Lumin

Lumin is a gorgeous CMS / portfolio theme which uses a page-based layout, while still maintaining separate post-driven Blog and Gallery sections.

The homepage provides a large featured area with tab-based navigation, space for an introduction/mission statement, a recent/random/popular blog post tabber, 2 sections populated by page content and a gallery footer with recent project images.

Features:

• Three Color Schemes
• Featured articles display
• Drop down category/page menu
• Automated thumbnail resizing
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Layout
• Gravatar ready
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Option Pages
• Wordpress 2.8 compatible
• PSD files
• Cross-browser compatible
• Valid XHTML + CSS

Demo | Purchase | $19.95 for access to all 20+ Elegant Themes

Deviant

Deviant is a playful, grungy blog theme with bold titles, six colour schemes and a left-aligned notepage layout.

Features:

• Six Color Schemes
• Drop down category/page menu
• Automated thumbnail resizing
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Layout
• Gravatar ready
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Option Pages
• Wordpress 2.9 compatible
• PSD files
• Cross-browser compatible
• Valid XHTML + CSS

Demo | Purchase | $19.95 for access to all 20+ Elegant Themes

Optimize

Inspired by the success of Coffee Break, Optimize is another gorgeous business / portfolio theme from WooThemes. The customizable and focused homepage gives you ample place to showcase your services or products via the large featured area (with call to action buttons), optional sub-feature section (with image previews) and the service information area.

Features:

• Custom home page:
  • Featured area to showcase your work or products
  • Optional sub-featured area
  • Twitter box
  • Mini-features area
  • Info/Quotes box
  • Optionally insert any page above/below mini-features area
• Sexy jQuery effects and PrettyPhoto (lightbox) integrated in theme
• Optional integrated portfolio section
• Based on WooFramework 2 with updated options panel
• Custom woo widgets: Search, Ad space, Flickr
• 22 colour schemes plus custom color picker for background and link colors
• Theme Options panel
• Widgetized sidebar and footer
• Threaded Comments with Gravatars
• Custom Page Templates for Full Width, Archives & Sitemap
• Cross-browser compatible
• Localized for translations

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

Venture

Venture is a professional CMS theme for businesses. A large tabbed area on the homepage provides an ideal space to showcase your products or services. The homepage also includes sections for a breakdown of services, recent work and previous customer information.

Features:

• Theme Options Page
• PSD files included
• Integrated Total Social Widget
• Custom Twitter Widget
• Multi-Level Dropdown Page Menu
• Threaded comments with Gravatars
• Widget ready sidebar
• Cross-Browser Compatible

Demo | Purchase | $70 | All Themes Pack: $249.99

Video Elements v2.0

Press75’s popular Video Elements theme has been redesigned and rebuilt to help you to easily run a video-centric website. Video Elements enables you to easily publish any embeddable video format and high quality post thumbnails, and seamlessly supports non-video posts too.

Features:

• Featured Content Carousel
• Theme Options
• Breadcrumbs
• Custom Widgets: Sidebar Ads, Featured Content Widget
• Widgetized Sidebar
• Threaded Comments with Gravatars
• Advertising Support (468×60, 125×125)
• Requires WordPress 2.8+, MySQL 5+ and PHP 5+ with GD Support

Demo | Purchase | $75

Affiliate Theme

The Affiliate Theme from RichWP is the ideal solution for making money through an affiliate blog. It would also be a great option for a real estate site. This theme allows you to easily display product prices and affiliate links on the homepage as well as individual product pages.

The comprehensive theme options makes it easy to configure the theme without needing to know its underlying code. As well as changing general settings such as your logo and subscription links, you may also dramatically alter the appearance of your site such as font style and sizes, sidebar location, navigation menu colours, etc. The PRO version of the theme provides additional control over design elements such as margins, padding, theme structure and more.

Features:

• Extensive Theme Options Page
• 3 Post Layouts: grid view, half page list, normal post list
• Photo /Flash / Video-Gallery Functionality
• Page Templates: Full-width, Archive, Subpage Overview, Photo Gallery
• High quality auto-resizing of images
• Advertising Management (Header, Posts, Pages)
• Widget ready
• Threaded comments support
• Gravatar support for comments
• Compatible up to the latest version – WP 2.9
• Works in all the latest major browsers: Firefox; IE6, IE7, IE8; Chrome; Safari, Opera

Demo | Purchase | Standard Version: $69.90 | Pro Version: $127

ClearType

ClearType is a clean news / magazine theme. The theme provides an elegant featured post slider on the homepage positioned above previews of your most recent posts.

Features:

• Advanced Theme Control Panel
• Auto-sized Thumbnail Management
• Fully Widgeted Sidebars
• Advertisement Management
• Analytics/Stat Management
• Built-in FeedBurner Support
• Threaded Comments
• Gravatar Ready
• Custom Page Templates
• Dropdown Menu Navigation
• WordPress 2.9+ Compatible
• Cross-Browser Compatibility

Demo | Purchase | $19.95

Store

Store is an amazing e-commerce theme from Templatic (formerly known as PremiumThemes.net); an all-in-one solution for selling physical or digital products.

