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Ever since templatic.com started we’ve released at least 2 themes per month on average. On few occasions we even managed to release three themes in a single month. However, time has changed and you probably already noticed that most of our newer additions are “app-like” themes which are way different than simple magazine and portfolio themes. These themes demand a lot more time and effort when it comes to research, designing, programming totally new functionalities and so on.

On the other hand, WordPress as well has evolved to a totally different height with lots of new possibilities. Some of our popular themes like Real Estate, Job Board, E-commerce Themes, GeoPlaces etc. need a well-deserved facelift. On top of that, several recently released themes like Daily Deal, PlusOne etc. need some important additions.

This leads us to a decision of releasing one theme per month instead of two. The additional time will give us time on upgrading existing themes and spend some more time on a theme that we release every month.

This directly affects our existing club members and we would love to know your views on what do you think about this decision.

If you keep up with the latest developments at WordPress, you’d probably know that version 3.2 is out now, after a few beta and RC releases. It brought with it some cool new features and some notable UI changes too. We’d like to notify our users that WordPress 3.2 has some minimum requirement changes as mentioned below.

• PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater)
• MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)

We’ve tested our themes on WordPress 3.2 and are glad that they are all working as they should. In a rare event, if you find any issues with any of our themes, please let us know via our helpdesk and we’ll sort it out.

Icons, as we already know, are so useful and important in a web project. We’ve released quite a few e-commerce WordPress themes here but for the first time on templatic, we are releasing these beautiful icon set for free. We call these as Glyphs, because they represent things in pictorial form. Sometimes, you don’t need to say anything and things are self explanatory. These icons will let you do this exactly. These icons will really serve a great purpose for those who are just starting out their new Ecommerce projects. We’ve wanted to be pixel perfect, and we really think that we succeeded in this. Every minor details are taken care of, and here’s the result – presenting 50 Glyphs.

These are 50 icons of 256 × 256 size in PNG format. Take a look at this and let us know what you think about it. Comments are always welcome. Now your icon collection definitely needs something awe-inspiring. Go, grab it !

Download

Feel free to download the glyphs and use it on your projects.

Download Templatic Ecommerce Glyphs Icon Set
50 icons | 256×256 pixels | .PNG format

License: You must link to this blog post when sharing the Icons, and you must not upload these files anywhere else. This icons set is released under Creative commons 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.

You guys loved our earlier posts showcasing theme previews. We received many positive and constructive ideas about what features to include in our upcoming themes. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to showcase a preview to the themes released in last 3 months because of frenzied development and release schedule. But hey, we are back again with the teasers.

Here are some previews of some of the upcoming themes we are excited about. What’s special about our themes is that they are strategically structured. We try to wire frame and iterate them unless a satisfactory layout is created that includes most of what a particular niche theme requires and works best for the business. Talks apart, here’s the previews…

StoreBox and several other ecommerce themes

This has been long time pending. It’s been real long since we released an ecommerce theme on this site. Well the wait is almost over and you should see few dynamic themes about to be released in this niche very shortly.

Appointment

You asked for it and you are going to get it. Appointment theme for doctors, therapists, consultants, spa or salon owners, astrologers or any service based business who require their customers to set prior appointment. We are sure you will love this strategically beautiful theme. It is structured and planned in such a way it will help you showcase all aspects of your business while also allowing you and your clients to dynamically manage appointments with your business.

Plus One

Named after google’s plus one feature, this unique theme lets you vote on a post you like. Also you can enable your visitors to submit an article and keep track of their favorite posts.

Kind of a mini social media site based on WordPress.

Spa & Salon

A slight variation to the appointment theme, this theme particularly focuses on spa or salon business. It has some similar features of the Appointment theme, plus some specific features.

Hotel Booking

This upcoming elegant theme will focus on hotel business and hotel room booking. This theme is specially crafted for hotel business owners. Make sure you check this one out.

More?

Well this is preview to some of the themes coming up shortly at Templatic. Are you looking for a particular theme that is not available at Templatic store yet? Wish to share some unique theme ideas? Please comment here and let us know how we can improve.

Feedback & Suggestions

We’d love to hear your feedback on upcoming theme previews showcased here. It will help us make some last minute critical changes in the themes if required. Love them? hate them? Just shoot your opinion via comments.

If you are an existing templatic customer, here’s a tiny but nice update for you. You do not need to manually request invoice anymore. Simply login to your templatic member area and manage your own invoice. It was a real challenge for our coding team but customizing and generating your own pretty invoice is now possible.

To get the PDF invoice follow these steps:

1. Visit member area: Login to member area
2. Edit Profile: After logging in, click on My Profile. Fill out the profile where you can add your company name, company address, Tax / VAT ID etc. as per your wish and then click on Save Profile. Note that the same information will be printed in PDF invoice.
   
3. Payment History: Now click on Your Payment History. And then click on Invoice link at middle right. That’s done. You will be able to see the invoice in the next page. Just save it or print it, your wish.
   

If you wish to change name, company name, address or Tax ID in the invoice, simply edit your profile and download the invoice again.

So that’s it, this is how you can generate the PDF invoice.