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New Playtime Video WordPress Theme by Zidalgo

By Premium Themes | Filed Under Video Themes

Not more than a month ago we commented on the disappearance of Zidalgo, a popular premium themes company which found a lot of success early on.  Well, it has been at least six months since their last release, but if you are a video blogger, it appears it was worth the wait!   The new Playtime theme is a premium video theme which provides one of the best selection of features on the market today.

Here are the features included with the Playtime video theme:

  • Rotating Featured Article Header Section (can also be disabled)
  • Fully supports WP 2.x, including threaded comments
  • Custom widgets such as Flickr gallery display, top rated posts, latest tweets, recent acts, jump menu, more featured videos, sideblog, and live-search
  • User ratings system
  • Easily embed videos from YouTube (including playlists), Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Flickr videos, Spike, and MySpaceTV. As well as these file types: Flash Video Files (FLV), QuickTime (MOV, etc.), Generic video files (AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc.)
  • Easy language translation
  • Smart jQuery integration for dynamic and impressive user interface features
  • Multiple theme layout options – choose between 1 or 2 column display.
  • Custom designed 404 page
  • Tons of awesome extras!

Playtime Video WordPress Theme

playtime-theme

You can view the live demo of the Playtime theme here.

Single-Use ($75.00) | Developer’s Pack ($249.00)

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New Elemental WordPress Theme Framework

By Premium Themes | Filed Under Theme Frameworks

Although premium WordPress themes have really taken off over the past couple years, they certainly aren’t for everyone.   Based upon your personal needs, you may have need for a custom WordPress theme.   For these people I always recommend they look into one of the various theme frameworks available, which offer a great foundation to start building your own custom WordPress theme.

One of the newest frameworks, which also happens to be one of my favorites, is the new Elemental framework.   This new theme framework has a small fee associated with it, but you start out with all of the functional pieces of your website already finished.  This means you can instead focus on customizing the design to suit you or your clients needs.

Here are the features listed for the incredible Elemental theme framework:

  • Stacks of Filters and Actions to increase child theme customization potential
  • 12 custom page templates which let you create contact forms, sitemaps, image galleries, blogrolls and much more with ease
  • Complete breadcrumbs support, site wide
  • Auto-resizing thumbnails, and the ability to automatically grab thumbnail images from the post content (custom fields not required!)
  • A built in contact form with user definable email address, messages, and CAPTCHA to reduce spam
  • Support for the WP125 advertising plugin for full control of the adverts on running on the blog
  • Elegant, animated, multi-level drop-down menus for pages and categories
  • Code to prevent content redundancy across the site – no 2 posts will appear simultaneously
  • Print-friendly options on single-post pages
  • Four widgetized regions with optional advertising
  • Support for Gravatars, author comment highlighting, threaded comments and paged comments
  • Print.css stylesheet

Elemental WordPress Theme Framework

elemental-framework

You can view the live demo of the Elemental Theme Framework here.

Single-Use ($59.99) | Developer’s Pack ($149.99)

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Mod Themes Announces Lexicon Personal Blog Theme

By Premium Themes | Filed Under Personal Themes

With the very limited availability of premium quality blog themes, it is nice to see a gorgeous high quality personal blog theme released by upstart Mod Themes, giving simple bloggers an opportunity to also have a professional looking blog design at an affordable price.

Here are the features included with the new Lexicon theme:

  • Backend Options page
  • Easy to follow code
  • xhtml/css compliant
  • PSD files included
  • Integrated Total Social Widget
  • Integrated ad space sections
  • Threaded comments with Gravatars
  • Widget ready themes
  • HD Video Theme Tutorials
  • Support Forums
  • Authorized Designers that do affordable Professional Theme Customization

Lexicon Personal Blog Theme

lexicon-theme

You can view the live demo of the Lexicon theme here.

Multiple-Use ($59.99)

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Anti-Social Personal WordPress Theme from Woo Themes

By Premium Themes | Filed Under Personal Themes

After a few years of reviewing premium WordPress themes, it isn’t often that something really unique jumps out at me.  The new AntiSocial theme from Woo Themes is definitely one of these situations.

