WooThemes  has taken the cake again releasing a new theme with new functionality found nowhere before.  Diner, one of their latest themes allows restaurant owners to take needed functionality on their website by the reins and control creative, much needed elements in the easy to use WordPress interface.  Diner is a premium WordPress theme from WooThemes.

When you get to the home page, you’re greeted with WooThemes iconic simple design.  The look and feel is smooth, modern, almost understated.  For some, this look will be perfect, for others, it won’t work at all.  But, it’s not the look that draws you to this theme, it’s the infrastructure built in.  Here are some of the really cool features WooThemes has built right into this theme:

• Dynamic home page – you can customize the layout with all sorts of varying items of interest, including a content slider, a location map, reservations calendar (more on that in a bit), locations map (integrated Google map), specials section, from the blog section, and more.
• Menu – using this new theme, you can completely manage all your menu items right on the site.  Using Custom Post Types, WooThemes has kept it creative in the way you can put in new menu items.  You can put in all your menu items, and they’ll be listed on your site on the front-end in a table format.  You can upload a thumbnail image and set the price and on the front-end, users can rate the dish.
• Reservations – users can make reservations and come back to view or cancel their reservations in the future.  In the back-end, you can see the reservations made so you can honor them for your customers.  You can set the hours of operation, how many tables you have, how many are seated at each and interval of time between table reservations.  This is really cool.

All-in-all, this theme offers flexibility never before found in WordPress when it comes to using it as a restaurant website platform.

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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Diligently releasing monthly premium WordPress themes, WooThemes’ latest release is a simple, elegant theme that brings you back to the roots of blogging.  This theme features all of WooThemes standard features, including a comprehensive Control Panel, auto-sizing thumbnails, and custom page templates.  Also included with this theme (like all their themes) is the Woo Framework.

The best part of this theme is its price: FREE.

This particular theme features a few new features WooThemes has just released including a new sidebar manager that allows you to ditch the traditional WordPress sidebar for something more custom, Custom Shortcodes, 4 alternative styles, custom widget areas, custom footer area, and custom typography.

Features

• Cross browser compatible
• Custom Typography
• Alternative sidebar
• Custom footer area
• Custom widgets
• 4 different color styles
• Custom sidebar manager
• Custom shortcodes
• Custom navigation
• WordPress 3.0 ready
• Built in SEO options

Pricing

Single License: FREE

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While everyone was focusing on premium WordPress themes for bands, photography portfolios and online stores, Gorilla Themes was putting energy into innovating their real estate platform to make it easy for Realtors, real estate agents and their brokers to use WordPress to showcase their real estate properties.

When I first started using them for my real estate side projects, their search capability left much to be desired – not really for any other reason other than WordPress just limited what developers could do with conditional searches.  Now, Gorilla Themes allows conditional searches.  What this means is that you can search for a home that’s in between the price of $150k-$200k, in Hawaii, that’s for sale, with specified features.  This is HUGE.

Gorilla Themes latest theme, Broker, is perfect for the single agent, multiple agent firm or just someone wanting to showcase their real estate offerings.  Let’s take a looksey.

Features

• 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 Theme Purchase: $69.95
Developer Theme Purchase: $99.95

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If you’re a musician or have a band that NEEDS gigs, this is the perfect theme for you.  Coming fit with everything you need to make your band or music known, The Lounge premium WordPress theme from Aloha Themes is ready to rock.  There is a lot you can do out there with WordPress, the one of the huge reasons Aloha Themes is a perfect fit for you riffers is because of their clever integration of the ReverbNation widgets.

If you’re not familiar with ReverbNation, it’s a premium membership system that allows you to upload all your band’s music, create playlists with it and integrate it into whatever you’re wanting to use it with, albeit your blog, website, MySpace, whatever.  Aloha Themes has released a whole series of themes that have this integration built right in.  All you have to do is purchase the premium WordPress theme you like, upload it to your WordPress installation, activate it and rock out.

This particular theme is a dark, night-club version of their premium WordPress theme framework.  With an integrated blog, blog navigation, custom home page, place to keep a portfolio and a neat dynamic look, this theme is fit to be tied. . .  tied to your band, that is.  Take a look for  yourself!

Features

• Easy ReverbNation integration
• WordPress 2.9 and up
• All PSD files included
• Easy custom logo input
• Home page slideshow
• Upload custom background image
• Home page content widget controlled
• Widget-friendly footer
• Change menu background
• Social Media icon ready
• Nested menus
• Blog menu using categories
• Exclude menu items with ease
• Ad management
• Portfolio ready

Pricing

Single Theme Purchase: $77

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Historically we’ve stuck with a few elite premium WordPress theme developers.  Long time WordPress developers, WooThemes, Elegant Themes, and Templatic no longer hold the ranks of few, however.  They have been joined in recent months by a fury of other talented and up and coming WordPress theme developers that are bringing to market new and different designs.

ThemeShift is one of those new developers, and the theme we’re reviewing of theirs today is a whole new way to look at how business themes are make for WordPress.

When you get to the theme demo, you’re greeted with a bold featured content rotator that’s followed below with a grid layout of post previews.  The overall look and feel is smooth, yet bold with a dark overall tone that helps the content really pop out.  Included in the header is a slick j-query drop down navigation that really blends with the overall look and feel of the whole theme.  Also included with this theme is a unique way to handle pages, with a main page featuring excerpts from all sub pages, displaying it in the same blog-style as the home page.  I thought that was cool.

