[Updated: 17 Jan, 2012]
Platform Pro is a powerful WordPress theme framework from PageLines. This professional theme framework helps you built a custom WordPress website in seconds with drag and drop layout and content. PlatformPro comes with magazine & blog layout modes, child theme support, full-width and fixed-width designs, BuddyPress and bbPress integration, advanced fonts, and ajax image uploading. The Section API gives drag and drop website control with layout builder options, drag & drop post types (feature slides, boxes, banners, breadcrumb, callout, twitterbar, etc.) and lots of comprehensive page by page options. In Version 2.0, PageLines is introducing the first-ever extension marketplace for websites. This means you’ll be able to buy and sell almost anything you need for your site.
Orbit: A Pagelines Framework 2.0 Theme
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Pagelines V2.0 New Features
- Responsive Design – PageLines framework will dynamically respond to the resolution of your browser or device.
- Layout Control – Just drag & drop to set up your content layout dimensions. Then select each of your 5 layout options on a page-by-page basis.
- Section Cloning – Duplicate sections so that you can use them multiple times on the same page. Each section gets its own options and is controlled independently.
- Typography – Select from over 50 web-safe and Google fonts. Completely change the look of your website’s typography in seconds.
- Special Page Handling – Now you have tons of control over every type of page. In 2.0 Pagelines introducing Special Pages to help you control pages like categories, and archives.
- Color Control – Use color control to change the palette of your site in seconds. You can also change layout modes and add background images.
PlatformPro Standard Features
- Drag & Drop Design Control – Create and customize your site by dragging and dropping ‘sections’ of content around your theme
- Layout Builder – drag & drop layout dimensions and configure each of 5 different sidebar layout options on a page / post basis
- Design Modes – Choose from tons of design modes such as: magazine or blog layout; full-width or fixed-width site design
- Sections – allow you to drag and drop pre-designed modules of HTML, Javascript and other code on your site (similar to widgets)
- Plug-andPlay Sections – pre-designed pieces of web design (e.g. a feature slider, navigation, carousel, etc..) managed by the section API; so all you ever see is a simple drag and drop interface and options
- Performance – Sections load their code (eg, Javascript), only on pages where they are used and according to best-practices, greatly improving performance
- Controls – Sections can be toggled on or off on a page-by-page basis and add their own post-types and options. This means total control of every page on your site
- Development – Can be created and modified by designers in the Base child theme, meaning designers can add or alter the drag & drop sections in seconds
- Simple – Sections add standard html markup and custom hooks (for extending functionality). Cutting down on a lot of code while giving more functionality at the same time
- bbPress and BuddyPress Integrated – supports integrations with BuddyPress and has a matching bbPress forum theme (developer edition)
- Child Theme Support – to help you customize Platform easily and with best-practices for building a website using “hooks” and custom CSS
- Meta Options – Customize everything on a page-by-page basis through meta options. For example, the number of boxes, items in a carousel, custom images, and more
- Advanded Fonts – Platform allows you to integrate the Google fonts API or Cufon based fonts in seconds
- SEO Tuned – Tuned code for optimal search engine performance and accessibility. Works with all major SEO meta plugins
- WordPress 3.0+ supports the coolest new WP features like custom post types, menus, and custom ‘taxonomies’ (i.e. custom categorizing)
New Features in PlatformPro 1.3 :
- Web Typography – A revolutionary new typography tool.
- Choose from over 50 font options (including Google API Fonts)
- Select font weight, styling, spacing, transform (e.g. uppercase) and variant (e.g. small-caps)
- Preview your custom typefaces live, using the live preview pane
- MetaPanel – The MetaPanel is a new interface for working with the CMS meta options that come in PlatformPro. It combines all the options into one panel, and gives you tabs for each sections you are working with. This should make your workflow liquid fast.
- BrandNav – The BrandNav is a new graphical section which essentially combines your site branding/logo and your site navigation, inline. This was a frequently requested customization and it should save a lot of people some time.
- Developer and Child Theming – Developer and child theming API improvements
- Template Overriding – Overwrite section templates with files in Base.
- Custom Templates – Add new drag + drop templates, with a file and a function.
- Custom Option Types – New hook for adding new types of options.
Watch the tour video for more details.
Price:
Professional Edition: $197
Developer Edition: $397
Demo & Release Page | Download
Genesis Theme Framework have been updated to version 1.4 from StudiPress. Since its conception over one year ago, Genesis has always been about offering valuable features, while at the same time allowing maximum control through the use of intelligent Theme Settings, liberal use of action hooks and filters, and semantic markup. This released offers more control to developers who use Genesis to run their development business; it offers more SEO control for professional publishers; and it offers increased flexibility for bloggers and casual users too.
Below are the new features. Check here for more details.
Import/Export Settings
These are now dead-simple to accomplish with the new Import/Export feature in Genesis 1.4.
User Settings, More Control
Genesis 1.4 introduces a user control system that will allow you, the site administrator, to turn off these features on a per-user basis, all from the user management page.
SEO Options and Setting
With Genesis 1.4, you can now access the same types of SEO options for your author archives as you currently enjoy on your category and tag archives!
Price
Genesis Theme Framework: $59.95
Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $249.95
Demo & Release Page | Download
I am very excited to announce the release of Headway Themes 2.0. And we want you to be part of the launch of this amazing new version of Headway Themes. This is a great opportunity for you and your business. No tricks, no gimmicks, no nonsense. You can get this Premium WordPress Theme and easily make it work for you and your business.
Today you can bring designing a new site down to a few steps, POINT, CLICK, DRAG, DROP & SAVE. And it is truly that simple. With this new revolutionary tool, you will be able to produce the most amazing sites you can. They will be professional looking, functional, and best of all, you’ll save time and money.
If you haven’t heard me talk about Headway Themes before, you need to pay attention to this. You will be able to design what appears to be complicated looking sites with those simple steps. And if you do run into any areas where you might need help, Headway Themes has some of the best support you can find.
Headway Themes is offering a 30% discount if you buy Headway between October 26th to October 29th, enter in the discount code woot when asked. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to truly take control of your web presence.
To learn more about Headway Themes 2.0, visit the Headway site and experience the ease of use, the simplicity, and the power of Headway Themes for WordPress. Check for more details here.
WP-DaVinci is the latest premium WordPress themes from Solostream, it’s far beyond all Solostream themes that released in the past. WP-Davinci is the first attempt at creating a WordPress theme framework. A theme framework is similar to a standard WordPress theme, except a framework is designed to be a flexible foundation to speed up theme development. It also makes it easier to update your theme whenever the need arises, such as when a core WordPress update impacts theme functionality. With a framework, updates can be done without messing up any custom modifications you may have made to the theme.
Solostream welcome any feedback on it as they can continue to develop it over the coming months until WP-DaVinci can be considered a full-fledged theme framework. Let’s make some comments on Solostream!
Here are some excellent features:
- Multiple Page Layouts — There are 7 different page layouts, including 2-column, 3-column and full-width layouts. An added twist is that you can select your page layout site-wide via the theme settings page, or you can select it on a per-post or per-page basis from a drop-down box on the Add Post/Add Page console.
- Featured Content Options — There are 3 different featured content options; a Featured Article slider, a Featured Videos slider and a Photo Galleries slider. You can add any or all the featured content to you home page (as shown on demo site), and you can also add it to an individual page or post via the Add Post/Add Page screen.
- Banner Ad Integration and Management — There are several built-in banner ad sections that can be managed via the theme settings page. You can also manage the various ads on the Add Post/Add Page screen.
- Pimped-Out Theme Settings Page — The new theme settings page is created with a jQuery tabbed navigation script to help shorten the height of the page, and it looks a whole lot prettier too. Below is the screenshot.
- Four Built-in Styles and Style Modifications via Theme Settings Page — You can see the four different built-in style on the demo site. In addition to that, on the theme settings page, you’re able to modify the look of the theme yourself. In particular, you can change the following items:
- Body background (color or image)
- Body font and link color
- Custom logo
- Navigation bars background color and link color
- Post title font and link color
WP-DaVinci Demo Screenshot
Features
- WordPress 3.0+ Compatible (Including Menu Management)
- Clean, 2-Column or 3-Column Layout
- Widgetized Sidebar
- Drop-Down Navigation
- Theme Settings Page for Easy Customization
- 4 Built-In Styles
- YouTube Videos Widget
- Category Posts Widget
- Subscription Form Widget With Social Networking Integration
- Footer Widgets
- Narrow and Wide Featured Articles Slider
- Optional Photo Galleries Slider on Home Page
- Optional Featured Videos Slider on Home Page
- Quick and Easy Logo Integration
- Multiple Home Page Post Layouts
- Threaded Comments
- Gravatar Integration
- Multiple Banner Ad Locations
- Post Thumbnails
- Multiple Post and Page Layout Options
- Built-In Author Page
- And More
Price:
WP-DaVinci Basic Edition: $79
WP-DaVinci Premium Edition: $129(Best Offer)
WP-DaVinci Developer Edition: $279
Demo & Release Page | Download
Catalyst Theme is a feature packed, extremely powerful WordPress theme framework. The Catalyst theme framework makes a solid website development tool that gives you amazing flexibility with unlimited custom layouts, custom widgets and hook boxes that you can mix and match to build any page structure you desire. The Catalyst theme comes with 22 custom skins, and the Dynamik Child Theme provide 600+ no-coding design options giving a crazy amount of design control, a custom CSS building tool that writes custom code for you and a gazillion other things you’ll have to buy catalyst to find out about.
Catelyst Theme is the incredible new tool that helps accelerate WordPress Site development. With Catalyst, the potential is practically unlimited.
Homepage Layout
Example Theme Options Panel
Features
- Unlimited custom layouts, widgets & hook boxes provide amazing flexibility
- Included dynamik child theme provides over 600 no-coding design options
- 22 included custom skins
- Create your own custom child themes with a single mouse click
- Custom CSS building tool that writes custom code for you!
