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 nice themes :) Answers theme is the best :)
When is the Automobile theme set to release?
its in design stage as we think it needs user input before we start coding. Will take about a month we guess.
I can’t wait :)
I purchased the club package purely for the estate theme and was going to re-do it as a auto site. Now that you’ve got one in the planning, I’ll come up with some ideal requirements as I’m in the Motor Trade (UK) and the small motor dealer is crying out for a great theme and you guys could be the one.
Is there an email address I could give more details to?
Steve
feel free to send an email to “rbhavesh at gmail dot com”
Looking forward to your ideas.
We use wordpress to build mini sites for car dealers all over the country and use some of the themes here. I would love to give some feedback on this and on a plugin that needs to be developed for automotive.
Hit me up on gtalk or via email..
I have been looking for a theme for a car dealer, I’m very excited to see you working on this! Being a premium member is great! Thanks
I am really looking forward to the Answers theme. I recently found this post ( webresourcesdepot.com/5-free-solutions-to-create-a-question-answer-website/) and would like to see some of the features of those opensource solutions in your theme.
Hi Templatic, I love your themes,
I do think that the hospitality theme that I see here it´s gonna work really well!.
There plenty of hostals and hotels who need a professional and easy web solution.
The only think I’m afraid of is the translation. Please do something to help web designers for other countries to translate easily your themes. Fathermore you will open your bussiness to an more international market. Think about Latin America (spanish &portuguese) and Europe.
Thanks for your work
Jordi
all our new themes do support translation. We do provide en.po file with our themes.
It is possible to have more than a language?
for example Italian and English together, where a guest can switch easily for a language to another?
All the prototypes look rather simple and regular. Nothing that makes me say wow!
Hospitality template looks very very drab. I guess the landscape for hospitality websites has changed dramatically. The hello magazine template is nice looking but then again, easily forgettable.
Answers theme is interesting and look forward to using it someplace.
Kapil
@kapilbiyani
hey kapil. Thanks for your honest feedbacks. Apart from hospitality, the theme could be useful as CMS theme for other businesses as well. We’d love to get your input on what can be done to make it more Hospitality business friendly.
Magazines are not our expertise but we believe our theme portfolio lacks some magazine themes. Our club members would surely love this theme.
Wow this a lot Many of them are awesome cant really say which one looks more Beautiful however, i see those are Seem to be the mot beautiful between the complete set
Single Product
Answers
Hello Magazine
Regards
Very cool themes. I think I like the answers theme the best. I know a lot of people who would be interested in that one. Any website looking to do research on a specific topic or get user opinions about things could use that one.
The automobile one would be great for used car dealerships who won’t have corporate websites too. Great ideas!
One thing that might be cool as an option for the answers theme – require certain custom information like
-The source of your information
-Voting on the best answers
And for instances where the site owner wants to decide which answer is the best – maybe allow the owner of the site to decide which answers are the best.
Voting the answer is already available in the themes. Choosing best answer is a new idea, perhaps we will add this.
Are the answers sorted by the vote count? The one with most votes is at the top etc.
You’ve done it again! Just this set of themes alone are more robust, professional and beautiful than a full catalog of themes offered many premium theme providers. Sweeet!
As far as order of release, we vote for the Hello Magazine theme first followed by Single Product and Hospitality. We have an affinity for magazine themes, Hello Mag is a nice new edition to that category of offerings.
Keep up the good work. We look forward these themes being release, like, next week, correct? :)
Thanks. We wish to release of the themes asap. However, with upcoming 3.0 launch of WP, kind of features included in the themes etc. will take some time. We rather wish to make it perfect before releasing the theme.
Yet again.. Amazing!
My top favourites:
1. Automobile
2. Answers
3. Hello Magazine
Might have to join Club Membership to get all these treaties
You should join asap. :) the club price might go up anytime soon
As a club member paying full price for your current annual membership, I am not thrilled with your marketing technique. Raise your prices and I will likely not renew. While you have a lot of templates to offer, after having implemented e-product, i-product, and a handful of your templates across more than 20 sites, I am very familiar with the “workarounds” that your templates require. Let’s just say that the price is right.
Raise it and it will be enough of a push for me to try another template provider for a year. And I agree with an earlier comment made about the themes being somewhat drab. While I appreciate your work effort, the sites are looking repetitive.
