You have noticed that at templatic, we’ve been providing you out of the box, practical and strategically planned premium wordpress themes that helps you represent, grow and monetize your business on the web.
Past this month, we are working on improving things for existing customers by providing revolutionary features such as auto-install of a theme. Also we’ve been working on creating some different, unique themes that will be released over the course of next few months.
We are showing the teaser to the themes in work here just so you can provide us your suggestion/critic on time and we can make the theme even more practical for your actual use.
Note: Click on each image to view full size screen shots.
Answers Theme
The theme is inspired by Yahoo Answers and Darren Hoyt’s wpquestions.com project. As the theme suggests, this is a theme that turns your wordpress install into a question-answer website. Users can quickly register and ask / answer questions. User profiles are managed on your front end. They can manage their own questions / answers and other users can rate the answers. Not only that, as an admin, you can even charge money from your users for asking questions (Just in case you want to start a paid consultancy/help business)
Hospitality
This theme is targeted for hotel/hospitality business. Elegant look, relevant sections and widgets will make it even more inline with the hospitality business.
Rejuvenate
Just like hospitality, hair salon, spa and other beauty services business need a good web front. This theme should help you get a professional website for them.
Automobile
You have already seen the best ever real estate theme that we released earlier. On the same level, we wish to build a car portal. The initial design is ready but we don’t have a damn clue on what section/features we should include in an automobile portal.
But we are sure you guys will provide is with nice suggestions and make things easy for us to build.
Hello Magazine
You rarely see a magazine theme on this site. That’s because there are plenty of magazine themes available in the market already. Unless we are to build something different, we’d not make one. Anyway, we think Hello is a unique and different kind of magazine theme. Coding in process.
Single Product
We have released few CMS themes to represent your product but haven’t provided this useful structure. So, here’s one more theme to represent your product on the web.
BlackBerry
And finally there is blackberry. We are not sure on this name yet but this theme is almost same to our iPhoneApp theme released earlier. The difference is, this theme will be a bit advanced and can be used to represent almost any product – A mobile phone, software product, book, music CD, DVD or other product. Awesome isn’t it?
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We need your feedback
Our earlier themes show that we DO listen to our user feedback. The themes in our store are practical useful because you guys provided valuable feedback earlier and we revised our themes accordingly.
Like the themes previewed here? Please help us make them perfect when they are in design phase. Think the themes are missing some important features or, we got something wrong there? Here’s your chance to change the themes and get it right. Please let us know your critics via comments here.
Very sharp!!
I like the HelloMagazine theme the best.
Great designs
I love templatic and just bought the Club Membership – you guys rock. I am most interested in seeing more of the Hello theme…
I do a lot of church sites and there are VERY few church themes that really work for what we need (most are too…well, ‘churchy’ looking and are not relationally themed/customized) When creating church sites I need to be able to have/include:
1. sermons – audio that is easy to listen to (simple buttons), easy to download and is automatically fed to itunes and the same for video’s of the sermon
2. calendar – for multiple ministries
3. an easy back-end to turn over to the church volunteers (who usually know very little about html/css/graphics)
4. as much automation as possible (if you put an event on the calendar page, then it also duplicates itself on the front page calendar and into the corresponding category.)
5. Simple soc net icons that are visible above the fold
6. Easy to navigate drop-downs for multiple ministries within each church
7. Ability to customize one theme and then duplicate that look onto multiple church plant websites (not mu) for consistency
Since many new people arrive at your church via your online presence first, these sites have to be as simple as possible to navigate, clean, and easy access to the info.
Currently I am playing with the design/layout of Grace (the original color is a bit too old-fashioned, but the black/white style sheet appears to be better for what we are looking for), but I believe that your new Hello theme may work for this as well. It will be great to see the back-end functionality and see if we can customize it to be relational. Of course I can create a lot of my above requests with various plug-ins, but it would be nice to have as much of this functionality already built into a theme.
But if you are ever taking theme requests, then a powerful ‘relational’ theme customized for churches would be on my wish list.
I agree with Janelle – Grace is the best church theme I have found, but I would like to see some more up to date feature – with a design geared to young adults – and I really like her list of features. I would have a few other requests:
- login area – a password protected area for things like church directory, and a reasonably easy to use admin panel to approve membership requests. Ideally, I would love several levels of access so one my username would access general member area as well as a leadership area, other member usernames would only access general member area – but even just a simple single entry access area would be a huge advance!
- easy photo albums – a simple interface to select a whole group of photos to upload into a single album – a great addition would also be ability for users to upload photos, preferably with a simple administrator interface to approve uploads before they are published.
- Easy way to link to facebook photo albums and video
- I like the slide area at the top of the grace theme – but it would be great if it would automatically rotate through the slides
Thanks
Mark
I personally love the hospitality one, and can not wait for that theme to be released!
Geez Bhavesh, you sure didn’t make it easy to choose.
Top three among our team:
1. Hello Magazine – yes there are lots of magazine themes out there… and they all look the same. This design stands out from, and above the herd.
