ElegantThemes has once again come up with a great-looking and easy-to-use theme. As the name suggests, the MyProduct WordPress theme is perfect if you’ve set up a blog or website especially to promote a product or service. This theme has a very corporate and formal feel, so If you own an e-commerce business or a large organization, you can use this theme and let your customers know that you indeed mean business.

If I had a product or service to sell, I would use the MyProduct theme too. Why? The following are some of the reasons why I would choose this theme.

1. Unconventional image slider

   On almost every website you have come across which has an image slider, the slider is almost definitely at the top in the middle.

   However, in the MyProduct theme, the slider is on the right on the top. I don’t know what exactly it is that fascinates me but I must say that this is simply unique from the tonnes of other websites out there. Your site visitors will also be able to read the introduction or description in your header since the images will not block them.

2. Different-from-the-rest layout

   The layout and design of the theme is not like any other. For instance, most websites have their menu for you to click on at the top but MyProduct’s menu is arranged in a tab-like design. As such, it is easy to toggle between the pages.

   Not only that, each blog post is accompanied with a snippet and a photograph, which readers can click on “Read more” to continue reading the entire post. This is a great way to give visitors a summary of the blogs’ posts and get them intrigued to click and read further!

3. Compatibility with browsers

   You would think that theme designers would have thought of the various Internet browsers in the world when they come up with a theme, but unfortunately there are still themes out there which, you would find out upon purchasing, are incompatible for use with certain browsers.

   The MyProduct theme works on lesser-used browsers too such as Safari and Netscape, even three versions of Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7 and IE8), so you needn’t worry if your visitors had arrived on your site on those browsers and found your website looking strange.

4. Advertisement-ready

   If you have always monetized your blog, you’d be happy to know that the MyProduct theme is ready for you to place advertisements on your blog. As for those who are new to advertisements, why not make money from placing ads on your website? After all, the theme is all ready for you to do so easily. You’ll just need to make some simple one-off settings and then sit back and wait for your ads to earn you money!

5. Optional blog-style structure

   Maybe as times change, you will want to portray your company in a different, lighter light. Maybe it’s a change in organization or maybe you’ve taken on other products/services which cater to a different market.

   As such, you might want to change the feel of your website to one that is blog-style like. You’d never know when a blog-style structure will come in handy, but you know that should you need it one day, it is already there for you in the MyProduct theme.

These are just some of my favorite features. Of course there are more that gives you even more reason to purchase the theme, such as widget-ready sidebars, custom thumbnail images, theme options page, smooth tables design and threaded comments.

How to Buy this Theme?

If you are as impressed as I am about the theme, the next thing to do is to buy it. There are two purchase options:

• Buy just the MyProduct theme at $19, or
• Be a member for $39 and receive the entire collection of 74 themes from ElegantThemes

Even if you are bad at maths, you’d know that the 2nd option is more value for money. You may argue that you don’t need 74 themes or that you are contented enough with the MyProduct theme. But how do you know years and months down the line that you’d still want to use the MyProduct theme? Times have changed and your website most likely will too. Even if you end up using just another theme, you would have gotten your money’s worth already!

It isn’t just the 74 themes that you would be getting by signing up as a member. Your themes will always be WordPress-compatible (WordPress constantly updates their version and some themes, if not updated, will be incompatible with these latest versions), you will be part of the member community that shares and exchange tips and advice as well as receive 2-3 new themes that ElegantThemes has developed each month!

Now, don’t you think that being a member is SO worth it?

$39 for all 74 themes!

A great product/service marketing theme with various features and functions added, along with 70+ and counting more themes, all for an unbeatable price of $39 (or $19 if you just want a single theme) – that is really an offer not to be missed. So if you are keen to promote your items on the web, make MyProduct your choice of theme.

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KreativeTheme

There are many great photography themes available these days. KreativeThemes is one of those responsible for churning out beautiful and functional photography WordPress themes. This team of 2 young and very talented lads Izuddin Helmi (Designer) and Amirul Faisyal, specializes in photography, magazine/news and blog themes.

I would say that their themes are very much of international standard, both in terms of design and features offered. If you think Izuddin’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he is a contributor for WooThemes too.

WordPress Photography Theme – Capture

Here’s an awesome WordPress photography theme from KreativeThemes that has caught much attention. Capture is a clean yet sophisticated theme that would have lots of photographers, designers, artists and other creative professionals wishing to get their hands on. It was created in 2010 and has one revision so far. WordPress compatibility is up to version 3.0.4, but the template should work well with any latest WordPress versions.

It creates an easy-to-maintain photography site in an instant and without much fuss. It has extensive features that would made lots of users very happy. Let’s have a look at some of them.

• For starters, it has 6 alternative color styles to choose from.
• There are slideshow and portfolio views on the homepage for you to showcase your works.
• Why Capture is so special is that it includes a column for display of your images’ Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data eg camera type, focal length, ISO sensitivity, shutter speed and aperture value.
• There’s also a blog section incorporated in this theme.
• As with other KreativeThemes’ templates, Capture also comes with the KreativeThemes Option Panel, allowing you to easily change user options like Google Analytics embedded code, theme styles, logo, fonts and so forth.
• Threaded comments going 3 levels down so you get to engage with your readers more effectively!

Capture’s ease of use is perfect for beginners, especially those without much IT skills and those who just want hassle-free websites. Having said that, advanced users would find that the Capture’s flexibility does allow much room for tweaking and customizing.

Pricing Packages

Capture is of KreativeThemes’ paid themes. KreativeThemes offers users 4 different pricing packages ie the Standard Lite at $29.90, Standard at $49.90, Webmaster Lite at $69.90 and Webmaster at $99.90. Prices are in USD.

The differences between these packages are just whether you choose to have access to KreativeThemes’ support forum and whether you wish to obtain the PSD source file.

Which package should you choose?

Well, it depends on what your requirements are. The Standard Lite is very much affordable but it is not sufficient for a webmaster. How likely would you be to access the support forum? And would you need to edit the appearance of the theme design?

If you are a personal blogger who enjoys showcasing your photography works, then I would suggest the Standard Lite package for it is very much sufficient for you. However, if you are an advanced user or a webmaster, then you may want to consider the Webmaster package, which gives you the freedom to redesign the theme by editing the PSD source files.

Note that these pricing are one off payment and there will be no monthly maintenance or upgrade fees. All of them come with free lifetime theme updates as well as unlimited domain use. This means that you get new updated revisions for as long as you are using the theme and you are free to use it for as many websites as you wish, at no extra costs! To top that, Capture and in fact, all of KreativeThemes’ designs are GPL licensed, ie you have the freedom to copy and distribute them! A small price to pay for one theme indeed, don’t you think so?

With so many features offered, Capture is one WordPress photography theme that is not to be missed. Highly recommended to all photographers out there. A fantastic theme for photographers, regardless of whether amateur or professional, to showcase their photography works. To top it all, KreativeThemes is offering very flexible pricing packages.

A very good deal I would say. Worth a check at least. Try the demo and see for yourself!

They offer tens of thousands of templates on various topics and designs, so every individual or organization is bound to find their needs met. TemplateMonster is indeed big, having served 1 million customers and 50,000 websites.

Food Blog WordPress Themes

One of TemplateMonster’s most popular products is their food blog themes. With people looking for more interesting eats these days and wanting to know if they would be getting value for their buck, more food blogs are popping up.

If you are keen to write about that joint you had a scrumptious meal at or simply need to rant about a restaurant delivering sub-standard service, you might want to set up a blog to share your food thoughts with the world. You will need a theme, so take your pick from any of TemplateMonster’s best food blog themes.

1. Good Cook

   

   A multi-image slider greets visitors as soon as they arrive on your food blog. Use this slider to post tantalizing images of yummy dishes, which will take visitors to the post upon clicking. Above and below the slides, you’ll find categories arranged neatly, which you could use to categorize your blog posts into types of cuisine, ratings or so on.

   The WordPress theme’s design is interactive, allowing users to go anywhere within the blog with the various menu, categories and links.

2. Savour

   

   I love the way the image in the slider changes into the next one, in its slow-motion, tempting kind of way. In the menu bar at the top, post links to each category, your profile or related links. Each blog post is also accompanied with a large image to tempt your readers into clicking to “Read more”. This is a great WordPress theme for food or restaurant related blogs/websites.

3. Recipes Wreath

   

   If you are a food blogger or a cook with a good camera, take advantage of this theme to showcase your food photographs! Each post has a snippet accompanied by an image, so use your best pictures to get readers enticed to read the full article.

   This theme doesn’t have an image slider but it doesn’t need one as blog visitors will already be able to view your images as they arrive on your blog.

4. Recipes Blog

   

   The set of large cutlery on the left of the template spells the message out loud and clear that this is a food blog and it means business! If you prefer a template that is minimal without various functions that you are unlikely to use, then this theme is for you! This this what makes this WordPress theme lean and fast!

   There is also a search function that lets users search your site for their desired items. I believe this theme is great for a recipes blog, just as the theme’s name implies.

5. Tasty Cooking

   

   This theme looks somewhat similar to Good Cook but since both looks equally attractive with the use of tantalizing images in the sliders, Tasty Cooking is one of my favorites too.

   There are four choices of background colors to choose from, all from lovely organic-looking shades of orange and brown. There is a snippet accompanied with an image for each post, so take the chance to tempt your readers into reading each entry further. You can even post videos on the sidebar.

6. Cookery Book

   

   A cute animated chef greets visitors at the top of the blog. Somehow, I think this theme goes best with all things from the oven. Maybe it’s that chef which made me think about bread, cupcakes and muffins.

   There are no fancy features in this theme but categories are neatly arranged on the right and keep the blog looking neat, ideal for those who love things simple.

7. Good Food Recipes Online

   

   I have a weakness for huge image sliders, especially if photos after photos of mouth-watering delicacies won’t stop rotating to make you drool endlessly!

   There are probably many out there who are like me too, so take advantage by showcasing your best shots of your cooking or something delicious that you just ate. When it comes to a food blog, pictures say more than a million words, so make your readers salivate even more with sneak previews of your posts which will be listed on the main page.

8. Good Cook

   

   This is another drooling food blog theme; the only difference between this and the previous one is that the users would have to click on the image that they wish to view. The images would not rotate automatically on the image slider. This works great for readers who prefer things to be less distracting on a website. Another plus point is that you can use lovely pics in the sidebar as links to articles or categories.

9. Provecho

   

   Links to your best articles are provided in the form of long vertical images, all lined up side by side to entice readers into clicking and finding out further.

   On the left are neatly arranged categories while readers decide which posts they would like to read by looking at the pictures uploaded. If you are all out to woo your readers with images, then this theme is perfect for you.

10. Cooking School

    

    This is one of the best-looking WordPress themes I have come across. You can choose up to 8 images to be rotated in the image slider, all of which will be revealed to your readers in an animated manner. The website menus are located neatly at the top and bottom of the blog, so it is pretty easy to navigate your way around the site.

You might be having a tough time deciding on which theme to get for your blog now, given all the attractive themes that provide an idea of what you can do for your blog too. If so, then simply choose your favorite theme; if you can’t decide, choose two or three for future use! The themes are affordably priced at about $60 each but if you prefer to get it set up and installed for you, the template + installation package will only cost you at slightly over $110.

You are simply delighted with the template you have chosen; it is so pretty and will make your website one of a kind. Or will it? No, if someone else buys the template too. But don’t worry, you can be the sole website in the world to have such amazing templates if you choose the Buyout option.

The template you have “Buyout” will be removed from the website if you’ve bought it out, so no other food blog will look the same like yours! The price to be exclusively unique is $3000; the investment could be quite worthwhile if you are truly passionate about your blog!

Buying templates from TemplateMonster is easy. Simply click on the “Buy now” button at the top of the page of each template and you will arrive at a page with various purchase options. You can choose to have the template installed for you, install popular WordPress plugins or have a logo customized!

You can even optimize your blog for search engines as well as participate an online course on how to work with WordPress. With so many gorgeous templates with various online help and plugins available, TemplateMonster is a good choice to design and beautify your website!

Check out TemplateMonster Official Website

So if you have a website whose target audience is women, you should consider a simple yet appealing theme like WP-Venus from Solostream. Even the name itself indicates that the theme was created with women in mind. So what exactly is it about this theme that women would find so attractive?

• The warm feeling

  Greet your female visitors with a soft-colored website. WP-Venus comes in 4 different colors, all of them pastel and sweet-looking just like candy. There are burgundy, teal, blue and default, which is a lovely shade of lilac, so you can change the colors of your theme as often as you want according to the mood and season!

  I myself personally love these colors very much! Great WordPress theme for Venus!

• The eye-catching image slider

  Women’s purchases are most often made on impulse.

  They come, they see, they buy. So make full use of the large image slider at the top of the page. Choose 5 of your best products and highlight them to your site visitors. They won’t miss these sliding images as it is the first thing that they see upon arrival on your homepage and the ever-rotating images are eye-catching too.

• The portfolio page

  If you’re a wedding photographer, use the template to host your portfolio. If you don’t have a collection of work, use this template to showcase your products instead. The template allows you to categorize your images, making it easy for your visitors to browse or search through them.

• The YouTube videos page template

  You might have some videos to show your visitors, maybe on the many ways they can wear your dress or how to feed your baby the right way.

  Instead of uploading these videos one by one to your WordPress blog, you can post them on YouTube and then use this page template to gather and arrange them for your site visitors to see. By doing so, you’d present all your videos neatly in an organized manner as well as reach out to the YouTube community.

• The widgets

  Widgets make it easier for you to add features and functions to your blog. Among the many available widgets in this female WordPress theme are featured page, category post widget, subscription form widget, YouTube post widget and footer widget.

  In short, many of the standard widgets available in Solostream’s themes are available in this theme too.

• The author’s page

  It is helpful when your site visitors know who’s behind the scenes. The author’s page (sometimes called the About Us page) is very important to personalize a blog or website. After knowing more about you, your site visitors will feel that they are able to relate to you better.

  For instance, if you are a mother of three young children yourself, then other mummies would know that you are dishing out advice from experience rather than someone who is just preaching off the books.

