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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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
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.
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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
Gabfire Theme’s newly released Dust theme is a clean strike at using WordPress as a CMS. This smooth premium WordPress theme features a featured content area at the top of the home page and four category “teasers” right below that take you to the most recent article in that category. Also, along the top, once you get into the site, there is breadcrumb navigation to be sure you don’t get lost.
Some of the many features include:
- Featured content area at the top of the home page
- Feedburner email integration
- Translation template
- Integrated comprehensive theme settings page to tweak layout through admin dashboard.
- 5 colors schemes
- A nice ajax slider for featured section
- Search engine optimized
So, what’s the bottom line?
Single-use License: $59
Multi-use License: $179
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Never short of impressive, Woo Themes brings another stylin’ theme to the table with the Coffee Break Premium WordPress theme. As always, packaged with smooth graphics, an impressive standard feature set, and a cool featured content slider at the top, Coffee Break is a simple AND dynamic way to showcase all your content. The main navigation hangs cool with drop down functionality and the Coffee Break Premium WordPress theme comes shipped with 7 custom widgets.
Some of the many features include:
- A home page featured slider showcasing specific pages that have been enabled in the backend theme option’s panel
- “Mini features” section available on the home page to present the website visitor with a list of services or benefits of your company/product. Again the pages listed here are specified in the backend theme option’s panel
- A completely widgetized sidebar with 7 custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required; and
- 17 sweet color schemes to choose from
- Drop down menu for main navigation
- Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
- Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
- Custom Page Templates for Archives, Full Width Page, & Sitemap
- Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
So, what’s the bottom line?
Single-use License: $70
Multi-use License: $150
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