Premium Theme: Premium News WordPress Theme

By Kyle Eslick on December 16th, 2007 | Filed Under News Themes, Premium Themes, Themes | 1 comment

One of my favorite things about WordPress are the themes that users have access to. Overall, themes are generally broken down into one of three categories: free themes, premium themes, and custom themes. You’ll find free themes littering the blogosphere (especially the good ones), so this can often leave a bad impression when people first visit your blog. This leaves bloggers the option of paying a lot of money for a custom built theme, or purchasing a premium theme for their website that won’t be found very many places.

If you are looking for a content management system (CMS) for your website, the first place I recommend you look is the Premium News WordPress theme. Here is a quick look at the homepage:

And here is a same of a post page:

There are a lot of wonderful things about this theme, but here are a few of my favorites:

Uses jQuery technology to allow readers to display/hide the posts.
Built-in Video Player to publish your YouTube easily and seamlessly.
Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice.
Widget-ready

This theme also features an Options panel that allows anyone to set the following from their control panel:

Color Scheme (7 different color schemes are included with the standard package)
The layout of your homepage
The amount of posts being displayed on your homepage
Which categories to display in the highlighted areas of your homepage
Integrate your Flickr & Feedburner accounts
Banner Ad Management

If you want to use plugins, the theme supports the following WordPress plugins “out of the box”:

I’ve looked through many of these themes and this is by far the most advanced one I’ve run across yet for WordPress. I recommend you check out Premium News Theme if you are interested in purchasing a professional content management system for your website.

WordPress Theme Galleries

By Kyle Eslick on October 1st, 2007 | Filed Under 2-Column Themes, 3-Column Themes, 4-Column Themes, K2 Themes, Magazine Themes, News Themes, Premium Themes | 42 comments

Getting a good design for your blog can be either difficult or expensive if you use most blogging software, but the popular open source software WordPress supports the ability to easily install and use various WordPress themes. As a result, the incredible WordPress community has stepped up and people from all around the world are offering great themes for anyone to use, and most have no cost associated with them.

As this site is dedicated to covering the world surrounding WordPress, I thought it would be a good idea to have a series of theme galleries dedicated to some of the best WordPress themes available to WordPress users.

In the interest of preserving load times, I have divided our featured themes up and separated them into their own specific posts:

Premium WordPress Theme Galleries:

Free WordPress Theme Galleries:

Want to see your WordPress theme featured on one of these posts? Feel free to contact us and if we like the look, we’ll get it added to the appropriate galleries!