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IKARUS - The Greatest Premium Wordpress Theme Ever Created, Magazine, Blog, List with 10 Color Variations and over 2,000 options

Braydon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:24:29 +0000

Sept 07 - Ikarus is now finally available in it’s WHITE version!!!!

Ikarus is my dream of a Wordpress Theme come to life. I’ve spent 3 months developing it and it’s absolutely perfect, with over 2,000+ user selectable variations and options all managed from the admin area. Four (4) homepage layouts (magazine, list, blog and magazine lis), over 10 colors that you can mix and match, left or right layout and tons more.

***Note: This is not a sponsored theme. The links in the footer all belong to me and if you’d like it removed please help and support my next development by donating $30 to my paypal at webdesign@5shades.com. Thanks!

***News: July 21 - Comment section updated and fixed. Tested on WP 2.6 successfully. Please download updated plugins for WP 2.6.
***COMING SOON IS IKARUS LIGHT (WHITE)!!!

It’s the most complex programmed theme that will most likely ever be created. It’s my proudest piece of work and I’m glad to give it away free of charge. I’ve included some links in the footer that points back to my personal websites. If you’d like them removed please paypal $30 to webdesign@5shades.com.

I’ve created an exlusive demo page just for Ikarus so that you can witness the full potential of it’s power and flexibility. I’ve also made it terribly easy to customize and fit your needs.

Learn more about this theme from the options in the main menu on the demo page.

Features

NEW** Bubble thought boxes for comments
NEW** Auto sizing of featured images on mzine style
NEW** Auto sizing of sidebar featured images
NEW** Turn featured video on or off in admin
4 homepage layouts to choose from, Blog, Magazine, List or Magazine List
FlickRSS
Theme options page and help page in admin
Custom values integration for featured images and video
Content Gallery (on or off) Slideshow or static header image with link
Featured Sidebar post (on or off)
Popular content rating
Recent posts, comments and feedback
TagCloud
Clean Page Nagivation (wpNavi)
Color coated “read more” buttons
Author thumbnails for comments
MyAvatars
Valid CSS and XHTML coding
Live theme preview in admin area
Related posts on post pages
Next and previous posts
Comment Rss
Cross browser support: IE, FF, Safari and Netscape
6 125×125, 1 header 468×60, 1 footer 468×60 banners all managed from theme admin area
Feedburner integration
Feedcount
Logo as image or text (controlled from admin)
10 color variations to choose from for header bar, widgets, post titles, links and footer
Set global image alignment
Set your own global header and font styles
Set global font size
Switch layout between left and right
3 Columns
Widgets 2 columns
Tons of custom pages built in, search results, links, archives, pages, categories, comments, author pages and more.
CSS multi-level drop down page menus across header
MooTabs slider box
Featured YouTube Video post
Social bookmark tools on pages and post pages
Comments on pages
Admin area links in frontend when logged in for easy management
Tons of custom typography styles like: highlight, different heading styles, code, span, download, numbers, pre, ordered and unordered checklists, speech bubbles, blockquotes and more.

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Ikarus Demo IkarusWhite Demo

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Metropolis - Clean Web 2.0 Premium Wordpress Theme with rounded corners

Braydon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:47:16 +0000

My 10th theme now. Metropolis is an incredibly cool and clean Web 2.0 theme. It’s 3 column, 2 are fully wigitized and a iDtabs section. It’s full css and xhtml valid and tested and working on almost all browsers. I’ve also included some neat social bookmarking shortcuts.

Demo Theme

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Top Wordpress Plugins I couldn’t live Without for Newbies

Braydon — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:14:51 +0000

I’m very new to Wordpress and I’ve been playing 5 years of catch-up over the past 4 weeks and believe that I have some authority when it comes to this particular subject because I still consider myself a Newbie. These plugins I highly recommend to make your life easier, post faster, save you time and help market your blog to it’s full potential. These are the top 10 or so must have plugins for wordpress that I’ve personally researched, use and highly recommend. I hope this list saves you a ton of time from doing all the work and research yourself as I did.

MyAvatars - Neat little plugin for coolness factor.
All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your wordpress blog for search engines. SEF URLs, title, meta, and more. Can’t live without!
WP-PageNavi - Adds a very useful and easy navigation structure to the bottom of pages.
TinyMCE Advanced - Adds 16 more features to the Wordpress default TinyMCE text editor which now becomes two rows plus one hidden row.
WordPress Database Backup - On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Always good to have daily backups.
Adhesive or StickPost - Lets you feature a post aka ”sticky”, so that the it will remain at the top of the page.
Share This - Allows visitors to add posts to various social bookmarking sites or e-mail to a friend.
Popularity Contest - Keeps track of your posts, categories and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.
Feedburner Feedsmith - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner.com (a free service that helps to promote your blog) while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
flickrRSS - Allows you to easily display Flickr pictures on your weblog.
Advanced Admin Drop Down Menu - Kinda self explanatory. I couldn’t live without this one. It no longer takes you 10 clicks to complete a simple task in your admin area. I think that Wordpress should not ship without this plugin built in.

KayuPress is Premium Web 2.0, 3 column ‘wood textured’ Theme with 125×125 ads ready

Braydon — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:03:42 +0000

This theme was design by my very talented friend and fellow WordPress Theme designer Moses Francis exclusively for me. This is one of the first very professional Wordpress Web 2.0 Premium themes I’ve promised. It’s loaded with features, especially easy to customize.

KayuPress (Kayu means Wood in the Malay language) is a 3 column theme with idtabs (by Sean Catchpole) and comes ready for 125×125 ads, flickr photos, feedcount and tons more.

I’ve partnered with Moses to bring you some really Outstanding Wordpress Themes in the future as he’s a well establish designer. He’s already working on his next one and secretly told me that it’s going to be one of the best themes he’s ever created. It’s hard to believe because he’s created some great themes, but I believe him and can’t wait to see it.

Plugins
KayuPress is good to go out of the box, nothing required but I highly recommend you use the following plugins to get the best out of it:

I’ve compiled the plugins into a single zip file, but please visit the respective author’s site for more information about the plugins as they can better answer your questions and offer faster solutions. [Download Plugins]

Photoshop File
Moses is selling the layered PSD (Photoshop) source files of those of you who wish to unleash your extreme editing skills on KayuPress for only $9.95, please contact him directly if your interested.

**If you want to another type of wood background, i suggest you look at the superb PSDTuts “Ultimate Wood Texture Tutorial”.**

Demo Theme

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