Tag: wordpress
First-Class Premium Magazine Style WordPress Themes
by Ranju Chaudhary on Dec.07, 2010, under resources
TheSource WordPress Theme
Features:
• Four Color Schemes.
• WordPress 3.0 compatible.
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Advertisement Ready
Bold WordPress Theme
Features:
• Five Color Schemes.
• Cross Browser Compatible.
• Theme Option Pages.
• Valid XHTML + CSS
Cion WordPress Theme
Features:
• Two-teir Dropdown Menus.
• Thumbnail Resizing.
• Smooth tabless design.
• Custom thumbnail images.
GrungeMag WordPress Theme
Features:
• Custom thumbnail images.
• Widget ready sidebars.
• Theme Option Pages.
• Advertisement and Social Bookmarking Ready.
DelicateNews WordPress Theme
Features:
• Theme Options Page.
• Threaded Comments.
• Cross Browser Compatible.
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
eNews WordPress Theme
Features:
• Five Color Schemes.
• Widget ready sidebars.
• Custom thumbnail images
• Cross Browser Compatible.
ColdStone WordPress Theme
Features:
• Custom thumbnail images.
• Widget ready sidebars.
• Three Unique Post Formats.
• Advertisement Ready.
Our Magazine
Features:
• Unique page template for pages, archives, search result, author, user link feed etc.
• No need to key in any custom field value, custom input field is already provided. Simply key in the url/image path when writing a post.
• Threaded comment ( up to level 3) and paged comments supported
• Custom Theme Option Page with custom styling and easy to use
Premium Magazine
Features:
• WordPress 3.0 Ready & Tested
• WP 3 .0 Menu Management
• 6 Custom Widgets (Twitter, Flickr, eNews, Related Posts, Popular Posts, Author Info)
• Clean, SEO Friendly Layout Design & Code
Magnifizine
Features:
• Main sweep across slider (plays videos and comes in three sizes)
• Slider automatically pauses when video plays and resumes when finished
• 40+ backend WordPress custom options
• SEO friendly (meta description and favicons)
Imperial
Features:
• 2 full colour schemes – dark and light
• Flexible photo area supports an image of any height. No need to resize, as the overflow is hidden automatically.
• Easily link to social networks you take part in, with support for 28 of the most popular sites.
• Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
Coolzine
Features:
• Colored categories
• Auto generated stylesheet for colored categories
• Custom ‘most popular’ list on category pages
• Category/list pages: top post can be set manually
Fivecast
Features:
• 5 color options, easy to choose style/color via admin theme options.
• jQuery Slide Menu
• Magazine Style
• Can choose either use two-column or three-column home page
Juggernaut
Features:
• 2 skins: Dark and Light
• 17 different background styles
• Post Display – Display posts with thumbnails by title, date etc.
• New WordPress 3.0 navigation system
Flowhub
Features:
• COMPATIBLE BROWSERS – Chrome 4, Chrome 5, FireFox 2, FireFox 3, IE7, IE8, Opera, Safari
• With advertising space
• Mix color schemes
• Widget ready
Global Press
Features:
• WordPress v2.9 & above
• Extensive, jQueryfied Custom Admin Panel
• Two (2) Widgets Ready Areas
• Built-in support for dropdown navigation
Newscast
Features:
• Different Portfolio/Item slider, supporting unlimited items
• Sleek Image preloader
• Automatical Image resizing for Thumbnails
• Sidebar Widgets: You can set unqiue widget areas for each page or category
Deadline
Features:
• 7 Custom Widgets
• Full Localisation Support
• WordPress 3.0 Ready
• jQuery Powered “News in Pictures” Section
Unite
Features:
• 2 slide show options: jQuery cycle and Gallery View
• Contact form with dynamic javascript validation
• 5 pre-made skins
• Compatibility (IE 6, IE 7 , IE 8 , Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome)
Revolution Magazine
Features:
• Clean, modern, customizable design
• Works out of the box—no plug-ins required
• Dozens of custom functions
• Ready-to-go Sidebar Advertising Widget
Hype
Features:
• Customize the layout of the Homepage
• Setup a gallery or a portfolio and showcase all your http://images.naldzgraphics.net/2010/08 or videos
• Give the theme your own overall look and feel with tons of style options
• Provide an Ajax Contact form for your site user to get in touch with you
Maxgazine
Features:
• Layered and Sliced PSDs for Each Skin are included for easy modification
• absolutely new custom widgets which can be used multiple times on the widget areas
• Custom functions for optimized titles, SEO , breadcrumbs etc.
