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
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase License
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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
- 1, 2, or 3 column layout
- Changeable colors, fonts, and background image
- Auto Resizing Thumbnails
- Theme Options Page
- Clean and Professional Design
- Custom Page Templates
- Multiple Column Portfolio Layouts
- Javascript Featured Content Slider
- Widget Ready
- Photoshop Files Included
- Two Color Options
Pricing
Single Theme Purchase: $69
All Themes Package: $249
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase License
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Smooth and grungy all at the same time, the Deviant theme just released by Elegant Themes makes quick work of showcasing your blog content. For the price, you can’t afford NOT to be a club member and have access to all their sweet themes.
Feature List
- Opera compatible
- Netscape compatible
- Safari compatible
- WordPress 2.9 compatible
- Six 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.
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase
Brand new to their portfolio, WooThemes‘ latest edition to their growing theme family is Optimize, a premium WordPress theme packed with super hot new features, and entirely new WooFramework and 22 color styles to boot!
Don’t let the home page of the layout deceive you into thinking it’s just another image rotator. This featured content presenter is dynamic in that it applies the smooth appeal of PrettyPhoto that allows a super modern lightbox effect that works for images AND video. Just browsing the demo, the coolness of this is quite evident.
Just below the featured content area is the “life-streaming” bar that allows your most recent Tweet to be displayed. This is growing more popular and certainly a neat add-on feature.
Below the Twitter box is a place to showcase your site’s content through “mini-features”. Included in the navigation is a separate blog, which allows you to use this premium WordPress theme to utilize WordPress as a CMS. The demo site uses it to showcase a portfolio, but you can use it to showcase your company’s work, regardless of what you work on.
Another thing that I really like about this theme is the smooth drop down functionality of the top navigation. The look is clean and complete, unlike other premium themes that have a chopping drop down look. These drop downs have styled backgrounds and fade in and out smoothly with no flash.
Feature List
- A custom home page featured area to showcase your work or products, with optional sub-featured area to give them more insight.
- Custom home page layout with optional Twitter box, Mini-features area, Info/Quotes box and option to insert any page above/below mini-features area.
- Sexy jQuery effects and PrettyPhoto (lightbox) integrated in theme.
- An optional integrated portfolio section to show off your work/products.
- Custom Woo Widgets for use in the sidebar and in the widgetized footer: Search widget, Ad space widget, Flickr widget.
- 22 stylish alternate colour schemes to choose from plus custom color picker so you can set your own background color and link color.
- Last but not least, the brand new WooFramework2 with updated options panel
Pricing
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase License
WooThemes latest grunge-rock theme lights up the stage with a blend of sophistication and rough edges that makes Backstage the perfect theme for your band. With a featured content scroller on the home page, dynamic widget locations and the famed WooThemes backend framework, this theme is sure to help you be a rockstar.
Feature List
- A home page slider showcasing band/musician photography.
- A home page dedicated module to the band/musician biography.
- Unique page templates for your discography/music archive, and image & video galleries.
- Neat theme integration with media attachments.
- Custom Woo Widgets for use in the sidebar.
- Home page widgetized zones for a media widget showcasing images, videos or music.
- A recent news widget.
- An upcoming shows widget.
- Flickr and advertising widgets amongst others.
- 7 stylish alternate colour schemes to choose from.
Pricing
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase License
Theme of the MONTH
Over time I find it entertaining to watch theme developers grow and their skill increase. One can often look over their theme portfolio and see time go by as little attributes improve. You can see hints of framework upgrades and witness tiny little accents get a little cleaner with each theme.
For a while now, I’ve kept it no secret that Woo Themes is my favorite designer, but ElegantThemes is quickly catching up. It is pretty easy for me to know when I really like a theme because I start justifying in my shiny head how I can use it. The latest addition to their family, Lumin, is a premium WordPress theme that very well may soon be the new portfolio site for Too Creative, my “parent” company to all my blogs. I love the smoothness, the gradients, the subtle fades of elements, the dramatic accents and the clever use of shadows. I feel good when I look at it, really good. I know other people will think I’ve got a great site if I’m using it; and impressing people is important when you are showing off your stuff.
ElegantThemes has a great number of themes and they have a backend framework control panel that has become much more sophisticated over time. The Lumin premium WordPress theme comes packaged with 3 preset styles, a smooth featured content slider on the home page, a gallery display preview by just mousing over the thumbnail, built-in advertising management, and a slew of other features that are sure to make your mouth water.
Pricing: one of the best things about ElegantThemes (and what could be the start of a trend!) is the low barrier of entry when it comes to price. The number of theme developers are growing and what many of them are doing is offering subscription pricing that gives developers and users alike the opportunity to have access to all the new sweet themes they come out with with a flat monthly fee. ElegantThemes comes in at just shy of 20 bux a year; that’s right, I said $20 A YEAR. Not too shabby, indeed!
Features List:
- Opera compatible
- Netscape compatible
- Safari compatible
- WordPress 2.8 compatible
- Three 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.
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase
Looking for a stylish business slash portfolio premium WordPress theme? Look no further. Woo Themes has come to the rescue again with another release from the personal stash of one of their developers: the SophisticatedFolio Theme.
This hot new theme comes packed and ready to jam with the famous Woo Themes framework, 10 styles to choose from and 10 custom widgets to play with.
Some of the many features include:
- Tell the world about yourself or company in the intro text and upload an image to show off your work in a stylish fashion on the home page
- A seperate custom category for showing off your portfolio
- Custom Woo Widgets for use in sidebar and footer: Work With Me, Testimonial, Twitter, Subscribe, Contact, Flickr, Twitter, Search, 300×250 ad, 125×125 ad
- 10 stylish alternate colour schemes to choose from
So, what’s the bottom line?
Single-use License: $70
Multi-use License: $150
Theme Club Standard: $62.50 upfront and $15 per month
Theme Club Developer: $100 upfront and $20 per month
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