Over the past 4 months since Premium News was launched, Adii and friends have been developing a strong presence in the premium WordPress themes niche.
It all started with the Premium News theme where bloggers were given their first taste of what a news CMS using WordPress can look like. In the time since then, many themes have followed, with the most recent additions (Flash News and Gazette Editions) quickly rising in popularity. Now today it looks like the newest Premium News theme is available, this time being released as a series.
This series is called the Live Wire series, and here are some of the features you can expect in this addition:
- Auto Image Resizer - No more do you need to upload various sizes of images to make the featured posts and thumbnails look great – instead you now only upload one image of any size and our back-end does the rest.
- Author Profiles – We focused a lot of attention and making the author profiles and archives in this theme, really, really pop. This feature makes the Live Wire theme perfectly suited to multi-author blogs. We also included our built-in Gravatar support to display author thumb images.
- Built-in Gravatars – As mentioned above, we’ve included Gravatar functionality into the theme and it works without you having to install a plugin. The use of Gravatars can also be easily switched on and off.
- Custom Page Templates - The theme now includes custom page templates for General Archives, a Sitemap and Image Galleries.
- Color Schemes - Every theme also includes 4 different color schemes to cater for everyone’s taste!
- The Rest – Featured panel, video panel, drop-down menu’s, a tabbed box in the sidebar, integrated banner ad management and lastly easily integrated Flickr & Feedburner.
Here are some screen shots of the new series:
Live Wire 2.0
Live Wire Edition
Live Wire Style
What is the price? True to the previous pricing structure, these themes are $99.95 each for a single-use license. If you would rather purchase a developer’s license, you can get that for $249.95. All three themes are interchangeable, and purchasers of the developers license will get all 12 styles!
Check out the Live Wire Premium News Themes
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Nice, best post I found on the subject.
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i like this but very expensive for me
I’ve been around the back end of one of Live Wire’s series and the Gazette. Here’s my take.
The way WordPress themes are evolving, the free ones are catching up fast with features to match. Premium themes, in this case Live Wire series had better up the ante soon or else I don’t see why someone should pay a hundred bucks for them. Granted they do have the right to stick any price tag on their product. But if people could get pretty much the same free product elsewhere, why pay.
I’ll use for my site, thanks
it`s very` good this series theme