I don’t mind that so much, as I do all the work around’s that we have to do to get simple things working. And nothing drives me more nuts than the content boxes stripping out basic html code, or the boxes that force url to a default image, when all I really want is to remove the image entirely. Or the inconsistent behavior from one content box in one template vs. the next. If you guys spent more energy on consistency in the custom template manager from one template to the next that would be appreciated.
Hi Bhavesh I just joined your membership. I do think you can also try to have like a modelling agency template / Dating Agency template which will be really interesting to see in development… these release of your next template looks really good. But just some ideas to develop the next batch :)
Welcome to the club :).
Thanks for sharing your idea. We have had a vague plan to build something in Dating/modelling business but then decided against it. Reason? The kind of theme can be easily used for porn and other similar business. Not that we have anything agaist it, but we simply wouldn’t want to encourage that.
Add the social media icons for platforms you engage with – to the home page also. Also add an email subscription widget to every page – incl home page. Love the Rejuvenate and Hospitality.
Spot on. Somehow, we kept missing the social media icons.
I would like to comment on the questions theme:
Ability to have private questions / answers would be really nifty.
A way of sharing profit based on answer popularity score would be fantastic. The higher score for the answer (or the user providing the answer) the more % of ads displayed for the answer goes to the poster.
Integration with OpenID or Google authentication would be fantastic.
I would buy the theme if it had these things.
You might wish to add free Members Only plugin. That will make your wp site private and accessible only after user logs in.
There will be a feature for users to vote up/down the answers.
Integration with openID/Google is good but the registration here will be simple – only three textboxes to fill. Wouldn’t want to make things complex for the admin here.
Thanks for sharing your views
Answers theme is something I will definitely want to get for a site of mine, I have a good idea on what to use it for :)
I’d like to know, is it possible to have multiple products with that particular layout on Single Product Theme?
If I had 10 product I’d like to sell, can I make similar page for each one? That would be nice.
Other users have requested this as well. We might turn BlackBerry to the kind of theme you have requested. Stay tuned.
Yeah, I love all your themes… great work. Keep rocking.
i love this answers theme… hope it will come soon…
great themes at all!
I like a few of these – Hello, Hospitality and Rejuvenate are the stand-outs, for me.
I do have a tech suggestion/question about the auto-install feature that you’re promoting — will you be modifying that feature so that it does not re-install all of the dummy content and/or erase the customized content that has been input, each time the theme is re-activated?
The organization and operation of your WP dashboard features are great! I hope to see that continued. It’s intuitive and can be quickly understood.
When did you last download the theme? Please redownload the latest version of the theme from member area. The themes have now been tweaked the way you have asked. It does not touch existing / modied dummy data on your site.
1, The Automobile Theme is great but i don’t like the widget’s style and the content section style. They’re so simple and nothing speacial.
2, Rejuvenate, Hospitality, Single Product are good. I have no comment.
3, Hello Magazine is pretty good with nice header section. But the main content section makes me confuse when i look at.
4, Answer Theme is too simple. I don’t like it.
5, Blackberry looks like alot of other themes out there. I don’t like it too.
thanks for your honest opinion. Also please feel free to elaborate your views and suggest changes / how we can improve the upcoming themes.
Hi, great work!
I like them all, but would like to offer some feedback/suggestions on some of the themes.
ANSWERS
I love this Theme, especially since the admin can charge for it! I would love to use it as a HELP DESK for my company clients, I think it would be perfect! Good job!
HOSPITALITY
This would work great if there was an on line booking form that could be placed on the home page and the inside pages that could connect with any on line booking agency. Check out our work at http://www.chichotel.gr/. Something like that.
AUTOMOBILES
I think this website theme will ROCK! Good thinking on doing a site for this niche!
SINGLE PRODUCT
Love the approach! Will the top promotional parts slide in or fade out? Will they be only viewable by clicking? Since you are preparing this great theme and since it can easily be used as a portfolio for a web agency, a graphic design house etc, when not add an extra template for Portfolio that will have categories or TAG filtering. For example we are http://www.x2interactive.gr are in the process of preparing a new website. We have more than 70 clients and would like to split them into categories. I think this theme could work for us!
That’s all
Great work, thanks for making our lives easier!
Cheers!
Thanks for your detailed input.
Booking feature in hospitality business is a bit complex. Also in our study, majority of hotel sites use third party booking feature and wouldn’t want to change that. The third party booking form varies. So, we have highlighted a small section below banner that you can use to link to one of your pages for booking feature.
