The Theme Features:

Templates:

I’ve prepared a PDF Document were I outline all the Features in detail. You may also like to check out the Backend Screenshots

Widgets:

Upto 33! Independent Widget Ready Sections that collapse when not in use.

31! Custom Widgets (some of which utilize Custom taxonomies)

Images:

As already mentioned above, images are uploaded using the WordPress media uploader and a custom resizing script takes care of the rest

The Ecommerce Features:

Download PDF for all available current features

Theme Requirements:

Ecomerce solutions in general require more performance, you are running a shop so you need some power behind it and not to forget that your goal is to get many, many visitors, so choose a decent hosting package.

• Webserver operating system Unix, Linux (no Windows Server please)
• PHP 5
• GD Library for the image resizing script

Like I have already mentioned above, feel free to leave a comment below if you have a question. See here for planned features in the upcoming version of this and other themes

The Theme Features:

Templates:

• Parent theme with child themes for stress free theme updates. Create your own child theme or modify one of the ones provided,
• Theme Options for maximum flexibility,
• Solid, clear and well commented-out code,
• SEO optimized header titles,
• Custom templates,
• Vertical (foldable) Category Display – ideal for large number of categories
• Optional Blog Section
• Flexible product display (choose the number of columns, customize the display order and set their appearance: with teaser below image or not),
• "Real" Frontend Customer Login/Registration and protected account area. (Not required for purchasing)
• "Create and save" customer wishlist. Great for getting customers to come back!
• The Front page:

  A large flexible Featured Area where you can feature your main shop categories, selected categories or individual products and choose between 3 different effects!

• The Category pages:

  Main Category pages display their Subcategories (if any exist). If there are no subcategories then the page will display your product posts directly.

  1. Choose between 3 or 4 columns
  2. Select the orderby (by Title, by ID etc.) and order (ASC or DESC) of your categories and products without touching the code in the template files
• The Product Single Page:
  1. Product images are uploaded using WordPress’ media uploader from within the product post.
  2. Products may have more than one images and these can display as image thumbnails or numbered thumbs.
  3. Select between 4 different image effects: Magic Zoom, jQzoom, Lightbox (Fancybox) and No effects!
  4. Embed Video Samples using the Theme’s Custom Video Shortcodes.
  5. A collapsible optional area of Related products appears dynamically bellow the product’s images
  6. Enable or disable comments from the admin area.
  7. Tell a Friend, Print, Share and Subscribe features that you may turn on or off
• Comments (if enabled)
  1. styles for threaded comments (if enabled),
  2. seperated comments and trackbacks (appear in animated dropdown),
  3. styled admin comments
• Sidebar:
  1. Can be floated to the left or to the right with just a click of a button
• Pages:

  Subpages are dynamically detected and appear in the sidebar if any are found.

• Extras:
  1. Custom Image resizing script (not TimbThumb! but still requires the GD library)
  2. Cufon font replacement
  3. cformsII styles included,
  4. wp-Pagenavi integrated

Widgets:

Upto 27! Independent Widget Ready Sections that collapse when not in use.

18! Custom Widgets (some of which utilize Custom taxonomies)

• Category RSS List widget,
• Pages List,
• Gift Cards & Certificates widget,
• "Subscriptions" widget,
• 3 "Promotions" widgets,
• Alternative Contact Info widget,
• FAQs widget,
• Shop by All Purpose widget,
• Shop by Outfit widget,
• Shop by Fit widget,
• Shop by Size widget and
• Shop by Colour widget
• Shop by Brand widget,
• Shop by Selection widget,
• Shop by Style widget and
• Shop by Price widget

Images:

As already mentioned above, images are uploaded using the WordPress media uploader and a custom resizing script takes care of the rest

The Ecommerce Features:

Download PDF for all available current features

Theme Requirements:

Ecomerce solutions in general require more performance, you are running a shop so you need some power behind it and not to forget that your goal is to get many, many visitors, so choose a decent hosting package.

• Webserver operating system Unix, Linux (no Windows Server please)
• PHP 5
• GD Library for the image resizing script
• PHP Allow URL fopen : ON

Like I have already mentioned above, feel free to leave a comment below if you have a question. See here for planned features in the upcoming version of this and other themes

The Theme Features:

I have prepared a video tour. Note: This is my first attempt in recording and I was very nervous so please be forgiving. I had to record it in small segments and you’ll notive my voice changes somewhere in the middle (he, he) but I hope you’ll see past that and enjoy the "Features" tour! Below is a written out list of features. Feel free to ask questions below in the Comments area if you need more clarification.

Templates:

• Parent theme with a child theme for stress free theme updates. Create your own child theme or modify the one provided,
• Theme Options for maximum flexibility,
• Solid, clear and well commented-out code,
• SEO optimized header titles,
• Custom templates,
• Optional Blog Section
• Flexible product display (choose the number of columns, customize the display order and set their appearance: with teaser below image or not),
• "Real" Frontend Customer Login/Registration and protected account area. (Not required for purchasing)
• "Create and save" customer wishlist. Great for getting customers to come back!
• The Front page:

  A flexible Featured Area displays your main categories; each with a category specific image. Subcategories are shown as a list behind them, or if none exist, then an alternative category specific image is used. Any number, from 1-5, of main categories can be created and the Front Page Featured section will dynamically adjust!

