidebar page
• Predefined CSS styles
• CSS styles for WP-PageNavi plugin – activate and you’re done
• Theme options page
• Post / page settings
• PSD files

Demo | Purchase | €39

Homeowner

Homeowner is another real estate theme from Gorilla Themes. It’s a clean theme intended for easy customization, or for use with one of the six included styles. The theme is ideal for freelance agents or agencies alike; agencies can enable individual agents to manage their own listings.

Features:

• U.S. and European Markets compatible
• Google Maps Integration
• No Custom Fields needed
• Ideal for Single or Multiple Agents
• Individual Agents page with listings and bio
• Unlimited dropdowns for category search
• Contact agent from property page
• Logo Uploader
• Easy Listings Management (Custom Script)
• Widget Ready
• Custom Plugins
• Photo Gallery (up to 12 images)
• Agent Photo Uploader
• IE6, IE7, Firefox and Safari compatible
• XHTML and CSS valid
• Advertisement Banner Management
• Add your Adsense or Image Link Code
• Turn all-or-individual banners on/off
• Image Auto Resizer (for thumbnails)
• Gravatar Support
• Financing Calculator
• Threaded comments

Demo | Purchase | Single License: $69.95 | Developer: $169.95

Headway Theme

Headway is an amazing new theme framework which enables non-coders and coders alike to customise their WordPress sites with ease. Headway is currently in use on Legal Practice Pro, SuccessCREEations and John Haydon’s blog, as well as the Headway Theme site, demonstrating how it can be used to display content in a range of layouts and styles.

Headway provides a trio of control panels for layout, design and general configuration. In addition to the usual theme options provided by many premium WordPress themes, Headway handles hundreds of theme options in an intuitive and innovative interface. Whether you’d like to choose your preferred fonts or select a favicon to match your site’s branding, Headway has an option to suit your needs.

For me, one of the most impressive aspects of Headway is the Layout Editor, in which page elements called ‘leaves’ may be added, resized, and dragged into position via an innovative javascript interface.

The content leaf can display blog posts in the traditional way, but it can also be used to create custom loops outside of the blog page. Blog categories shown in this element can be limited as desired, and even page content can be displayed within it.

Widgetized sidebar leaves may be created and positioned on the fly. A sidebar can flow horizontally to create a widgetized footer. A sidebar could even be configured to appear on just one page.

Whether you’d like a simple 2-column blog layout or a complex magazine structure, Headway can accommodate your vision.

Features:

• Headway Layout Editor
  • JavaScript drag and drop of content elements
  • Easy resizing
• Headway Design panel
  • Colorpicker
  • Preset color schemes
  • Customizable header (fixed or fluid, navigation, breadcrumbs, logo/banner)
  • Font selection
  • Post meta customization
• Headway Configuration Panel
  • Add tracking scripts to header/footer
  • Site Compression
  • Add affiliate link in footer
  • Navigation Ordering and Renaming
• Search Engine Optimization
  • Meta tags
  • Enable canonical URLs
  • In-Post / Page Options (edit title, description, keywords, noindex, nofollow)
• Twitter Integration (automatically send details of new posts to Twitter)

Demo/Purchase | Personal: $87 | Developer: $164