Themes and Mods

VisualMedia

VisualMedia is a throughout professional premium WordPress Theme which is perfectly suited for company sites and private or commercial blogs and showcases. If you are looking for a sleek and professional high quality theme, VisualMedia is for you.

Features:

• 3D FX Menu and Buttons
  Check out the menu and the ‘more’ buttons in the preview! They have a very nice and smooth 3D fade effekt!
• Bebel Millenium Slider:
  • An incredible backgound/foreground double slider will blow you and your clients away!
  • Create slides in the backend – no coding required, simply upload your image and you are done
• WordPress 3.0 Template
• Makes use of WP 3 .0 Menu System
• Custom Post Types
  VisualMedia offers four custom post types to create the gallery, portfolio items, to create slides for the slider and to create the special layout posts
• In post Slider
  Create a slider within a post – no code required: we created a special post options panel that shows up underneath each post where you can create the slides
• Video Integration
  Take a look at the preview to see the video functionality in action
• Google Maps Widget
  Yes, we have a custom Google Maps widget! And it works without API code!
• Widgetized Mainpage
  Our previously clients love this feature: Populate the mainpage by just dragging and dropping widgets in the mainpage widget area!
• Turn Off:
  • the whole Mainpage or
  • just some modules, like the slider
• Portfolio Page with Video Support
  Show of products or a website portfolio with this incredible pages feature. We support up to three columns for your work
• Gallery
  Create beautifull galleries to show off your images
• Unlimited Sidebars
  Create as many custom sidebars as you want! All through the backend menu – no coding required. Take a look at the preview for a custom blog, post and contact page sidebar
• 11 Custom Premium Widgets for Mainpage and Sidebars
  We created a variety of incredible useful widgets for you to choose from. Take a look at the preview to see what VisualMedia has to offer! The widgets are waiting for you in the widget area of the wordpress backend.
• Display Sidebar Left or Right or hide it
  If you hide it, the post will take the full side width! Perfect for the inbuilt gallery and portfolio systems!
• Widget Ready Sidebar under every single post This is perfect for a magazine (and every other site!). Because you can create unlimited sidebars, we have decided to bring a purpose to it. You can select for every post a sidebar that will be displayed below it. You can even use our premium widgets, like tabs or articles.
• Twitter integration
• Shortcodes (including gallery shortcodes)
  Our shortcodes make it easy to stand out! The custom code snippets let you create some nice layout details with a short line of code! And the best: We bring you buttons in the html editor and some in the WYSIWYG that automatically create the code for the shortcodes and paste them into the textfield.
• Unlimited custom shortcodes
  We have created a custom shortcode creator right in your backend! You can create for instance advertisement shortcodes in less then two minutes!
• Working Contact Form
• Contact Widget for the footer area Thanks to the locical seperation of functions and classes the theme is easy to extend and to fit to your needs
• PSDs included
  We include our Photoshop documents so you can edit every single piece of the layout or simply learn ‘how we did it’
• Custom Favicon
• Change the header background image for every singe post/page
• blog feature
• Dropdown Menu with nice mouse over effect
• Nested Comments so everyone knows who is talking to whom
• Gallery Page with PrettyPhoto Lightbox
• Full Width Page
  Do you have a lot to say or simply don’t want that big sidebar? No problem: you can make any post full width!
• Extensive Help File
  The help file comes as a standalone html and built in into your wordpress backend! Never worry about getting help if you don’t work from your PC!
• Videocast
  What is better than a moving picture when it comes to learn something? We created some quick videocasts to show you how to setup and get started with VisualMedia.
• Clean, Professional and documented php code (phpDoc standard)
• Massive code base: With over 6300 lines of custom php code, this template was written by pros who do a living with coding.

Price: $32.00

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Combat

Combat theme for WordPress is modern, stylish, robust and straightforward. The theme is best suited for corporate business, products showcase, personal portfolio, blogging, and almost any genre. The theme is versatile enough to be implemented with most of your web requirements. I have hand-crafted this theme to offer you some unique and genuine features.

Features:

• 4 Theme Styles (Dark slim, dark wide, light slim, and light wide)
• 3-level jQuery powered dropdown menu (Supported with WP3 Menu manager)
• Home page Nivo slider (Display unlimited post images from any category or categories)
• Language Ready (The theme supports language localization. I have included sample .po and .mo files. You just need to translate and compile them in your own language using poEdit)
• 6 widget areas
  • Two in the sidebar, four in the footer
  • Sidebar widget areas support jQuery accordiated and non-accordion content
  • Each page can have their unique widget area
  • You can control sidebar position globally, as well as individually for each page
• 6 Custom widgets
  • Flickr widget: Display flickr photostream using user, userTag, userSet, all or allTag
  • MiniSlider widget: Display a mini slide show of post images from particular categories
  • Featured Post widget: Showcase your favorite post with a thumbnail and excerpt, anywhere on the widget area
  • Twitter widget: Show latest tweets from a twitter username
  • Custom recent posts: Show a list of recent posts by excluding or including a list of category IDs
  • Custom categories: Display a list of categories by excluding the non-desired ones
• 6 Mini Sliders using jquery Cycle
  • Different sizes to fit in any layout column
  • Insert a slider on page with one line of short-code
  • Specify animation, easing, speed, delay, category, number of slides etc
  • Same slider can be used any number of times on same page
• 8 Portfolio Templates
  • Default list style
  • Two columnar grid with description
  • Two columnar classic gallery
  • Three columnar grid with description
  • Three columnar classic gallery
  • Four columnar grid with description (for wide layout)
  • Four columnar classic gallery (for wide layout)
  • List style with sidebar (for wide layout)
  • Each template can be used unlimited times on same site
  • Timthumb support on portfolio thumbnails (Just one time upload, and images will be re-sized automatically for each template)
• prettyphoto image display with video support. (YouTube, vimeo, flash, and all those formats that are supported by prettyPhoto)
• Custom Blog template for creating more than one blog-alike pages. (For example, you can have a News page that shows all posts from news category. Similarly, A blog page can show all posts from Blog category. i.e. you can control which categories to fetch posts from)
• Simple and straightforward Theme Options
• Custom post badges for portfolio thumbnails. (You can create a badge in your own color and text using custom fields)
• Single post features
  • Display author bio with Gravatar
  • Show related posts (Thumbnail or list style. You can choose the type of taxonomy for related posts – Tags or categories)
  • 5 level threaded comments (Gravatar ready)
• Custom short-codes for all possible layout columns and style elements
• Custom image frames using short-codes and TimThumb script
  • Use an image from media library and resize it on-the-fly
  • Align left, right or none
  • 4 style borders on images
  • Choose a link style – prettyPhoto, normal, or no link
  • Specify a target link – prettPhoto, video, custom URL , or none
  • Auto resizing of full width blog images according to the layout (Check a blog page with different layout styles)
• Jquery tabbed content using short-codes (Can be used multiple times on same page)
• SEO friendly breadcrumbs (You can choose to show or hide them)
• Ajax/php Contact Page Template with client and server-side validation
• Cufon enabled headings using Myriad Pro font (Supports accented characters)
• Separate ‘dummy page data’ included in .txt format for each layout and page. (This data contains well formatted content with short-codes and dummy text. You just need to copy-paste in post editor. I have not included .xml data, as it may create unnecessary junk in your database)
• Clean and optimized php markup for better re-usability and faster performance
• Step-by-step guide and detailed documentation for installing and configuring this theme
• Cross browser compatible with IE6 support
• Javascript fallback functionality (All JS effects degrade gracefully upon non-availability of javascript)

Price: $37.00

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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform now. This flexible CMS is the power behind millions of URLs, including blue-chip companies, small business, and personal websites. Flash is a world-famous multimedia platform. This book will show you the best of the proven and popular strategies and techniques to deliver rich multimedia content, which will let you sail through the world of Flashy WordPress with ease.

This book will take you through clear well-formed and comprehensive recipes, through the most essential and useful Flash multimedia tools for WordPress available today including plugins for images, audio and video, as well as projects you can do yourself in Flash. It helps you to create a WordPress website full of Flash content. We show the big picture by providing context, best practices and strategies. Detailed instructions are provided for each section.

This book provides you with the shortlist of the most essential Flash tools for creating a dynamic and media-rich website or blog, and shows you how to implement these on your site. The sections on Flash are intended to give you the option to create custom .swf files, giving you an alternative to plugins that already exist. The book will show you how to configure Flash content in your WordPress site/blog for maximum SEO, introduce Flash content to your WordPress with and without plugins, import image feeds, use lightbox effects, and much more.

Easy-to-follow recipes showing you how to use WordPress, plugins, and Flash animations to create a complete user experience, including: audio, video, slideshows, image galleries, and more

What you will learn from this book

• Embed SWF files with the Kimili plugin
• Add Flash Detection when you embed a SWF without a plugin
• Configure WordPress and maximize search engine optimization
• Use the Flickr plugin and WordPress Multibox plugin for your images
• Create your own effects, watermarks, image gallery, and slideshow from scratch with Flash
• Use the NextGen Gallery plugin for image thumbnails, watermarking, and galleries
• Embed FLV files in WordPress
• Set up video blogging using WebTV Plugin and the Free WP Tube Theme
• Encode video files with the Adobe Media Encoder
• Use the audio plugins WPAudio Player, µAudio, and PodPress
• Add sound effects to a button and the timeline in Flash
• Stream sound and create/code your own On/Off music button and an MP3 player
• Using preset Flash skins
• Create a Custom Quote Rotator using XML and ActionScript in Flash
• Use and configure these plugins: WP-Cumulus Plugin, Tagnetic Poetry Plugin, Flexi Quote Rotator Plugin, WP sIFR Plugin, XML Google Maps Plugin, Datafeedr Random Ads Plugin, and WP Flash Feed Scroll Reader Plugin
• Customize WordPress themes
• Create animations and buttons in Flash

Approach

This book consists of a series of easy-to-follow recipes. Each recipe stands on its own, so you can open the book to any recipe and complete it without going through the previous recipes. You can work through the book from start to end or just choose the recipes most applicable to your needs and situation. The book presents recipes of varying difficulty levels so that there is something for everyone from a beginner to an advanced WordPress user. Detailed screenshots, code examples, and links to additional resources supplement the concise instructions.

Who this book is written for

If you are a WordPress user interested in creating multimedia-rich websites and blogs using Flash then this book is perfect for you. This book caters for site administrators and web developers, who have experience using Flash aand WordPress.

About the Author

Peter Spannagle

Peter Spannagle is a WordPress Consultant and technology trainer, specializing in client-side coding, design using the Adobe Creative Suite, and online marketing. He is based in Oakland, California and works with clients in the San Francisco Bay Area, statewide, nationally, and internationally. In over 12 years of consulting experience he has enjoyed working with small businesses, non-profits, green businesses, artists, and independent professionals. He invites you to contact him for help with your next WordPress project.

Sarah Soward

Sarah Soward develops the curriculum for and teaches the Adobe Creative Suite and design theory at the Bay Area Video Coalition. She has 5 years experience as a technology trainer and is Adobe Certified. She specializes in creating web and print collateral for small businesses and non-profits. She is the Art Director for The Pagan Alliance, a non-profit organization, and a working fine artist (oil painting and drawing). In addition to teaching Flash, she is also an expert in the use of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Price: $28.79

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