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We at Templatic love niche themes so when the opportunity presented itself to create a price comparison theme we jumped right on it. This theme has been on our radar for a while so it’s a relief to finally release it. Please welcome Price Compare theme! Price Compare is for those looking to showcase products from different sources on the web. To make the theme accessible and easy to use data feed entry was greatly simplified, but more on that later.

View Live DemoPurchase Price CompareTest Price Compare

Price Compare theme offers built in support for two data feeds; Amazon and CJ (Commission Junction). This means that you can showcase thousands of products on your site without lifting a finger! To enable the feed from those two sources all you must do is populate the necessary information in back-end and everything is ready to go. You can even set the frequency in which new data will be pulled from the actual source. Other data feeds are uploaded using a .csv file.

One of the things we’re proud about is the design. Homepage is fairly simple while still offering everything you would need from a price comparison site. When it comes to the homepage everything from the header to the footer is customizable with widgets. Because of its unique functionality Price Compare comes with a number of custom widgets; Search Price widget for instance. That widget allows visitors to quickly find specific products based on their price input. Home Page – Content widget area offers some cool functionality specific to Price Compare theme. Every “Latest Products” or “Popular Products” widget you add in that widget area isn’t added below the other widgets as you might expect but as a new tab! This will make handling all those products much easier.

Instead of offering a couple of skins we included a Style & Color options panel which allows you to customize your site quickly without touching a single line of code! Background color/image, fonts, link color – it’s all editable from the theme options panel. For editing elements not included in the back-end you can always use custom.css feature. To get a glimpse of Style & Color settings area watch the Video Overview below.

Just like in most our recent themes there is a custom post type for products making them completely separate from regular WordPress posts. In other words, anything you create under Posts -> Add New will automatically display as a blog post. Once you set up the data feeds all fetched products will display in the Products section in your WordPress admin panel enabling you to easily find and tweak them. Creating a navigation bar is also super easy since you can add product categories and even individual products to your custom menus.

Video Overview

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Tweet about the theme by clicking on the “Tweet” button or Like/Share the theme on Facebook in the next 2 weeks and be among 2 winners who will get a copy of this theme absolutely FREE! Twitter users will be notified with a direct message. You must follow @templatic in order to participate!

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We realize that a lot of time has passed since the announcement, are you happy with how the theme turned out?

Along with releasing new themes we like to be busy and surprise our existing members with upgrades for their favorite themes. In the past few months we released upgrades for DailyDeal, Hotel Booking, Real Estate and all our eCommerce themes. Also let’s not forget the big launch of GeoPlaces v4 back in February.

Today we are announcing updates for a number of themes, four to be precise. The themes are:

• Job Board
• Classifieds
• Events
• Automobile

Upgrades for these themes will roll out in the same order as they are listed above with Job Board being first and Automobile last. To leave suggestions and feature requests please click on each of the themes in the list. You’ll be taken to a forum thread where you can leave your suggestion.

All of these upgrades will be completely free for all existing theme users!

Some of the features you’ll see in these themes are already included in our recently released themes. These are features like custom fields, custom user profile fields and price packages. To learn more about this functionality watch the overview video for our Realtr theme.

Which one out of these 4 themes are you looking forward to the most?

Just like last month, here are all the tips published on Facebook and Twitter during April

April 1
Want to add a floating social bar to your theme? Check out Sticky Social Bar -> bit.ly/H8faNq
 
April 2
Here’s a cool customization for Publisher users…make your slider sort products by publication date -> http://bit.ly/H8Aywx
 
April 3
Need a F.A.Q section for your site but don’t feel like doing it manually? Check out this cool plugin -> http://bit.ly/HHZDQS
 
April 4
Quickly find and insert free photos using the Compfight plugin. As plugins go, this one is awesome! http://bit.ly/HlW701
 
April 5
Struggling with WordPress? Here are answers to 15 questions that WP beginners ask the most http://bit.ly/HxOT4f
 
April 6
Here’s an awesome plugin for all of you who don’t like updating their Google+ accounts manually – Twoogle -> http://bit.ly/IgDF54
 
April 9
Enrich your WordPress experience with these (free) admin plugins -> http://bit.ly/HCm62G
 
April 10
Want to make your WP login page match the rest of your site? Check out this cool plugin -> http://bit.ly/Ih6289
 
April 12
Thinking about adding a “Donate” button on your site? Here’s some useful plugins and advice on how to do that http://bit.ly/Iy6fAo
 
April 13
Using Skype for contacting your clients/visitors? Check out these two useful plugins -> http://bit.ly/ISvcIQ
 
April 14
Want your content to go viral at any cost? Try the Viral Lock plugin -> http://bit.ly/HM7mgw
 
April 16
Here’s a tutorial we hope you’ll never have to use – How to fix your hacked WordPress site http://bit.ly/IGZ8JB
 
April 17
3 important tips for starting a successful blog -> http://bit.ly/IVDF0S You’ve got the first one covered with TechNews! http://bit.ly/IVDSRv
 
April 18
When you see us mentioning a file that’s located in the theme root folder, know that you can probably edit it from Appearance -> Editor
 
April 19
Your homepage isn’t working correctly? Make sure you have “Your latest posts” selected in wp-admin -> Settings -> Reading
 
April 20
Are your users annoyed or confused by the WordPress toolbar? Turn it off using plugins like this one -> http://bit.ly/J4Cnzj
 
April 21
Want to know how to get indexed by Google quickly? Read the following article -> http://bit.ly/JeHddw
 
April 22
Our forums are riddled with awesome theme-support content like the Support Content sub-forum -> http://bit.ly/Ixn2F0 (members only)
 
April 23
Here’s another list of useful plugins for your site -> http://bit.ly/JBlyuu Are you already using some of these?
 
April 24
We started adding videos to our GeoPlaces v4 theme guide. You can see the newest one here -> http://bit.ly/I7Y1nL
 
April 25
We just created a new page which should make finding support content easier. Visit it here -> http://templatic.com/support-content/
 
April 26
Can’t decide whether to add a donation button to your site or not? Read this article, it might help -> http://bit.ly/JJzBhU
 
April 27
Are you creating blog posts with footnotes in them? This short tutorial is for you -> http://bit.ly/Ix2NWq
 
April 29
Everything you ever wanted to know about controlling the WordPress admin bar -> http://bit.ly/JUo41S
 
April 30
Keep your site safe using only one plugin. Read all about it here -> http://bit.ly/IPRGuU

This April has been all about real estate themes. Two weeks ago we released Realtr, a fresh new take on the real estate market with awesome looks and even better features. Today we’re releasing a big upgrade for Real Estate, our first real estate theme.

View Live DemoPurchase Real Estate 2Test Real Estate 2

People that liked original Real Estate design will be extremely happy to know that design has stayed pretty much the same in Real Estate 2. Our development team focused exclusively on the back-end. This enabled them to include awesome features like…

Category listings with a twist

Category listing pages have a nifty little switcher that when pressed changes the listing view. The best part here is that it contains a Map view so your visitors can easily see where are those properties located. Real Estate 2 also comes with an all-new page template for showing your properties on a Google Map. There is a special section in theme options for managing this map. You can choose whether to show all listings or set a fixed scaling factor (zoom), among other things.

Custom fields | Custom search

With custom fields you’re given the tools to quickly and painlessly populate your property submission form with new input fields. What’s more, every custom field you create can be auto-magically included in the homepage search form. Existing fields inside the form are also listed in the back-end so you can disable or edit them at any time. To see how easy it is to change an existing field watch the overview video below.

Price packages

Unlike the original Real Estate theme that allowed you to create only two different payment plans now you can create as many as the heart desires. On top of that price packages enable you to create category-specific and even recurring payment options.

