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WooThemes have a large selection of professional WordPress themes covering a variety of niches including: business, CMS, magazine, news, portfolio, photography, multimedia, lifestream, personal, professional and mirco blog designs

Canvas Features

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WooThemes have released version 4 of the Canvas Theme. Canvas is a powerful and highly customisable premium WordPress theme that makes it easy for beginners and developers alike to easily create unique and beautiful websites. Every element of the Canvas theme design is customisable through the options panel (100+ options), so you can make the design, layout and typography exactly the way you want. It also comes with custom page templates and sliders to easily setup the homepage for magazine, traditional blog or business styles.

• Revamped Templating Engine – further customisability and control over the various template files, right down to customising how each post or page looks within archives, search results or on the single post page itself.
• Manager Modules – now includes three new “Manager” modules; Layout, Hooks and Meta
• Layout Manager – adds control over the widths of the columns in each layout type available in Canvas, adding flexibility for creating the design you want, with the widths and layout you desire
• Hooks Manager – adds the ability to make use of the available hooks in Canvas, to add custom HTML code, shortcodes and text to any of the available hooks
• Meta Manager – adds control over the “post meta”
• New Shortcodes – now includes intuitive shortcodes to include dynamic data into your meta sections
• Additional Enhancements for Child Themes – making it easy to customise Canvas to suit your needs by modifying only a small set of files to achieve your desired customisations

Price
Standard: $70
Developer: $150
WooThemes Club Membership: $15 – $20 per month

• Customise Any Element – Canvas will let you customize the style and typography of every element in the design. Packed with 100+ options, it allows you to make your blog look exactly like you want
• Google Font Support – You can change any text on your site to the font of your liking
• Custom Design Images – options panel lets you upload your own images for use as main background image and header background image
• Customisable Widths – Canvas lets you easily change between 6 different site widths (1200, 980, 960, 940, 880 and 760 pixels) and also has an option to box your layout in
• 6 Layout Options – choose between 6 different layouts for and order of content/sidebars (full width, 2 col left, 2 col right, 3 col left, 3 col middle, 3 col right). Canvas also lets you specify individual layouts per post or page
• Custom Page Templates – Canvas features a Magazine and Business page template, both with javascript sliders so now you can easily setup your homepage to act as a magazine or business theme
• Tumblr Functionality – supports WooTumblog functionality so it can function like a Tumblr theme
• iPhone App Publishing – use the Express iPhone App to publish to your Canvas powered blog
• Custom Widgets – The theme has 2 widgetized areas in sidebar and 4 widgetized areas in footer (optional)
• Child Theme Friendly – makes use of custom hooks, to make it a lot easier to customize the theme via a child theme without touching any code in the main parent theme
• Sidebar Manager – allows you to replace all widgetized sidebars and footers in the theme with unique custom sidebar
• Custom Shotcodes – easily add buttons, boxes, social buttons, columns and more to your posts, pages and widgets etc
• Custom Navigation – customize the themes navigation to include pages, categories and custom links
• Backend Theme Options Panel – make simple changes without editing code, like adding your own logo, changing to an alternate colour style, adding Google Analytics code
• Custom Page Templates – full width, archives etc.
• Built-in SEO Options
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Auto-Sizing Thumbnails
• Localized for Translations

Traditional Blog Layout Option

New Features

Canvas Magazine Layout Option

ZenLite Citrus is a bright and juicy child theme for ZenLite with added Google Fonts.

Icy Night features vibrant, loud, and bright colors with a cohesive and smooth feel.

ZenLite Blue is a ZenLite child theme with all of the same functionality as ZenLite, but with a blue skin.

The Common Blog is a simple and clean theme to use right out of the gate or to build upon with child themes.

Price
NonProfit Theme: $69
All Themes Packages: $249

Organic Themes have a stylish selection of premium WordPress themes catering for different niches including: business, CMS, portfolio, news and magazine, personal and professional blogs

Features

• Options Framework
• Multiple Home Page Layouts
• Custom Header Options
• Custom Background Options
• Custom Menu Management
• Featured Images (Post Thumbnails)
• Featured Videos
• Custom Page Templates
• jQuery Featured Content Slider – capable of displaying images or video
• jQuery Featured Tabber
• Widget Ready
• Expanding Footer Widgets
• Photoshop Design File
• Gravity Forms Styling
• Mobile Friendly

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Non Profit is a clean and professional business WordPress theme from Organic Themes suited for non profit organizations and eco-friendly and environmentally conscious businesses. The premium theme features a neutral color scheme, multiple homepage layouts, featured content slider, theme options framework and more.

If you’re a plugin or theme developer, now’s the time to try WordPress 3.2, as the final release is on target for the end of June.

If you have any questions, please contact the special support forum or the wp-testers mailing list.

The new beta sports performance improvements, distraction-free writing, a new Dashboard and Default Theme, more admin bar features, and no more support for long-outdated browsers (including links to the redesigned Browse Happy).

Have you tried the WordPress 3.2 beta yet? What do you think so far?

WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 has been released. It’s not recommended for use on a live site yet, but testing is still encouraged. If you find any bugs, please report them as soon as possible with as much detail as possible.

New plugins

WCS Custom Permalinks Hotfix is a hotfix for permalink issues encountered with WordPress installations after upgrading to 3.1.x.

Multisite Dashboard Feed Widget shows the latest posts from the main site of a multisite install in the top of the Dashboard of the sites hanging under the multisite install.

WCS QR Code Generator is a QR Code (Quick Response) generator for mobile tagging. It allows you to create one of the ever-popular QR Codes anywhere on a page/post or in a text widget.

OSM displays maps in your WordPress blog using the OpenLayers technology – no API key is needed.

Page.ly MultiEdit uses custom fields to create simple tinyMCE editable regions on page templates.

Updated plugins

Slick Contact Forms creates a widget, which adds a contact form using either a floating, drop down button or a sticky, sliding tab.

WP Users Page uses a shortcode to display a list of users under a specific role.

Features

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• Advanced Ticket System – Create tickets, assign them to individual team members, discuss issues on those tickets and change the status according to the actions taken
• MileStones – Attach various tickets to specific development milestones to help in your planning
• Messages – easily discuss the issues with team members and have the option of making these threads viewable by the public
• Comprehensive Overview Page – displays all the latest activity including new tickets, milestones and messages as well as any updates to tickets including a change of status, priority, the addition of tags or attachments
• Mobile Support – FaultPress has been optimized for mobile devices. Utilizing css3′s media queries there are dedicated stylesheets for widescreen desktop displays, iPads in portrait / landscape orientation, notebooks and smart-phones in portrait / landscape orientation
• Seamless WordPress Integration – designed to work seamlessly on top of WordPress
• WordPress Multi Site Support
• Custom Email Notification – receive activity notifications delivered directly into your inbox in real-time
• Cutting Edge HTML5 and CSS3 – the FaultPress front end has been written using the very latest HTML5 and CSS3 code

WooThemes have a large selection of professional WordPress themes covering a variety of niches including: business, CMS, magazine, news, portfolio, photography, multimedia, lifestream, personal, professional and mirco blog designs

FaultPress is a fully featured bug tracking / support ticketing application theme for WordPress from WooThemes. FaultPress will transform WordPress into an advanced ticketing system that allows you to request bug reports, submit tickets and assign them to team members, assign bug fixes to milestones or version releases and discuss any issues via the built-in messages system.

Price
FaultPress: $200
WooThemes Club Membership (all themes): $15 – $20 per month

Another great place to look is the official WordPress Jobs board. In fact, that’s how I found my job here. The concept is pretty straight-forward. Just find a job posting that catches your eye, contact the poster, and proceed from there. Make sure that you subscribe to the site’s RSS feeds too. You don’t want to miss out on a great job just because someone else saw it before you did.