It looks like Woo Themes teamed up with Timothy Van Damme to create a personal theme, which would also make for a great digital business card of sorts.  Here are the features listed with the AntiSocial theme:

  • vCard and hCard facilities for accessible contact details
  • 3 completely widgetized zones with 5 custom widgets including a neat re-usable social profiles widget and dedicated zone
  • A neat AJAX calendar widget that is beautifully styled
  • A unique comment form with a JQuery plugin that grabs your Gravatar without a page refresh
  • Antisocial has been localized and includes a .po file for easy translations to be made of the theme
  • 10 amazing color schemes to choose from
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, color scheme etc. for the theme
  • Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
  • Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
  • Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments

AntiSocial Personal Theme

antisocial-theme

You can view the live demo of the AntiSocial theme here.

Multiple-Use ($70.00) | Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

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New Chic Theme by Theme Wars

By Premium Themes | Filed Under Personal Themes, Portfolio Themes

Regardless of what people think of their business model, Unique Blog Designs continues their impressive release schedule, offering a number of incredibly well designed premium WordPress themes for affordable prices.   Their latest release over at their theme portal, Theme Wars, is a new CMS theme called Chic.

Here are the features listed with the Chic theme:

  • 4 Amazing Colors – Chic Theme comes in 4 amazing color combinations – silver, black, blue, and wood!
  • Built-in My Social Networks widget – Display links (and logos) to your social networking profiles, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Technorati, Digg and Delicious.
  • Built-in Blog Navigator widget – Display a slick DOM-tab style navigation to highlight your popular posts, comment, featured posts and archives.
  • Advertising Management – Manage your ad codes directly within the Control Panel. You can display 125×125 block ads and 468×60 ads – all without third party plugins.
  • Powerful Theme Control Panel: Translation: No coding required. Configure your theme with incredible ease.
  • Upload your logo with 1-Click: Forget the days of uploading your logo via FTP. Now, upload your logo with just one-click.
  • Featured content sliding gallery (optional): Display your featured posts via an elegant featured content slider.
  • Feedburner integration: Track your RSS subscribers and allow your visitors to subscribe via email to your blog.
  • Built-in Twitter widget: Display your recent Tweets and encourage your visitors to follow you.
  • Built-in Flickr widget: Display your recent Flickr photos with just a few clicks.
  • Basic SEO controls: Basic SEO controls allow you to fine tune the search engine optimization of your site.
  • Automatic image resizing: Avoid resizing/cropping your featured post images. Just upload and blog.
  • No custom fields – built-in post extras: Custom fields are a pain so we kicked them to the curb. Set your image thumbnail and featured image all within the post-edit window.
  • Advertising management: Manage your ad codes directly within the Control Panel.
  • Available no-sidebar page template: Useful for a forum and many other types of pages.
  • WordPress 2.8 REQUIRED: Say hello to threaded comments, sticky posts, and all the other benefits of WP 2.8.

Chic Theme

chic-theme

You can view the live demo of the Chic theme here.

Multiple-Use ($69.00) | Developer’s Pack ($149.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

The Big Easy: Portfolio Theme by Woo Themes

By Premium Themes | Filed Under Portfolio Themes

The Woo Themes team continues their impressive release schedule with their announcement of their 40th premium theme, the Big Easy theme.   This premium WordPress theme is a hybrid theme designed to display a portfolio, as well as offer many of the popular blog features that WordPress is known for.

Here is a complete feature list for the Big Easy Portfolio theme:

  • A unique widgetized home page with 3 custom widgets displaying portfolio items, blog posts and category archives, ordered however you see fit
  • An automated custom portfolio post display with a js tabber displaying screenshots
  • A completely widgetized sidebar with 6 custom widgets included in the theme packaging (No third party widgets required)
  • 6 amazing color schemes to choose from
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, color scheme etc. for the theme
  • Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
  • Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
  • Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
  • Integrated ad spaces, which can accommodate both image banner ads or AdSense embeds

The Big Easy Portfolio Theme

big-easy-theme

You can view the live demo of the Big Easy theme here.

Multiple-Use ($70.00) | Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

Note: Woo Themes is currently offering a special offer to our readers.   When you click here, you’ll get a second theme of your choice completely free!  You will be prompted to select the second theme upon checkout.

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