Postcard Premium Wordpress theme is a cool traveleque styled theme that allows your mind to drift to adventures in far off places.  Dreams of travel sprinkled with memories of past jaunts bring you back to what it’s like to be a blogger.  This theme combines smooth styling with a little rustic travel touch and the latest in theme design trends and use of Wordpress as a CMS.

Features:

• Ajax Content Scroller on home page – features an image AND text from the specified post, designed to look like the front and back of a postcard.
• Two column layout with post content on the left and sidebar content on the right.
• Custom widgets including Google maps, latest flickr stream and latest tweets.
• Google maps integration on individual posts
• Breadcrumb navigation
• Image gallery – a category based image gallery template with cool lightbox effects
• 9 alternative color styles
• Awesome and very user friendly custom navigation functionality built into the theme control panel in the back-end.

There are so many more features that I can’t even begin to list, click here to read about all this theme is capable of.

I have personally used this framework and back end control panel on several projects and love it’s ease of use and functionality.

Pricing:

Single License: $70
Developer License: $150
Single License Club: $125 upfront and $15 per month
Developer License Club: $200 upfront and $20 per month

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Theme of the MONTH

Speaking of Classified Premium Wordpress themes, I found another great looking theme that utilizes Wordpress as a CMS and creates a full blown classified ads site with a Wordpress blog installation.

ClassiPress has dedicated their development efforts to this niche and it truly shows in this clean, slick design.

The thing I like about this theme is that it doesn’t look like a dry faceless classified web site.  This theme has style.  When you get to the home page you are greeted with good organization and a focus on why you are there: to find stuff to buy.  At the top left is a big search box with a giant “post an classified” button to the right.  Below you are guided easily through a clean navigation bar with featured listings lined up below like a row of marching ants in a perfect line.

Click here to demo this theme.

Each listing row is adorned with a thumbnail image of whatever the poster uploads with a brief description of the ad.  The whole ad preview is clickable taking you to a full listing page.  The front page is awesome, but it’s when you get to the listing page that the magic happens.

The listing page in this ClassiPress Classified Premium Wordpress Theme showcases the product listed with tons of options to keep the information thorough.  With the ability to upload multiple images, a detailed description, a place for an address (which populates a google maps map), a place for google adsense, viewage stats, the ability to share on social networks AND email, plus the ability to contact the “seller” directly, this listing page is all you would ever want in a theme like this.

In fact, I love this theme so much, I’ve made it our Theme of the Month!

Features (from the developer site)

• PayPal Integration – Turn your Web site into a money maker. ClassiPress is built with PayPal integrated right into the theme. This allows you to charge a fee for anyone who wants to post a classified ad on your site. You can also turn this off if you want to offer free ads.
• Instant Image Uploading – No more having to wait for customers to email you their images before posting the ad. Your customers can attached multiple images directly to the ad submission form.
• Image Manager – Easily see what images have been uploaded and moderate as needed.
• Auto Expire Ads – Automatically prune ads older than x amount of days. Makes it easier to set an ad price based on a specific time limit.
• Subcategory Support – Our classified ads system supports nested categories for those who are looking for deeper listing capability.
• Seller Contact Form – Visitors can easily contact sellers right from your Web site. The Ajax-driven contact form is neatly built into each individual ad page.
• Integrated Login Box – Sellers can quickly login to post new ads right from your Web site header (optional feature).
• Report Bad Listings – Visitors can report spam or inappropriate ads on your site. You will be notified by email when this occurs.
• Multiple Currency Support – Choose from 18 different currencies based on your country location. Whatever currency PayPal allows we support.
• Email Notification System – Receive an email when a new ad has been created. You’ll also be notified once payment has been made.
• Widgetized Sidebar – Easily ad or remove widgets from the sidebar without having to touch any code.
• RSS Feed – Visitors can subscribe to your rss feed from any feed reader and instantly see your latest classified ads.
• Advertising Plugin – Create additional revenue on your Web site by using the optional advertising plugin.
• Five Color Schemes – Now you can choose from five different colors on how you want your site to look. Blue, green, pink, red, and classic colors. Easily change the scheme from an options page drop-down which means no messing with any code.
• Updated Options Page – With improved features comes improved admin options. You now get five option pages to give you more control.
• Breadcrumb Navigation – See exactly how deep you are on a page with detailed navigation links.
• Email and Print – You can now easily have your visitors print and/or email the classified ads by clicking a link!
• Tags – Each classified ad supports multiple native WordPress tagging for improved organization and searching.
• Ad Visitor Counter – Shows how many daily and all-time visitors on each specific classified ad.
• Feedburner Support – The new options page includes a field so you can instantly add your Feedburner URL.
• Google Analytics – No need for a plugin. Just paste in your GA code and you’ll start tracking visitor behavior within seconds.
• AdSense Support – Make some additional advertising revenue with Google AdSense. Just paste in your ad code and it appears on each classified ad.
• PayPal Sandbox Mode – You can now test your PayPal account and process dummy payments before opening your site for business.
• Embed Video – It’s now easy for your customers to include videos in their classified ads. ClassiPress supports YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, Vimeo or any site that provides “embed” code.
• VIEW MORE FEATURES HERE.