Elance seems to be the way to go these days, and it’s definitely worth noticing that “WordPress” is their most in-demand skill set. I used Elance for a few jobs in the past, and it’s incredibly easy. Just signup for an account, pick your client, and they’ll either take care of or walk you through the rest. They even have some nice arbitration options if a client stiffs you on the bill.

Disclaimer: I work for Weblog Tools Collection (found via WordPress Jobs) and Automattic (found via their site), so you can too! Now, get out there and find a job that you enjoy doing!

The most important bit of advice that I can offer is that you need to make yourself known and make an effort to contact potential clients. Don’t expect them to come to you. By all means, set up a site to advertise your services, but don’t expect to anyone to find it without word of mouth references, and don’t expect such references without satisfied clients.

WordPress jobs are starting to come in high demand again. Automattic is looking for talented folks in a variety of fields, and Crowd Favorite is looking for PHP developers, but you won’t be able to walk into just any office and apply for a WordPress-related position. You’ll need to know where to look first.

Boldly Moody simulates looking through frosted glass to beautiful, colorful fabric or a painting.

Shadows has a very clean and minimal design enhanced with some great CSS3 shadows.

Widodo is based on the 960.gs framework and integrated with Twitter and Flickr, Post Thumbnail, Post Format, Gallery and more.

Features

Mini Magazine is a unique magazine WordPress theme from Templatic. The homepage and category pages have an image based structure, while posts and pages have a clean minimalist layout focused on content and typography. Features include a customisable homepage layout, 5 colour schemes, 30 shortcodes, 8 custom page templates and a design settings panel to let you configure and customize the theme.

• 5 colour schemes
• Auto install out of the box
• Unique homepage layout – customizable via dynamic widgets
• Design settings – control various elements of the theme through Design panel. Change font colour, link colour, body background colour, and many more settings, without even touching the code
• Page Layout – focused on typography and minimalist design
• 30 Integrated shortcodes – for boxes, highlights, columns, buttons etc
• Integrated social sharing icons
• 8 custom page templates
• Drop down menu
• Gravatar support & threaded comments
• Built in ad monetization
• Built in SEO options
• Widget ready with custom widgets
• Valid, cross browser compatible

Price
Standard Pack: $65
Developer Pack: $99

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Templatic have a range of professional CMS business, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal blog and other niche premium WordPress themes

Price
Midnight Theme (includes Genesis Framework): $79.95
Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $249.95 (best value)

StudioPress offer a large range of professional WordPress themes build on the optimized Genesis Framework. Styles include personal blog, magazine / news, media, photo, video, business / CMS and niche WordPress themes.

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• Automatic Updates – easy upgrade similar to the way that WordPress itself (and plugins) are handled
• 6 Layout Options – selectable site wide or for individual post/page
• Theme Setting Panels – many settings that let you fine-tune the way your site looks
• Custom Hooks (40+) – a hook is a piece of code written into the theme that allows you to attach additional content to the theme itself
• Custom Widgets (MyTweets, User Profile, eNews & Updates, Featured Posts, Featured Pages)
• Import / Export Settings – the Genesis Theme and SEO settings are completely portable, so you can back up, restore, and transfer settings from one install to another
• User Control System – allows admin to turn on/off theme settings, layouts and SEO option availability for users on a per user basis
• Author Box – display per page option
• Register / Unregister Layouts
• Dynamic Text / Image Logo option
• Navigation menu controls
• Drop down navigation menu
• Post Thumbnails
• Custom Widgets
• Search Engine Optimised
• SEO Options (site wide and individual page/post controls)
• Post and Page Tracking/Conversion Code box
• Widget-Ready
• Breadcrumb navigation
• Integrated Blog
• BuddyPress Compatibility
• Developed for Localization

Midnight is a dark, sophisticated premium WordPress theme from StudioPress. This versatile theme is built for the SEO optimised Genesis Framework which has extensive layout and design options. Featured include 6 mix and match layout options for individual pages or posts, various custom widgets, automatic framework updates, theme settings panel and more.

Genesis Framework Features