2. Single Product – just plain excellent! Please rush this one. We have a dozen affiiliate sites we can use it on.
3. Automobiles – another good one. Be sure to have customization tips ready when you release this. I see it being re-configured work in a wide number of product niches.
Nice work… as always. We purchased WP-remix way back in ‘08 and still use it. Then we followed you PremiumThemes.net.
Nice to see someone who does good work keep succeeding.
The Hello Magazine theme need a build-in Google Adsense 468×60px “widget/module position” on the frontpage after the first two news – above the fold!
I’m ready to purchase the Blackberry (or whatever you plan to call it) theme. Please let me know when this will become available.
Thanks
Some interesting ideas you’re proposing. I would be particularly interested in the Answers theme. I suggest that you take a look at QHub for some inspiration and ideas: http://qhub.com/
But instead of people paying to ask questions, it would be better to charge people to answer questions.
You want people to ask as many questions as possible. Questions are leads.
So charging them to ask is raising the barrier, whereas charging people to answer makes more sense because they will have something to offer from which they could financially benefit.
Again, think of questions as leads.
Also, I think some form of credit system would be useful, on a sliding scale, i.e. answer 10 questions for $5; 30 for $10 and so on. A counter will count down each time they answer a question, with a reminder to ‘top up’ when they reach a certain level.
I have a very specific need and use for something like this, which I cannot discuss here.
They all look good as do all your themes, I would suggest you sort out the support issues first before
releasing more themes?
How about spending a bit of time in the support forum answering some of the questions especially regarding guest checkout issues.
Of course. We have 2 full time support persons who mange support at support forums. Plus, we have recently started helpdesk so we can track issues even better. You might want to create a support ticket at http://templatic.com/helpdesk as well.
Plus, recently we created and implement “auto-install of a theme” feature to all our existing + new themes and members got free access to that.
Besides that, we are also working on revising member area, introducing a customization job board that we are announcing this week.
Your suggestions are also welcome on our support improvement.
I am interested in a theme that would provide the user the opportunity to put multiple products on a site, where they can download photos to multiple galleries (birthday, college, wedding, corporate gift, friends), provides descriptions, include pricing, options for shipping, paypal or other credit card payment, testimonials, ability to add quotes in a text box on each page and change at will, as well as a blog about products. Do you have a template like this already? There are multiple businesses that could use this. I have yet to find a great design.
Thanks,
Alicia
something similar is coming soon. here’s a sneak peak http://twitpic.com/1hrx7x
That is awesome, even at this early stage.
Add that theme to our “rush” list, along with Single Product.
Have at least twenty websites that we can use those two themes on.
We’re serious WordPress users. Would love to be alpha testers for your themes.
Please let us know if that would be helpful.
My vote is as follows:
Automobiles
Blackberry
I am a Premium Club memeber and LOVE all the themes!
I like the look of the services-oriented themes and the “Hello” theme.
Regarding your product / store themes, I have done a lot of work with “Store” and “eShop”, and find both of them very good, but I want more from each of them.
My feedback with the commerce themes you have created is that they seem to be based around one big image of a product, with the slider to allow for more big images of single products, next to text about those specific products.
I would like to see an “iBusiness” type of theme that will give me room to talk about the virtues of my store – my employees, our knowledge, our customer service ethic, etc. – to provide my contact information and an opportunity for visitors to opt-in so I can email them news and specials.
The one you’ve got now that most closely resembles what I’m looking for is “Gourmet,” with a cleaner look (colors and fonts more like WP-Store or the other product themes), and with the e-commerce features.
There are many brick and mortar businesses, like restaurants, hotels, and spas, but also toy stores, pet stores, and other specialty retail stores that rely on customers coming into their stores for their sales, and who want to use the web to drive physical traffic rather than online transactions.
These businesses need their sites to demonstrate their personality, as an opportunity for gaining customer loyalty, and to get permission to market to them directly. Sales over the web is a good feature to have, but should not be the central focus.
I’m in the middle of re-doing “Gourmet” to make it more of what I want. I’ll send my modified version of it to you when I’m happy with it.
Thanks!
Thomas
LOVE the blackberry theme and can’t wait until it comes out!!
Rejuvenate Theme Time Frame?
Very anxiously awaiting the release of Answers and Hospitality!!! When do you think they will be available?
tx,
jake
I look forward to ProductFolio.
My day job is in an automotive advertising agency so my interest is in the automotive theme, is it similar to your real estate theme as in its for individuals to sell vehicles or could it be used by retailers such as car dealerships?
If its for dealerships try “dealer [dot] com” for some easy ways to approach the sections. If it’s geared toward sellers visit sites like edmonds [dot] com and others to see how they delineate information about cars.
Overall I like it alot!
I love all of these themes, just a suggestion for all your themes, how if you add “Localization” feature, because I think it will more easy to us to edit it in one file instead edited it one by one on themes files
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I hope you make a “Local Business Directory” theme next
Yes, a local business directory or yellow pages type theme would be pretty slick if it’s anything like the quality you guys have already produced. Incorporating local user content/contributors and businesses, advertising, reviews i.e., yelp like… would be a very popular theme.