  The author’s page is for you to let people know of your experience and qualifications too especially if you think that it would boost your site visits and purchases, whichever your objective is.

If you want a fuss-free website that is easy to handle and customize on your own, WP-Venus is the solution. WP-Venus is simple and easy to use, so you don’t have to worry if you are a female (or male) with no technical knowledge.

This WordPress theme is compatible with the latest WordPress versions, works with all popular WordPress plugins, is search engine optimized and allows various customizations. Therefore, you don’t need to worry about those issues but can simply focus on your website. If you do get stuck anyhow, you can get in touch with Solostream support personnel who are ever-ready to help you!

WP-Venus is one of the best themes created for the ladies in mind!

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Let’s take a step at a time. What is the most important thing that you should concentrate on doing when constructing your business website or business blog? Well, one of them is to find an appropriate business theme. This article is assuming that you have decided on a WordPress website. It is, after all, one of the more (if not the most) popular Content Management System (CMS) around today and definitely the best solution for your business website/blog!

Right, you’ll probably be aware by now of the tons of WordPress business themes available on the Internet. Well, I’ll be honest here, there are business themes and there are business themes. Not all are the same. Some themes are created from passion while others are for, well… business purposes. Some are free to use and some are to be purchased. The bottom line is you would need to take the effort to screen through these Business WordPress themes to find the one that suit your requirements best. But no worries here for I’ll point you in the right direction in this article.

10 Best WordPress business themes

Here is my list of the 10 best WordPress business themes that’s both beautifully designed as well as functional:

1. SimplePress (ElegantThemes)

   

   You will love SimplePress for its sheer simplicity and its professional look. It boosts of a beautiful Javascript slider, which you can take advantage of to showcase the different products that you wish to highlight. It is very easy for your customers to navigate and features 5 unique color schemes, drop down menus, full width page template and fully functional Blog and Gallery sections. Lots of customization opportunities here!

2. Studium (ThemeForest)

   

   Studium is a powerful professional theme that is perfect for a corporate website. It is bursting with amazing features and flexibility that makes it suitable for both beginners and advanced developers. Its predefined styles, theme integrated shortcodes and widgets, multilingual support and sliders are some of the features that you can expect to get from this WordPress theme.

   Did we mention flexible? The theme comes with over 100 shortcodes that allows you to easily customize the layout, style and typology to create that unique look you wanted!

3. WP-Responsive (Solotream)

   

   WP-Responsive is an elegant responsive business theme. What is cool about this theme is the flexibility of its featured content slider. You can choose to display any WordPress pages or posts (yes, even just a featured post) and combine it with images or videos on this slider.

   The fact that it’s responsive is great for business websites for you can be assured that your website would be automatically adjusted regardless of what devise is being used to view it and to top it up, the theme is highly search engine optimized (SEO) too.

4. Openhouse Real Estate & Automativ Car Dealership (ThemeForest)

   

   This best selling 2-in-1 theme combines a real estate and a car dealership into one WordPress template. Actually, this theme can be customizable into other listing / directory businesses eg RV site, Dental Hygienist directory, Cell Phone company, Dog Breeder directory and just about any businesses that can take advantage of its internal search and virtual calculator.

   The Openhouse & Automativ theme is one of ThemeForest’s most popular themes for many reasons. It comes with a powerful and flexible Search function. Imagine how convenient it is for your customers to search the list of properties through narrowing down by location, number of baths, beds, max / min price and property type. In the case of a car dealership, a search can be done on manufacturer, model, engine size, transmission type, max / min price, body type, mileage and model year.

   Your online presence is further enhanced by additional features like “Google Map”, “Google Street View” and “Compare” and you can easily update your list through the “Reduced” and “Sold” banners. For your customers, there’s a fully featured Loan calculator and a complete amortization table too.

5. WP–Clear (Solostream)

   

   The WP-Clear is yet another popular WordPress theme that is super clean and professional. This responsive theme offers multiple page layouts and templates and is so versatile that it is suitable for a personal blog, online magazine or business website.

   You can choose to display as many or as little content as you like and still have an elegant outcome. Especially for business sites, there is an alternate home page template that is more corporate looking. This theme includes featured content sliders, page templates and widgets to provide plenty of room for customizations!

6. RT Theme 9 (ThemeForest)

   

   With 5 different skin options, the RT Theme 9 definitely has one that suits you. It is the one theme to go for if you are looking for a powerful and stylish, yet easy to use WordPress theme.

   With lots of options, image / video / swf supports, unlimited sidebars and 2 home page layouts, the RT Theme 9 lets you customize your website’s layout and design exactly the way you want, without needing to learn any programming language. It is ideal for businesses with lots of different products for it allows unlimited products to be displayed in unlimited categories.

