Astereostudio has released his first Premium WordPress Theme titled simply “Market“. Market allows you to easily run your own Wordpress powered marketplace. There are many custom fields do much of the work for you - from setting a price to including that price, the name of the product, and other info and sending it all to Paypal for you. The theme can also easily be used as a way to showcase a portfolio as well. Below are some of the features found in this theme.

• Function over form - The market theme was designed to focus on its functionality as opposed to its design. The theme is intended to be customized to meet the needs of its specific store, so the design may seem fairly boring at first. But, with the power of css, you can do a lot with it.
• Hassle free integration - Using your admin email as specified in the Wordpress settings the buy now button will forward all payments to you.
• Custom fields working hard for you - The theme uses multiple custom fields including one for a large product image, additional product images, price, and specs.
• Thumbnail Generator - Code included and setup for you so thumbnails are all generated at the right sizes.
• Fancyzoom for thumbnail pop-ups - Fancyzoom is in use for product thumbnails on the single post / product view page.
• Multi-Pack Downloads - Download the standard Market theme install or a few other custom packages, such as one with the “buy now” option replaced with a “add to cart” option powered by FatFreeCart.

Market is available for just $40 USD in the form of a standard license. A Developers License is also available for $120 USD. Now, Astereostudio is very kind to give away 2 copies of Market standard license to us. All you have to do is leaving a comment under this post and tell us the reason you like using WordPress, and then you would have a chance of winning one of the 2 copies of Market Wordpress Theme immediately. The winners will be announced on 31th March 2008.

P.S. The Market theme now has a affiliate program with extremely competitive payouts of 50% per sale! This works on both the Standard License and the Developers License.

Probama Theme for WordPress is a timely Wordpress theme for supporters of Senator Barack Obama’s political career and presidential campaign. Built-in control panel options allow easy management of images, video, podcasts and other RSS info. I really love this Wordpress theme design. It looks so so nice and professional, at the same time, it keeps the simple layout which makes it very easy and comfortable to read. You do not have to be a fan of Barack Obama in order to use this theme, I am sure you can twist it a little bit to suit other topics of your blogs.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Worpdress 2.3.3+
Source: http://www.category4.com/2008/03/11/probama-theme…

When we are designing and coding our blog’s template, it is always good to seperate the representation from the content using CSS. There are a lot of CSS tricks we have to learn. However, I found 8 Premium One Line CSS Tips by CSS Globe particular useful. It shows us how to:

1. Vertical centering with line-height
2. Prevent oversized content to break fixed width floated layouts
3. Prevent line breaks in links
4. Always show Firefox scrollbar
5. Centering block elements horizontally
6. Remove vertical textarea scrollbar in IE
7. Force page breaks when printing your document
8. Remove active link borders

Source: 8 Premium One Line Css Tips

The Options theme was made with the idea of ongoing updates to the theme. Essentially, Justin Tadlock was tired of just making a new theme using the same old code but with a few adjustments. He would like to continue building upon the functionality while still offering new designs for the theme.

This theme comes packaged with two different stylesheets, Dark and Light, which you can choose through the theme options page. There are five sections, or blocks, on the home page layout. From the theme options page, you can choose from 14 different options for each of the sections.

• Five types of category sections.
• Three types of features sections.
• Two types of video sections.
• Excerpts.
• Full posts.
• Tags.
• Flickr photos.
• Two customizable sections.

The theme includes customizable, widget-ready sidebars. There are quite a few pre-built widgets for your use as well. And after all, this is FREE!

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/02/24/options-wordpress-theme

ThemeShaper has asked 11 people who have committed to thinking creatively about WordPress themes and what they mean. These are some of the people who will carry and lead WordPress theming into 3.0 and beyond. Some of these people will set the agenda for the future of WordPress themes. And this is what they think The Future of WordPress Themes will look like.

The WordPress platform has a bright future. And that future needs to be themed. Premium WordPress theme designers, Web Developers building custom themes and enthusiasts releasing free themes are going to help change WordPress in the next year—just like they did last year and the year before that. Whatever the future holds it’s going to be exciting.

