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3 Free Memberships Available to Elegant Themes Club

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:28:03 +0000

Over the past two years the premium themes market has continued to innovate and prices have steadily declined to the point where you can find a nice premium theme for a very affordable price. With that said, there still is not a better premium themes deal available than the Elegant Themes club, which gives you access to all of their premium WordPress themes for only $19.99 a year.

Thanks to a generous offer from Nick Roach, the founder of Elegant Themes, I have been given three free memberships to give away to WordPress Hacks readers. Before I give the details of the giveaway, here are the three most recent premium WordPress themes released by Elegant Themes:

Lumin Theme

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Elegant Themes Announces New Custom ePanel

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:28:02 +0000

Over the past year the premium themes market has continued to grow and expand, causing designers to search for ways to separate themselves from the competition.   Because many buyers choose to customize the design to meet their personal needs, it only makes sense for the focus of designers to instead turn to building custom settings pages that allow for a ton of flexibility.

These settings pages have become very complex in many cases and can offer a variety of features, including selecting where you want your sidebars placed, how many sidebars, which color/design style sheet should be used, or it can also offer simple things like places to enter your custom RSS feed, twitter feed, and Google Analytics code.    As I’ve watched these control panels evolve over this past year, it has been truly amazing just how much can be changed without changing a single line of code!

Nick Roach, the founder of the popular Elegant Themes theme club, has been offering complex settings panels on his themes for as long as I can remember, but earlier this week I was given a peak at the new revamped settings panel named ePanel. This new settings panel is extremely complex and will eventually be added to all of the themes included with an Elegant Themes club membership.   As of today’s date, ePanel is already integrated into the following themes and available for download: eBusiness, eNews, ePhoto, PureType, Bold, and CherryTruffle. Nick promises that the remaining themes will receive the same treatment over the coming month(s) and all themes will include this new ePanel.

So, what exactly is ePanel?   Here is a screen shot of the updated design:

As you can see from the screen shot above, there are a few bonus tabs under the General Settings tab alone, and there are a total of 8 tabs down the left sidebar.   The General Settings has the following 3 tabs: General, Homepage, and Featured Slider.

After loading up the theme to see how the settings panel works, I have to say I am very impressed!   It looks like the General tab (under General Settings) allows you to select the style sheet color you want to use, enable/disable blog formatting on the homepage, Feedburner integration including all your Feedburner settings, and selecting the date format (dates are displayed differently depending on what part of the world you live in).   In the Homepage tab you’ll get access to category display, as well as the ability to exclude certain categories of your choice. Of course the Featured Slider tab allows you to control how the featured slider works.

That is just the beginning though, as on the left there is also a series of tabs which include a large number of other settings.   You’ll find Navigation options, Layout Settings, Ad Management settings, Colorization, and you’ll even be able to control certain SEO settings on the SEO tab (mostly meta information similar to how All-in-One SEO Pack works).

The best part is that all this new functionality is available for all Elegant Themes club members!   Currently a membership to Elegant Themes is only $19.99 for an entire year, and stays at that price in order to renew your yearly membership. You can learn more about the Elegant Themes club here.

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Preview of New BloggingTips Themes – Feedback Wanted

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:12:07 +0000

It’s been a long time we have released any WordPress themes through BloggingTips so I pleased to announce that I have two themes in development for you all.

One theme will be a premium theme and will probably be released for a reasonable price though the second one will be free for all Newsletter subscribers. Both themes are being designed by our friends at Blog Design Studio.

They should hopefully be ready for release within the next week or so. I haven’t named the themes as yet but I thought I would give you all a preview and ask you all for some feedback.

* Note, you can click on any of the preview images in this article to see a slightly larger preview.

Personal Blog Theme

The first design I want to show you is our BloggingTips first premium theme. The theme was designed for specifically for personal blogs though I’m sure it can be modified to suit any website you have in mind.

The sidebar features an area for your picture and a section to give people a brief introduction about yourself. The details can be entered from the themes admin area.

Below that is a social media area, categories, latest posts, latest comments and a blogroll. The theme will be widget ready so it will be easy to change what information you put there.

The home page shows large excerpts of the latest two articles. Below that is a link to the next 5 latest articles.

The theme will be available in a variety of colours, all of which can be selected through the themes admin area. Blog Design Studio is designing a blue design (shown above), a red design and a black and white one. I am also going to add some more colour options for you all. If you are interested in the theme and have a preference please let me know in the comments area and I will try and add it.

The price of the theme will be affordable though at launch I plan on offering the theme for $9.95 to Newsletter subscribers for 7 days only. So make sure you are subscribed to take advantage of this offer as it won’t be mentioned on the blog again

* Note, although this theme isn’t being released through our theme store BlogThemesClub, existing club members will be able to download it for free if they want.

Free WordPress Theme

The second theme I want to show you guys is a work in progress. The coding hasn’t been started yet and the final design may change too. Please bear this in mind with viewing the previews below as there are alignment issues in the screenshot (these will obviously be corrected before release).

Like the previous theme, this design will be widget ready. The name and description of the blog are automatically placed at the top of the blog however this can easily be replaced by an image.

Here is a preview of the home page:

The one thing I am not too sure about is the featured article area at the top. Do you think it would be better if only one article was previewed or do you think it would be better if the featured article area was dropped altogether?

This second screenshot shows the post itself.

As you can see from the above image, the featured posts, resources and meta information are displayed directly below the comments rather than being embedded at the bottom of the theme itself.

It’s a good clean theme and will be very easy to modify so I’m sure many of you will find it useful. It’s the kind of colour scheme which tech blogs use a lot though I have no doubt that it will be used in a variety of different niches.

Feedback Wanted

I’d love to hear yours thoughts on the themes mentioned above. I will be releasing more free and premium WordPress themes through BloggingTips in the future. Your suggestions will influence what gets designed so please, make your opinions heard

Thanks,
Kevin

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