Of course, we can’t leave out ShortCodes.  This is a new feature that’s been cropping up in premium WordPress themes all across the web.  ShortCodes allow you to insert various theme elements that are build in by inserting a quick theme-specific code.  E.g.:  [ btn label="General Button" link="47" ] =

Features

• Custom menus
• 4 color schemes
• jQuery image slider
• Action bar
• Custom home page
• jQuery toggle view
• Shortcodes
• WordPress 3.0 ready
• Custom background
• Widget areas in footer
• Theme options page

Pricing

Standard Theme Price: $53.25

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I know we’ve been talking a lot about real estate premium WordPress themes lately, and we showed a unique way to display a portfolio site using WordPress, and today we’re going to look at another smooth representation of what you can do with a photo gallery website using WordPress.

Elegant Themes is known for their, well elegant design style.  They’ve been around for a while, so designing awesome premium WordPress themes isn’t new to them.  DeepFocus is an elegant way to display portfolio images and whatever else you are wanting to display.  The structure is broken down by categories, whereby you’d put your photography, design, print, etc. portfolio items in their respective categories.  Then the individual items have their own dedicated page that you can have specific details on them about that item.

The presentation is smooth, yet simple.  When you get to the portfolio category page, you are greeted with thumbnails of each item that has two options:  to look at a larger version of the image right there, or click over to the more-information page.  On the main portfolio category page, your view isn’t muddled up with sidebars, but they conveniently come back when you get to the item-information page.

Of course, there is a standard blog section where you can just blog to your heart’s content and standard page templates including a full width, no column layout.

Features

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• WordPress 3.0 compatible
• Five Color Schemes
• Gallery Section
• 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

Standard Lifetime Annual Membership: $39
Developer Lifetime Membership: $89

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The smooth, simple design is certainly the trend in modern premium WordPress theme designs.  The likes of WooThemes, ElegantThemes, Templatic, they all do it.  Organic Themes is no different, but they have their own twist on it.

The Organic Portfolio Theme is a simple and smoothly designed theme with all the little design elements well thought of and layed out.  Of course, you can’t help but take notice of all the creative graphics that help present this theme so well.  But I guess that’s a great trick to selling themes, right?  It’s all in the presentation.

This theme is perfect for displaying your work, whether your a photographer, web designer, graphic artist or all of them.  This premium WordPress theme is perfect if you want something simple, yet well laid out.

Features

Pricing

Single Theme Purchase: $69
All Themes Package: $249

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One of the cool things about WordPress is it’s adaptability to just about anything you’d need from a business website.  Blog?  Check.  Portfolio site?  Check.  Business site for your corporation?  Check.  Fully integrated WordPress ecommerce solution?  Check.

Templatic is one of the only premium WordPress theme developers that is putting consistent and successful effort into transforming the backend of a WordPress installation into a living, breathing, full blown e-commerce website.  Typical in an e-commerce website solution, the back end includes the ability to enter products individually, or upload a csv file that has everything you need to get all of your product’s info in at one time.  Templatic’s Storefront premium WordPress ecommerce theme allows you to do just that.  So, whether you’re a novice or an expert, their ecommerce wordpress theme back end structure is perfect for selling your products (tangible or digital) online.

I actually really like their design style.  They are simple, but they pay attention to the little details that are often left out in free WordPress themes.  This particular wordpress theme has multiple views, you can sort your products by category, display related products on product pages, input high-resolution product images that are displayed in a light-box style effect, you can integrate a blog and do sooo much more.  Let’s take a little peek, shall we?

Features

• One Click Auto Install
• Usability
• Different modes of Shopping Cart (shopping cart, digital shop, catalog mode)
• Manage Products
• Order Management
• Shipping Options
• Multiple Payment Gateways
• Manage Tax
• Grid view / List view
• Guest Checkout
• Bulk Upload ( csv )
• Coupon codes
• Product Images
• Other parameters setup (tax, weight, color, size, size chart, etc.)
• Affiliate Module
• Blog

Pricing

Single Site License: $65
Multiple Site License: $99

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Elegant Themes has grown over the last year or so to be one of my favorite premium WordPress theme developer.  Nick Roach, the developer, has done an outstanding job of creating smooth and clean looking themes that cleverly incorporate a high-quality back end control panel.

This real estate premium WordPress theme that he has released is no exception.  The creative detail is smooth and clearly very well thought out.  The presentation of the listings is clear and getting everything set up on the back end is a snap.  My only disappointment is that he isn’t using the newly released feature in WordPress 3.0, custom post types, to make the organization cleaner, like WooThemes.  But, with that said, this theme can be had for much less too.

Let’s take a look.

Features

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• WordPress 3.0 compatible
• Five 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

Standard Lifetime Annual Membership: $39
Developer Lifetime Membership: $89

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Without explanation of my 6 month hiatus, I’m gonna dive right in and let you dream of the exotic trips my affiliate fortune has afforded me.  Heh.

This new real estate theme from WooThemes is quite a twist from what they’ve done in the past.  Known for their simple elegance, overwhelming functionality and comprehensive control panel, WooThemes has really outdone themselves this time.  Of course, coming from a real estate background, there has been some essential things overlooked, but their clever use of the newly released WordPress 3.0 feature, custom post types, is clever to say the least.  And of course, if you’re a developer, take a look at the search functionality in the back end.  This wasn’t an easy thing for them to formulate, and it works quite well.  It goes without saying, that so far, the real estate application is one of the coolest implications of using custom post types.

WooThemes is known for their simple and smooth designs, so if you are wanting something a little more flamboyant for your real estate company, you’ll have to dive into some customizations on this.  But, as far as the functionality, this these is a gem.  It all seems to work smoothly.  So, enough chatter, here is what it looks like.

Features

• Multiple layouts
• Advanced search functionality
• Ability to handle rental and for sale properties
• Featured property content rotator on home page
• WordPress 3.0 compatible (obviously)
• Creative use of Custom Post Types
• All browser compatible
• Auto-sizing thumbnail images
• Awesome back end control panel
• Custom page templates
• And so many more cool things!

Pricing

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

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