7. Bespoke Pro (Frogstheme)

   

   Bespoke Pro is a simple and clean premium WordPress theme tailored for business websites. This corporate looking theme has a strategically positioned layout with large featured images, professional typography, lots of theme options and page templates for easy customizations.

   Perfect for showcasing products or highlight any important features. Designed to be simple to build and maintain, it does not require special programming skills to use or even to customize this WordPress theme!

8. Karma (ThemeForest)

   

   Karma is one of our favorite and comes with lots of intelligent features that you don’t often see in themes eg incorporating a stunning 3D slider. Navigating and modifying this theme is so easy with the help of over 100 shortcodes that allows for multi-column layouts, stylish buttons insertions and interface tabs employment.

   It has a smooth and clean feel to it and is packed with an amazing 20 different page layouts and the ability to create an unlimited amount of sidebars.

9. RT-Theme 11 (ThemeForest)

   

   This multi-purpose theme is perfect for those looking for a fresh and contemporary design.

   The RT-Theme 11 comes with 10 premium skin choices with further option to modify or create your own skins, customizable sliders, numerous layout possibilities, product showcase and tabbed product detail pages. Definitely the solution for a company looking for a platform to bring its business to the next level!

10. Corporate (StudioPress)

    

    A sleek and classy premium WordPress theme, the Corporate is more than just what meets the eyes. Simple to use and yet highly customizable, the theme allows for modification of the background and header, has 6 different layout options, choice of up to 6 columns etc.

    On top of that, you also have the option to purchase the theme together with the Genesis Framework. What you get in return is search engine optimization (SEO), turn-key designs, security as well as unlimited support and updates.

If you are planning to start a business website or business blog, regardless of whether you are planning to create an online presence or to offer e-commerce features, the last thing you want is to worry about creating the right website. Fortunately, there are loads of premium WordPress business themes like the ones above, which are able to take this stress off you.

The WordPress themes reviewed above are flexible enough to allow customizations to display your products favorably and can be integrated easily with shopping carts and payment gateways, which are what matter the most in business websites!

So, 10 great WordPress themes. I love all of them. But if you want me to pick one of my most favorite, then, I have to go for Studium. You have to check out the theme yourself to see why.

Check out Studium from ThemeForest

So what are the factors that you must take into consideration when selecting a WordPress theme for your blog or website? Let’s take a look at some of the most important factors, in no particular order.

1. Design

   The WordPress theme is the first thing your site visitors would notice when they arrive at your site. If your theme looks horrible with blinding colors and garish designs, your visitors can be turned off enough to close the browser right away.

   There are plenty of beautiful and well-designed themes around, both free WordPress themes and premium ones. So, take time to choose the best-looking one. When you customize the theme, make sure that the fonts are easy to read and that the colors represent your brand instead of your competitors!

2. Features

   This is probably the most important feature to consider when selecting a good WordPress theme. Make sure that it has all the functions and features you want before you install it, or before you purchase it (for paid themes).

   For instance, if you have an e-commerce website, then check to see if the theme is compatible with any good shopping cart plugin or if it supports the payment gateway you wish to use. If you have a portfolio to showcase, then you might want a theme with a slider so that visitors will see your work as soon as they arrive at your homepage.

   You could make a checklist of the features you want and then run it across your favored theme. You can also check out some of the great WordPress theme designers, for example Elegant Themes.

3. Price

   Everyone loves free things, themes included. There are many free themes to choose from, all you need to do is to search around online.

   But why would anyone pay for themes if there are various free options available? They would have a reason to do so – free themes are usually very limited in features and lack of flexibilities. They are unlikely to offer all the sophisticated features that you would need for your website and you won’t be able to perform much customization too!

   So if all you need is a simple theme, then get a free one but if not, then buy a premium theme.

Best WordPress themes offer

So how do you get the best of all worlds – one with great-looking designs, packed with features that will enhance the functionality of your website and are very affordable and value-for-money?

The answer:

A set of 74 Elegant WordPress Premium Themes for $39 only.

Others charge the same price for 1 or 2 themes alone but Elegant Themes give you unlimited access to all of their 74 themes. That’s not all; you’d even receive 2-3 newly released themes every month, so your library of WordPress themes never stops growing!

Now you can change the themes as often as you like according to various seasons or promotions of your products and services!

Each WordPress theme from Elegant Themes is designed and created with effort and is compatible with all the major web browsers. For the price of a mere $0.52 a theme, each theme comes with the following features:

• Compatible with Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Firefox 3.0, Safari, Opera and Netscape
• Ready for use with AdSense, various widgets, Gravatar and social network sites
• Friendly search function for the entire site
• User friendly yet powerful theme options page
• Custom thumbnail images
• Blank logo images for customization
• Original designs in PSD for easy theme customization

Join Elegant Themes community

Buying the WordPress themes also makes you a member of the Elegant Themes community, where you’d gain access to forums, support and troubleshooting made exclusively available to members only. As such, you know that you can find help easily if and when you need to.

Therefore, $39 per year is really a small sum to pay for 74 (and counting) amazing themes created and supported by the team at Elegant Themes.

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KreaviteThemes is one of the most well known WordPress theme designer from Malaysia.

Who is KreativeThemes

KreativeThemes is co-founded by a team of 2 young and very talented lads Izuddin Helmi (Designer) and Amirul Faisyal (who is in charge of marketing) back in 2009. They specialize in magazine or news, photography and blog themes, though I did find a few that are pretty flexible enough to be converted into other types of blogs/websites.

A new visitor would immediately fall in love with their elegant and professional looking WordPress themes. As at today, they have a total of 10 themes of which 7 are premiums and 3 are free. I would say that their themes are of international quality. Hardly surprising as Izuddin contributes themes to WooThemes too.

KreativeThemes’s packages are divided into 4 plans (from Standard Lite at $29.90 to Webmaster at $99.90), so you get to choose the one that suits you depending on your needs, ie whether you need access to support forum or require PSD source files.

All payments are one off with no monthly fees. Quite a good deal if you consider the fact that the themes are GPL licensed.

What is A Freemium Theme?

For the benefit of those who are clueless about the word “Freemium“, let’s have a look at what it means. As you would have pretty much deduced by now, “Freemium” is coined using the words “Free” and “Premium”.

Now, should you start classifying this word as an oxymoron and in the same category with words like “awfully nice” or “fresh cheese”, let me tell you that you have clearly misunderstood (pun not intended).

What we are naturally inclined to do is to equate premium themes to paid themes. They do not mean the same, though most premium themes are paid themes. Premium themes are themes that have more features, for example, in terms of functions, support, design and layout, than free themes (well, most of them anyway). Paid themes, as the name suggest, requires users to pay before downloading. Users would only be able to play around the demo version until they pay.

But do you know that there are some awesome premium themes around that are also free?

These are called Freemium themes and it simply means that a premium theme is created and provided free by the authors. Anyone can download and use this theme without needing to pay for it. And one such premium theme is the Harimau Malaya.

Harimau Malaya Theme

The Harimau Malaya literally means Malaya Tiger in the Malay language. It is an endangered tiger species that is found in Peninsular Malaysia. It also refers to the name of the Malaysian’s under-23 football team who had in 2010 won the AFF Suzuki Cup after a drought of 14 years. It is this football team that the theme is based upon. KreativeThemes was so proud of this achievement that they created a premium theme to celebrate this historical win!

The Harimau Malaya is a clean and complete WordPress theme.

This minimalist 2 column theme comes with a blog-style main column and drop-down top menu. The widgetized right sidebar allows for full control over which widgets you would like to include there. Individual post comes with a beautifully styled information bar at the bottom, showing date, author, category, number of comments and tags.

There are 2 unique color schemes available i.e. yellow-black and pink-black. The KreativeThemes options panel lets you maintain easy control over the theme from Google Analytics embedded code to changing themes.

There are plans for a premium version of the Harimau Malaya theme but no definite release date as yet.

I highly recommend that you take a look at the Harimau Malaya Freemium WordPress theme. With some minor customization, I’m sure this theme will make its roar felt. Its simplicity allows for speedy downloading, a feature that scores well in the SEO category. Definitely a stylish premium yet free theme that you should try, especially for personal blogs!

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Maybe you have some “Share” buttons at the bottom of each post for you to hope that your readers would share it with their Facebook friends, tweet it on Twitter and perhaps pin it on Pinterest. You must already know by now the power of social media, especially Facebook. It is through Facebook that long-lost friends were found, startups were noticed and became successful, even missing persons have been located too!

So you’d surely want to publish your blog posts on Facebook now. But won’t my job as a blogger never end if I have to write and constantly publish on various other social networking sites? It is time for you to learn how to do things the faster and easier way by automating the process of publishing your posts on Facebook. One such app to help you do so is RSS Graffiti. It can help you to share contents from various other platforms as well, such as Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.

RSS Graffiti Tutorial

Read on and follow these steps on how to publish your blog posts on Facebook using RSS Graffiti.

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti, “like” the page and go to the application.
2. Allow the app to access your Facebook account.

   

   Just like one of those game requests you would have received on Facebook, a page will appear asking for your permission to let it access your account. It’s not possible to use this tool to publish blog posts on your page without letting it access your details, right? So, click “Allow” and proceed to the next step.

3. Add a new blog.

   Upon clicking “Allow”, a new page opens allowing you to add the blog that you want to publish from. On the page, click on “Add New”.

   

   Enter your blog’s URL, and click on “Add Source”. After a short while, the Facebook app should automatically retrieve your blog’s Feed Title and Feed URL. You can edit them if you think they aren’t correct, but otherwise just leave them.

