The 10 Best Premium WordPress Themes of October 2011
It’s been a busy month in WordPress themeland. There were loads of beautiful releases and it it has taken some time to pick out the best ones for this list.
One of ‘em was a logical choice to incorporate in this list though, because just over a week ago I changed the theme of Allyouneedislists.com from the excellent free Arras Theme to a new Premium theme called Boulevard. This was in preparation of the start of my new job which is going absorb most of my free time as well: I needed some more ease of use and flexibility.
Have a look at what October 2011 has brought us:
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1 Boulevard – $35
WordPress Magazine Theme
Features:
- Unlimited skins
- PSD of logos
- 3 Post formats (videos, audio & galleries)
- Inbuilt review system
- WordPress 3.0 menu support
- Custom theme options panel
- 7 Custom widgets
- 2 Custom pages
- Lots of shortcodes
- Easy thumbnails with WP built in function
2 Sky – $39/year
Business/Corporate theme
Features
- 5 unique color schemes
- Automated thumbnail resizing
- Gallery section
- Advertising management
- ePanel theme options
- Shortcodes collection
- Page templates
- Complete localization (translation)
- Support and updates
3 Acoustic – $35
Creative/Portfolio blog theme
Features
- Powered by Pexeto Panel
- Unlimited skins
- 4 unlimited sliders
- Advanced slider management
- Flexible and unlimited portfolio pages
- Advanced styling buttons
- Font management
- Automatic black & white image effect
- and much more
4 Flashlight – $35
Full-screen photography portfolio theme
Features
- 6 different Galleries (Fullscreen, Masonry Grid, Inline Slideshow, Inline Attached, Classic 3 Column, WordPress Default)
- Any Number of Galleries possible, Galleries can be attached to each post, page or portfolio entry
- Exif data display
- Performant javascript fullscreen slider on very large resolutions. Supports pattern overlay of images, autosliding, tooltips, thumbnails and more
- Optional image overlays for background slider, so visitors cant just right click and save your images
- Supports Inline Video Content with the help of WordPress Embed function
- No plugins needed whatsoever, everything is included within the theme
- Translation Ready
- Visual Shortcode editor with preview function
- and much more
5 DK – $35
Full-screen photography portfolio theme
Features
- 4 Homepage Styles
- Full Screen slideshow for Photo Gallery
- 10 Page Templates
- 6 Gallery Page Templates
- Password Protected Gallery Support
- Extensive galleries admin. Support multiple images upload
- Portfolio content support videos, images or external link
- 7 Custom Widgets
- Styled typography and flexible page columns
- Built-in Many Shortcodes
- Column shortcodes ex. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 columns
- Custom Post Type support for Portfolios
- WordPress custom menu support
- Facebook and Twitter integration
- and much more..
6 Bookcase – $30
WordPress Portfolio theme
Features
- Uniquely Interactive Portfolio
- 70+ Google Fonts
- XML and SQL files included to load default content.
- 5 Featured Section Textures
- Light and Dark Versions
- 5 custom WordPress widgets
- Powerful Unbranded Theme Options Panel
- Fluid width layout
- WordPress 3.2 Ready (Menus & Featured Images)
- Custom Post Types, Custom Image Upload Fields
- Unique features slider – say goodbye to icon feature lists!
- Child Theme Support for Advanced Users
- and much more..
7 Studio8 – $35
Minimalist full-screen portfolio/photography theme
Features
- 2 Skins – Light & Dark
- WordPress 3 Features: Menus, Featured Images & Custom Post Types.
- Support for Mobile Devices
- Unbranded Theme Options
- Awesome Background Slider
- Unlimited Portfolios
- 3 Custom Post Types
- Shortcode Generator Built Into Visual Editor
- 2 Blog Templates – Paginated & Unpaginated
- Automatic thumbnails without Timthumb
- 2 Portfolio Templates – Paginated & Unpaginated
- Easy Gallery Management – Upload 100’s of photos in 4 Clicks!
- and much more…
8 New Horizon – $35
Blog & Portfolio WordPress theme
Features
- Unlimited layouts
- Full screen slideshow
- Masonry & Fluid layouts for portfolio and blog archive pages
- Video support
- Social ready
- jQuery enhanced
- Custom elements
- and much more…
9 Shotzz – $35
Business/portfolio theme
Features
- Valid HTML5
- Advanced and compact jQuery code running behind the scenes.
- Changeable stage with 5 options
- Sidebar manager
- Custom post manager with ability to create single post file on the fly
- Slider manager with 40+ effects and 6 slider types
- Call to Action manager
- Form builder with CAPTCHA verification and Ajaxified submissions
- Dynamic footer, boxed or full width option
- 8 Gallery types for gallery manager
- Video support for portfolio items with smart sense
- Video thumbnail support
- Filter categories for posts and portfolios
- SEO optimized
- Detailed admin panel without branding
- Unlimited galleries and portfolios
- and much more…
10 Score – $40
WordPress & Buddypress Review theme
Features
- 2 Theme Skins – Comes in a blue and black skin
- Powerful Review System – Utilizes GD Star Rating WordPress plugin
- Filter Reviews – Order reviews by score, date and title
- BuddyPress Support – This theme work with the latest version of BuddyPress
- Frontend User Options – Custom register, login and profile pages on frontend of site
- Follow Posts – Follow posts (games) and have them show up in your front-end profile
- Lots Of Amazing Shortcodes
- Commercial JW video player – An excellent video player that comes with a commercial license worth $80, supports self hosted audio/videos (FLV, MP4 , MP3 , HTML5) and YouTube
- Full Localisation Support – Contains .po/.mo files for language translation
- Individual Page/Post Customisation – Change various layout options on each individual page (or globally if you want)
- Custom Widgets – Comes with GP Posts widget to enhance your post display in the sidebar
- Improved PrettyPhoto Lightbox – Supports images, videos and page content (also uniquely supports FLV , MP4, MP3 files)
- Contact Form – Built-in ajax/php contact form, with javascript turned off fallback
- Dropdown Menus – Unlimited levels, with javascript turned off fallback
- Drag & Drop Menu Manager – WordPress 3.0+ powered
- Background Manager – WordPress 3.0+ powered
- Unlimited Sidebars – Create as many sidebars as you want and assign them to individual posts/pages
- jQuery Disabled Support – jQuery 100% unobtrusive and degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
- Theme Options – Tons of easy to use options to customise your theme
- Full Theme PSD Included
- Documentation – Detailed step by step help guide
- Compatible In All Major Browsers
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