Pricing

Single Use License (with Credit Link):  $59
Single Use License (without Credit Link):  $79
Developer License:  $149

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The ability to have a classified section in a Wordpress blog has long been something I’ve longed for.  I always knew Wordpress could be used for something like this, it just took a creative theme developer to dream up how to do it.  Enter Templatic (previously premiumthemes.net).

Templatic is well know for their e-commerce premium Wordpress themes that make online shops not only beautiful but easily attainable if you know a little Wordpress.  They’ve taken Wordpress to a whole new level with this release.

Features

• User Dashboard – auto expiring posts
• TimyMCE Editor for ad submissions
• Image upload capability for ad postings with auto-resizing
• Classified inquiry form that sends inquiry to poster
• Google maps auto populates for each listing
• Email and print listings
• Supports being a free or paid listing site
• Featured listings functionality
• Three home page layouts
• Bulk upload if you are moving from another classified site
• Customized email messages
• Four detailed color schemes
• Fully customizable front page
• Excellent Support
• Theme Guide & Tutorials
• PSD File Included with developer version
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Built-in Ad Monetization
• Widget Ready with custom widgets
• Valid, Cross browser compatible

Pricing

Single License Purchase (one use): $75
Developer License (use this theme all you want): $99:
Annual all theme access to all themes: $279

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If you’ve been eye-balling a sweet new real estate premium Wordpress theme from Gorilla themes, now’s the time to jump and make that purchase.  Every single theme purchase has been discounted.

If you buy a single license, you’ll get an instant $20 off.  If you prefer the purchase the developer license, you’ll receive an instant $50 off.  Just think of all the things you can do with that money saved!

Gorilla themes is very well known for their real estate premium Wordpress themes.  Each of their real estate themes’ backends feature build in listing management functionality and tons of customizable options.

Click here to visit their site and browse the themes.

Known as the premier real estate Premium Wordpress theme developer, Gorilla themes has done it again with the release of a cool new theme that will leave you insatiably hungry for more.  One of the things that makes these themes so magical is that they truly are built specifically for real estate agents.

Wordpress is a great platform for agents to learn and use to build their own optimized web sites.  Throw in a great theme and their job is cake in trying to get their listings on the web.

Feature List (from developer web site)

• WordPress 2.9+ compatible
• Add-Edit-Delete your own fields
• Multi Category Search
• 8 Color Styles
• Breadcrumb Filtered Results
• Build your own search module in 3 steps
• Single or Multi Agent
• Native WordPres Photos Galleries
• Automatic Google Maps Integration
• Native WordPress Thumbnail Resizing
• Featured Property Slideshow
• Batch Image upload for Listings
• Individual Agent Photo Upload
• Logo Uploader
• Page templates included
• Sidebar and footer widget ready
• Banner Advertisement management
• Google Adsense ready
• Individual Agent pages with Agent bio
• Unlimited photo galleries
• Social Network Integration
• XHTML and CSS Valid
• IE6, IE7, IE8 Firefox and Safari compatible
• Extensive help and tutorial included
• Related properties for each agent
• Integrated Blog Page
• Finance Calculator

Pricing Info

Standard License: $59.95 (ON SALE – $20 OFF)
Developer License: $129.95 (ON SALE – $50 OFF)

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Let’s get right down to it.

