Premium WordPress Themes

There is an ever growing number of ‘premium’ WordPress themes being offered for purchase – some are excellent and represent good value for money, some are average, while some themes being touted as ‘premium’ are just plain awful which you wouldn’t even bother to use if they were available for free! The premium WordPress themes below are the 10 best premium (paid) WordPress themes, the cream of the crop, as of March 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Adii from Premium News Theme is now offering an All-Inclusive Developer Pack which includes all 7 Premium News themes (Original, NewsPress, Flash News, Gazette & Live Wire) for $499.95. All themes have been updated with the special features included in the newest Live Wire Series themes including the dynamic image resizer, which means the user only needs to upload one image per post and the script automatically resizes the image as necessary. For more information check out all the themes here.

Adii is also kindly giving away an all-inclusive Premium News developer package to one lucky person who blogs about the competition. Now if there is one premium WordPress theme competition you want to enter this would be it. I personally find ‘The Gazette Edition’ to be a stylish theme with its clean lines and fancy Mootools featured article panel. However all the premium news themes are pretty slick, and if you win the competition you get all 7 themes for free, so start blogging about it.

The Corporate Theme series from iThemes is a web 2.0 styled premium WordPress theme designed for businesses and professionals looking for a sharp and glossy corporate website. The theme comes in 6 pre-built colour styles (blue, green, orange, red, teal and white).

White Corporate Theme

Blue Corporate Theme

Features:

• Web 2.0 glossy look
• 6 pre-built colour styles
• Integrated blog component
• Static home page which can be edited through Dashboard and Widgets
• Widgets for easy text editing of sidebars

Price:
Single Use: $29.95
Multi Use: $39.95

Demo / Release Page / Purchase

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“WordPress Magazine” is a clean and elegant magazine / news style premium WordPress theme.

Features:

• Featured article
• Drop down menus
• Integrated 125×125 advertising spots
• Widget ready
• Video spot
• Installation guide

Price: Free

Demo / Release Page & Download

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Chocolate is a magazine / news style WordPress theme. It’s being touted as a “premium WordPress theme built from the ground up to be customisable for content heavy web sites such as newspapers or magazines”.

The default dark blue colour scheme with its dark background and dark text just doesn’t really work well together, but apparently it also comes with 3 other lighter colour schemes which may look better. The chocolate theme isn’t for everyone as the developer claims the theme is developed for people with some knowledge of WordPress and web development. You will need to put that knowledge to use with this theme, as its claimed that coding knowledge is required to work the ad management system, and functions like the drop down menus and rotating feature carousel don’t function in all browsers.

Considering the rather messy layout, functionality problems and the fact there are arguably better magazine / news style WordPress themes available for free, I don’t know if its worthy of being classified as a paid premium theme? I will let you decide.

Features:

• Email Support
• Free updates
• Four color themes
• Eight widget ready areas
• Theme options
• Clean modern design
• Designed to accommodate several popular ad sizes
• Customizable
• CSS based on the Blueprint framework
• Fully commented code
• X-men like powers(no longer included)
• Two home page styles: news/magazine and blog
• Feature story carousel(display optional)*
• Simple related posts widget
• Post meta data widget
• Ad placements managed by widgets
• News list widget
• Tabbed content widget
• Basic SEO(search engine optimization)
• Custom author page
• Custom Icons
• Robust comments support including separated trackbacks
• Included custom templates: tags, 404 error, archives, custom archives page, author, search page and all the usual templates like category.
• RSS links for categories and comments
• Drop down menus(not functional in Opera or IE6)

* Carousel does not operate in IE 6 as of version 1.0, it will only display the latest featured article.

Price:
Single License: $50
Developer License: $100

Demo / Release Page & Purchase

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