Mark Forrester

WordPress Premium News Theme – The Gazette Edition

Over the past couple weeks I have been busy collaborating with Adii on his Premium News Themes for WordPress. Today we finally launched my wordpress design – PNT – The Gazette Edition.

[box]Since writing this blog post Premium News Theme has been re-branded as WooThemes and I am now a proud owner of the company along with Adii and Magnus Jepson.[/box]

This wordpress template is feature rich with a mootools slideshow displaying featured articles professionally and attractively, lots of advertising banner spaces with complete control over what is displayed from within the wordpress backend panel, a clever little video player that can be positioned on the home page, and different colour options & home page layout structures for the theme at the click of a button.

Not only is this theme rich in features, but it has been created to make sure your content is king, therefore great thought has been given in font selection, font sizing, line spacing, and cell padding.

Premium News Theme - The Gazette Edition

Premium News Themes are certainly pushing the boundaries of the capabilities of WordPress – a blogging content management system. WordPress can now be used as a newspaper/magazine content management system – and the start up costs are close to nothing.

[box]Head on over to the WooThemes to find out more about pricing, a basic one user license will only cost you $99. A live demo is available here.[/box]

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40 responses

  1. Adii Avatar
    Adii

    Awesome little post bud! 🙂 Was great working with you and I hope that our sales will motivate you to work with me again in future… 🙂

    Reply
  2. Tristan Owen Avatar
    Tristan Owen

    Hi Mark, congrats to you and adii. This is by far one of the best themes I’ve seen in a while. I like how it can be applied to just about any content, and as you say, with the focus being the content. Nice.

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  3. Tyler Avatar
    Tyler

    Great job Mark & Adii. It looks really good and I played around with the demo, it rocks.

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  4. hash Avatar
    hash

    Excellent theme! In fact, all of the designs in the Premium News Theme group are nice. Might be a little steep on price, especially compared to Revolution, but not out of the ballpark completely.

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  5. Adii Avatar
    Adii

    @ Tristan & Tyler – Thanks for the kind words! 🙂

    @ Hash – Thanks as well! 🙂 Why do you say it’s steep in price compared to Revolution, when Brian G only dropped his prices in the last two weeks? Also consider that Premium News has got a built-in theme backend which none of the Revolution themes has…

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  6. Stii Avatar
    Stii

    Fantastic job you guys! Wow!

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  7. hash Avatar
    hash

    @Adii – I used the Revolution theme for a client a couple months ago and remembered the price as being $59 or so. I see that the price has gone up since then to $79 though.

    When you say there is a built-in theme backend, what do you mean? Are you saying that there are pre-packaged themes, or a way to theme it easily?

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  8. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    Thanks for the comments guys, glad it is getting some positive feedback.

    @Hash – The “built-in theme backend” allows you control over whether the video player is displayed on the home page and where, it allows you to change the colour theme of the template, and gives you complete control over the advertising banners. You can also pick what category is featured in the Mootools slideshow, enter your Flickr address in to the image gallery sidebar box, as well as enter your feedburner address for quick customization of the subscribe box. I definitely think you are getting your money’s worth.

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  9. Tristan Owen Avatar
    Tristan Owen

    this theme deserves positive feedback 🙂 Just out of interest, what ad-serving system do you use for the advertising engine. Is it contained within wordpress, open-source or can it plug in to more advanced systems?

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  10. hash Avatar
    hash

    Hey Mark, those are strong backend-management features. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t knocking it at all, the theme is ridiculously good and I wouldn’t think twice in paying the $99 for it on the right site.

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  11. Robin Pietersen Avatar
    Robin Pietersen

    It rocks! May the web bless you with many downloads!

    Reply
  12. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    @ Tristan – We don’t have an ad-serving system for the template. The ad urls and image sources are entered into the theme backend. Its up to you to track the impressions using tools like Google Analytics. We are exploring the possibilies here though.