In Single product, the slides will automatically fade in and fade out. Tag cloud is supported by the theme and you can use a WP widget in your sidebar. If you have a portfolio requirement, we’d suggest checking our portfolio themes here http://templatic.com/category/portfolio-themes
One more question. Do you think you can implement comparisons in the AUTOMOBILES theme? That would be great to add to the REAL ESTATE theme too. Also, I think that it would be nice to add RATES as native (without needing a plugin) so it could be used in the search engine too.
That way users could search for 5 star reviews, 4 star reviews, etc
Thanks
I like Hospitality and Blackberry.
Blackberry is very nice….
These are some really great themes. I am really digging the Automobiles theme though because of the countless things you can do with this theme. Very similiar to the real estate theme, now that I think about it.
Although not a lot of demand for the Q&A themes these days I am sure more and more people will start adopting these sites as opposed to more traditional forum type sites, so hopefully it will be a good seller.
Can’t wait for release day of these themes!
Hi Bhavesh,
Usefull themes you got there again. The Single Product theme (Blackberry) can be used for tons of products and can, for instance, be useful for starting musicians to launch the first album on their own. The more customizing options the better it is.
The Automible Theme looks nice. Lol it would be great if you build in a robot that will search other websites for content. But I’ve never seen a Automible website yet that combines cars and carparts. (very usefull if you buy a older car). It would be nice to be able to just offer one single car Brand (used and/or new) and or Model. On the web there are enough great automobile websites which it is almost impossible to compete with. But stepping into a niche-market (particular Brand and/or model) can make us creating our own fanclub…nice work.
For single vehicle, you might want to check our CMS themes? http://templatic.com/category/cms-themes
Pulling data from third party service in automobile industry is difficult because most of the time they are paid services. And we really doubt that a customer would want to pay to third party as well after making a purchase at templatic and utilizing the product work properly. If there are free opensource resources, we’d love to consider
The answers theme is damn good. I love to incorporate it into my current them.. Also, do work on a cool forum theme.. which will have a cool interface like your other themes.
Rgds,
Raghu
Hi bhavesh,
I really liked the Rejuvenate theme. Can you please provide a customised version which we can use for an NGO!
thanks. Because we have to build the themes shown above, we will not be able to take up this customization work. But never mind, we are launching a job board this week. You can post your requirement there and other designer/developers shall contact you to help with the customization.
Can’t wait to buy some of these ….
I think your shooting yourself in the foot Bhavesh….
Your making such nice templates, I don’t want to tell anyone else and keep it as my best kept secret….lol.
I like the simplicity of the themes… Too many WP themes out there are cluttered.
What about incorporating a “Tumblr” like feature, like a Tumblelog. Kinda do what Woo themes have been trying to do for awhile, only better :)
Pffff… what I say about this??
NOTHING
This preview are simply fantstic…
It is more than I wait from Templatic.
Anybody can understand so happy we are for our memebership in Templatic Club.
Thanks
Only a question: Automobile may show the cars for sale, for rent and for Sale and rent (3 options). Its my opinion, in Real State too…
Greetings,
Pedro Pica
I look for theme for wp e-commerce plugin.
is there a particular reason you would not choose our e-commerce themes? http://templatic.com/ecommerce-themes/
with wp e-commerce plugin, I can display/browse the products by brand or by category. Idon’t know if your e-commerce the can do it.
wow, lots of great themes..
your guys are doing really hard work and bringing lots of themes these days..
The rejuvenate theme looks quite interesting to me.
Wow. Here is my feedback:
Answers: brilliant idea, I’ve wanted this functionality for a while! It would be great if this could be a plugin so we can add this to our existing themes.
Hospitality: looks very nice, a booking system would be essential to make this really useful
Rejuvenate: looks really good.. a well make video section would compliment the photo gallery section quite well
Automobile: very exciting idea! Must-have feature would be for customers to upload their own sales after registering for free or at a cost (similar to how classifieds works) (see autotrader.co.uk for a good sample)
Hello: I agree that there are many magazine themes already out there, must be unique. I think an ipad compatible page-turning magazine would be cool
Single Product: I like this apple-like theme.. perhaps add some more unique features, not sure what. Start by adding ‘n’ to Communicatio! :)
BlackBerry: cool! A really nice touch would be to make it better than IphoneApp with a theme that can showcase a developer’s multiple apps, and not just one.. I’d get it for sure
Thanks guys, keep up the fantastic work, really excited by these designs!
I’m for Rejuvenate.
There’s already a brilliant ‘answers ‘ theme available elsewhere.
