Jun
SimpleSite - an advanced wordpress theme that helps build a portfolio, showcase or a product site in minutes
Since the beginning of the PremiumThemes.net, more than 25 paid and free blog themes has been released on this site for wordpress. However, I have been also building some out of the box themes.
Dear reader, I am very happy to announce the new advanced - SimpleSite Theme - An advanced wordpress theme that helps building a portfolio/showcase or creating a product site in minutes!
Using this theme, you can create SimpleSite, a fully dynamic portfolio or product site in minutes that will have a custom homepage, product gallery, contact page, blog and other simple pages.
Here’s the quick feature list
- WordPress as CMS
No manual template edits! With the theme, wordpress is not just a blog. Use it as a CMS to manage your portfolio / products and pages. - Dynamic Photo Gallery
Simply write a post, upload the image and the thumb will automatically be displayed in home and portfolio pages. The theme automatically crops and resizes images. - Sell with e-junkie (optional)
To sell your products all you have to do is, add your e-junkie product code while writing a post and your e-junkie cart will function just like it should. - Theme Admin Options
Gives you complete flexibility.. from changing color scheme to move sidebar on right/left, change page width and more.. - Documentation & Support
The theme is bundled with detailed documentation explaining everything. You may ask further questions in Support Forum - Famous plugins ready
The theme is pre-style for plugins like Contact-Form, Gravatar, Social BookMarking, Ajax rating, page-navi.. - DropMenu & Pre-styled HTML elements
Theme is multi-level drop menu ready that automatically shows sub-pages. It covers almost every HTML element so you don’t have to format them. - SEO friendly, Widget Ready
The theme is coded considering best SEO practices. The theme fully supports wordpress widgets so you can customize your sidebar as required.
Want to know more? have a look at the demo or simply take a look at the special page for the SimpleSite Theme? Let us go!
May
Get a copy of any theme at Premiumthemes.net for free!
As a part of the promotion of more than 25 themes listed at PremiumThemes.net website, I have announced a 1 month competition. The winner will get a free copy of personal version of any theme of his/her choice, listed at premiumthemes.net website.
Sounds good? Be a part of the competition here..
May
One more free theme - BizFresh
Few days ago, I released one more free theme that has been elegantly designed and expertly coded at PremiumThemes.net . The theme is called “BizFresh“.
Also considering some requests at my earlier theme release, I am also offering advanced version of the theme that includes admin options, support and those extra perks such as theme guide, logo psd etc. that has been explained in the BizFresh theme page. For those who want something extra, this is a great chance! For others, just go grab the free version.
And yes, please don’t forget to comment there and let me know your views.
Apr
The quest now begins. Announcing PremiumThemes.net
Dear reader, This is a late announcement compared to the launch of the PremiumThemes.net but I am happy to announce http://premiumthemes.net/ - the home of premium quality free and paid themes. Each and every theme on this site is/will be exclusively designed, strategically coded and commented, SEO optimized, with theme admin options, widget-ready, supporting famous plug ins, documented, good support and more? and yet, they will all be unbelievably affordable!
As mentioned in my other blogs before few days, I studied hundreds of wordpress powered blogs to study the basic need of professional bloggers & corporate companies and I have been preparing high quality premium themes for wordpress since long.
Finally, I have around 50 premium theme designs ready to go online. To start with, I am introducing 25 themes for sale at this site. And just in next week, I will be giving away two quality wordpress themes to the wordpress community.
I will be also highlighting more features of the themes for sale at this site next week. For now, have a look at the premium quality themes. Go check it here: http://premiumthemes.net/
Mar
PremiumThemes.net - Highest Quality Premium WordPress Themes is coming!
The premium themes market seems promising and there are new paid themes popping up every day. However, not every paid theme is of premium quality and many of them are not even worth paying. The another concern is, wordpress themes are becoming more complex and we are forgetting the real use of wordpress - to write a blog. While there are numerous themes that are of good quality - available for free download, there are not many paid themes on offer that are meant for just blog. If corporate people or Individual professional wants to have a super high design, they have to pay for a custom design which may or may not match their exact needs.
Dear reader, I am happy to announce the forth coming launch of http://premiumthemes.net/ which is just two weeks away, will be a home of premium quality free and paid themes. Each and every theme will be exclusively designed, strategically coded and commented, SEO optimized, with theme admin options, widget-ready, supporting famous plug ins, documented, good support and more… and yet, they will all be unbelievably affordable!
Small Potato wrote on raising personal standard for paid wordpress themes. Ofcourse, all the upcoming themes at Premiumthemes.net will follow this guidelines. However, there will be more. While I completely agree with that, I think one thing is lacking in the list and that is, power to the people. Theme Options is really a good Idea to give the control of the theme to the site owner. Giving basic options like
- Adding Feedburner ID
- Advertisement Management
- Setting Page/Blog Width
- Site Title/Logo as Image or Text?
