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Pendulum, dark and glossy

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:17:12 +0000

Back to the dark side with this premium theme from rascals. Pendulum has a glossy design but not the overused web 2.0 like, the good one that adds this premium finish to it.

The theme comes in 5 other colour style so don’t be put off by the darkness, there is probably something lighter in the box for you. This is also a WordPress 3.0 theme so onwards with the menu goodness and custom post types.

Pendulum is designed with music lovers in mind but I can see it fit video games sites and photographer portfolio as well.

Features rundown:

Music manager
Portfolio manager (unlimited portfolio pages)
Homepage slider manager
Unlimited blog pages
Unlimited widgets areas
Supports image,video or swf for portfolio items
Custom style shortcodes
5 custom widgets (category, recent posts, twitter, flickr, recent comments)
Wide pages and posts
Search page with highlight
Cross browser compatible (IE6)
Many back-end options to customize the theme
XHTML Strict and CSS
Supported by all browsers
full working AJAX contact form (without page refreshing and setup in admin panel)
Live validation forms!

Expose Gallery, the best gallery theme for WordPress

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:51:04 +0000

And Kreisi strikes again. The talentuous ThemeForest author, producing the best WordPress themes out there is back with a new template. This one is clearly oriented towards gallery sites. If you have loads of items you want to showcase then this theme is for you.

The simple grid based design is effective and does cut corners. It’s sharp, full of javascript goodness and has all the features you may need for this type of sites:

WordPress Shortcodes for additional styling and multiple columns
Additional sidebar widgets to display news, advertising widgets as well as a smart widget which shows either blog or gallery categories depending on which page the user is viewing.
Utilizes postrating plugin by default, no need to download or activate it
Supports WordPress 2.9 and 3.0 with new WordPress 3.0 functions
PSD files included
Extensive Documentation Included

The theme is sold from ThemeForest and goes for $37 for single license.

London Creative + WordPress theme

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:53:42 +0000

London Creative+ is quite original and quirky WordPress theme. It is full of awesome details and features and is definitely worth the $30 price tag. The theme comes in 3 different colours and uses extensively javascript to add dropdown menus, lightboxes and sliders. The style is modern and will suit graphic agencies, arty blogs, photographers portfolio and all other creative bunch out there.

List of featrures:

Extensive Theme Options Panel
3 Color Options
Sleek Slider powered by JQuery
Infinity Dropdown Menu powered by JQuery
Fully Working Contact form with field validation
Pre-installed TimThumb PHP script for dynamic image resizing
Pre-installed PrettyPhoto JQuery plugin for viewing fullsized images via LightBox

Available from ThemeForest from $30 single use.

WooTube, Video oriented theme

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:20:15 +0000

WooTube, as the name suggest, focused on video and multimedia content. It can of course be adapted to create a photo gallery or even a portfolio.

Features includes easy video upload facility, auto re-size and embed link for your readers, WP-PostRating ready so people can rate each posts. Plus the usual from WooThemes: 7 colors scheme to choose, special admin page, widgetized sidebar.

The design itself is very clean let the content do the talking.

Harmonia, Showcase and Blog WordPress Theme

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:48:58 +0000

In an other grungy style as PaperCut, Harmonia brings hand drawn elements and patterns background to your blog. This clean yet grungy theme features a jQuery slider combined with Lighbox to showcase your best work at the top, widgetized sidebar and footer and automatic RSS display.

It comes with valid xhtml code and completed psd file to customise it. And it’s cross browser. The author will functionalities in the future that will be automatically passed on to buyers.