Store is the result of research into the current range of e-commerce solutions, such as open-source shopping carts; plugins; or hosted services – it aims to be the easiest to use and best performing e-commerce solution.

Product Management: The custom panel allows you to edit the product description, different parameters, upload product images, etc.

Order Management: Approve, process or cancel an orders.

Shipping Options: You can choose to offer Free, Flat rate, or Weight/Price based shipping options for your store. You can even override the store-wide shipping setting for particular items.

Multiple Payment Gateways: You have PayPal, Autorize.net, 2CO, Google Checkout, WorldPay, bank transfer and Cash on Delivery as payment gateway options.

Manage Tax: You may specify the overall tax percentage that applies to all your products and you may choose to leave individual products tax free.

Grid view / List view: When browsing the product collections, you may switch from grid to list view without a page refresh.

User registration: Users may register on your site or, they will be taken to registration page on the checkout procedure. They will have their own user area where they can keep track of their order, manage their profile and download purchased digital products.

Bulk Upload (csv): Import your product information into this theme from another store program.

Coupon codes: Generate coupon codes for sales promotions.

Product Images: Built in multiple product image upload. Uploaded images are automatically re-sized to fit various thumbnails required throughout the site. Product zoom functionality is built-in.

Other parameters: Easily specify weight, color(s), size(s) for your product. You may also specify different prices for different size/colors. Add a size chart if appropriate.

Custom widgets: Customer Support, Subscribe, Socialize, Promo banners, etc.

Other Features:

• Four detailed color schemes
• Fully customizable front page
• Custom Control Panel
• Localization Support
• Auto-resizing product images
• PSD File Included with developer version
• Drop Down & Breadcrumb Navigation
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Built-in Ad Monetization
• Search Engine Optimized
• Widget Ready with custom widgets
• Valid, Cross browser compatible

Demo / Purchase | Single Use: $65 | Multiple Use: $99

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Briefcase

Briefcase is a flexible CMS theme ideal for a small business site or for a portfolio showcase. A powerful full-width slider displays content from a category (e.g. product or service information) with an image or video and a call to action button. Special deals, testimonials and a blog extract may also be shown on the homepage.

Features:

• Homepage Slider
• Portfolio / Services Showcase in Footer
• Tabbed Widget
• Related Post Slider Widget
• Page Templates:
  • Full Width Page
  • Portfolio/Services List Page
  • Portfolio/Services Sub Page
  • Archives Page
• Two Footer Formats
• Widgetised Home Page
• Ajax Comments
• Comment Subscription
• Full-width Page Template
• Lightbox Images
• Threaded Comments with Gravatars
• Timthumb Image Resizing

Demo | Purchase | Single User: $50 (or 2 themes for $70) | Developer: $100

Backstage

The Backstage theme is tailored toward bands / musicians with slick multimedia integration of images, videos and music files.

The homepage provides a large slider for performance photos and an about / biog section. Specialised page templates are included for discography/music archives, and image & video galleries.

Features:

• Custom Woo Widgets including:
  • Media widget showcasing images videos or music
  • Recent news widget
  • Upcoming shows widget
  • Flickr
  • Advertising widgets
• 7 colour schemes
• Theme Options panel
• Threaded Comments with Gravatars
• Custom Page Templates for Full Width, Archives & Sitemap
• Cross-browser compatible
• Localized for translations

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

The Local

The Local is a regional news portal site theme with custom widgets for current weather, Maps, YouTube, Twitter and Adsense. This theme is an add-on for the Elemental theme framework.

Features:

• Custom widgets for popular posts, social networking, Google Maps, You Tube, local Twitter activity, related posts and more
• Easy Google Adsense implementation. Custom Adsense widgets for all 4 homepage columns and upper right masthead
• Animated multi-level dropdown menus
• Custom masthead image and logo controls
• 12 custom page templates for contact forms, sitemaps, image galleries, blogrolls and much more
• Custom control panel options to control column size, typography, navigation and more
• Image thumbnail resizing and get_post functions. No custom fields required.
• Support for gravatars, author comment highlighting, threaded comments and paged comments
• Full localization and translation support
• Four widgetized regions for flexibility
• A ‘lead story’ widget with variable excerpt length
• Additional customizable content areas via action hooks
• Custom admin bar for dashboard shortcuts
• Breadcrumb options

Demo / Purchase | Single License: $79 | Multi-License: $169

SophisticatedFolio

SophisticatedFolio is an ideal portfolio theme for web or graphic designers. As well as integrating your portfolio and blog posts on its front page, there are also several custom widgets to encourage business such as testimonials and a Work With Me widget with useful links.

Features:

• 10 custom woo widgets
• 10 colour schemes
• Theme Options panel
• Threaded Comments with Gravatars
• Custom Page Templates for Full Width, Archives & Sitemap
• Cross-browser compatible
• Localized for translations

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

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