- Background color and Text Color settings
- Sidebar on Left or Right?
- Show at most (n) posts in Blog Index
- etc.
Thomas Silkj?r at undersigned introduced theme options and that is really a wonderful feature if you wish to give the power to control the theme behavior to the real user. I am planning on adding this feature in WP Remix theme as well in near future.
A request: I firmly believe any product should be useful and according to the customer need. I request the reader to write their opinion on the premium themes. I would also request to specify your blog theme needs in comments. Who knows, i might just build a theme that will suit your need exactly?
Update: The premiumthemes.net website has been launched just before few days. Go check it here: http://premiumthemes.net/
Mar
Five Dollar Themes Club - Free accounts give away
Earlier this month, I informed the users on Five Dollar Themes Club by small potato. Cheers reader, now you don’t even have to pay for it and you can get free pass one year membership to the themes club. But, there is a condition…
How to get one?
Please let me know your thoughts via comments on the another article I published today (check it here) and those who write genuine comments (”wow, great” won’t work!) will get the free pass to the theme club. Small Potato was kind enough to offer free membership to limited readers of this blog. So, the pass codes will be sent to you once I get them from Small Potato.
So, what are you waiting for? Just get started now..
Feb
Plugin that revolutionizes the way premium themes are build
It has been long since I actively posted something in here. But I have been super busy building a plugin that will boost the way the premium themes are being built! Specially for the WP Remix kind of themes which are built with the aim to use WordPress as CMS, where the real strength of the theme lies on the wordpress custom page templates.
However, the biggest barrier I faced to make this dream come true, is to make the theme custom templates to be editable via wordpress editor from where the user writes posts and pages. One way was to create custom fields but that would again make the novice user confused and and it would be too complex for them. Again, wp-editor would not allow insertion of dynamic PHP codes and nor it allows xhtml codes.
Finally, I built the REMIX EDITOR PLUGIN that would solve all these problems and would help using WordPress as CMS in true meaning. I officially announced the plugin at WP Remix website. Go, check yourself!
Jan
Exclusively designed themes, five dollar a year
Well, maybe I am late to announce this but here’s the news anyways. Few days back, a good friend Small Potato announced Five Dollar Themes Club. When I first came to know about this, practically I was speechless. For few minutes, I had the feeling like “this is the end of newly emerging premium themes business”. But anyways, here’s the detail of the Small Potato’s five dollar theme club.
Upon reading the title, the first impression a person gets is “what could you get for things as this cheap?, you will not have support & quality.” But he proves it all wrong. I have personally seen his SEO friendly, clean, sematic coding techniques in his premium themes. As for the design, he doesn’t have anything to prove when you look at the themes he have released so far.
Back to themes club, for five dollars a year he is offering at least 12 exclusively designed wordpress themes along with support at his website forum.? Not only that, the most interesting thing is, you could even remove credit link from the footer. Not only that, he also have planned to introduce themes from other designers as well in order to bring variation in design skills while maintaining good quality. What more one could ask?
Conclusion: Go for it :). While there is magazine or news themes popping out now and then, not every user actually require it. Joining this club, you get themes that could be easily priced at $50 each. you get exclusive themes that not everybody get to use. Ofcourse, there might be other peoples but being a paid theme, not everybody will jump in.? But as he mentioned in one of his posts.. he is shaking the premium themes market for sure.
Jan
Featured at Smashing Magazine
It always feels great to get recognition for your work. The Smashing Magazine has taken note of my work and my work got featured at Smashing Magazine twice in last two days.
First, in 100 top excellent high quality wordpress themes. However, I am surprised to be featured in magazine style themes section. The WP Premium is a simple 2/3 column theme and I don’t think it fits magazine like themes. But to be in top 100 is definitely encouraging. Also I am proud to be part of another two themes in the list that I have coded myself (can’t mention the names here as per the non-disclosure-agreement).
And now, the WP Remix, the wordpress master theme is featured in Premium WordPress themes are here to stay article.
Thank you smashing magazine. It boosts the confidence and it inspires me to bring in a more quality work in near future.
Dec
Free “WP Premium” Theme is here
With the slow but steady success of The WordPress Master Theme - WP Remix, I am inspired to release a free but quality Wordpress theme. And as promised few days back, The WP Premium theme is going public today. “WordPress Premium” is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options.
Here?s the preview
Color Schemes
When I requested user opinions last week, some of them said, why not release in all three colors? And I felt the same. The theme is bundled with all three colors. To change complete color scheme, all you need to do is, open the style.css and change the color style name to your favorite one. More instructions are in readme.txt file in the theme folder. As per suggestion of one of the user, WP Premium contains separate css for layout and color. That means if you only wish to change colors, you don’t have to mess with the other css styling.
