Wordzine: A Community Magazine Theme by Theme Forest

There are a growing number of premium WordPress themes being built with the idea of allowing the user to support building an entire WordPress community.   Theme Forest has been at the forefront of the community themes movement, and one of their new designs, the Wordzine theme, shows why.

Here are the features included with the Wordzine theme:

  • Elegant and Slick
  • CMS Functionality
  • Sliding Featured Posts
  • Tabbed Sidebar
  • Widget Ready
  • Horizontally Tabbed Category and Subcategory Navigation
  • Theme Options Page
  • Valid XHTML /CSS
  • PSD Included

WordZine Community Theme

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

Single-Use ($25.00) | 10 Licenses ($75.00)

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New Imperial Theme Available at Theme Forest

Theme Forest continues to offer some impressive premium WordPress themes.   One of their recent releases that caught our eye is the new Imperial WordPress theme, which combines an excellent look with an impressive feature set.

Here are the features listed by the designer:

  • 2 full color schemes – dark and light.
  • User specified “accent” color can be chosen from a color picker in WP-Admin for easy customization.
  • Flexible photo area supports an image of any height. No need to resize, as the overflow is hidden automatically.
  • Dynamic image resizing for post thumbnails used through-out the theme.
  • Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates.
  • Flexible logo space allows images up to 900px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.
  • Easily link to social networks you take part in, with support for 28 of the most popular sites.
  • Both sidebars are widgetized.
  • Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots (4 125×125 buttons, 300×250 bigbox, 160×600 skyscraper). 728×90 leader board and 468×60 banner also supported.
  • Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
  • Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
  • Support for Twitter Tools, FlickrRSS, WP-PageNavi, and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box.
  • Original PSD included!

Imperial WordPress Theme

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

Single-Use ($30.00) | 10 Licenses ($90.00)

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Theme Forest Announces Wisdom Tree Blog Theme

Wisdom Tree is a blogging WordPress theme available at Theme Forest which was designed for any ambitious blogger that constantly broadens his network and keeps his blog up to date with feeds, Twitter updates and social bookmarking.

The theme is specifically focused on keeping the visitor on site, with optimized side content and calls to action, such as post sharing and commenting. The header illustration theme is kept through the design in little things, like post date, categories and footer design.

Here are the features listed with the Wisdom Tree theme:

  • Easy customization with theme options page
  • Built-in 125×125 banner ads (manageable in theme options)
  • Widget ready
  • 8 PSD files included
  • Twitter and RSS feed design integrated in header illustration
  • Easy logo change
  • jQuery LavaLamp menu (Each page is a new menu item)
  • Compatible with all major browsers (FF 2/3, Safari, IE6 /7, Opera 9, Chrome)
  • Valid XHTML 1 .0 STRICT / CSS
  • Tidy CSS
  • Highlighted author’s comment
  • Separate trackbacks / comments
  • Comments with Gravatars
  • 2 column tableless fixed layout
  • Cool footer area with custom links
  • Quotes design with special highlight
  • a 450×450px vector PSD file of the OWl – for your freedom of making additional images, avatars & customizing its color

Wisdom Tree Blog Theme

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

Single-Use ($20.00) | 10 Licenses ($60.00)

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New StyleMixFolio Business Portfolio Theme

The theme hybrids continue to be released, and there have been some unique combinations.   Our latest finding is a new business portfolio theme at Theme Forest called the StyleMixFolio theme.

Here are the features listed with this new business portfolio theme:

  • CMS functionality
  • Widget ready
  • JQuery Slider for featured projects
  • Easy featured projects setup using custom fields
  • Easy general setup

StyleMixFolio Business Portfolio Theme

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You can view the live demo of this theme here.

Single-Use ($25.00) | 10 Licenses ($75.00)

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New Teal Gray Retro Blog Theme at Theme Forest

Theme Forest continues to offer a growing number of high quality premium WordPress themes.   One of my recent discoveries is a new blog theme called the Teal Gray Retro theme.  This blog theme offers a sliding gallery for photos, several homepage design options, and has a number of popular WordPress plugins built-in.   In fact, the only thing I could find that was missing is the ability to pick from several color options.

Here are the features that come with the Teal Gray Retro blog theme:

  • WordPress as CMS – one and two column design
  • 2 PSD Files for easy customization ( Main layout and widget titles )
  • jQuery Lavalamp for page navigation
  • jQuery slideshow gallery for project previews
  • Breadcrumb navigation with nested page/category support
  • Comments of Post Author and admin are highlighted
  • Gravatar Support
  • 1 widget-ready area with customized design and style
  • Valid XHTML /CSS Transitional
  • 3-level drop down menu combined with Lavalamp animation menu
  • jQuery based plugins – updated Lavalamp for page navigation to work with jQuery 1.3.1. (Lightbox now works like a charm)
  • Slideshow gallery for homepage in header (a little gift to all of you)
  • 4 widget areas (sidebar for homepage, pages, posts + footer)
  • implemented TimThumb for posts and portfolio thumbnails
  • implemented related posts
  • custom field for header image/slideshow based on hierarchy
  • Theme options panel:
    • Thumbnail settings (width, height)
    • Header settings for homepage (default, must be set)
    • Related posts settings (option yes/no, title)
    • Advertising (6 banners or custom code)

Teal Gray Retro Blog Theme

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You can view the live demo of the Teal Gray Retro theme here.

Single-Use ($20.00) | 10 Licenses ($60.00)

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Theme Forest Offers Business Professional Theme

Theme Forest has a growing number of business WordPress themes, but many aren’t as impressive in our opinion as the business themes found elsewhere.   The one exception might be the Business Professional theme we recently discovered.

Here is a sample of the default homepage for the Business Professional theme:

Business Professional WordPress Theme

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You can view the live demo of the Business Professional theme here.

Single-Use ($30.00) | 10 Licenses ($90.00)

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