• Threaded comments fully styled
Buffalo
Features:
• five color schemes
• six widget areas: one blog widget, five in the footer
• automatic post thumbnails
• SlideShow
Pixomia
Features:
• 3 color options
• Magazine or Blog Style
• 3 page templates
• jQuery Scroller
Novocane
Features:
• Stunning grid Magazine Layout
• Image and Video Lightbox
• 4 Widgetised Areas
• Themeforest First – Stunning Galleria Powered Portfolio
Image Hunter
Features:
• Theme Admin Panel
• AJAX menu
• 6 Advanced Color Schemes
• XHTML Valid
My Magazine
Features:
• Makes use of WP 3 .0 Menu System
• Unlimited Sidebars (up to 50 Sidebars)
• JQuery Enhanced Navigation with Fallback
• Almost unlimited different Mainpage Layouts, widgetized Mainpage
Liquid-Magazine
Features:
• Fluid liquid layout
• Four 125×125px Banner slots
• Threaded comments with java script validation
• Easy settings via custom admin panel
Magstar
Features:
• Automatic image resizing
• Featured content areas
• Two custom built-in widgets
• Fully Featured Admin Panel
Wordsteel
Features:
• Featured Articles Showcase
• Six built-in widgets
• Ready to use ad space
• Automatic Image Resizing
Websource
Features:
• Powerful featured slider
• Ready out of the box, no plug-ins needed
• Multiple post layout, including large thumbnails, banners, and tiny thumbnails
• Multiple widgetized areas including the sidebar and footer
Wipi
Features:
• jQuery featured content slider
• Multiple shortcodes
• Auto text and http://images.naldzgraphics.net/2010/08 resizing
• WordPress 3 menu widget support
GoodStream
Features:
• Four main styles: orange, green, blue, purple
• Automatically resized image for every post/page
• Theme options page – no need to edit the code
• Ads controlled through the options page
Unusual
Features:
• W3C compliant, clean and commented code
• 4 different page templates + 3 sidebars
• Image load optimized with LazyLoad
• 6 PSD ’s included + Icons PSD ’s
Purelight
Features:
• Six main styles: orange, green, blue, purple, pink, black
• Featured posts slideshow with fancy effects
• 4 types of automatically resized http://images.naldzgraphics.net/2010/08 for every post/page
• Configurable top/footer/sidebar menu
Download Source
Domino
Features:
• Easy to install and ready to use in minutes
• Well documented – VIDEO tutorials included using Screenr
• Built-in jQuery image zoom script – FancyBox
• Sweet page navigation and dropdown category menu
Rooster
Features:
• jQuery featured content slider
• Widget ready sidebar
• 7 ready made Pluggers included
• Smart sub-navigation system
Caulk
Features:
• 8 color schemes + 2 background types (dark/light) = 16 combinations
• Multiple discrete post areas – featured, popular, sticky, and recent posts
• Extensive theme options admin panel
• Well documented in the help file, and code is well-commented
Opatheme
Features:
• Five main styles: yellow, green, blue, purple, pink
• 4 types of automatically resized http://images.naldzgraphics.net/2010/08 for every post/page
• Configurable top/footer/sidebar menu
• Theme options page with dozens of options
Noctis
Make Your WordPress Blog More Like Tumblr
by Ranju Chaudhary on Oct.28, 2010, under Graphic Design
Tumblr () is becoming an increasingly popular platform for blogging and personal publishing, thanks to its growing collection of themes, simple posting style and plethora of mobile options.
