Actually, there is no partridge in a pear tree but the rest is true. This week we saw fourteen new commercial WordPress themes, an exciting stream of news bits (aside from the TimThumb exploit, which is not the least bit exciting), a handful of new coupons and a theme giveaway from ThemeShift. Here is this week in review…
News from the Theme Sellers
- Envato, operator of ThemeForest, is celebrating their 5th birthday. Customers will be offered a bundle of great products while authors will receive a bump up to 70% commission for five days.
- WooThemes is seeking videos from their customers in a project that will celebrate their 100 themes milestone. They currently have 98 themes with plans to release two more very soon.
- In order to cope with their growth, WooThemes is increasing their support capacity and needs to hire a Junior Ninja that can help out with customer support. Are you interested?
- iThemes recorded a “blue couch” video with Jeff Milone and David Morgan of Organic Themes during Friends of iThemes last month.
- Press75 has partnered with WerkPress to offer customization services for their WordPress themes.
Theme Framework News
- Headway Themes turned two and posted a list of what to expect from Headway 3.0. They also posted a 30% off coupon (see coupons below) which as of today will be good for the next 50 customers.
- PressWork 1.0 Now Available at WordPress.org (blog post)
- StartBox WordPress Theme Framework is Now Free (blog post)
Important Security News
- A vulnerability in Timthumb, an image resizing utility used by many WordPress themes has been found. Get an update from your theme maker if you use a theme that uses TimThumb or patch it yourself.
Coupons and a Giveaway
- 30% Off Coupon for PremiumPress This Month – Use coupon code AUGPROMO (expires August 31, 2011)
- 20% Off Coupon for Bleepli Themes During August – Use coupon code E95843578D (expires August 30)
- 30% Off Coupon for Headway’s 2nd Birthday – Use coupon code HEADWAY2YEARS
- 20% Off Coupon for Max Foundry – Use coupon code VENTURE (expires August 5, 2011—That’s Today)
- ThemeShift will be giving away five WordPress themes, one each day next week. Enter the drawing now via Facebook before the drawings start.
This Week’s New WordPress Themes
Debonair from ThemeForest
If ever there was a theme with a professional design, this is it. This WordPress theme provides a high-end corporate look for a business website. It has a clean, modern feel and comes with four color schemes (red, green, blue and purple) to match your brand. Features include Cufon font replacement, portfolio section, integrated blog and contact form.
$30 (Single Site), Live Demo
Socialite from MOJO Themes
Socialite is an advanced portfolio theme for WordPress with capabilities for images, video, Flash and other media. It comes with the Channelit YouTube plugin which automatically imports your entire YouTube channel, comments, playlists and all. You can customize your gallery layout by choose one to four columns.
$37 (Single Site), Live Demo
Le Gourmet from MOJO Themes
Le Gourmet is an elegant restaurant theme for WordPress that is loaded with restaurant-specific features. It has seven post types plus several page templates and widgets that make it easy for you to manage your menu card, events, photos, testimonials, homepage slides, homepage articles and reservations.
$42 (Single Site), Live Demo
Maximized from MOJO Themes
Maximized is an “Under Construction” theme for WordPress. It lets you create presence for your website while it is still being developed. You can add your own logo and upload a fullscreen background image. There is a countdown timer that shows how much time is left before launch. It also has a progress bar, Twitter feed and e-mail subscription form.
$18 (Single Site), Live Demo
TheBrightSide from MOJO Themes
TheBrightSide is a trendy-looking blog theme for WordPress. The homepage of this theme is not like other blog themes. Instead of showing a list of posts and a sidebar, it shows a slider and several thumbnails representing your most recent posts. This theme has an options panel with custom styling options, including the ability to set a background pattern.
$32 (Single Site), Live Demo
Ocean from ThemeForest
Ocean is a dark-colored portfolio theme for WordPress that you can use to show off your photography, designs and other projects. The homepage shows a 3D slider, thumbnails of your latest images plus your latest and featured blog posts. You can create a filterable, lightbox-enabled portfolio section with two, three or four columns.
$30 (Single Site), Live Demo
City Church from iThemes
City Church is a child theme for the Builder WordPress theme framework. When you buy Builder, you get this theme (and dozens of others). This theme has several features made specifically for churches such as the ability to include sermon audio clips for visitors to listen to and staff member profile.
$97 (Multiple Sites), Live Demo
Abbreviate from Obox
Abbreviate is a tumblog theme for WordPress by Obox with an ultra trendy design. A tumblog — or microblog — is a blog theme that makes it easy to post quick notes, photos, videos, audio clips, links and quotes. What’s neat about this theme is that there is a post type filter at the top. The user can click on the camera icon, for example, to see your photo posts.
$50 (Multiple Sites), Live Demo
Glide from ThemeForest
Glide is a WordPress theme for business and portfolio use with an extensive list of features and options. It has a Slider Manager that makes it easy for you to create multiple sliders. You can also create multiple filterable portfolio sections, each with a different configuration (columns, sizes, descriptions, etc.).
$35 (Single Site), Live Demo
Brain WP from ThemeForest
Brain WP is a portfolio theme for companies and freelance. It gives your WordPress-powered website a clean, professional look and an organized way of showing your designs, photos, projects and other work. There is a slider on the homepage for featured images plus a portfolio section that includes lightbox enlargement and category filters.
$35 (Single Site), Live Demo
Journey from Gabfire Themes
Journey is a complete travel blog/magazine solution for WordPress. It has features that enhance your presentation of travel articles such as the ability to embed videos (from other sites or optionally your own FLV using Flowplayer) and photos. You can even make a media gallery section.
$59 (Multiple Sites), Live Demo
LeanBiz from Elegant Themes
LeanBiz is a business theme for WordPress with the usual wealth of features from Elegant Themes. It has a slider on the homepage that you can setup via ePanel—no coding necessary. You can make it show images, video and text. LeanBiz has portfolio/gallery page templates that you can use to show your projects or products.
$39/yr (Member Access), Live Demo
Micah from Mint Themes
Micah is a complete WordPress theme for churches. It has a gentle but trendy design that you can upload your own logo to via the options panel. This theme has many church-specific features such as the ability to upload sermon MP3 files for download or online listening, photo albums, a news/blog section, the ability to post events and a Google Map showing your location.
$79 (Multiple Sites), Live Demo
Good Minimal from ThemeForest
This is a WordPress theme suitable for business and portfolio use. It leverages media queries for a responsive layout. If you resize your browser window on the demo you will see how your site can adapt to fit on small screens (mobile devices). Good Minimal has a slider on the homepage for featured images plus a portfolio section with several layout options.
$35 (Single Site), Live Demo
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