I’ve got some ideas for your next batch of theme releases;
1. City guide – similar to real estate. Charge businesses to upload their business details and store for 365 days etc. Embed with buddypress (that would be soo awesome) – allows user interaction with the business to boost word of mouth and viral marketing.
2. Music Video Showcase – Charge bands and solo artists to upload their music videos.. that’s if your expecting alot of traffic to the site.
3. Marketplace – Similar to themeforest, etsy or threadless.com. Crowd sourcing designs from the community to generate sales.
4. Resumes – Charge a fee to users to upload their resumes to your website, the service you provide them is to apply to jobs related to their experience, location, salary expectations etc. You can act like an agency on their behalf. Even help them improve their resume to boost appeal and more interviews!
IF you start moving onto Buddypress implementation then I would buy 10 club memberships. Studiopress are so far offering buddypress with their new themes and people are loving it.
MORE IDEAS:
5. Sell stock photos, videos and graphics.
6. Flip twitter accounts. Similar to flippa.com. Create twitter account, build hundreds or thousands of followers. Build brand reputation whether it be for a gaming website, t-shirt store or an ebook. Then sell it to the highest bidder.
7. Shopping comparison. Charge users a fee to upload products and stock inventory. Make it unique and target your local shops. 80% of potential customers search online for businesses and product inventory.
8. Something similar to http://www.ratedpeople.com. Use it for niche categories like gardeners, interior designers, dog walkers, nannies, hedge trimmers, car washers, ebay assistant etc. (This would be so great, people can build one each for their areas).
9. Surveys – Charge a fee to businesses and research groups to submit a survey.
10. Link directory – charge users to submit links for their websites, blogs, online stores, ebooks etc. Another flavour of link-building: Dropping mention of your client’s site in forums, blog comments etc. Yes, clients pay for it. There are spamming ways of doing it and some more decent ways. If you can make relevant posts, posts that contribute to the discussion and provide only those links that are beneficial to that thread, you’ll be in high demand with webmasters looking to spread the word about their good content.
11. Press release website – charge users to submit news.
Niche directories that take automated submissions need to prevent against SPAM so could use a human review of each submission. There are numerous opportunities. Spamming site owners with offers of your service may not get you anywhere. The key is to identify a site that looks like it could use this service and make a personal approach.
12. Create an award and some fancy logo’s to go with it. The more credible they look the better. Award them to websites you like … provided they pay you an “admin” fee every year to continue using the logo. Giving awards used to be a useful way to get backlinks. But when people’s egos are sufficiently stroked they’ll pay to continue boasting about how good the “rest of the world” thinks they are.
13. Concierge services: If you know the exact type of bra you want but can’t find it would you pay someone a few dollars to find it for you? You’d be surprised how many busy people would. Whether it’s a list for the supermarket delivery or a bathroom tap unavailable locally – for some people the hour or two hunting is not worth the $10 you’d charge. Maintain preferences for your signed up customers – so they can tell you to order “milk” without having to specify semi-skimmed, 2 litre, cardboard packing etc. – and close relationships with local businesses and even I’d sign up. Check http://www.domystuff.com for an example.
This is my personal favourite because I find it hilarious:
There was this bloke who bought an email list of one million email addresses. He sent half of them a stock tip that a certain stock was going up, the other half got the same message predicting that the stock would go down. 50% of them saw him proved right. He ignored the rest and split this 50% into two groups. Half got an email with another up prediction and the other half got the same email with a down prediction. He rinsed and repeated a few times till he was left with about 15,000 people who saw him get it right several times in a row. They were obviously very impressed. He then invited them to pay $5,000 each for a seminar with him on picking stocks! :)
For the Answers theme, can you add an extra text box in the comments template for users to add their paypal email addresses and store them in the backend of the admin. In case we would like to pay commission to the best answers etc.
I just came across Mixergy.com and they setup an answers website not long ago – http://foundersmix.com/
Although that product looks very complex and the layout is so busy and you dont know where to look first.
What could also be great is if you made a video answers theme – just based on videos or even webcam capabilities. (Takes alot of work to create and submit but there isn’t anything like this currently on the web).
I like the Single Product.
Anyway we could get a discount for recent purchase of the other eProduct Single Product?
They all look great, and each has a purpose niche which is great for designers. Keep up the good work!
P.S. For your next theme, how about a theme for a cigar store? I’ve got a couple of possible clients who own cigar stores, it would be nice to find a great WP theme for them :)
Hello Magazine is awesome, that’s exactly the layout I was looking for, for one of my sites…can’t wait to see that one. I also love Answers, that’s going to do very well considering there’s a huge community out there that wants to make a Yahoo Answers-style clone.