Source: The Future of WordPress Themes

WP Auctions is a WordPress plugin that enables hundreds of thousands of bloggers to run their own auctions for whatever they want on their blog, and also enabling them to keep 100% of the profits generated.

There is no need to pay a listing fee, no need to pay a re-list fee, no need to pay a final sale fee, no need to pay a gallery image fee. In fact there are no fees to be paid to anyone at all! Because, you run the show. Once you upload and activate the plugin you are ready to set up your first auction. It couldn’t be simpler. Your readers can also stay up to date with your very own auctions RSS feed.

WP Auctions lets you customize your auction widget with its own heading, a currency choice of USD, EUR, YEN or GBP, and whether you want to be notified by email whenever a bid is placed on your blog for any item up for auction. You are paid by PayPal too.

You can manage your auctions. Once you “Add” an auction you can see in real time what bids have been placed, for how much and by whom. Their names will be linked to their email. If you feel that a bid is not genuine, simply “Cancel” it. This deletes it from the auction permanently. You can also Delete an auction, Edit it to add any more data or End it at any time.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.wpauctions.com

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms, is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It’s capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from scratch as well as evaluated million-dollar professional CMSes for large corporations, WordPress’ robustness never ceases to amaze us.

WordPress has a lot of community support, free themes and plugins, and is relatively easy to customize or to find someone who can for a fair price. Performancing has presented us 48 Unique Ways WordPress can be used.

Source: 48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress

Remeber last month I have mentioned about $5 Premium WordPress Themes Club. You pay $5 per year for unlimited access and downloads. Each year, you are guaranteed to have at least 12 themes. You may use your club themes on as many sites as you wish including your clients’ sites. The club themes come without copyright labels or links. And also, you can also gain access to the forum and themes support. The quality of the themes are so good, there are 4 themes available already.

Now, Blog Perfume is giving away 100 Premium WordPress Themes Club Memberships for Free! All you need to do is just leave a comment under this post. Be quick and grab your membership now and download these quality wordpress themes immediately. I will email you the coupon within 48 hours after you have left a comment.

*** Due to the popularity of this post. I am thinking of extending the number of Free Premium Themes Club Memberships. No matter if you are not the first 100 people, Just leave your comment, I will try my best and make sure everyone has got a Free Membership. ***

*** February 29th, 2008 at 6:12 am ***
I have just sent the Coupon Code to 200 people who has left a comment. Please feel free to leave a comment. I will continue sending out the coupon to people.

*** February 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pm ***
Sent the Coupon Code to the people above me as well. Made up to total: 240 People. The deadline of this offer will end on 2nd Sunday. If you still have not received the Coupon Code, be quick leave a comment here.

*** March 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 am ***
Total 282 Coupon Code sent

*** March 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 am ***
Total 331 Coupon Code sent! Comment is now closed. We will have another Premium Themes Memberships Giveaway in the near future. Stay tuned.

It’s no secret that adding photos to your blog posts is one of the most effective ways to enhance your blog and attract attention to your writing. When it comes to finding great quality images, you basically have 3 options: stealing, buying, or using Creative Commons-licensed photos.

With the Photo Dropper plugin, you can now search millions of Flickr photos and add them to your Wordpress posts with just 1 click, all without leaving your Wordpress dashboard. Attribution links are automatically added underneath the images to comply with the Creative Commons license rules. It’s the easiest way to add photos to your blog. Period. And best of all - it’s Free!

If you run a Commercial Blog, be sure to check “Show only photos that can be used commercially” in the Photo Dropper options.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.photodropper.com/wordpress-plugin/

Revolution Pro Media Theme is structured towards media and has a very diverse homepage - including a place for featured tabs, video, photos, thumbnail images and more. The Revolution Pro Media theme is a widget-ready, customizable theme that provide ideal solutions for online media magazines and other media-focused sites. Some of the 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 templates

Pricing: $79.95 (Single), $199.95 (Multiple)
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.revolutiontheme.com/themes/revolution-pro-media