Although Tumblr has continued to beef up its feature-set, adding support for pages, user questions and user submissions, the platform isn’t as extensible or customizable as something like WordPress () or Drupal (). In a perfect world, there would be a way to combine the simplicity of Tumblr’s posting types and styles with some of the deeper customizations and options of WordPress.
We might not have reached the Holy Grail of Tumblr Meets WordPress harmony, but we’re a lot closer, thanks to a new plugin and iPhone app from WooThemes, a WordPress theme development firm.
Earlier this year, WooThemes started experimenting with bringing Tumblr-styled themes to WordPress. Tumblr-inspired design is taking off on lots of platforms, but what made Woo’s approach unique was the addition of a special QuickPress widget seated on the WordPress dashboard that made posting specific types of content — a la Tumblr — very easy.
Over the past few months, Woo has released more Tumblr-style themes using this QuickPress widget. Even better, WordPress 3.0 was released with support for custom post types, which makes adding special elements like a category icon or post-specific styling more automated.
This is great if you are starting a new site or want to redesign your blog – but what if you already have a pretty established site and a design you quite like? Wouldn’t it be great if you could add some of that microblogging functionality into your existing WordPress site? Read on for details on how to do that.
The Woo Tumblog Plugin
Last week, Woo introduced its free Woo Tumblog plugin. This plugin makes it possible to turn an existing theme into a Tumblr-like tumblelog.
You will need to do some editing of your theme files to get the Woo Tumblog plugin to work, because the plugin changes the way post title, thumbnails and post types are displayed. WooThemes has provided extensive documentation showcasing what you need to edit and add and has also included contextual help.
Woo also includes specific examples for what you need to do to add support for the plugin to the new TwentyTen theme included with WordPress 3.0.
You’ll need to change your permalink structure and add a few lines of code. It’s actually pretty straightforward. Our hope is that in the future, more theme developers will consider adding these hooks into their themes automatically.
The QuickPress Widget
Once you’ve enabled the plugin and made the changes so that different post types will appear a certain way, you can then post these types using the QuickPress widget on the WordPress dashboard.
This is what that looks like:
The end result is this post:
Express: The iPhone App
Beyond the plugin, WooThemes has also released Express [iTunes link]. The app is $4.99 but it is far and away the best WordPress mobile experience we’ve had to date.
You can use the app with any of the Woo microblogging themes or with your own theme if you install and enable the Tumblog plugin.
The app is super simple to use and you can easily post various types of content. It doesn’t support video uploading — something that the latest version of the WordPress iPhone app recently added, but it does make it easy to post various types of content and to moderate comments.
The app has already generated a lot of excitement in the WordPress theme community and lots of developers are signing up to add support for the app to their themes.
What’s Missing
As awesome as the new Woo Tumblog plugin and Express iPhone app are, there’s still a missing component that prevents true WordPress Meets Tumblr bliss from taking place. The bookmarklet.
I would argue that the bookmarklet is a huge reason why Tumblr and Posterous () are so accessible. It’s just so easy to quickly post a link or an image or a brief comment when you can auto-generate that content from your web browser. Furthermore, the iOS bookmarklets make it possible to do this from within the Tumblr iPhone apps too.
WordPress has its own bookmarklet — Press This — but frankly it’s not very good. It’s buggy, it doesn’t give you all the options you have in the main editor and it certainly doesn’t easily support custom post types.
There are rumors that better Press This and QuickPress functionality will be coming to the next version of WordPress, but at this point, users are on their own. I’ve become so despondent with the lack of a real bookmarklet solution that I’ve toyed with creating something myself that will also work with WooThemes’ plugin. Sadly, I just don’t have a ton of time.
I’m not alone. I’ve received e-mails based on comments I’ve left regarding the need for a bookmarklet from others indicating that this is a must-have killer feature.
We’re so close — we just need this next piece to really make microblogging on WordPress viable and enjoyable.
WooThemes has done a lot of the heavy lifting by releasing the free plugin and also creating the iPhone app. Wouldn’t it be great if the open source spirit could help come up with a bookmarklet solution?
