Summary of Wordpress Premium Themes
There seems to be a growing demand for higher quality themes for WordPress. Whether or not you are interested in a Premium theme or a Free theme is sometimes a difficult choice. Some free themes are really top notch so depending on what your needs are there may be no need for you to purchase a Premium theme. But, there are more and more high quality (and some unfortunately low quality) premium themes as well.
There are usually three types of Premium themes available – single site, multiple site and developer license, although some sites just have either single site or developer licenses. In most cases you would normally go for the multiple license unless you are certain you will only use the theme for one site. If you are a developer, obviously you would want to choose the developer’s license. Some of the good premium Wordpress providers that I have found are:
My current favourite theme is the one I use on this site, which is WP-VYBE. It has a lot of flexibility in the admin menu, great support and a great design.
| 1. WP-VYBE | |
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No. of themes: 12 Pricing: $99 (single), $199 (multiple), $299 (developer). But there are cheaper themes from $49 up. Type of themes: Magazine Customization services: Possible through other developers. Notes:Theme settings page in your Wordpress control pane, 2-column or 3-column layouts, 10 different color options, Gravatar integration, Optional banner ad integration, Optional built-in post thumbnails, Optional logo/header image integration via control panel, Built-in drop-down navigation for sub-categories and sub-pages, widgetized sidebars and alot more…. |
| 2. ARTHEMIA | |
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No. of themes: 1 (but customization through admin panel is possible) Pricing: $70 (1 site), $140 (5-site), $240 (developer’s pack) Type of themes: online magazine, corporate, personal blog Customization service: Nothing mentioned Notes: Flexible theme admin panel, category colour assignment, auto-thumbnail old posts, banner and adsense management, show or hide headline spoilers, adsense friendly. |
| 3. PRESS 75 | |
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No. of themes: 3 Pricing: $75 (single), $150 (mulit-site), $250 (developer’s license) Type of theme: Video/TV themed Customization service: None listed Notes: Ability to post using videos from several sources including Blip, TV, Flickr, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and YouTube. You can separate the blog from the video and there is an embed code allowing others to embed videos on their site. |
| 4. WOO THEMES | |
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No. of themes: 10 Pricing: $70 (single) , $150 (multiple) for each theme Type of themes: Business, CMS, Magazine/News, Personal blog, Portfolio Customization services: none advertised.
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| 5. ZIDALGO | |
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No. of themes: 2 Pricing: $75 (singl), $249 (developer’s license) Type of themes: News/Magazine Customization services: None advertised Notes: Google adsense, Widget, plugin ready, custom category search, author pages, 100% Valid XHTML/CSS, cross-browser tested. |
| 6. MIMBO PRO |
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No. of themes: 1 Pricing: $99 (single), $199 (developer’s license) Type of theme: Magazine Customization services: none advertised Notes: Built in contact form, automatic cropping and resizing of images, printer friendly rendering, custom templates for search results, date archives, sitemap, contact, author archives and category archives |
| 7. GABFIRE | |
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No. of themes: 2 Pricing: $59 (single), $159 (multi), $259 (developer) Type of theme: Magazine, News, Wordpress showcase Customization services: Yes. Fill in your budget, colours to be used, example sites and message. Notes: Built in FlickR support, video spot, Ajax tabs, custom 404 error page, Gravatar support, drop down menu |
| 8. VIVA 7 | |
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No. of themes: 1 (but customizable from admin panel) Pricing: $79 (single), $199 (multiple) Type of theme: CMS Customization service: none specified Notes: Looks similar to the Mandigo theme. 7 colour schemes (red, orange,green, blue, teal, purple, pink), 2 layout widths (800px and 1024px), Drop down Page Menu bar that can be positioned left, right or center, Image thumbnails are all generated on the fly. |
| 9. QUOMMUNICATION | |
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No. of themes: 2 Pricing: $75 (single), $145 (5 site), $245 (developer pack) Type of theme: News/Video Customization services: none advertised Notes: Everything built in, no plugins required to run, widget ready, category support for organizing videos, W3C standards compliant, browse videos without reloading. |