Feature List (from the theme developer’s site)

• Theme compatible with Wordpress 2.9.x and 2.8.x
• 100% tableless css design.
• Very lightweight and fast loading theme.
• Included mobile version.
• Advanced theme options panel.
• Attractive front page flash.
• 4 level dropdown menu with ability to include also categories.
• Widget ready front page and right sidebar.
• Additional footer menu.
• Additional full width and blog page templates.
• Threaded comments.
• Integrated blog pagination.
• Easily switch from image to text logo.
• CSS and XHTML valid.
• Compatible with all major browsers.
• Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)

Pricing

Single license: $48
All Theme license pack: $160

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I love Wordpress and I never cease to be amazed at the great capability Wordpress has as a CMS.  I have quite a bit of experience working with Joomla and other CMS’s and work with clients all the time who have worked with anything from custom proprietary CMS systems to canned out of the box solutions like Drupal and they all agree that Wordpress is easier and more capable than them all.  Now, realizing that’s a pretty bold statement, you should give Wordpress a try if you aren’t using it already – it totally rocks.

Why am I telling you all about the wonders of using Wordpress as a CMS?  Because without these capabilities and the superb talent of the theme developer community, awesome themes like the one I’m about to discuss just would not be possible.

eShop from Templatic’s ever growing portfolio of stylin’ themes is their latest ecommerce solution.  This isn’t their first swing at an ecommerce theme, and it’s quite apparent in the layout, design and functionality.

When you arrive to the theme, you are presenting with a slick carousel of featured products that have the capability to manually scroll to the next or previous product. A “special offer” box is dedicated to the right of that, still in the top.

Below that, you see a grid of products.

Each of the individual product pages have a “related items” section which works great for exposing other items to your potential buyers.

The main navigation along the top is great because it has drop-down functionality.  This is something that I haven’t seen in other ecommerce themes, but in Wordpress using menus of this type is almost as common as having vaseline in your bathroom.  It goes without saying that this does mounds for keeping your products organized.

Feature List (from the theme developer’s site)

• Different modes of Shopping Cart – You may sell anything – tangible or intangible using our themes. You have an option to create your website in any mode.
  • Shopping Cart – Like the standard shopping cart that you see on other e-commerce websites. You may choose to have “add to cart” mode and let the users add all the items they want and then lead them to checkout or, you can have “buy now” mode and take them straight to checkout when they select a product.
  • Digital Shop – If you are selling digital product of any kind, this is a perfect option for you. Are you selling icons, digital art, PDF, e-books, scripts or any other kind of digital goodies? Select this option and when a user makes a purchase, they will have an account generated at your site and they can download their purchase any time. You don’t have to worry about third party digital delivery sites.
  • Catalog mode – Maybe you only want to showcase your items and don’t want to sell it online? Simply choose this mode and you will have “send inquiry” button instead of buy now / add to cart. Visitors thus, can send an inquiry on the products they like.
• Manage Products – Add / Edit / Delete products are as easy as you create a wordpress blog post. You have a custom panel where-in you can edit the product description, different parameters, upload product images etc. real easy.
• Order Management – Depending upon the settings from your admin panel, you can manage the order – approve, process or cancel / reject an order.
• Shipping Options – As an admin, you can choose Free, Flat rate; Weight or Price based shipping option for your eShop. What’s more you can even set free shipping for particular items in case you’ve set other option for your eShop.
• Multiple Payment Gateways – You have PayPal, Autorize.net, Google Checkout, WorldPay, bank transfer and Cash on Delivery as payment gateway options. Choose the gateway you prefer.
• Manage Tax – You may specify overall tax percentage that applies to all your products and, you may choose to leave individual products tax free
• Grid view / List view – Whenever you are browsing the product collection, you have an option to see the products in list view or grid view. It’s built-in by default.
• Guest Checkout – Wish to provide an option to your users to checkout without registration? No problems. Simply activate the guest checkout option from theme admin panel and your buyers will not to register. They simply provide their email address and we create the logins for them. If admin wants, they can choose to send/not send their logins to them.
• 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 profile and download purchased digital products.
• Bulk Upload ( csv ) – Using another shopping cart solution for your eShop and want to switch to our eShop themes? No worries. You can export your data from there in .csv files and import it in your wordpress installation when you use our eShop themes. (sample .csv file included with the theme)
• Coupon codes
• Admin can generate coupon codes for occasional sales promotion.
• Product Images – Built in multiple product image upload. Uploaded images are auto re-sized to fit various thumbnails required throughout the site. Also the product zoom functionality is built it.
• Other parameters – Specifying Tax, weight, color(s), size(s) are easy. Also you may specify different prices for different size/colors just in case.
• Specify product size(s), color(s), and other miscellaneous feature -You may specify Size chart if applied, When viewing a product Similar Products are automatically displayed, Several additional custom widgets are built in such as customer support, Subscribe, socialize, promo banners etc. that you can use for your eShop website.
• Affiliate Module – As an admin, you may choose to activate affiliate program where your customers/others can signup as an affiliate partner and start promoting your products. They will be able to track their affiliate data in real time, and as an admin, you will be able to export/check affiliate reports easily. A great way to boost your sales.
• Blog – Of course the themes come with blog, pages etc. functionality with some page templates so you can have a blog for your website.

Pricing

Single License Purchase (one use): $65
Developer License (use this theme all you want): $99:
Annual all theme access to all themes: $279

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The insanely affordable Elegant Themes has done it again with another theme release that has left me salivating to find a use for.  I’ve always been a huge grunge fan – having lived out some limited dreams of being in a grunge band in high school – and have always admired the unique style (and skill!) that is poored into this type of design.

As mentioned before, Elegant Themes is just ridiculously cheap and has been told on multiple occasions that he could (and should) charge much more for his theme packages.  What you get for his $20 annual pass is quite competitive and actually seriously rivaling what you would get spending 12 times that with his competitors.  Of course, there is always two ways to sell anything.  Sell at a premium price and move fewer units or sell at a low price and go for quantity. But I digress – onto the theme.

Like I was saying, the grunge of this theme is consistent and never lets up regardless of the elements.  As you move through the theme, that feeling that everything is exactly where it was meant to be is confirmed over and over again.  The repeating background is repeating at just the right spot, the header graphic gives me this urban sophisticated look while being youthful and playful all at the same time.

The graphics look as though they were all hand drawn, scanned in and implemented in a complex yet very cohesive design – and in fact, that is exactly how this theme was designed.  The out-of-the-box thinking of this developer is sure to make him stand out from the crowd.

Features List:

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• Wordpress 2.9 compatible
• Four Color Schemes
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• Firefox compatible
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design

Pricing

Unlimited theme membership for only $19.95 per year.

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The TooCreative‘ team is building our first ecommerce web site and with that, we’ve been looking at some premium Wordpress themes that are designed to be used for an online store.  There are several options out there, and this is the first in a series of posts that discusses them.

The latest design trends include large colors, smooth gradients and solid vector shapes.  Retro is in, so long as it isn’t cluttered and the images are optimized correctly (no pixelation folks!).  One of Templatic’s newest themes, “Store” illustrates clever use of current design trends in a great example on how dynamic a premium Wordpress theme can be.  Please note, Templatic was previously PremiumThemes.net.

When you arrive on the home page, you are clear as to why you are there – you are looking for a product.  The “featured” product list is rotated to the right with a quick navigation to the left.  Actually, there are two tiers of navigation: Pages navigation and Products navigation.  Having these distinguished is important so as to provide easy quick access for your potential shoppers to find your product line without having to sift through terminological interpretation (you like that?  I think I just made up a word ).

Another thing I really like is the dynamically updated shopping cart.  When you add a new product, the shopping cart is updated without the whole page reloading.

In the back end, this sweet theme supports product import using .csv, payment gateway management (PayPal, Autorize.net, Google Checkout, and WorldPay), order management, e-product built in support, integrated order management area for customers amd so much more.

Feature List (from the theme developer’s site)

• Usability – Theme developer studied best practices of building e-commerce websites, studied lots of successful online stores and brainstormed some of the key pages and functionality that may impact the sales process that your customer goes through.  They reduced the steps of the process, restructured the purchase experience, debated on the small elements such as button / text / colors / notifications etc., finally concluding their base e-commerce theme to be one of the very easiest to use and best performing purchase experience so far.
• Different modes of Shopping Cart – You may sell anything – tangible or intangible.
  • Shopping Cart – Like the standard shopping cart that you see on other e-commerce websites. You may choose to have “add to cart” mode and let the users add all the items they want and then lead them to checkout or, you can have “buy now” mode and take them straight to checkout when they select a product.
  • Digital Shop – If you are selling digital product of any kind, this is a perfect option for you. Are you selling icons, digital art, PDF, e-books, scripts or any other kind of digital goodies? Select this option and when a user makes a purchase, they will have an account generated at your site and they can download their purchase any time. You don’t have to worry about third party digital delivery sites.
  • Catalog mode – Maybe you only want to showcase your items and don’t want to sell it online? Simply choose this mode and you will have “send inquiry” button instead of buy now / add to cart. Visitors thus, can send an inquiry on the products they like.
• Manage Products – Add / Edit / Delete products are as easy as you create a wordpress blog post. You have a custom panel where-in you can edit the product description, different parameters, upload product images etc. real easy.
• Order Management – Depending upon the settings from your admin panel, you can manage the order – approve, process or cancel / reject an order.
• Shipping Options – As an admin, you can choose Free, Flat rate; Weight or Price based shipping option for your store. What’s more you can even set free shipping for particular items in case you’ve set other option for your store.
• Multiple Payment Gateways – You have PayPal, Autorize.net, Google Checkout, WorldPay, bank transfer and Cash on Delivery as payment gateway options. Choose the gateway you prefer.
• Manage Tax – You may specify overall tax percentage that applies to all your products and, you may choose to leave individual products tax free
• Grid view / List view – Whenever you are browsing the product collection, you have an option to see the products in list view or grid view. It’s built-in by default.
• 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 profile and download purchased digital products.
• Bulk Upload ( csv ) – Using another shopping cart solution for your store and want to switch to our store themes? No worries. You can export your data from there in .csv files and import it in your wordpress installation when you use our store themes. (sample .csv file included with the theme)
• Coupon codes – Admin can generate coupon codes for occasional sales promotion.
• Product Images – Built in multiple product image upload. Uploaded images are auto re-sized to fit various thumbnails required throughout the site. Also the product zoom functionality is built it.
• Other parameters – Specifying Tax, weight, color(s), size(s) are easy. Also you may specify different prices for different size/colors just in case.
• Specify product size(s), color(s), and other miscellaneous features – You may specify Size chart if applied, When viewing a product Similar Products are automatically displayed, Several additional custom widgets are built in such as customer support, Subscribe, socialize, promo banners etc. that you can use for your store website.
• Blog – Of course the themes come with blog, pages etc. functionality with some page templates so you can have a blog for your website.

Pricing

Single License Purchase (one use): $65
Developer License (use this theme all you want): $99:
Annual all theme access to all themes: $279

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Holding tightly to the niche of one of the few quality real estate theme developers, Gorilla Themes has released Broker, their latest premium Wordpress theme.  One of the defining differences between Gorilla Themes and the other real estate themes available on the market is that these themes have a built in listing input framework in the back end to work with.  Putting in real estate listings is as simple as putting in a new post with special custom fields in the post editor that allow you to put in all the details: square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, description, etc.

Another distinguishing difference between these premium Wordpress themes and others is the multi-faceted ways in which you can search through real estate listings.  There is a whole control panel page dedicated to organizing your search boxes. Of course all the code is well marked and easy to navigate if you like to get your hands dirty!

Feature List

• Multi Category Search
• Show Breadcrumb Filtered Results
• Build your own search in 3 steps
• Single or Multi Agent theme
• Native WordPress Galleries
• Automatic Google Maps Integration
• Native WordPress Thumbnail Resizing
• Featured Property Slideshow
• Batch Image upload for Listings
• Individual Agent Photo Upload
• Logo Uploader
• Page templates included
• Sidebar and footer widget ready
• Banner Advertisement management
• Google Adsense ready
• Individual Agent pages with Agent bio
• 2 Color Styles
• Unlimited photo galleries
• Social Network Integration
• XHTML and CSS Valid
• IE6, IE7, IE8 Firefox and Safari compatible
• Extensive help and tutorial included
• Related properties for each agent
• Integrated Blog Page
• Finance Calculator

Pricing

Single-use License:  $79.95
Multi-use License:  $139.95

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