I saw something different in TheSource, a premium WordPress Theme that was added recently to the Elegant Themes stable of premium themes. The layout, the colors, and the options available makes it a perfect theme for those who are blogging about football and the on coming 2010 Fifa World Cup in Africa.
TheSource was designed as a magazine theme, but in my opinion, it simply looks too hot for a news magazine style blog. It looks too funky and too hot. Using it as like a newspaper isn;t too suitable. On the other hand, if you use it for a review blog, like reviewing the World Cup matches or any action sports for that matter, this theme will suit you like, how should I put it…a hoot?
Here is a full screenshot of the front page layout.
You do not even need to design a header to make it unique. All you have to do is to change the title to match your blog’s and that could be easily done within the options panel. The big slider at the top will do the job of making your blog stand out from the crowd. Include images of World Cup players in action and you will have your readers drooling to read more.
The 4 columns below the feature slider can be categorized into match reviews, player reviews, team reviews and match predictions.
Coming in 4 different color schemes, the theme also comes with a four column widgetized footer that lets you add whatever you see fit.
As in all Themes available from Elegant, this theme comes with a host of user friendly features which includes,
Automated Thumbnail Resizing
This theme utilizes timthumb to automatically resize your thumbnail images. Because of this, only one thumbnail images is required per post, despite the various thumbnail sizes used in the theme.
Complete Localization
This theme has been localized for easy translation. Using the theme’s MO and PO files, you can quickly translate the design without having to hunt through the theme’s PHP files to change each word.
Advertising Management
With TheSource you can place 125×125 banner images in your sidebar and 468×60 ads to your post pages with ease. Advertisements are handled from within wp-admin, and can be turned on and off at any time.
To view the Live Demo and Full Features List, Head Over To Elegant Themes.
Looks cool, in fact I liked it and I will find someone to buy it via your link
How do you make it so the link is yourblog.com/whatever ?
No need to buy. Just join as member for less than 20 bucks a year to download this and more than 30 other similarly gorgeous themes for free.
As for the aff. link, Thesis theme have this feature embedded. For other themes, use the “pretty links” plugin. Does the same job.
Yeah that’s what I meant I will ask my cousin to buy me a subscription. I have stopped my eyes on a theme you reviewed before, Polished, and this one as well.
I gotta pick between these 2
K got it, however, eventually I didn’t like it that much and went over with the Polished theme (for now, I hate having a choice, I can’t make up my mind)
Still customizing ..