Earlier this week, Mehmet of Gabfire Themes offered up a few free single-use licenses of his popular NewsPro theme to two of our lucky readers, simply for leaving a comment on that post.   I have to say that the participation was great and I appreciate everyone taking the time to comment.

In speaking with Mehmet, he was really impressed with both the responses and participation that his offer received, and decided to give away an additional two licenses, making a total of four single-use licenses that will be given away!

Here are the four winners of the free NewsPro premium WordPress themes:

1. Dave (Comment #5)
2. Ahmad (Comment #6)
3. UncleLar (Comment #22)
4. Rajesh (Comment #35)

The winners should receive an email from me later today (at the email address provided with the comment) with instructions on how to claim your free themes.     Thanks again to everyone who participated and congratulations to the winners!

Though the number of premium WordPress themes being released seems to have slowed recently, one of the newcomers to the market is Mehmet of Gabfire Themes, who is the author of the popular NewsPro theme, as well as the WP-Showcase theme.

In honor of Mehmet’s release of NewsPro version 2.0, he is celebrating the occasion by offering our readers a chance to win a free single license copy of NewsPro for your private use!  Before I get to the details, here is some of the features you get with NewsPro 2.0:

• Installation guide
• Ad Optimized
• Built in Flickr Support
• Video Spot
• Ajax tabs
• Unique newspaper style design
• Easily customizable using CSS
• Advertising Space (125×125 sponsor ads)
• Custom 404 Error page
• Gravatar support
• Dropdown navigation
• Widget support for sidebar
• Valid XHTML
• Valid CSS
• Support by e-mail & chat

Here are a couple screenshots of NewsPro 2.0 (which is available in Blue, Green, and Red colors)

NewsPro Homepage

NewsPro Post Page

NewsPro is normally available for $59.00 (single use), $159.00 (multiple use), and $259.00 (developer’s license), but as I mentioned above, Mehmet has a special offer for our readers.  In order to obtain a single-use license of NewsPro (which includes all three colors), you simply need to leave a comment on this post!   That is it.   We will then pick two winners at random among all the comments.   If you decide to comment, just make sure you use a valid email address so we can contact you if you win.

As I mentioned in a previous post, one of the things Hack WordPress is most known for is our WordPress theme galleries.   Because of this, we have worked really hard to maintain them by both adding new themes as they are released, as well as removing older themes that are either outdated, are no longer available, or are no longer supported by their authors.  

One of the most common requests I get via our contact form is to break apart our galleries into more of a niche focused display of WordPress themes.  Because we aim to serve, this post will be the first of a three part series breaking down the premium WordPress themes available.    Next we will be going through our free galleries and looking for more helpful ways to display those as well.

This first WordPress gallery was designed to feature some of the best News and Magazine Premium WordPress themes currently available for purchase.  I included both styles because the lines are kind of blurred between the two and I didn’t want any debate over which category each one falls under.  Themes are not listed in any particular order and I have included any listed features with the theme whenever it was possible. 

Future galleries will include premium blog themes and premium business themes.   Enjoy!

Revolution Pro Media Theme

• Featured homepage tabber area
• Featured photos from Flickr
• Featured YouTube video
• Other featured areas using custom fields
• Google AdSense integration in between posts and comments
• Section, Archive, Blog page templates

Single-Use ($79.95), Multiple-Use ($199.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Mimbo Pro Theme

• Control panel options for Google Analytics and Feedburner, logo and header image management, homepage categories, optional color schemes, and advertisement management
• Custom templates for categories, archives, authors, sitemap, search results
• Auto-resizing for images
• Built-in contact form
• HTML controls for comments (bold, italics, blockquote, link)
• Print-friendly options on single-post pages
• Two widgetized sidebars with optional advertising
• Tabbed and separated comments/trackbacks
• Built-in gravatars and author highlighting
• Cookie crumbs on single-post pages
• Print.css stylesheet
• Optional microformats in the footer

Single-use ($88.95), Multiple-use ($199.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

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