Start a Travel Portal with Traveler Theme for WordPress

October 31st in Magazine Themes, Premium Themes by .

One of the most popular topics to talk about these days is travel and its sub-topics. There are a lot of people who refer to travel sites to find out where to go for their next vacation and how to find the best vacation deals, so as long as you position your site the right way, there is no reason you can’t build a killer travel related website. Whether you want to be more active and travel around the world and blog about it or just talk about travel deals from the comfort of your home, a well planned travel site can help you make a living online.

Thanks to WordPress travel themes, you won’t have to do too much work to get your feet wet in this niche. Building a sophisticated travel site from scratch could cost you thousands of dollars, but if you have WordPress and a good travel theme at hand, you can go for.

Traveler is a well designed WordPress theme that lets you take your travel site online fast. The theme is very colorful and great at handling your images, which you will need to use to build up your travel portal. The theme comes with a cool image slider that you can use to display images of those tropical vacation spots on your portal. [click to continue…]

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Run a Magazine Portal with Magazine Theme

August 10th in Magazine Themes, Premium Themes by .

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Building a magazine website has never been easier. StudioPress has put together a very easy to use theme in Magazine Theme that lets you start your own magazine portal fast. Magazine is a sleek theme that is designed to bring you the maximum flexibility. The theme is search engine friendly and video ready. So you can not only add your videos to the theme easily, you are going to get free traffic from Google and other search engines (as long as you use the right keywords).

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The developers of Magazine Theme has paid extra attention to web usability. There are plenty of ways for your visitors to navigate their way through your content and find what they are looking for. You get a dynamic drop down menu so you can fit as many pages and categories as you want. Your RSS feed section is also put in a prominent place so your users can sign up for it easily.

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25 Best Magazine WordPress Themes

July 15th in Magazine Themes, Premium Themes by .

In good old days, if you wanted to create a killer magazine portal, you were going to have to spend a decent amount of money to get the job done. And let’s not forget that managing content was much harder before WordPress became what it is today. Starting and expanding a magazine portal is not a easy job, and it could cost you a bit of money on itself. So if you want to get it done fast, your best hope is by adopting WordPress and picking up a good magazine WordPress theme. Not all magazine themes are created equal. Some are better in handling images while others are more SEO friendly. Either way, you want to get the theme that comes with the right balance and lets you get your job done fast. Here are 25 cool WordPress themes for magazines that let you get the job done fast:

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Imperial: is a highly flexible theme that can be used for any type of website. Comes in 2 colors (dark, light) and is very easy to customize.

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Yamidoo: a very flexible and easy to use theme that lets you set up your news portal or magazine in just a few minutes. Easy to manage content using this theme.

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Massive News: Massive News is a cool portal theme that lets you add your content and start your own magazine website fast. It’s SEO friendly, and the back-end is designed to help you customize your theme without writing code. [click to continue…]

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Build Your Magazine Website with Yamidoo

July 1st in Magazine Themes, Premium Themes by .

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One of the things I love about WordPress is the fact that it has made creating complex portals and websites easier. Just a few years ago, you’d have to spend thousands of dollars to put up an attractive magazine website. But these days, you won’t have to spend more than a couple of hundred dollars to get the job done. Themes such as Yamidoo Magazine make it possible to set up a magazine site in a more affordable way, and if you decide to customize your theme, it wouldn’t cost you as much as it would if you paid someone to come up with theme for you from scratch.

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Yamidoo is a highly flexible WordPress theme that makes putting up a magazine site like a piece of cake. Yamidoo is one of the most dynamic themes that I have ever seen in the magazine theme category. For starters, you get tabbed widgets that help you promote your content better. You can use these widgets to promote your most popular posts, most commented posts, and even your recent comments.

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The featured content section on your home page gives you another way to promote your top content on your magazine site. Adding images and customizing your featured section is easy and painless. Flickr is also integrated into this theme to help you display your Flickr photos on yuor site. Even better, Yamidoo is Google Analytics and Feedburner ready. So you don’t have to touch too much code to keep track of things on your site.

Yamidoo theme did remind of Thesis. It’s very clean and easily customizable. It’s not that expensive either. If you are looking for a dynamic magazine theme for your website, Yamidoo is worth a consideration.

Verdict: A-

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Massive News 2.0 Review

May 8th in Magazine Themes, Premium Themes by .

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Massive News 2.0 is the most recent WordPress theme released by Press75 that is designed for those who are interested in running their news/magazine style WordPress website. Massive News 2.0 is designed for folks who are interested in starting a blog, media site, or even a news site. It is very flexible, so you can change things around as you wish. It comes with feature and popular content tabs to help you promote your best content easier.

