Last year I did a review of Mimbo, a free magazine style theme for WordPress. Since then, Mimbo has become one of the most popular and most downloaded themes not only because of the popularity of magazine themes but also because it's feature-rich, user-friendly and easy to customize. As proof, you can see customized versions of Mimbo used in many websites and blogs.After the huge success of Mimbo, the author Darren Hoyt finally released his first and much anticipated premium theme, the Mimbo Pro Magazine Theme last week. For this project, he collaborated with Ben Gillbanks.Here's a short introduction from Darren himself:Mimbo Pro is a powerful and feature-rich theme for Wordpress, developed by Darren Hoyt and Ben Gillbanks and released through Ben’s Pro Theme Design marketplace.Already familiar with the original Mimbo? Imagine no more manual template editing, no more Photoshop, no more image-cropping or FTP’ing... Enjoy using Wordpress like a CMS, now more than ever.Screenshot:
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 12, 2008
In the past, the thought of selling premium WordPress themes was unheard of and seemed unfeasible because of the availability of many free public WordPress themes. Late last year, Brian Gardner changed it all when he released his Revolution WordPress theme and with that, started the whole WordPress premium theme revolution.Yesterday, Brian announced the release of his latest project called the Revolution Pro Media Theme. If you loved the original Revolution theme, I'm sure you'll also love this theme or even more.Some features of the Pro Media theme include:Featured homepage tabber area Featured photos from Flickr Featured YouTube video Other featured areas using custom fields Google AdSense integration in between posts and comments Section, Archive, Blog page templatesScreenshots:Homepage
Continue reading...Monday, January 21, 2008
UPDATE #2: I’ve fixed this already and everything seems to be okay when I checked with Opera. Please let me know if you see some errors or bugs with in this theme. Thank you! UPDATE #1: Less than an hour from being launched, there’s already a bug. If you’re using Opera, the featured article section is [...]
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
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