- Comprehensive font control – fully integrated with the Google Font Directory API, and third-party fonts services such as TypeKit
- Full set of SEO options – with in-post / in-page & homepage title, description, keyword & meta control along with clean code
- Fast, efficient, HTML5 & CSS3 validating code
- Auto-Update feature
- Image uploader built into the dynamic child theme
- Page templates from powerful to simply essential
- Full Import/Export of ALL your catalyst and dynamic options
- Built-In custom widgets: excerpt widget, author bio widget, ad widget and a PHP text widget
- Easily add your own custom Favicon & Avatar to your site
- Fully compatible with WordPress MU (multi-site)
- Comprehensive documentation that’s built right into the theme options
- A pure framework filled with hooks & filters galore
- And a gazillion other things you have to buy Catalyst to find out about!
Price
Personal Edition: $97
Developer Edition: $174
Demo & Release Page | Download
About Thesis
The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a premium template system designed to serve as the rock-solid foundation beneath any kind of website.Thesis comes with one of the most comprehensive and powerful option panels that allows you to easily control and customize almost every aspect of the framework with ease. You can choose the font style and sizes, colors, 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.
Thesis Back-End Options Admin Page
New features of Thesis 1.80:
- SEO Character Counters
- Google Font Directory Support
- New Security Enhancements
- Favicon Uploader
- Custom Loop API
- WordPress Nav Menu Support
- Category / Tag / Taxonomy Page Options
- Header Image Uploader
- 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 Here
Price:
Personal Licence: $87
Developer’s License: $164
Demo & Release Page | Download
Obox Mobile is a fantastic mobile WordPress theme framework from Obox Design that will easy convert your WordPress website into an sexy, attractive, mobile friendly experience when people visit from mobile phones or other mobile devices (such as iPhone and Android, Symbian devices). The Obox mobile framework is packed with some pretty rad features including: touch operated feature post slider, automatic orientation adjustment and more.It also comes with 3 amazing mobile theme styles:MobiLight, MobiDark, WooMobile.
Features
- Includes 3 Themes – Obox Mobile comes packaged with three sexy looking themes(MobiLight, MobiDark,WooMobile)
- Touch Operated Feature Post Slider – simply drag your finger across the screen to slide between posts
- Plug and Play – no requirement for setup time. Simply download & install the plugin and you’re good to go!
- Automatic Orientation Adjustment
- WordPress Mobile Theme Framework – build on top of it and easily add custom designs with mobile child themes
- Menu Management
- Search Bar
- Obox and WooThemes Integration
- Commenting (including threaded comments)
- Logo Uploader
- Background Uploader
- Advert Management for Mobile
- A theme switcher built into the WordPress admin panel
- Automatic Upgrades
Price: $50
Demo & Release Page | Download
RichWP have just launched the RichWP Theme FrameWork for WordPress. All previous customers do not have to buy the FrameWork. RichWP will send it out within the next days.
The Demos
Demo & Release Page | Download
Below are some features about RichWP Theme FrameWork
- Create unique and professionally designed WordPress-based sites in minutes.
- No Coding Knowledge Required.
- Extensive Design Options & Presets
- SEO-friendly Architecture & Code Output
- Easy to Use — Delivers fast results
- No Usage Restrictions — Use the RichWP FrameWork on as many sites as you want
- Extensive Design Editor to create the look you really want without hacking code
- Design Presets to speed up your design process
- Child Theme support to enhance functionality and diversify your layouts even further
- Theme Option settings backup to secure your work
- World-class caching system to make your site lightning fast and keep the workload on your server to a minimum (a big thanks to Jason from PriMoThemes for all his work)
- 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
- Fast, Responsive one-on-one support via email and Skype. Don’t stand in the rain. Waiting for answers in support forums is annoying.
- Enhanced Photo Gallery to present your photos and artwork (normal & full-screen mode)
- WordPress 3.0.1 Ready
- Works In All Major Browsers
Price:
RichWP Theme FrameWork: $127.00
RichWP All Inclusive Pack: $467.00
RichWP Theme FrameWork Benefits Include:
- Use on as many sites as you want
- Design Preset Starter Pack
- Detailed instructions
- Free Updates
- Fast, responsive one-on-one support
RichWP All Inclusive Pack Benefits Include
- RichWP Theme FrameWork
- All current and upcoming Child Themes
- All current and upcoming Design Presets
- Free Updates
- Fast, responsive one-on-one support
Frugal is an ultra clean,light, fast and flexible premium WordPress theme framework that gives full control over the design, layout and functionality without needing to touch the code.The Frugal theme has a framework design giving you the power and flexibility to create a site that’s uniquely yours.
Frugal Theme Price: Personal: $87 Developer: $164
Frugal Theme Skins
Sleek
Price: $29 | Demo & Release Page | Download
Tabber
Price: $29 | Demo & Release Page | Download
Synthesis
Price: $29 | Demo & Release Page | Download
Impression
Price: $29 | Demo & Release Page | Download
Blackout
Price: $29 | Demo & Release Page | Download
Newsprint
Price: $29 | Demo & Release Page | Download