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The theme supports thumbnails and makes it easy to build a news website from ground up. You get 3 columns to display your content and also display your sponsored ads on it. What I like about the featured section is that it’s not category based. You get to define where you want to link for and what image you want to show for it. That makes it easy to put your pages on your featured section as well.

Changing things around on Massive News is almost too easy. Once you install the theme, you are going to get a new tab on your admin screen that lets you change any aspect of your theme fast. You can change your logo fast. Changing your advertisement or disabling sections on this theme is easy as well. Finally, you can add your Google Analytics code right in the backend.

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Overall, Massive News 2.0 is a cool theme for those who want a flexible theme for a news, magazine, or regular blog site. It is compatible with top browsers and is very easy in the eye. It does help that it’s highly customizable. Another great blogging theme from Press75.

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Vanilla Sky Magazine Theme

February 16th in Magazine Themes, Premium Themes by .

Vanilla Sky is more than just a movie. It’s actually a very attractive magazine style WordPress theme. Vinalla Sky theme is designed to help you create a professional looking magazine site with WordPress.

The theme is designed by Blog oh Blog, and it comes with:

  • Dropdown menu for Pages & Sub-pages
  • Easy Slideshow Component to display specific category post
  • Featured Content Excerpts with thumbnails
  • Easy FeedBurner RSS integration
  • Flickr Photo Component
  • Three Widget-ready sidebars
  • Valid CSS/XHTML code
  • Integrated Theme Options
  • Custom 404 Error page

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What I like about this theme is that it’s very flexible. The slide show was very easy to set up and quite attractive. You also get a featured and popular post section to promote your top blog posts. And the drop down menu effect was quit cool.

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Overall, Vanilla Sky is a decent premium WordPress theme to consider if you are starting your own magazine style blog. It’s attractive, simple, and cheap too (you can see a demo here). If you are starting your new magazine-style blog, you should definitely see this

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Viva7 Magazine WordPress Theme

August 16th in Magazine Themes by .

MediaTricks has just released the smart Viva7 magazine WordPress Theme today. I thought it’d be in order to put down my early thoughts on this great looking theme.

Viva7 which is dubbed as the “first smart WordPress theme” comes with integrated versions of Viva ZOOM, VIVA CAROUSEL POSTS & VIVA CAROUSEL GALLERY along with new Viva Plugins – Viva Videos and Viva Events. We did have a piece on VIVA Carousel a few days back, but the other plugins are also premium plugins that have been included with Viva7 WordPress template.

One thing that I like very much about this theme is the ability to change things without writing too much code. For instance, if you have a bunch of posts that come with images, you can upload your images just you would normally do with other themes and let Viva7 take care of the rest. Basically, Viva7 grabs the images from your directory and displays them in the Carousel and the gallery. It’s pretty amazing! You can do everything here with custom fields, but there are not enough good tutorials on custom fields yet, and you can’t expect to get this done as you would cheaply with this theme.

Customize!:

The theme also comes with a bunch of headers and options that you can use to customize your wordpress theme. Take a look here. But here is what blew me away:

The ability to have real site spots like more expensive enterprise CMS solutions such as Interwoven. Basically you can modify the spots on your page from the WordPress Dashboard easily. If you do any kind of Taguchi multivariate testing for your website, this is just an amazing addition.

Search Engine Friendly:

One of the issues with most WordPress themes is that you have to go and download a bunch of plugins to make them search engine friendly. You can have the best WordPress theme in your hand, but it won’t mater if you don’t get enough eyeballs on it. Well, Viva7 surprised me with their integrated WordPress SEO optimization feature. You can define automated tags for your pages, posts, and everything else, and just set it and forget it. I’d say it’s pretty awesome.

Caveats:

No wordpress theme is perfect, and Viva7 is no exception. You get a very attractive smart WordPress theme that does almost everything for you. But if you don’t like the design available, you pretty much have to do a redesign yourself. So for those of us that are picky about our own designs, then this might not work. But for 99.99% of bloggers, the design features offered are more than enough.

The Carousel and the gallery features are great and the fact that things get done automatically is awesome. However, we were not able to get external images to show up automatically in the gallery. You can download the images, and upload them to WordPress and things will work fine. However, it would be great to have the ability to point to an external image and have it show up in the gallery.

Viva7 is a great WordPress theme with customization features that I have not seen in any other WordPress template. It’s search engine friendly and cheap. If you are looking for a magazine style WordPress theme, then you should definitely give Viva7 a try. Here is how the pricing works:

Verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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