• The Category pages:

  Main Category pages display their Subcategories (if any exist) and you have the choice of using a Text Title with Cufon or a category specific image. If there are no subcategories then the page will display your product posts directly.

  1. Choose between 2 or 3 columns, with sidebar (narrow or wide) or without on category pages that display subcategories and
  2. Choose from 3 to 5 columns, with sidebar (narrow or wide) or without on category pages that display products.
  3. Select the orderby (by Title, by ID etc.) and order (ASC or DESC) of your categories and products without touching the code in the template files
  4. Upto 7 different display combinations for category pages that display subcategories
  5. Upto 9 different display combinations for category pages that display products
• The Product Single Page:
  1. Product images are uploaded using WordPress’ media uploader from within the product post.
  2. Products may have more than one images and these can display as image thumbnails or numbered thumbs.
  3. Select between 4 different image effects: Magic Zoom, jQzoom, Lightbox (Fancybox) and No effects!
  4. Embed Video Samples using the Theme’s Custom Video Shortcodes.
  5. A collapsible area of Related products appears dynamically bellow the product’s images
  6. Enable or disable comments from the admin area.
  7. Tell a Friend, Print, Share and Subscribe features that you may turn on or off
• Comments (if enabled)
  1. styles for threaded comments (if enabled),
  2. seperated comments and trackbacks (appear in animated dropdown),
  3. styled admin comments
• Sidebar:
  1. Can be floated to the left or to the right with just a click of a button
  2. On multible product pages it will display a list of the direct children categories of the current top level category. Useful for user orientation which contributes to better usability.
• Pages:

  Subpages are dynamically detected and appear in the sidebar if any are found.

• Extras:
  1. Custom Image resizing script (not TimbThumb! but still requires the GD library)
  2. Cufon font replacement
  3. cformsII styles included,
  4. wp-Pagenavi integrated

Widgets:

Upto 30! Independent Widget Ready Sections that collapse when not in use.

• Front Page 3/2/1 upon choice (Below shop’s categories)
• My Account 1 (next to sign in form)
• Customer Service 1 (sits below main content)
• Customer Service subpages 1
• About page 1
• Contact page 1
• Category pages 1+ (The demo uses Category Specific widget ready sidebars as I wanted to show different posibilties created for you with the “Shop by…” feature.
  You’ll need to activate yours if wanted from the theme Options)
• Tag pages 1
• Customer Account Area 1

17! Custom Widgets (some of which utilize Custom taxonomies)

• Category RSS List widget,
• Pages List,
• Gift Cards & Certificates widget,
• 2 Sales widgets,
• Special Offers widget,
• Alternative Contact Info widget,
• FAQs widget,
• Shop by All Purpose widget,
• Shop by Outfit widget,
• Shop by Fit widget,
• Shop by Size widget and
• Shop by Colour widget
• Shop by Brand widget,
• Shop by Selection widget,
• Shop by Style widget and
• Shop by Price widget

Images:

As already mentioned above, images are uploaded using the WordPress media uploader and a custom resizing script takes care of the rest

The Ecommerce Features:

Download PDF for all available current features

Theme Requirements:

Ecomerce solutions in general require more performance, you are running a shop so you need some power behind it and not to forget that your goal is to get many, many visitors, so choose a decent hosting package.

• Webserver operating system Unix, Linux (no Windows Server please)
• PHP 5
• GD Library for the image resizing script
• PHP Allow URL fopen : ON

Like I have already mentioned above, feel free to leave a comment below if you have a question. See here for planned features in the upcoming version of this and other themes

The Theme Features:

Feel free to ask questions below in the Comments area if you need more clarification.

Templates:

• A Parent theme with child themes for stress free theme updates. Create your own child theme or modify one of the ones provided,
• Media Embedding: Easy media embed method – with custom shortcodes in the post content area or use a media plugin of your choice. I have tested the Flash Video Player Plugin for WordPress.
  The theme’s custom video shortcodes support (for now):
  1. Vimeo,
  2. YouTube,
  3. Google Video,
  4. Blip TV,
  5. Veoh,
  6. Viddler,
  7. Revver

  Detailed instructions on how to use them are in the help file.

