10 Awesome August 2011 WordPress Premium Themes
It seems designers don’t believe in going on a summer holiday as there has been another enormous burst of quality Premium WordPress Themes in August. Making a small list of just ten of those is pretty hard, but choices have to be made.
This month I specifically looked at the different theme styles to pick the best among them. These styles of course include Portfolio themes, but also Business/Corporate, Full Screen portfolios, Tablet and Smartphone compatible themes and more. Actually I kind of skipped the regular “blogging” layout as we’ve seen enough of those 
Before listing this month’s best paid Premium themes, I’d like to point out WooThemes’ celebratory 100th theme release, which is totally FREE! Awesome stuff. Have a look at Swatch right now and give it a try!
1 Crea WP – $30
Flash-like Full Screen Portfolio theme by Dream-Theme
Features
- Full Screen, Flash-like design
- Fade and Carousel Sliders
- Powerful background builder
- Header font, logo and favicon customization
- Highslide JS
2. MultiToool – $35
WordPress Theme Framework by bloooming
Features
- Great for professional web designers and beginners alike
- Modify built-in themes or create your own
- Unlimited number of templates per skin
- Currently supports 520 fonts (supported by fontsquirrel.com)
- Resource Management Tool for all your layout images
- StyleSheet editor
- Template editor
- Droplets: edit everything from sliders to drop-down menus to sidebars
- Areas: create unlimited areas so you can simply drag and drop your droplets
- Easy updates without losing your customizations
- Multisite-ready
- A must for professionals: the administrator Panel is re-brandable
3. Artboard – $35
Full Screen Portfolio/Blog Theme by epicera
Features
- Powerful fullscreen jQuery slider
- Browser-tested on all major browsers
- Font replacement+ (everything from Google Fonts to Cufon to Typekit is supported out of the box).
- iPad/iPhone/Mobile-friendly
- Responsive front page design
- 8 Page templates included
- Widgetized sidebar and footer areas
- OptionTree admin panel (customized and skinned for the theme) complete with hundreds of options to let you customize the theme to your own preferences
- Full blog feature-set and everything else you would expect in a premium WP theme
- Extensive documentation
- prettyPhoto 3
- Chosen dropdown menus
- Tipsy animated tooltips
- Powerful shortcode system
- Contact form 7 ready
- Optional “minimal” style
- Superfish + HoverIntent dropdown menus
- Graceful CSS3 and HTML5 elements built in (that work on all browsers)
4. LeanBiz – $39/year
Business Theme by ElegantThemes
Features
- Four Color Schemes
- Threaded Comments
- Optional Blog-style Structure
- Gravatar-ready
- IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
- Advertisement-ready
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Options Page
- Custom thumbnail images
- PSD files
- Valid XHTML + CSS
5 Minimalia Theme – $39
Elegant Thesis child theme by Smashing WP Themes
Features
- 4 types of Thumbnails
- Proper ad placement
- Beautiful typography
- Widgetized footer
- Custom CSS for plugins (Contact Form 7 and WordPress Popular Posts)
- Built-in Social Share buttons
- Built-in author box
- Custom Comment area
6. Yield – $35
Creative WordPress theme by Siiimple
Features
- 3 Awesome Sliders
- 240 Pattern Combinations
- 3 Blog Layouts
- 9 Page Templates
- 9 Color varieties
- 8 Single Page Layouts
- Sticklr Side Panel
- Social share buttons
- 5 Gallery Layouts With Custom Isotope Filter – including pagination
- 2 to 6 colums
- No TimThumb!
7. Alight – $35
Portfolio WordPress theme by MushinDesign
Features
- 2 homepage sliders
- Filterable Portfolio
- 10 Widgetized areas
- 5 Widgets
- Sliders on portfolio pages
- Different Header fonts to choose from using Cufon
- Lots of beautiful background patterns to choose from
- Auto image cropping
- Choose between dark and light nav and footer variations
- WordPress post format support
- Custom post types to manage the slider and portfolio
- AJAX contact form
- Theme options
- Plenty of shortcodes
- Page templates
- Unbranded admin area
- WP3 custom menus
- Plus more…
8. Coalition – $35
One-Page Portfolio Theme by Kriesi
Features
- Multi-Purpose Slider for images and videos
- Any Number of Slideshows possible
- Supports Videos
- Template Builder for unique page layouts
- No plugins needed whatsoever
- Built on Avia Framework, one of the most advanced Frameworks on Themeforest
- Visual Shortcode editor with preview function
- Custom Widgets like: Combo Widget, Recent News, Recent Portfolio entries, Advertising Big, Advertising Small
- Color picker options for any number of gorgeous color settings.
- Unqiue Sidebars for each page/category possible
- Extensive User Manual, short videos and professional theme support by me and my theme to fix any kind of problems
- Portfolios & Portfolio Custom Post types
- jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
- Code built with SEO best practice in mind
- PSDs included
9. Broadside – $35
Professional Portfolio theme by ProgressionStudios
Features
- Flexible Theme
- Video Documentation
- Unlimited Menu & Logo Background Colors
- Full Screen Background Image
- Video Support
- Easily Modify the height of the theme from the options panel
- Shortcodes built into the WordPress Text Editor for ease of use
- Support for WordPress custom navigation menus
- Includes layered PSDs
- XML Demo Content included for quick setup
10. WordPressNext – $35
Corporate/Business theme by madza
Features
- Video Tutorials for installation
- 3 Different Sliders
- Extensive Admin Panel
- Pricing Table Manager
- Unlimited Colors (using built-in color picker)
- 16 Background Patterns
- 3 Different Portfolio page styles
- Hompage Widgets
- Flexible pricing table (2, 3 or 4 columns pricing table)
- Page styles ex. full with, with left or right sidebar
- Styled typography and flexible page columns
- Built-in Many Shortcodes
- Style shortcodes ex. image frame, dropcap etc.
- Column shortcodes ex. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 columns
- Built-in Shortcode Generator plugin
- Custom Post Type support for Portfolios and Slides
- WordPress 3.0 menu support
- Blog page single post and comments
- Contact us page with validation
- PSD included
- jQuery powered effects
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