Features

• Localization (getttext) Support
• WordPress and WPMU compatible
• 8 Colour Schemes
• Featured Content Slider on the Homepage
• Category Based Advertisements
• Advanced Theme Control Panel
• Automatic Image Resizer
• Photo and Video Gallery Modules
• Multilevel Dropdown Menus
• Unique Magazine / News Layout
• Nice AJAX Slider for Featured Entries
• Built in Banner Management
• AJAX Tabs
• Search Engine Optimized
• Fully Widgetized Main Page, Sidebar and Footer (30 widget zones)
• Ad Optimized

Price:
Standard: $59
Developer: $179

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Features

• jQuery Featured Content Slider
• Multiple Page Templates
• Custom Options Panel
• Multiple Widget Areas
• WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu and Custom Background
• 16 Possible Colour and Texture Combinations
• Post Thumbnails
• Smooth Animated Drop-down Menu
• Upload a Custom Logo
• Threaded Comments
• Twitter integration
• Fully widgetized homepage
• Button Shortcodes

Price: $49

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If you run a social network or any kind of online publishing service, you will be hit by spam, if you haven’t been hit already, and Akismet wants to help.

When most people hear about Akismet, they often think about WordPress, but Akismet is actually available for over twenty additional systems and platforms, including Movable Type, Drupal, phpBB, PunBB, and libraries for PHP, Python, and .NET.

If you’re running, or planning to run, a social network or online publishing service, the Akismet team wants you to know that they can not only protect you from direct spam, but from parasite spam as well, as long as you can give them a way to contact you.

Akismet’s pattern and volume monitoring abilities make direct spam easy to filter, but ever since the dawn of forums, spammers have opened accounts for the sole purpose hosting their spam on your site. Thanks to Akismet’s pattern monitoring, the Akismet team can easily track the source of these parasite spammers and notify the site’s owner, but there’s little they can do if they can’t get in touch with you. Since contact forms can break without warning, the Akismet team recommends that you provide a traditional abuse@yourdomain email address. If you don’t want to make this email address public, at least contact Akismet and have it placed on file.

Are you using Akismet on your social network or online publishing service? With so many options available, why not try it today? Parasite spam can hit almost any site driven by user content, so don’t forget to offer your contact information to the Akismet team.

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Grid Layout

List Layout

Features

• 3 Layout Options – Full, Grid or List views
• Featured Content Slider
• Extensive Design Editor – to create the look you really want without needing to hack code
• Design Presets – to speed up your design process
• Child Theme Support – to enhance functionality and diversify your layouts even further
• Theme Option Settings
• World-Class Caching System – to make your site lightning fast and keep the workload on your server to a minimum
• SEO-Friendly, Performance-Driven Architecture – to provide enhanced accessibility; your site will work on most mobile devices
• Full WordPress Photo Attachment Gallery – support to efficiently create big photo galleries (including Full-Page Mode) Built-in advertising placements
• Enhanced Photo Gallery – to present your photos and artwork (normal & full-screen mode)
• WordPress 3.0+ ready
• Works in all major browsers

Price:
Affiliate Theme + RichWP Framework: $127
Affiliate Child Theme: $27

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If you know of someone, or are yourself a blogger on Vox, you should know already that Six Apart has announced plans for closing the service. Users have until the 30th of September to get their data our of Vox and into other blogging and/or CMS platforms if they so choose.

Mark Jaquith has a great suggestion on how to Import a Vox blog into WordPress or almost anything else. In short, he suggests that you import your Vox blog into a vanilla WordPress.com blog and then export it out as a WordPress export file. Then you actually have a bunch of choices of what to do with your blog. PS: Be sure to mark your WordPress.com blog as private before importing if you do not intend to make that your final destination.

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New plugins

List Yo’ Files adds the ability to list files by file name for a given folder with hyperlinks to each file making it downloadable.

Readable Names forces commenters to write their names in the language that your blog uses.

WP-comment-master enhances your comments with AJAX posting and pagination.

WP-WikiBox allows you to get a Wikipedia article summary for a keyword in any language, inline with your posts and pages, with a simple shortcode.

Updated plugins

IE6 Upgrade Option displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the IE6 user that their browser is out of date, and provides links to download newer browsers.

Vimeo Quicktag enables the user to embed a customized Vimeo video into the blog content.

WP-Stats-Dashboard displays your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard.

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Features

• 3 different skins
• Threaded comments, custom menus, and multiple widget areas
• Options to set post image sizing and alignment
• Dual-column sidebar widget areas
• Navigation dock on the right side
• Custom footer text
• Theme Framework Setting Options Panel – favicon, logo image, header code, footer code, search & feed setting, etc
• Skins – provide different looks for the theme without changing the core functionality
• CSS Styling – Using the bundled Themify Framework you can easily edit any CSS property from font styles to background images
• Import & Export Settings
• XML Configurable
• Custom Widgets – banners and links, twitter, feature posts, recent comments, flickr etc
• Layered PSD file included
• Cross Browser and SEO Friendly

Price
Sidepane Theme: $70
Theme Club: $150 (all themes)

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The WordPress development team had a very successful meeting last Thursday, where they solidified their plans for WordPress 3.1.

The finalized goals for WordPress 3.1 are “to have a very short dev cycle, a decent amount of testing time, and a release in mid-December. Low on new features, heavy on ui and code cleanup, and avoidance of schema changes. Save the big ideas for 3.2 where we’ll have the liberty to implement those ideas in PHP5. No schema changes and no big new APIs.”

Besides bug fixes and code cleanup, users can look forward to a new wordpress.com inspired admin bar and theme browser, as well as post templates and styles, and a separate network dashboard.

The team plans to halt new feature submissions on October 15th, followed by a primary code freeze on November 1st, and a string freeze on December 1st. The beta period will begin November 15th until the estimated final release date of December 15th.

Keep in mind that this will be the last major release to support PHP and MySQL 4. If your hosting provider has not yet switched to PHP 5.2 or higher and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher, it’s time to start bugging them.

Personally, I’m really looking forward to seeing what will come of the development team’s focus on bug fixes and code cleanup with this release. What are you looking forward to in WordPress 3.1?

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About Thesis
Thesis is a powerful and flexible premium template system for WordPress that makes it easy for anyone to create and 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, colours, 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.

If you think the base Thesis layout pictured above looks a bit basic check out some of the awesome Thesis customizations here.

Thesis Design Options Page

New features in Thesis 1.8 include:

• Header Image Uploader
• SEO Character Counters
• Google Font Directory Support
• WordPress Nav Menu Support
• Category / Tag / Taxonomy Page Options
• Favicon Uploader
• Custom Loop API
• New Security Enhancements
• Lots of other minor improvements

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.
• Colour Control – Thesis allows you change the colour of virtually every element of theme. Easy change text, border, link, background colours etc
• 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.
• Options Manager – allows you to backup, save and restore custom Thesis settings
• JavaScript Libraries – Add jQuery, jQuery UI, Prototype, MooTools, and others with a single click
• Easy 301 redirects for affiliates
• Ready for Localisation
• Much More – read about more Thesis features here

Price:
Personal Licence: $87
Developer’s License: $164

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BlogTimes is an old school Newspaper style WordPress Theme, based on a three column fluid layout, enabled with cufon fonts with beautiful typography for the headlines, options panel, and a custom front page slider.

Dark Tuts is a very clean WordPress theme that has been designed with blogs in mind. This theme has an HTML5 doctype, clean and valid code, 3 color schemes (blue, green, red), 3 different ways to add post thumbnails, the ability to change thumbnail sizes via the theme panel, 1 advertisement spot and tons more features.

Quick-Vid is a simple blogging theme with slick design elements.

Semanu is powered by the 960.gs css framework with multiple widgets and a 3 column layout.

Syailendra is an adsense (advertising) ready theme with multiple widget positions, threaded comments, theme options, drop-down menus, and custom menus.

WP Perfect is a two column SEO optimized WordPress 3.0 ready theme. The theme has a jQuery-based options page that lets you change basic settings easily.

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