The themes look great. Do you have an expected release date please for the Answers theme?
I agree achmad I have a chamber site I need to do. I was going to work with the Rejunvenate and use the directory plug in. Any news on when these will be ready?
Robin
I love Hospitality, Automobiles, Rejuvenate and Magazine themes
Hi!
Any news on the Answer Theme? Do you expect it to be released anytime soon?
Thank you very much!
Craig.
I should like a membership site too…
Excellent set of themes here. Great to see that you are producing a Car Portal theme as I have been looking for a something like this for awhile now.
Some suggestions for the Car Portal theme would be:
Search Area – Change ‘Brand’ to ‘Make’
Instead of the ‘Used Car’ : ‘Select City’ city selection box, just change this to ‘City” with applicable selections.
Include another radio area with the label ‘Category’ and associated options: ‘New’ and ‘Used’
Possibly add a keyword search field as part of the search area as well
For the section titled: ‘New Cars by Manufacturers’ – change to ‘Cars by Manufacturers’ which would encompass both new and used.
many car portals sites now include an option whereby clients receive an email prior to their listing expiring which gives them the option to simply reactivate their listing for another period of time. This saves them having to go through the whole relisting process again.
Looking forward to the release of this theme!!!
Hopefully also this theme will have the same funtionality as your Real Estate theme whereby site visitors can submit their vehicle in a similar way and then go through a similar if not same checkout process.
Yes, some good ones there for sure… I’d like to see something that’s local/community based combining hello magazine with contributors, classifieds, business directory (restaurants bars), events, maps, services, user reviews…etc. examples would be edirectory (dot) com or for services + reviews homestars (dot) com. There are lots of web developers and not to mention local chamber of commerce, business improvement associations that would be all over that.
When will be the date of release for the Hospitality site. I already have a client interested in this.
Here’s a great suggestion for the hospitality theme.
Not sure if it’s possible, but make it so that the admin can control if there are vacancies or not.
This theme would be excellent for not only the Hotel industry, but for the Executive Suites industry that are competing for attention.
If you control the vacancy levels on the front end, you can reduce the amount of time the Suite owners spend answering inquiries about vacancies, providing more value…
Let me know what you think…
I have one Exec suite owner interested..
Bhavesh,
Your templates are really awesome. Currently i am working on some projects on automotive industry, sort of car engine repair and servicing.
It will helps a lot if i can find one here!
Looking forward to see more amazing templates here!
productfolio is my list to buy….I’ve been looking for something like that for a while.
i think ‘answers’ theme is a great idea.
one suggestion. ‘home’ could have an ‘activity feed’ , like that of facebook. saying who did what.
keep up..
All of these themes are awesome.
I would love to see an Auction Theme\Marketplace in the works sometime in the future, a hybrid off of the Question Answers which would already have most of the needed functionality, this would be popular theme as i see a growing demand and requests such niche markets where people can buy sell stuff.
Thank You
So excited about the Answers theme! I think it should have an AWESOME search feature! And a User leader-board section.
Keep up the great work!!!
Thank you!
Hi there – Are you able to say when Answers will be released please?
Many thanks
Richard
Answer theme is releasing today (17 may) in about few hours
Any release date on Rejuvenate?
Or does anyone know of a similiar theme???
Rejuvenate will be available next week
Please build Theme for Link Directory site based on wordpress
. I think there is big market out there …
Begging to Bhavesh … please please
Other big market is Theme for Affiliate Marketer, so build a WP theme that automatically linked to their affiliate links for every recommended products that they post.
I hope it will be come your next themes .
Good luck, success for you Mr Bhavesh
sure thing. We have something similar planned in affiliate niche.
As for link directory, did you check our classifieds theme yet?
I work with a lot of auto dealers and have built sites for them, and think your automobiles would be a great addition. If you have any questions about features, feel free to ask – I would love to help.
Hi Bhavesh, do you have any time-line regarding the development of the Rejuvenate theme?
the theme is already developed. Hopefully, the rejuvenate theme is next in queue. At max, it will be released in two weeks
Jo – if you look up on 5/17 they said it would be ready next week – over a month later – I gave up and purchased Hospitality instead – but if your waiting to use this on a JOB – I would look for a similar one instead
Hi Robin,
the rejuvenate theme is already released – http://templatic.com/cms-themes/rejuvenate-premium-wordpress-theme-for-your-business
anyone know when automobile will be released?
Thanks!
I’ve asked the same question for this theme and got no response to release. Think they may have pulled this one for now.
Hi Steve,
As I have communicated with you separately, at the moment we are working on e-commerce framework, making it perfect and solid + future proof.
Automobile theme is an advanced theme – like Real Estate theme we built. Instead of rushing the things and releasing incomplete product, we’d chose to make it the best solution available whenever we release.
So yes, we do have plans to release the automobile theme but for now, the development on it has been stopped. But we are sure when we will bring it, it will be the best ever.
I’ve asked the same question for this theme and got no response to release. Think they may have pulled this one for now.
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