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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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
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase License
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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
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase License
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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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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.
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase