Brought to you exclusively by Aloha Themes, they’ve done it again with a sweet Premium Wordpress vintage theme, PopLive69. Aloha Themes has made their name known with their unique design style and flare for the good ‘ol times of yesteryear. With actually a whole series of classic PopLive themes such as PopLife84, PopLife Princess (would be perfect for my daughter 
), PopLife56, and PopLife76, they ground the PopLife series to the tune of that specific era for a twist of nostalgia in your blogging nirvana. It’s fun, the themes are certainly feel-good inducing.
PopLife69 embarks on a very brown journey, reminiscent of the late 60’s when dark brown wooden panel walls were common along with brown shag carpet. The top of the main page adorns an image rotator that feeds from a featured category that when clicked on any given image, you are taken to that image’s post.
Something I found interesting in this Premium Wordpress theme was the font of the post titles and some of the heading titles in the sidebar. They are all Flash. In the desire to preserve some design element through a specialized font, Aloha Themes are using a technique called Scalable Inman Flash Replacement, or sIFR for short. What this technique does is convert plain text to a flash displayed-text using a pre-determined font. Normal CSS will dictate font, but if a font used isn’t on the users (you or someone else viewing the font) computer, then it may not display correctly. Using the sIFR method allows the designer to use the font they want. Looking at the code, we still find the post titles in plain text fashion as we should which preserves the SEO importance. All of this is handled through the WP-sIFR plugin, so if you want to make changes you don’t have to sift through any back-end code.
The navigation is broken up with the category nav being along the top and the page navigation being in the “nav-bar”. This is great so you can keep those two sections separate.
Of course, we can’t go without mentioned a HUGE perk to using an Aloha Theme is their open-sourced way of thinking. They have one purchase option on all their themes and it includes the ability to use any theme you purchase an unlimited number of times. The theme pricing is usually around the $80 or less range. You pay “user” price and get “developer” usage rights. Very cool.
So, let’s take a look at this bad boy. Click here to view live demo.
Some of the many features include:
- Unique, multi-purpose design – easy to customize
- Smart navigation – Showcases categories and pages
- Integrated the WP-sIFR plugin to make managing your sIFR fonts easier (no more editing a config file)
- Comes with PSD files for home page ads, logo and content backgrounds (home page and sub pages)
- Multimedia showcase – add a music player or a YouTube video
- Flickr Integration
- Gravatar Support
- Featured Content Gallery for your featured posts
- Widget Ready
- Feedburner Integration
- Banner ad managment / Adsense
So, what’s the bottom line?
Unlimited Usage No Restriction Price: $77
Multi-use License: Don’t need it, you can use it all you want for $77!!!
