Nov
25

Professional looking, XHTML valid Wordpress themes are really hard to find, is it not ?

From the numerous free Wordress theme galleries around, it’s really hard to find one that the crowd will immediately identify as “professional looking.” Almost all the free Wordpress themes available are amateurish, and leave that “yet another copy” impression to your blog.

If you are willing to move away from the “free” tag, there are actually, way better options for you.

For instance, the wordpress themes from Elegant Themes are really very impressive and stands apart from the normal themes, including magazine style themes.

I agree that there are lot of professional premium Wordpress themes out there that are really ahead in design, but I find that they will cost you as much as hiring a designer to code on from scratch. To top it, exclusive licenses are very hard to find.

Now, the reason why I like Elegant Themes is that,

- They have really cool looking wordpress themes that stand apart from the rest.

- Most of them come with great functions like thumbnail resizer and magazine style options.

- Easy to install (I really mean it.). It’s easy as plug and play like a normal wordpress theme. Remember those functions normally need additional tweaking for other themes, but for this one, they are very minimal.

- Reasonable price.

- You get six cool themes for the price of one.

E Gamer
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E Vid

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Cion

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Grunge Mag 

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E Gallery

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Influx

preview-influx-2

Most of them come with these features

  1. Widget ready sidebars
  2. Theme Option Pages
  3. Custom thumbnail images
  4. PSD files
  5. Valid XHTML + CSS
  6. Smooth tabless design
  7. Social bookmarking ready
  8. Featured Articles
  9. Gravatar ready
  10. Firefox compatible
  11. IE7 + IE6 compatible
  12. 4 Diverse Skins
  13. Wordpress 2.6 compatible

I guess $ 19.95 for all six of them is a great price ! And they do have support over at the forums.

Check them out.

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  1. Is all theme search engine optimized? let me know please.

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Hi Sakib, I’ll say yes. However, you’ can tweak the codes a bit to fine tune them. By default they are say 60% optimized.

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  2. I must concur. I recently won a free membership and they are awesome! :)

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  3. Nice tip!
    I bought them. They’re beautiful and technically advanced.
    Thanks!

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Im sure yoou’d love them Enrico.

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  4. i also own them, they really beautiful,

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  5. Good ones there. Some of the best looking WP themes I have seen. Wish they had one or two magazine themes, though. The current themes, though are excellent - some of the highly priced WP themes from some of the well-known names in the market are crap to look at. So these ones are an big relief to my eyes.

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Yea Matt, that’s one feature I found impressive in them. I hope the mag style comes in soon. however some of the existing ones have the configuration as close to as magazine. Just the functions that is.

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  6. The prices seem affordable, I will try out one soon.
    By the way I read yesterday that GoDaddy is giving out .com domain for $0.99, just use the promo code: 99domain

    Maybe you should try with mani.com and karthik.com now. I remeber you saying at BCK that you regsitered your name just because you wanted a domain in your name.

    lol..

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Arum I already am on Manikarthik.com

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  7. Mani, I just visited Elegant themes, And they said $19.95 for one year membership. So we have to pay $19.95 every year to use a theme..?

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Nope. You get access to the forums and the members area for one year. you can download the themes and use it as long as you want but if themes are added later after one year, you wont get access to them. Its only a time based limit.

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