• Featured Posts: Feature any post, in any category – the easy way – just make them sticky! Why restrict yourself to one featured category when you can have the freedom to pick and choose any post from any category to feature!
• Navigation: Choose and put together your Site’s Main Navigation without touching the code in the template files. All available options are right there for you included in the Theme Options.
• Post Layout: Theme options to customize the layout.
  1. Choose to show "share icons" in the featured area or not,
  2. Choose 2 or 3 columns of posts below the featured area on the Frontpage,
  3. Do the same indepently for Category pages,
  4. Additionally choose how the posts will display in their columns (with sliding or static splash image),
  5. Do the same indepently for Category pages
• Post Teasers: Teaser word limit can be adjusted independently for
  1. Sticky (featured) posts,
  2. Multimedia posts on the front page,
  3. Multimedia posts on category pages and
  4. Regular blog posts (if posting any)
• Category Descriptions: Enter an optional short! category description and it will appear to the right of the category title when viewing the appropriate category page
• Subpages: appear dynamically in sidebar when created
• Related posts: if there are any, appear in the single page sidebar. How many should appear is set by you from the theme options
• Security: 2 common sense security precautions already hooked in just for you
  1. Hiden login page error feedback,
  2. Hiden WordPress version number,
• Spam Prevention: A useful little function to deny Comment Posting to "No Referrer Requests" is included to work alongside Akismet for keeping spammers out!
• Extra goodies:
  1. cformsII styles included,
  2. wp-Pagenavi integrated,
  3. wp-PostRatings integrated,
  4. wp125: Easy 125×125 Ad Management For WordPress styles included
  5. "Show your last tweet" (shows on frontpage and can be removed and replaced by any plugin of your choice so in other words you are not stuck with it if you don’t like it!),
  6. Integrated Social share media,
  7. Integrated Feedburner Rss and Email,
  8. Integrated "Follow on Twitter",
  9. "Give it a Tweet" call to your readers
  10. styles for threaded comments (if enabled),
  11. seperated comments and trackbacks (appear in animated dropdown),
  12. styled admin comments,
  13. custom avatar image for when your users don’t have their own!
  14. basic favicon
• Javascript: Best practices followed
  1. use of Google hosted jQuery by correctly deregistering, registering and enqueuing the script
  2. jquery tools and own code loads in footer correctly with wp_enqueue_script();
• CSS: Best practices followed:
  1. Use of a reset stylesheet
  2. Print stylesheet included
• HTML elements: See element styling here

Widgets:

14 independent widget-ready areas!

• footer (3 widget ready areas when large footer is selected from Theme Options),
• page (1),
• front page seperator (1) just below the featured area,
• Static Home page (if using) and all it’s subpages (1)
• About page and all it’s subpages (1),
• Contact page and all it’s subpages (1),
• blog (1 – index),
• category(1),
• archive (1 – daily, monthly, yearly, author and tag archives share the same widgets),
• single (1),
• search (1),
• 404 (1)

Images:

Thumbnail images for media posts are taken from custom write panels and dynamically resized using a custom written script (not TimThumb but still requires the GD Library)

Thumbnail images for regular blog posts are taken from the first image attachment if it exists.

Like I have already mentioned above, feel free to leave a comment below if you have a question. See here for planned features in the upcoming version of this and other themes

New! Get a free (granted, with less features) version of the theme on Smashing Magazine And the demo is found here

The Theme Features:

Feel free to ask questions below in the Comments area if you need more clarification.

Templates:

• Parent theme with child themes for stress free theme updates. Create your own child theme or modify one of the ones provided,
• Static front page
• Blog appears alongside the Shop for regular blog posts.
• Custom Breadcrumb navigation for the shop and it’s subcategories,
• Shop as it’s own category displays children categories (if any) and children categories display the products. Providing a more visual and more "shop-like" display of available products.,
• A search engine optimized Header Template
• Tabed Theme Options for better overview
• Sidebar:
  1. The shop’s categories display the main product categories and when inside one of those categories, only then will child categories show. (collapsing/expanding list),
  2. The Blog’s categories display just below,
  3. Recently added products,
  4. Search and "Track your order" field for your customers,
  5. Subpages appear dynamically when created
  6. and is widget ready.
• The Home page:
  1. display a "Product of the week" – a featured post made as such the easiest way possible; providing you with the most flexibility. Just make the post sticky!
  2. additionaly promote a shop category by displaying some of it’s products – from which category and how many posts? You deside from the theme options
• The Product Category page:
  1. displays the title of each product along with it’s thumbnail image,
  2. links to the details (single) page as well as displays a button to directly add the item into the shopping cart
• The Product Single Page:
  1. displays the title of each product along with it’s thumbnail image,
  2. displays "Other Views" of the same product using a mini-gallery of images,
  3. Uses the "Flexible Lightbox" plugin on the mini-gallery,
  4. Displays upto 5 related products based on the category currently being viewed.
• Blog Comments:
  1. styles for threaded comments (if enabled),
  2. seperated comments and trackbacks (appear in animated dropdown),
  3. styled admin comments (my imported xml doesn’t show it but I have added styles for them)
• Extras:
  1. Custom breadcrumb navigation for the shop and it’s subcategories
  2. cformsII styles included,
  3. wp-Pagenavi integrated

Widgets:

Widget ready Sidebar.

Images:

• Image thumbnails for the regular blog posts are selected from the posts content images (the first is used as the thumbnail for multible post pages)
• The product’s main image is uploaded using the Media Library.
• The product’s secondary images "Other Views" are uploaded as a gallery within the post.
• "Recently Added" images as well as the "Other Products from this category" images are taken from the first image in the gallery

The Ecommerce Features:

Download PDF for all available current features

Theme Requirements:

• Webserver operating system Unix, Linux (no Windows Server please)
• PHP 5

Like I have already mentioned above, feel free to leave a comment below if you have a question. See here for planned features in the upcoming version of this and other themes