    @Hash: No worries mate, didn’t feel you were knocking it at all.

    @Robin: Thanks mate, I hope so!

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  13. Marsattacks Avatar
    Marsattacks

    Hi there – Mark congratulations on your theme – I’ve just purchased it.

    One question that many people may have not covered in instructions – how do you turn off and remove all the ads/advertising space in your theme, the ads can make a premium blog look less professional. Thanks!

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  14. esvl Avatar
    esvl

    That is such a brilliant theme. Well done.

    Reply
  15. Tim Avatar
    Tim

    Isn’t CNN.com going to be a bit upset that you copied their website template?

    Reply
  16. miami Avatar
    miami

    that is awesome theme. i totally like it.

    Reply
  17. CristaN Avatar
    CristaN

    perfect theme.. special thanks sir.. very nice..

    Reply
  18. UnS Avatar
    UnS

    its cool thanks…

    Reply
  19. Depoblog Avatar
    Depoblog

    wow … cool theme

    Reply
  20. CristaN Avatar
    CristaN

    Depoblog do you understand me? Perfect theme! (:

    flash tasarim

    Reply
  21. yahoo's web hosting Avatar
    yahoo’s web hosting

    i do it like though, even if it’s like cnn’s

    Reply
  22. pyrmont Avatar
    pyrmont

    Love your new theme mate. May well give it a twirl.

    Reply
  23. MikeyM Avatar
    MikeyM

    What a cool looking theme. I’ll find some use for it for sure

    Reply
  24. Don Avatar
    Don

    Great Theme Mate,

    May just pop out the wallet for this one

    Reply
  25. mr.Evil Avatar
    mr.Evil

    Can someone tell me, why the POPULAR, LATEST and COMMENTS dont work for me? When I press TAGS on the sidebar box it shows the tags same with the RSS feed but not with the others. Any suggestions?

    Reply
  26. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    Hey guys,

    Please direct all theme related support queries through our support forums – forum.woothemes.com. We have a team of great forum ninjas who will help you from there.

    @Mr. Evil: The latest version of Gazette doesn’t rely on plugins for the tabber to work so should fix your problems.

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  27. mike Avatar
    mike

    oh my gats.
    thanks

    Reply
  28. Guest Avatar
    Guest

    http://wp-premiums.com/category/woo-themes-adii/the-gazette-edition/

    Reply
  29. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    This is a lovely theme. I am planning to use it for my new website. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  30. emotürl Avatar
    emotürl

    saol güzel paylaşım 🙂

    Reply
  31. KalpdE Avatar
    KalpdE

    qüSel p.iççin saol

    Reply
  32. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    I love Gazette, btw. However – I can’t get the feedburner url for e-mail subscriptions to change. If you click on the subscription link for e-mails, it takes you to http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=Another71-ACpaExamBlog

    Feedburner updated their URL for e-mails and it should be:

    http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Another71-ACpaExamBlog

    and I can’t change it. The RSS works fine, but the current e-mail link tells you that my blog doesn’t accept e-mail subscriptions anymore.

    Thoughts on how to change this?

    Thank you!

    Reply
  33. Resim Avatar
    Resim

    Perfect theme! (:

    Reply
  34. almanssori Avatar
    almanssori

    nice theme 🙂

    Reply
  35. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Great Template…. I will buy it for my site 🙂

    Reply
  36. Can Devecioğlu Avatar
    Can Devecioğlu

    This is awesome theme for WordPress. My popular theme.

    Reply
  37. Yogi Avatar
    Yogi

    a real upgrade to the standard wordpress template

    Reply
  38. handbag Avatar
    handbag

    i was just looking for fresh template for my new handbags blog, i think this one is the best so far.

    Reply
  39. Michael jackson beat it Avatar
    Michael jackson beat it

    That is a helpful list. While inspiration should not be discounted planning and organizing are also critical.

    Reply
  40. tela Avatar
    tela

    Nice Theme..

    Reply

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