Other improvements/features inside Real Estate 2:

• Custom post type for properties
• Five unique skins
• Bulk Upload and Export for both posts and properties
• Sleek back-end with tons of new options
• User profile fields
• IDX/MLS compatibility using dsIDXpress plugin

Existing Real Estate users can get Real Estate 2 completely free! Just login to member area and download the theme

View Live DemoPurchase Real Estate 2Test Real Estate 2

Video Overview

Are you an existing Real Estate user, are these the things you wanted to see in this upgrade?

Few weeks ago we teased a new real estate theme with a completely revamped design and functionality. That mythical theme is completed and ready for you to dive in. This new gem is called Realtr and it is THE best real estate WordPress theme out there.

View Live DemoPurchase RealtrTest Realtr

 
Members using our RealEstate theme will be delighted to hear that virtually every RealEstate feature has seen an improvement with Realtr. How does this translate to the real world? Read on…

Get rich using price packages

With the new price packages feature you now have complete control over the services you offer to visitors. Unlike in RealEstate where you could only setup two different price types now you’re not only given an option to create an unlimited number of price packages, but also the freedom to set them up how you want it. Category-specific price package? Recurring price package? All that is now possible!

Custom fields at their finest

Creating custom fields before meant editing the code but that won’t be the case with Realtr! Realtr comes with an advanced custom fields management system that will enable anyone to create a new field within seconds. Custom fields in Realtr provide you with tools to create your own search! Every custom field you create can be included in the search widget on the homepage. You can see a glimpse of this in the video overview below.

Show all properties using Google Maps

Category listing pages have a nifty little switcher that when pressed changes the listing view. The best part here is that it contains a Map view so your visitors can easily see where are those properties located. Realtr also comes with an all-new page template for showing your properties on a Google Map. There is a special section in theme options for managing this map. You can choose whether to show all listings or set a fixed scaling factor (zoom), among other things.

Better content management

With Realtr we are continuing the trend of implementing custom taxonomies and post types when appropriate. In Realtr you’ll have a special post type for your blog post and properties. This will also enable you to create better custom menus since you can easily include property categories and even individual properties in your custom menu.

Property tags that make all the difference

In order to further differentiate one listing from another Realtr introduces property tags. These tags can be created in theme back-end and work in different ways. You can use the tags to mark the most popular listings or you can use them to highlight listings that you believe deserve the most attention. They are also a great tool to emphasize specific discounts or promotions.

Yes, it’s responsive

Realtr is our first responsive real estate theme and we’re extremely proud of it. You might be thinking, what about maps? Maps are responsive as well! Open the demo site on your tablet or mobile phone and see how the theme looks on other browser and devices.

Plethora of other features

• Get unique information from your users with user profile fields
• Customize all emails and messages that are sent or displayed by the theme
• Set prices for each of your categories as well as category icons (for the Google Map)
• Number of built-in payment gateways including PayPal, Google Checkout and 2CO
• Track all purchases using transaction reports available from the theme back-end
• Create promotions and various offers using the built-in coupon module
• IDX/MLS integration
• Already have a lot of content in csv format? Upload it using the Bulk Upload feature!
• Enable Facebook connect with WP-FacebookConnect plugin
• Specify how rent will be charged (day/month/year)

View Live DemoPurchase RealtrTest Realtr

Video Overview

Share & Win 

Tweet about the theme by clicking on the “Tweet” button or Like/Share the theme on Facebook in the next 2 weeks and be among 2 winners who will get a copy of this theme absolutely FREE! Twitter users will be notified with a direct message. You must follow @templatic in order to participate!

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Is this the real estate theme you were hoping to see? Let us know in the comments below.

The title says it all. Two years back we released Real Estate – one of the best real estate themes for WordPress. As part of our upgrade process of existing themes, Real Estate theme is getting a face lift this month. That means custom fields, custom post type for properties, custom user fields – the whole shabang!

But this post isn’t about Real Estate theme, oh no, we’re working on another real estate gem! Above is the teaser to what’s coming but the real beauty is in the back end. Plus, there are lots of new things which is not previewed here at all.

Watch out this blog for further announcement on this. For even more info about these two themes make sure you’re following us on Facebook and Twitter. This is going to be interesting :)