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When I was looking for insperation I found several themes that I showed before. But I also noticed that there were more and more places that offered premium/paid themes for wordpress.

So last week I spend all my time with finding premium themes. The only criteria I had was that it shouldn’t be free. Quality of design is something that is relative I do however find that a large number of these themes are much more beautifull then the onces that are available for free.

I have included the prices that were on the sites at the moment of writing. Most of the themes were available with a single domain licence and a multi domain licence. But it divers per developer what a multi domain licence realy is. sme have a 5 domain restriction and have a developer licence for unlimited domains. I haven’t split it out that far so if you are interested in buying a theme look for the licence info.

So without futher introductions … the 234 premium themes I found. If you see any mistake, have additions, spelling error s in names etc let me know.

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Well over a year ago I created deblogging.com Deblogging because i love wordpress and still do but didn’t liked the blog feel and look for all my sites. As many of my endevours i ran into the time problem and altho i did created over 50 sites in the deblogging style ( like fi http://fietsen-winkel.info ) i didn’t created any more themes around this idea.

Now as i took my next goal in creating 10k a month i am once again at the lookout for a nice standard theme to use with wordpress but that doesn’t has a blog feel. I did a bit of research and found the following magazine style templates that I like and that give me a bit of insperation.

So what’s the next step in creating a magazine style template?

I discovered a nice tool at Yahoo that will help you in laying the foundation of your template. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/ using this grid builder you can easily create the outline of how your template should look like.

In my case i want of coure the header, a sidebar of 310 at the right so the nice ads of 300px x 250px will fit and it can be split like it’s done at the right at http://www.revolutiontheme.com/news/

The first row should hold the featured article and i want it to be like it’s on http://gazette.premiumnewstheme.com/

Creating a featured article that rotates is a nice feature that you also see a lot in joomla based templates. Making this is not that hard. What you need is a category that is made pure for holding featured articles. As you know you can assign a post to multipal categories. So if you write a ost and want it to be in the featured category select that one also.

Next is the code… first you want to download the mootools archive and Smoothgallery you can get both at this place http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/
At the getting started page of the gallery code you will find this part


<div id="myGallery">
<div class="imageElement">
<h3>Item 1 Title</h3>
<p>Item 1 Description</p>
<a href=”mypage1.html” title=”open image” class=”open”></a>
<img src=”images/brugges2006/1.jpg” class=”full” />
<img src=”images/brugges2006/1-mini.jpg” class=”thumbnail” />
</div>
<div class=”imageElement”>
<h3>Item 2 Title</h3>
<p>Item 2 Description</p>
<a href=”mypage2.html” title=”open image” class=”open”></a>
<img src=”images/brugges2006/2.jpg” class=”full” />
<img src=”images/brugges2006/2-mini.jpg” class=”thumbnail” />
</div>
</div>

So you need to replace that with the code to display the posts from the featured category

<?php query_posts('showposts=5&cat=5'); //selects 5 articles of the category with ID 5 ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="imageElement">
<h3 class="leadtitle"><?php the_title(); ?>></h3>
<?php the_excerpt() ; ?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>


You can add anything inside this loop but it’s a start.

The rest of the page i will make 2 columns like on http://www.wp-themes.der-prinz.com/magazine/ and at the bottom i like it how it’s done at http://www.fembusiness.nl/

Nice job for the weekend

I love wordpress and I can keep on saying it …it’s a great CMS for somebody like me that used to build his sites all by hand using nothing more then notepad.

The only thing I do not like about wordpress is the “blog” look for sites that I do not want to look like blogs. I use wordpress as a backend for sites like kayak-shop.info and that is an affiliatesite with a shop look. Using the strong points of wordpress but the frontend doesn’t look like a blog.

The theme that I used for it is WP Remix

A sample image of a template based upon wp-remix

The beauty of this template is that it’s so customizeble. All kinds of pages are already coded and all you have to so is change the images, colors and of course text.
With the use of these kind of templates making wordpress a cms is easy and beautifull.

I just finished a new template for wordpress. It’s a 2 column blue theme with a touch of web2.0 I call it 12Blue. It’s sidebars are widgetized and you can change it dynamicly if you use the sidebar widget. If you find any bugs or got any comments on it please let me know
Demo : <a href=”edynas.com/test/” target=”_blank”>Demo 12Blue</a>

Download : <a href=”">Download 12Blue</a>

A red version of the edygrey theme is available to download. It is a 3 column widget ready template and it is fully widgetized and you can change the content of the sidebars by activating sidebarwidget. In your presentation panel there will be a new option sidebar and by choosing that you can add or remove widgets from the sidebars.

A demo can be found here : Testrun Edyred

You can download the theme from here : Download Edyred

A new free template that you can download. It is a 3 colum theme in shades of grey. The 2 sidebars are widgetized and you can dynamicly change them if you activate the sidebar widget.

A demo of the theme is here

(select theme EdyGrey in the Theme Switcher): Demo EdyGrey

You can download it from here : Download EdyGrey

A new free theme for wordpress. It’s called Ablaze and is a red on black canvas 2 colum theme. The sidebar is widgetized and can be changed dynamicly if you turn on the sidebar widget in the plugin screen.

A demo can be found at : Demo Ablaze

You can download it from here : download Ablaze theme

http://www.edynas.com/test/wp-content/themes/Ablaze/ablaze.jpg

Free Wordpress theme 123RedBlack

With proud I can tell you that I have created a new free Wordpress theme that you can download. It’s a web2.0 kinda look and has 3 colums. There are 3 sidebars of which 1 is on top of the other 2. All sidebars are widgetized so if you turn the sidebarwidget plugin on you will have a tab in the presentation section from where you can dynamicly change the content of the sidebars.

A demo for this theme is at www.edynas.com/test

You can download it from this place : download 123RedBlack theme

I hope you enjoy this theme and if you discover any bugs or errors let me know.

The auction is over and the second free theme is available for download. It’s the pixelgreen theme the same that I use on this site. You can download it from this link :free wordpress theme PixelGreen

I like to play with wordpress and learned a lot the last months about blogging, themes, templates and the way it made it easy for me to set up sites. So I wanted to do something back and use my (small) knowledge and port several free css themes that I think are great and are not yet available as wordpress template.

So….. I like to present my very first public released free wordpress template Refresh1.0. A fresh looking 2 colom sidebar widget ready template. It original design is from http://www.styleshout.com/ which was released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

You can download it from this link