As for the Automobiles one – great idea. You should look at Cars.com to see how they’ve structured their site.
Really love these themes! A+++++
Wow-Some really great ideas here! I’m new around here, so I’m not sure of the answer, but are these themes free? Can you tell me how it works?
These are premium, and as such you’ll pay a premium for the use of them – check out other theme prices for an idea.
The Answers theme interests me. And as someone who has purchased one of your themes already, I would love to see the Answers theme integrated in to the Real Estate theme or Auto theme or Magazine theme.
Don’t get me wrong, the Answers theme can stand alone, but if it easily integrated with one of your existing themes or on top of an existing WP theme that would be awesome.
Thanks for seeking our feedback!
They’re OK. Nothing that takes my breath away.
Here are a couple of themes I would like to see:
-Directory
-Multi-seller e-commerce theme (like etsy or ebay) – trust me if you build it, they will come.
Nice work Templatic!
Great themes! On the magazine theme– would be great to have a calendar feature, move video stream down to right, add photo box that flashes and connects to different stories. Also, more ad blocks so magazines can sell more spots, add local weather feature, form fill out to enter contest,etc and upload digital magazine feature. Check out http://www.postcity.com — it’s great and has these features–would love it if templatic could do–you’d sell lots of club memberships!
Single Product: Please include the capability to integrate video on the top left (instead of a photo slider, top right) and Contact / autoresponder form next to it (top right). Thx
I can´t wait for the answers theme. The magazine theme looks very nice, I hope you can make a good way to a non wordpress user can publish content very simple.
The Answers theme looks awesome – take a look at feedback to a similar theme Instant Q&A on themeforest; it has 6 critical omissions that Answers could put right! http://themeforest.net/item/instant-qa
1. No Admin Moderation Option – option to screen questions and answers prior to publication
2. No Flag as Inappropriate Button – an absolute must – puts question/answer (unmoderated) to pre-publish, awaiting moderation by admin
3. No Option to Attribute Points only for Best Answer – as selected by moderator, voting or questioner
4. No Share Button on answers – share to Twitter/FB/email)
5. No Subscribe to Answers (to a particular question) by RSS /email
6. No Register/Login via Twitter/Facebook Connect option – (site registration is so 2009 – and such a barrier to use for these sites….)
Nice work indeed.
AUTMOBILE THEME: I’ll advice http://www.carsguide.com.au/ the must.
Is there any chance to update classified theme to something more sophisticated ?
Answers: Intriguing, but I personally would not likely need such a template. It would be very niche. It’s also very plain.
Hospitality: Lovely. I would recommend putting a design element behind the pages menu items just above the main photo, to make them more distinct. And you misspelled ‘your’ on your subtitle. You wrote ‘you’ again.
Rejuvenate: Very lovely. Good colors. I hope the main photo is a jQuery slider, to show more than one rejuvenation scene.
Automobiles: I am not interested in this theme because it needs to have information about the dealership / used car company at the top, with the car search on the right-hand side or below the information about the company. It doesn’t work for me because the car search feature is too prominent. It makes the rest of the site look like filler.
Hello Magazine: Looks nice. I might put a red block background behind “Featured News” with white lettering, to make that part stand out more. I think the “Most Popular Posts” column gets lost on the page with it’s boring white background. It would be good to find a way to make it more distinctive, while not distracting from the other two columns. In fact, I might eliminate that column and move it below the headline column, and let the headline column bleed over next to the utility right column.
Single Product: I feel this theme’s already over done. WooThemes has a strong single-product theme. This one seems like a cousin to it.
“Blackberry”: Doesn’t stand out as being original, even though it looks nice. I feel it falls into the same category as the Single Product template above. They do not look groundbreaking but I’m sure you could make some money selling them.
I hope that helps,
Ansel Taft
I can’t wait for Hospitality to be done. I think it needs an event calendar plugin so that some of the local events etc can be highlighted. As well as a way to take reservations – I have several locals here that I can use this on for tours, and adventures if it had these features. When will it be ready for release?? We are starting up our season now — so of course I am anxious.
I like the idea of having a Hospitality theme. It looks really good, but the photo space might need to be a little shorter, then instead of 2 items in the strip below (looks a little empty), divide it into 3 columns with text and an image for each.
Really like the spa template, could see that being very useful!!
Good work!
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 468x60px “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
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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