Thesis Version 1.5 has officially been released after months of hardcore development and testing. Version 1.5 features a huge number of new features and improvements.
Thesis is a powerful, high quality WordPress master theme framework that makes it easy for anyone to run a professional, customized blog or website. Thesis comes with one of the most comprehensive Option Panels that allows you to easily control and customize almost every aspect of the framework with ease. You can select the font style and sizes, the number of columns (1, 2 or 3 columns), the order of those columns and the exact width of each individual column – all without having to dig into the pages of code. Thesis also boats the strongest SEO of any WordPress theme on the market, and is so good that even Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team and SEO Guru uses Thesis on his personal blog. Take the video tour of the Thesis theme to really appreciate this theme framework.
If you think the base Thesis layout pictured above looks a bit plain and basic, you’re probably right, so check out some of the easy customization possibilities of the Thesis theme framework to make it look awesome.
Thesis Options Page
Key Features
- Thesis Options Panel – one of the most comprehensive theme options panel in a premium WordPress theme. Allows you to easily control and customise almost any aspect of the framework with ease. You can customise everything including, font styles, what you want to appear in the navigation menu, page titles, your RSS feed, what meta data shows on your post / page, how your archive page shows up etc.
- Layout Options – Thesis gives you a multitude of column and width options to choose from. You can select the number of columns (1, 2 or 3 columns), the order of those columns and the exact width of each individual column – all without having to dig into the pages of code.
- Features and Teasers – Thesis gives you an option called ‘features and teasers’ that allows you to have a front page that is more of a magazine style showing featured posts and short excerpts of other posts with thumbnails.
- Automatic Thumbnail Generation – Thesis will automatically resize pictures and generate thumbnails for your posts.
- No coding experience required – The Thesis option panels allow you to command your site with ease without requiring detailed knowledge of HTML, PHP or CSS.
- Future Proof Customization System – Allows modifications with a custom style sheet meaning you can modify your theme and protect it against any future upgrades.
- Less Plug-ins Required – some of the capabilities that you would normally use plug-ins for are built into the theme. For example SEO options, Google analytics or other header and footer code, navigation menu options etc can all be managed in the theme options panel.
- Pixel Perfect Typography – Thesis has polished typography with finely-tuned geometrics for maximum legibility. You can select what type, and size, of font you want in all the different sections of the theme.
- Hooks – Thesis has a custom hook architecture that allows you to add to, subtract from or modify the functionality of your Thesis installation. It allows you to isolate all of your custom changes to just two key files. This makes your Thesis installation easy to customize, and easy to upgrade.
- Rich Style Classes – Thesis features built in classes to help you make important content stand out, and add some pizzazz to your site. You can add a drop-cap, alert box, a note box, or even wrap text around adsense ads etc.
- Customisable Multimedia Box – Thesis includes an optional fully customizable multimedia box which can be used for rotating random images, video, advertising or your own custom code.
- Search Engine Optimization – Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market today thanks to its expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework.
- Support – Access to documentation and a great support forum managed by talented and helpful staff
- Continuous Improvement – Thesis is continually being upgraded and improved and new featured added. When you purchase thesis you get access to lifetime updates.
- Much More – read about more Thesis features here
Price:
Personal Licence: $87
Developer’s License: $164
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Aperture is a multi-functional photo blogging premium WordPress theme from WooThemes. A theme originally designed for photographers, it’s really a multi-function WordPress theme that is flexible enough to be used for just about any type of website including a news/magazine site, portfolio for products, business, or a visually rich personal/professional blog. The theme features a slick home page slider box, 12 different colour schemes, lots of widgetized areas and a integrated theme options panel to tweak the layout, design etc to easily customise the theme to suit your needs.
Features
- Home page slider displaying latest posts
- Home page visual category boxes with javascript hover effects
- Attractive category archive template with images with javacript hover effects
- Dedicated blog category template and home page module
- 6 widgetized areas (4 footer modules and 2 sidebar modules)
- 7 custom widgets
- 12 great colour schemes to suit your site identity
- Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
- Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page
- Threaded Comments for WP 2.7
- Drop-down menu’s for main navigation
- Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
- Full width page layout option
- Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
Price:
Single Use: $70
Developer: $150
Woo Themes have a permanent 2-for-1 offer which means if you purchase a theme you get any other theme free! You can also join the WooThemes Club to access all current and future themes from Woo Themes.
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Woo Themes have an excellent selection of high quality WordPress themes covering a wide variety of niches including: business, CMS, magazine/news, portfolio, photo lifestream, multimedia, personal and professional blog designs.
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WPUnlimited version 1.1 has been released which contains a range of improvements and great new features.
New features include:
- Import and Export of Theme Settings and Graphics
- Custom Links in Navigation
- Categories as Main Navigation
- Dropdown Navigation for Sub-Pages and Sub-Categories
- SEO Improvements
- CSS Optimization
WPUnlimited is an incredibly customizable WordPress theme framework that gives you complete control to easily create your own unique professional WordPress website. The theme features a comprehensive backend control panel that allows you to customise the entire look and feel of the site without requiring any knowledge of coding, CSS, SEO or PHP. Every aspect of the design is customisable within the WPUnlimited options pages. It’s possible to specify the colours, typography, site layout ( 1, 2, or 3 column layouts), and even the content width. To really appreciate the features and options of the theme watch the theme demonstration videos.
WPUnlimited Design Options Panel
WPUnlimited Layout Options Panel
Try the theme demo or read the full theme details here
WP-Terra is a content management system (CMS) / business premium WordPress theme from Solostream which is designed for a corporate or static CMS website.
Features
- Static 3-column home page layout with:
- Featured product glider option for home page
- Middle column display for lead articles in one category
- Blog/News display
- Three subpage layouts to choose from:
- Full page
- Page with left sidebar
- Page with right sidebar
- Custom header integration for home and each subpage
- Built-in drop-down navigation for sub-categories and sub-pages
- Integrated blog
- Advanced SEO techniques integrated in design
- Original Photoshop files (PSDs) available for download to change header files
- Built-in site map
- Author page
- Gravatar integration
- Threaded and styled comments
Price:
Solostream Membership: From $59 (access to all themes)
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Solostream have a range of premium WordPress themes for small business and personal users. Theme styles available include news / magazine, CMS, business and personal blog style themes.
Gamemaker is a newspaper / magazine premium WordPress theme from Style WordPress which is ideal for running a gaming website. The theme features three widgetized areas, auto-zoom thumbnails, a built in theme options menu and more.
Features
- Three Widgetised Areas
- Auto-Zoom Thumbnails
- Featured Content Gallery
- Integrated Shoutbox
- Drop-down Menu Navigation
- Integrated Banner Management
- Related Posts
- Optional Threaded Comments
- Built-In Theme Options Menu
- Easy to Modify
- Comprehensive Users Guide
- Free Developers License
- Free Support & Updates
Price: $37
Demo & Release Page | Purchase
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