WordZine: New Community CMS Theme from Theme Forest

With most CMS themes, the goal is to provide a large amount of information in an easy to browse format so readers can easily find your best content.  The other reason people turn to building a CMS theme is to build an online community.

Theme Forest has a large number of quality Community themes, and the quality seems to grow with each passing day.   One new Community theme that we really like is the new WordZine theme.   Here are the details provided by the designer of the Wordzine theme:

WordZine Community Theme

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You can view the live demo of the WordZine theme here.

WordZine Theme Features:

  • Elegant and Slick
  • CMS Functionality
  • Sliding Featured Posts
  • Tabbed Sidebar
  • Widget Ready
  • Horizontally Tabbed Category and Subcategory Navigation
  • Theme Options Page
  • Valid XHTML /CSS
  • PSD Included

WordZine Price Options:

  • Single-Use ($25.00)
  • 10 Licenses ($75.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Imperial: Magazine CMS Theme from Theme Forest

Over the past six months, as Theme Forest has continued to grow and expand, the CMS themes they offer have continued to grow and improve as well.   Some of their more recent releases over the past month have been particularly impressive.  One of these is the new Imperial CMS theme. 

Here is the information provided by the designers of the Imperial CMS theme:

Imperial WordPress Theme

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You can view the live demo of the Imperial theme here.

Imperial Theme Features:

  • 2 full color schemes – dark and light.
  • User specified “accent” color can be chosen from a color picker in WP-Admin for easy customization.
  • Flexible photo area supports an image of any height. No need to resize, as the overflow is hidden automatically.
  • Dynamic image resizing for post thumbnails used through-out the theme.
  • Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates.
  • Flexible logo space allows images up to 900px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.
  • Easily link to social networks you take part in, with support for 28 of the most popular sites.
  • Both sidebars are widgetized.
  • Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots (4 125×125 buttons, 300×250 bigbox, 160×600 skyscraper). 728×90 leader board and 468×60 banner also supported.
  • Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
  • Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
  • Support for Twitter Tools, FlickrRSS, WP-PageNavi, and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box.
  • Original PSD included!

Imperial Theme Price Options:

  • Single-Use ($30.00)
  • 10 Licenses ($90.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Quick Rise: Magazine CMS Theme by Theme Forest

Though the new Quick Rise CMS theme by Theme Forest looks very similar to the old magazine theme by StudioPress (formerly Revolution themes), it seems to have a slightly different look and an impressive feature set.  

Here is the information the designer of the Quick Rise theme has provided about this new release:

Quick Rise Magazine Theme

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You can view the live demo of the Quick Rise theme here.

Quick Rise Theme Features:

  • Multilingual Support – The theme comes with 9 language translations – English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, French, and Japanese. You can also create your own translation or modify the existing ones.
  • Custom Styling and Color Schemes – The theme comes with 4 different color schemes – blue, green, red, and gray. You can switch from one style to another very easily through the theme settings. You can also create and install your own color scheme/style and it is explained in the documentation.
  • Full Control Over the Elements – The admin theme settings allows you to hide/show certain theme elements such as featured content, featured video, advertisement, sidebar elements, and a lot more.
  • User Experience – The front-end is powered by jQuery – Page loading, featured content slides, pop-up menu with smooth fade in and out, and Lightbox powered post images.
  • Valid XHTML and Valid CSS codes.
  • Unobtrusive Javascript/jQuery code.
  • Neatly organized theme files.
  • Support for WordPress 2.7’s threaded and paged comments.
  • Explanation of the Theme Settings
  • Tutorial on how to create and install your own color scheme or style
  • Tutorial on how to create and install your own language translation
  • And other information about how to setup the theme.
  • Fully functional WordPress Theme with 4 colors and 9 languages installed.
  • PSDs of the 4 color designs
  • XHTML version of the theme
  • Documentation

Quick Rise Theme Prices:

  • Single-Use ($25.00)
  • 10 Licenses ($75.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase