Templatic » News

Responsive Portfolio Theme, anyone?

Jal — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:18:49 +0000

Considering heaps of mobile and tablet devices sprouting up all over the place, there is no denial that the Responsive web design is the way to go. Sketching such a layout takes a lot of brainstorming and involves strategic analysis of ‘what-goes-where’ when the view-port changes, however, the end result is always fascinating and in favor of the user. The trend has subtly entered into WordPress too and we are keen on adopting it as early as possible. So, yes, here it is – Responsive WP Portfolio theme.

In this age and day, ‘always-accessible‘ online presence is of prime importance and professionals like you would definitely want to provide optimum experience to your customers irrespective of the device they use. This theme caters to this crucial need while still maintaining the familiarity and flexibility of WordPress. You can create a customizable business portfolio site with beautiful slider and custom widgets in a jiffy. Simply set it up and it will dynamically adjust the layout based on the device used.

Take a look at the demo of the Responsive Business Portfolio theme. Try changing the width and height of your browser windows and see how it ‘responds’! You can even test drive the theme at: test.templatic.com. We hope you like our first Responsive theme. Don’t forget to provide us your feedback.

View Live demo and Buy this theme. Own this responsive portfolio theme now!

Share & Win

Like this theme? Want to have it? Help us spread the word about it and who knows, maybe you’ll be among 3 lucky winners who will get it. Just like the past couple of Share&Win contests, the same rules apply here. You can win the theme by retweeting/sharing or by providing the fastest answer to our question. This time the question will be published on our Facebook account sometime in the next 2 weeks.

Note (for Twitter users): In order to participate in the contest you must follow @templatic because winners will be notified via direct message.

Retweet: Win a copy of Responsive Portfolio Theme from @templatic http://bit.ly/WPResp Retweet to Win

Share it on Facebook

Win tickets for the WordCamp event in Jabalpur

Vedran — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:31:42 +0000

Few days ago we published an article about the upcoming WordCamp event in Jabalpur, India. We also mentioned how Templatic will be the title sponsor of the event. Well, those were not the only good news. Templatics own Bhavesh Radadiya is scheduled to speak on the first day of the event. This will be a great opportunity to meet Bhavesh in person and share your views about Templatic. To make things even more interesting Bhavesh has four extra tickets for the event.

Interested in those tickets? Read on :)

To win a WordCamp ticket please click either on the tweet button bellow or share the following post on facebook -> http://www.facebook.com/templatic/posts/225767377480202

In a few days I’ll pick 4 lucky winners and forward their names to Bhavesh. He’ll make sure they are there waiting for you

Good luck everyone!

WordCamp event in Jabalpur, India

Vedran — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:49:36 +0000

As the title suggests, Jabalpur, India will be hosting a WordCamp event. The event is taking place on 15th and 16th October of this year. This WordCamp is extremely special to us at Templatic because we are the title sponsor of the event! Also, key people from Templatic will attend the event.

WordCamp Jabalpur visitors will be able to hear speeches from various speakers from all over the country. Speakers include Gautam Gupta, King Sidharth, Mohit Pawar and many, many more.

Other than great speakers visitors will be able to listen to some great topics like:

Hacking a WordPress Theme
Theme Development and Customizing
Tips for Optimizing WP Performance and Usability
Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in WordPress 3.x
and many more…

For more info regarding the event be sure to visit

http://2011.jabalpur.wordcamp.org

Showcase digital products with our Publisher theme

Jal — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:59:57 +0000

Last couple of weeks have been pretty exciting here at Templatic. It has become an unspoken norm within our team to create more and more niche themes specifically targeted at a particular group / community of users. Of course, our users have played a tremendous role in encouraging us doing so. You have liked our previous niche themes and here we are again, presenting a brand new theme for publishers, book authors and artists to sell digital products – Publisher theme for WordPress.

Publisher is a WordPress theme built for those who wish to showcase and sell digital products online – be it PDF eBooks, audio CDs, DVDs, etc. Book authors can sell their work online with this theme. Music companies can enlist their albums, offer previews as a downloadable file of their songs and sell albums. It is a theme that caters to individuals who aim to earn money by selling digital products.

Here are some of the nice features of this theme:

Sell unlimited products: You can enlist as many digital products as you want and sell them online.
E-Junkie integration: We have seamlessly integrated E-Junkie digital download system along with secure native download. Users can easily select any of the two methods to manage sales.
Secured downloads: We’ve implemented all that’s necessary to secure your uploaded files. Users will be able to download them only after the payment is done.
PayPal support: Payments for your digital products are handled through PayPal gateway, so you know it’s safe.
1 theme for all: Although we’re calling it ‘Publisher’, this theme can be used by individual book authors, small music companies, artists, etc. who wish to sell digital products online.

We have tried to streamline the product management in the back-end as much as possible. You can add new products, specify details using custom fields like Artist/Author’s name, profile link, price, publishing date, language, etc. As I mentioned, you can offer either native selling or off-site selling or both. Apparently, you can specify different prices and download links for each of them. Buyers can easily select the type they want and proceed with the payment process. You can list unlimited sites for off-site selling. E-Junkie digital download system has been seamlessly integrated within the Publisher theme to provide you maximum benefits.

A dedicated short-code [tabber] has been implemented for you to easily create different tabbed sections like ‘Description’, ‘Custom reviews’, ‘Author Info’, etc on product detail pages. Viewers can rate your product and leave feedback. Buyers are provided with their own buyer dashboard where they can view and download previous purchases and manage their account settings. Like most of our themes, there are many custom widgets packed into this theme and the homepage is entirely widgetized.

While it almost looks like one, Publisher is not an eCommerce theme. So you won’t find most of the features of our eCommerce themes. However, we hope that you like it and provide us your valuable feedback. Please check out the demo and test drive the theme for free before purchase.

View Live demo and Buy this theme. Showcase your digital products now!

Share & Win

Like this theme? Want to have it? Help us spread the word about it and who knows, maybe you’ll be among 3 lucky winners who will get it. Unlike our past contests where all 3 winners won the theme by retweeting or liking the post on Facebook, this time you can also win the theme by being the fastest one to respond (with a correct answer) to our Twitter question. The question will be published on our Twitter feed sometime between today and September 25th. Just like before, there will be 3 winners overall, but now 2 will get there by retweeting or liking the post on Facebook and one will win the theme by answering our Twitter question.

Note (for Twitter users): In order to participate in the contest you must follow @templatic because winners will be notified via direct message.

Retweet: Win a copy of Publisher theme from @templatic http://bit.ly/WPPub Retweet to Win

Or, Like it on Facebook

The time has finally come to announce the winners of our Publisher competition! First off we would like to thank all of you who participated and spread the word for this beautiful theme. Just like last time two lucky souls were selected at random and one person won the theme by being the quickest to answer to our question. So, the three winners are:

Oliver Dale. Oliver won the theme by being the fastest one to respond to our Twitter question. You can check out Oliver’s twitter feed by clicking here
Arun Balasubramanian. Arun won the theme by retweeting. You can check out his twitter feed by clicking here
The last winner is Kim Lyng Larsen. Kim won the theme by liking our Facebook post. Thanks!

Again, thanks everyone who participated!

Geo Places is getting a facelift!

R.Bhavesh — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:40:33 +0000

We are extremely happy to announce that the highly anticipated upgrade has already started taking shape at templatic office. Since the initial release of Geo Places we have received a ton of your suggestions (thank you so much for that) so we have a pretty good idea of what you want to see added to Geo Places. That said, you can post your suggestion in a Geo Places v4 dedicated forum. And while we’re talking about feedback, are you happy using the forum for those actions? What do you think about implementing a special script for bug reporting and general feedback? We had this in mind -> http://uservoice.com/feedback

Here’s some of the key things that we plan to include in new version of the theme..

Recurring PayPal payments
Multi Region, Multi City
WPML compatible
Social Media logins
Security revised completely
User profiles
Custom field management – per category :)
The code will be based on a new framework, making upgrades easier
Supporting WP Mega menu
Better events, better listings
Any and all bug fixes
Much more..

And this is just some of the big ones among lots and lots of small new updates coming up into this theme (I’ve got a 3 page brief on my table containing bullet points of the new features + improvements to be done on this theme). Personally, I am sure this will be the most advanced theme of it’s kind that is available anywhere (and also better than any similar theme that is to be published elsewhere :)

Now that you know it’s coming be sure to keep an eye on our Twitter feed and Facebook page. Some things are too short for a blog post, but equally interesting :)

Again, thank you so much for your support with Geo Places! I think it’s safe to say that the theme wouldn’t be the same without your suggestions and support. I am disabiling comment for this post and would like to invite you to the discussion over at out our support forums

Changes in club membership terms

R.Bhavesh — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:57:54 +0000

Ever since templatic.com started we’ve released at least 2 themes per month on average. On few occasions we even managed to release three themes in a single month. However, time has changed and you probably already noticed that most of our newer additions are “app-like” themes which are way different than simple magazine and portfolio themes. These themes demand a lot more time and effort when it comes to research, designing, programming totally new functionalities and so on.

