Just when you think the team at RocketTheme has outdone themselves with last month’s template, along come the “Affinity“.  This jam packed extension theme also incorperates itself with multiple third party add-ons.  You can build your site using this theme to include the ever popular JomSocial, the community component; K2, the advanced content application; Community Builder, the profile extender; and phpBB3 (you can have phpBB3 themed identically with the RocketTheme’s phpBB3 related theme).

The feature list:

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Hold on to your seats ladies and gentlemen, here comes the WordPress theme Visual available at ThemeForest.net.  This theme is one of the most dynamically edited WordPress layouts to display more as a CMS than a blogging app.

The back end is simplified and does not have a complicated back end admin panel to adding or editing content.  The theme does have a couple requirements in order to work:

• Visual uses TimThumb for automatically generating all the thumbnails. TimThumb requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4 .3+ installed. NOTE : Images need to be on your own server.
• You might need Museo 700 in order to properly edit the PSD files provided with the theme.

The feature list as per the designer:

• Three built in color schemes and and a very flexible skinning system that allows you to create your own skins, while keeping the layout intact. And you can do it in under 5 min!
• Very clean and simple artice carousel, allowing you to bring back some of your favorite articles or the articles you really want your users to read.
• Easy way to edit the categories that should be part of the main menu, the category blocks featured on the homepage as well as the posts that should show up in the Featured Articles section.
• Smart scripting that prevents duplicate article links, ensuring more of your content will be featured on the homepage.
• Two widget ready sidebars (one for the main category pages, one for the single pages and archive pages), as well as customization for WP-Polls and FlickrRSS.
• Clever visual navigation inside the single article page and thumbnail integration for the archive pages, both ensuring more page views.
• sIFR implemented for block and widget titles, for an even nicer look and feel
• You get all the main design source files (6 files), both in PSD and in layered PNG (I personally use Fireworks)

Check out the demo.

The ThemeLoft Team.

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ManiFolio is a Joomla 1.5 template by  portfoliodesign.org built around the portfolio component developed by the same group.  The component is developed in a logical end user friendly manner that focuses on the ease of adding editing and in general building your portfolio.  The theme portion of the package (not really one package, need separate downloads) is geared towards enhancing your Joomla site with a creative and end user intuitive/friendly way for displaying your content.

Check out the demo or download the theme and component here.

The ThemeLoft Team.

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Simply put, this is an amazing WordPress theme by mlando at ThemeForest.net.  FolioPhoto is a great clean, crisp easy to navigate and administrate theme with all the tools you need to get up and running with your new site.   One really nice feature of the theme is that there are no plugin’s required in order for it to operate as is in the demo, so no continuous plugin updates required and wondering if the plugin is compatible with your version of theme of WordPress.  As mentioned in our previous posts we are huge fans of these portfolio themes, specially the ones that seperate the portolio categories and navigation menus from the blog and article contents.

The features as per the designer;

• No Plugins needed
• No Custom Fields for Images! ( they are handled automatically )
• Pretty Photo Light box included
• Home page Slider
• Category Thumbnail gallery (images open in the modal window!)
• Superfish multi-level drop down navigation
• Full Blog you can display Blog category navigation in the sidebar
• 2 widget sidebars
• Ad Management
• Theme option page to handle: Settings, Color scheme, Google Analytics code, Ads and more
• Cool Custom home page Completely editable just like a “Page”
• PDF Directions Included
• Tagline displays in the header
• TimThumb Image handling
• Multiple color Schemes including a white and a dark background.
• and more

Check out the demo.

The ThemeLoft Team.

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Another great Joomla theme by the crew at RocketTheme.com, this one is called Refraction.  This theme is a great base for which one can build an infinite styles and types of sites.  The RocketTheme.com continues to add new extensions with each release of their monthly themes.  This month’s release adds the RokTwittie Module that provides  a platform to showcase various aspects of Twitter, from your tweets to profile information and much more.  In addition, the team has added design aspects around SuperBlogger, a commercial plugin from JoomlaWorks and is available from them for 7 Euros. Read the rest of this entry »

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