Premium WordPress Themes

There is an ever growing number of premium WordPress themes, however the premium themes below are the 10 best premium WordPress themes available, the cream of the crop, as of February 2008.

The Gazette Edition Theme (Price: $99.95 – $249.95)
The Gazette Edition is a magazine / newspaper style WordPress theme, which looks amazing and has some great features as well such as integrated options page to change colour schemes and homepage layout, featured article panel using Mootools, drop down navigation, and integrated ad management script.

Revolution Pro Media Theme (Price: $79.95 – $199.95)
A theme is structured towards media, making it an ideal theme for online media magazines and other media focused sites. Revolution Pro Media boasts a very diverse homepage – including a place for featured tabs, video, photos, and thumbnail images.

WP Remix Theme (Price: $55 – $155)
WP Remix is a WordPress powered master theme. The theme is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many different layout options that helps everyone create custom websites quickly and easily.

WP Magazine Theme 1.0 (Price: $79 – $279)
A professional WordPress theme with multiple layout options and multiple features including five different homepage layout options, featured article glider box and build in banner ad blocks.

Revolution Magazine Theme (Price: $79.95 – $199.95)
Revolution Magazine is a customizable theme ideal for online magazines and has a new enhanced featured video location on the theme as well as drop down menus.

Magazine News v1.0 (Price: $49 – $129)
A news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for sites with a lot of content, and looking to maximize there Google adsense revenue. It is a three-column, widget ready, adsense ready theme that is sure to give your blog that unique look that will garner some extra attention.

Flash News Theme (Price: $99.95 – $249.95)
An attractive and functional magazine / newspaper style WordPress theme.

Revolution Tech Theme (Price: $79.95 – $199.95)
A theme ideal for the Tech fan, and who wants their site to feature a technology, focusing on the latest tech news, product reviews, etc.

Monochrome Theme (Price: $75 – $199)
Monochrome is a magazine-style theme for WordPress packaged with an AJAX post slideshow, a custom theme admin page to easily manage and customize Monochrome, author archives, two page templates, multi-tier drop down menus, utilizes custom fields options and a CSS framework to aid in customization.

News Theme (Price: $75 – $245)
A simple yet clean and legible magazine-style theme

Other Premium WordPress Themes Worthy of Mention:
Gridline Magazine Theme (Price: $29.99 – $99) -A minimal, grid-based magazine theme
Revolution Pro Business Theme (Price: $79.95 – $199.95) – A theme designed to look, feel and function like a traditional website.
Premium News Theme (Price: $99.95 – $249.95) – The original premium news theme. A grid-based magazine-style theme.

The Revolution Pro Business WordPress theme is a widget-ready, customizable theme for small business who wish to use WordPress as their content management platform. The theme allows you to have a static web site as well as include a corporate blog.

Features:

• Featured homepage with section for recent company news
• Featured section page with area to focus on latest blog posts
• Blog sidebar to accommodate 125×125 advertising banners
• eNews & Updates section configurable with Feedburner
• Google AdSense integration in between posts and comments
• Widget ready
• Drop down menus
• Section, Archive, Blog page templates
• Support forum and video tutorials included

Price:
Single-Use Package – $79.95
Multiple-Use Package – $199.95

This theme is no longer available for purchase. See the newest premium wordpress themes from Revolution Two in the best premium wordpress themes collection.

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Options Theme vs Revolution Media Pro
There has been some animated discussion over the last couple of days regarding the release of the Options Theme and its supposed similarities to the Revolution Pro Theme:
Inspiration or Lack of Creativity
WordPress Theme Releases for 2/25

Copyright, GPL, Open Source and Premium WordPress Themes
There is quite a bit of discussion at the moment regarding the issues of General Public Licience (GPL), Copyright, the Open Source platform of WordPress and how they relate to premium WordPress themes:
Taking A Stand, Call For Your Support
Premium Themes And Digital Copyright Leeching
Open questions on premium plugin business models

WordPress Developer Toolkit
iThemes.com primer guide on becoming a freelance WordPress developer. It’s basic and not too in-depth, but includes many, if not all, of the tips, links and suggestions they have used for custom WordPress design and development.

Talking About Premium Themes
Adii from adii.co.za talks about his premium WordPress theme business model and presents a slide show presentation.

Update: The account giveaway has finished.

As we have reported before at Premium WordPress here, the Five Dollar Theme Club from wpdesigner.com is a WordPress theme club which offers at least 12 WordPress themes during a one year period for a membership price of only $5 per year. There are currently four themes in the club and all new members will get the four themes and at least twelve more over the next 12 months. You can preview the current themes here.

WPDesigner has kindly offered 100 free $5 Theme Club accounts to Premium WordPress readers.

How to Get Your Free Account
To claim a free $5 Theme Club account simply leave a comment on this post explaining what feature(s) you look for in premium WordPress themes or what feature(s) you would like to see in premium WordPress themes in the future.

Make sure you include your name and email when commenting, and we will get back to you by email with the free membership code.

So tell your readers, friends, family, and everyone else you know to get over here and start commenting for a free Themes Club account.

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Options is the latest WordPress theme resulting from Justin Tadlock’s innovative Community Theme Project. Options is a magazine / CMS theme which as the name implies is feature packed with just ‘too many options to count’.

Features:

Stylesheets
This theme comes packaged with two different stylesheets, Dark and Light, which you can choose through the theme options page. There’s also two customizable stylesheets.

Home page layout sections
There are five sections, or blocks, on the home page layout. From the theme options page, you can choose from 14 different options for each of the sections.

• Five types of category sections.
• Three types of features sections.
• Two types of video sections.
• Excerpts.
• Full posts.
• Tags.
• Flickr photos.
• Two customizable sections.

Sidebars
The theme includes customizable, widget-ready sidebars. There are quite a few pre-built widgets for your use.

• Tabs widget (content of tabs is controlled through theme options).
• Multiple ad widgets.
• Tag cloud.
• Flickr photos.
• Recent posts.
• “Asides,” or sideblog.
• Recent video by post.
• Video non-posted.
• Feed and email subscriptions.
• Customizable widgets.

This is a version 1.0 beta release. The theme will continue to be updated, and more functions and styles will be added. As this is a community driven theme users can contribute to the development and evolution of the theme through the forums on the developers site.

Requirements: WordPress 2.3+

Release Date: 24 February 2008

Price: Free (Donations accepted)

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