On the other hand, WordPress as well has evolved to a totally different height with lots of new possibilities. Some of our popular themes like Real Estate, Job Board, E-commerce Themes, GeoPlaces etc. need a well-deserved facelift. On top of that, several recently released themes like Daily Deal, PlusOne etc. need some important additions.

This leads us to a decision of releasing one theme per month instead of two. The additional time will give us time on upgrading existing themes and spend some more time on a theme that we release every month.

This directly affects our existing club members and we would love to know your views on what do you think about this decision.

Had a good experience with Templatic? Let us know!

Vedran — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:48:57 +0000

We at Templatic are always looking to improve upon our site and the next thing in line is the Testimonial page. We plan on spicing the page up with new testimonials and pictures of you, our valued customers.

If you had a good experience with us and want to share it with the world please provide the following information:

Short testimonial about your experience with Templatic themes and/or support
Your full name
Link to a site you created using our theme
Picture of yourself

If for some reason you don’t feel like providing some of the wanted information, it’s no problem – just provide the info you’re comfortable with.

Please send this information to vedran@templatic.com

Preview: A theme built for Publishers

Jal — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:00:17 +0000

Monsoon is in full swing here in India and for the most part, it’s quite enjoyable. So, for me the off-hours activities narrow down to having coffee and reading books. And it was last Sunday afternoon while reading a novel, it struck me, why not a WordPress theme for Publishers?

Yes, that’s right. We will be releasing a niche WordPress theme for publishers and book authors where they can not only showcase their work but also sell their digital books online. We have tried to make it as relevant as possible for book authors by including features most required by them. Although the feature list is still growing, we can’t wait to give you a teaser.

Even though our main focus is for digital books, it can be used to showcase and sell any kind of digital products – Music files, Themes, Software, Icon bundles etc. The custom fields in the theme can be managed by the admin so, you can easily change the fields that match with the product you are selling.

More than one book

As per the name of the theme, this theme is not limited to mere one book. You can showcase unlimited books with a dedicated detail page for each of the books you have published.

Sell your digital products

Each book page in the theme have two options.

Custom Link: You can specify a custom link that leads to another site such as e-junkie, your affiliate link, a link to Amazon book store or any other.
Upload & Sell: This option will let you upload .zip file of your product or let you specify a download link. In front-end, when a user clicks on Buy button, they will be taken to Paypal and once they make the payment, they will receive login credentials to your site. Once they log-in, they will be able to download the product zip file you uploaded. Isn’t that cool?

E-junkie integration

The theme also support e-junkie integration. This means you can showcase your products nicely using this theme and can manage the entire selling process via e-junkie – the easiest and most trusted way of selling digital products. Once you enable this, users will be able to “add-to-cart” the products and “view shopping cart” of e-junkie on your site.

PayPal supported

This theme will support PayPal payment gateway.

Not an e-commerce theme

Though it works that way, this is not entirely an e-commerce theme and hence, it will not have all the features that our other e-commerce theme have. This theme is built for Publishers to showcase their work in a very professional manner and sell them.

Your turn. Any feedback before we release it?

Are you an author? What do you think of the Publisher theme? Do give us your feedback in the comments and its entirely likely that we will include them before we release this theme.

Which theme guides/tutorials would you like to see next?

Vedran — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:31:19 +0000

Hi everyone!
To help you set up your themes ever faster/easier we are planning on doing more guides and tutorials. We already have some of them planned out but we’d love to hear your input on this. This can be a theme specific guide like the one we published a few days ago, or it can be a general guide like the one about PRGrep.

So, if you have a guide in mind please comment bellow or send an email to vedran@templatic.com

Note: After you download a theme from Templatic please open and study the theme documentation guide for your theme; it’s filled with useful theme-specific content. These tutorials are just an extension, TDG should always be your No. 1 source for theme information and support.

Templatic has been included on Alltop

Vedran — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:58:57 +0000

We are very proud to announce the inclusion of Templatic news feed on Alltop WordPress topic. The topic offers a tone of WP related news from various sources. If you’re interested in all things WordPress be sure to visit:

wordpress.alltop.com

Do you use Alltop for your daily WordPress fix?