4. Set your posting frequency.

   

   Now, set how often you want RSS Graffiti to retrieve your posts and publish them for you. For instance, you might write one post after another but don’t want them all to appear at the same time to your Facebook friends, so this is where you can adjust the settings so that they would see regular updates instead of a flurry of posts!

That’s it. A few simple steps to setup RSS Graffiti Facebook app, so that it will automatically publish your blog posts on Facebook for you. Easy and simple!

RSS Graffiti is going to launch version 2 really soon. This new version includes even more cool features, such as:

• More Flexible Publishing
• Improved Performance
• Powerful New User Interface

If you are already using RSS Graffiti on Facebook, you should now see the invitation to move to RSS Graffiti 2.0. Just click on the “OK” button to enjoy all the new features!

Now that your website would be full of videos, you’d need a good theme that will host all your videos well. You can consider the WP-ClearVideo Premium WordPress Theme which was created especially for video bloggers or those who want to try video marketing.

Upon arrival at the home page of a website using WP-ClearVideo Premium WordPress Theme, you will be greeted by a large video at the top, followed by many video-containing posts when you scroll further down. Choose your best video to be listed at the top as visitors can’t possibly miss it. Neatly arranged above and beside the videos are the menu, categories, links and subscribe buttons, all of which you can customize, add or remove later on the theme settings page.

Best WordPress Theme for Video Bloggers

While there are several other themes created for video bloggers, WP-ClearVideo from SoloStream is a favorite for the features and functions below.

• Featured page and post slider

  Sliders are always great because they reveal more to site visitors than a still image or page would do. They are also hard to miss as the constantly-changing images will definitely catch the reader’s eye. This way, your visitor will be bound to notice your pages and posts as they rotate on the slider!

• YouTube videos page template

  YouTube is undoubtedly the best place to host your videos and you might already have uploaded a number of them there. With the YouTube videos page template, you can have a page where all your YouTube videos are neatly arranged in rows for viewers to see.

• Portfolio page template

  This page template is great for showing off your work. You can list items from a particular WordPress category before breaking them down into sub-categories for your viewers to check them out. For instance, you may choose to display items from the Photographs category and then sort them according to Portraits, Scenery, Travel and so on.

• Alternate home page

  For whatever reason, you might want your site visitors to land on another home page instead of the main one where you had a list of videos put up. Maybe you want your visitors to get a different look of your site or you are in the process of deciding which ones should go up. Whatever it is, you have an alternative home page to use courtesy of WP-ClearVideo.

• Author page

  After viewing your portfolio, your visitors would want to know more about you. So on the author page, tell them more about the person/people behind those amazing works. Once again, you can upload videos to tell them who you are, or just short text would do.

• Auto-scale design

  People no longer just view websites on a laptop or desktop. With various gadgets of all sizes available in the market these days, you don’t want your website to become disproportionate when viewed on a smaller screen. With the WP-ClearVideo WordPress theme, you don’t have to worry as the theme will auto adjust according to the size of the browser.

• Multiple banner ads

  Don’t just make money from the sales of your products; earn revenue from advertising too.

  You can choose to place ads at various locations within your website; they can be on both sides of the posts or even right at the top of your website. Add or remove these ads anytime you want by accessing the theme settings page.

• Page and post customization

  SoloStream’s WP-ClearVideo theme is very flexible to work with. You can determine how you want your website to look like and then adjust the layout of the pages and posts accordingly. You can change the colors and fonts to suit your taste too.

I am particularly fond of the YouTube videos page template because I prefer to upload videos to YouTube due to its massive reach. This page template allows me to make a summary of what I already have on YouTube, so I don’t have to upload all these videos again through WordPress.

The page and post sliders are pretty cool too because they are something new and different. Other WordPress themes would usually just have an image slider, that’s all they offer!

If the features above are not enough to convince you, you should also know that WP-ClearVideo Theme can be used on multiple WordPress sites, works well with most WordPress plugins and is compatible with the latest version of WordPress. For all that, you’d only need to buy the theme with no more additional costs in the future. The theme is even search engine optimized and can be used with any SEO plugin. As such, any video blogger would find SoloStream’s WP-ClearVideo a great video theme to have!

Check out SoloStream to find out this absolutely awesome WordPress video theme!

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Who is ThemeForest?

ThemeForest is one of the few digital marketplaces where you get to buy and sell templates and themes for a variety of popular content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and ExpressionEngine. You can also find templates for Magento, Shopify, Open Cart, osCommerce and many other software on ThemeForest. It is home to a virtual community (and a vibrant one too!) of designers and users, where over 5,000 templates and themes are being offered for sale and download. Think of it as eBay dedicated for templates and themes. Prices here start from only $1 and can go up to $90, depending on the quality and complexity of the items.

ThemeForest is operated by Envato, which also runs other digital marketplaces as well as educational blogs. These interconnected websites, together with ThemeForest, allow users to sell or share their design works, royalty-free graphics, creative skills (IT related of course) and apps reviews.

At this point, some of you may be wondering why you should be buying themes when there are plenty of free themes available online these days. Well, to answer that, here’s a list of features of ThemeForest.

ThemeForest Features

• Themes were reviewed and approved by ThemeForest’s panel before being put up for sale or download, so you can be sure of their quality
• You get to read other users comments on the templates and themes
• There are 6 ways to search ie by category, keyword, popularity, collections, featured files and top authors
• There’s a live preview to test out the templates and themes first
• Payments are made through PayPal, thus ensuring payment security
• Designs can be purchased and downloaded in just a few clicks
• Designs are sold individually so you only pay for what you want
• There’s also an option for regular license or extended license
• And for designers, it serves as a platform for selling their templates and themes without having to deal with your own e-commerce technicality, marketing and website maintenance

Since no review would be completed without listing the cons, here are some potential drawbacks.

Firstly, there is such a huge collection of lovely themes and templates, you may encounter a feeling of being overwhelmed by it all, though in a good way! So don’t blame us for you have been warned.

The other thing that we found to be a double-edged sword is customer support. Since each designer is responsible for the support of their individual designs, the degree of attentiveness differs from one designer to another. Having said that, the competitiveness of a marketplace environment would push these designers to be more supportive of their customers, in order to provide that extra service in return for a good review and higher sales!

10 Best Photography WordPress Themes from ThemeForest

In this article, I would also like to share with you 10 of the best WordPress compatible photography themes that you can find at ThemeForest.

1. Rhea

   

   Rhea is a beautiful and stylish 2-column photography theme with full screen slideshow for its photo gallery. It supports music on its homepage slideshow as well as videos, images or external links. Widgets are customizable too. Easy to use and navigate.

   Created: 29 December 2011

2. ANAN

   

   ANAN is a modern photography theme that supports full screen image as its background. Contents are displayed in the center on a dark translucent screen. You will love the hidden menu on the side that allows for full screen slideshows. Great for showcasing striking images.

   Created: 17 March 2011

3. Photoshot

   

   Photoshot is a clean and classical theme with sidebar menu and drop-down thumbnails at the top. It is jQuery powered and has 3 homepage variations. There’s also a right-click disable option (so to discourage unauthorized image saving). It comes with a Favorite Box feature that allows you to add photos for viewing later on a full screen slideshow.

   Created: 16 June 2010

4. Slash WP

   

   Slash WP is a very sophisticated theme and is one of those recent WordPress themes that are so rich that it does not look like the “traditional” WordPress blog anymore.
   You have 3 full screen homepage templates to choose from ie video, slideshow and static-image homepages. Great for customization into that dramatic effect that you had always wanted. On top of that, it is also iPhone and iPad friendly.

   Created: 24 October 2011

5. Atlas

   

   Atlas is an amazing theme that only looks slick but also provides you lots of features. The first thing that captures you would be the 4 different homepage styles ie full screen, flip gallery, video background and static image. The next thing that strikes you is the cool jQuery powered animations as well as a password protected gallery.

   Created: 24 June 2011

6. This Way WP

   

   This Way WP theme is a video & audio supported and jQuery powered animated theme that is designed to make your site stands out. Truly a theme for the modern generation as it is optimized for iPhone, iPad and Android devices and comes with Twitter and social media links. The animated menu button and side filmstrip allows for easy navigation. You will fall in love this stunning theme and so will your visitors.

   Created: 6 December 2011

7. King Size

   

   The King Size theme is set to charm its way through your visitors with its full screen image background. The bold menu bar creates a sharp contrast against this background. There are 5 different gallery styles that make showcasing your creative works so much fun.

   Created: 8 March 2011

8. PicTree

   

   PicTree is a clean and minimalist theme with a unique homepage scroller. It allows you to feature all your works in a neat and simple online presence. Other features include easy customization, shortcodes and two color schemes to choose from.

   Created: 11 March 2011

9. Photorific

   

   Photorific is one of our favorite photography themes that are specially designed for the photo enthusiasts. The amazing full screen background conjures a striking contrast for the translucent side menu.

   Created: 18 March 2011

10. Pacifico

    

    Creating a photography website has never been more exciting with Pacifico. Is packed with amazing features like full screen motion slider, 3 different styling options, 8 theme skins, custom SEO options for each page, widgets etc. It is indeed the best way to showcase your creative works.

    Created: 1 February 2012

With so many beautiful and affordable WordPress themes and templates to choose from, it certainly pays to be a member of ThemeForest!

Regardless of whether you are looking for designs for your personal blogs or online business websites or corporate websites or business resume page, you are sure to find one that is perfect and worth your money. It is indeed a win-win concept for both the designer and the user. Try them out and see for yourself.