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Woo Themes Club

I’ve been using WooThemes for WordPress for about 6 months now and I must say that I am totally impressed!

I decided in the fall that I wanted a new, unique theme for this blog.  I started looking around at what everyone else was using or recommended.  All I saw were the usual suspects like WP-Revolution and others.

There is nothing wrong with that theme or any of the others, except I wanted to be different.  I don’t remember exactly where I found Woothemes, but I’m glad I did.

They currently have a permanent 2 for 1 offer on al of their themes.  You can buy a single use license, which allows you to use the theme on 1 site.  Or, you can do what I do and get the developer license which allows you to use the theme on multiple sites and you also get the PSD’s with the dev. license.

Whichever Woo license you choose, with the 2 for 1 promo you get a second theme (same license type) for free!

WooThemes Club

Woo also offers club pricing.  A 3 month single license subscription is $150.  The 3 month dev license subscription is $250.  If you get the single license club subscription, you are allowed to use the themes on 5 separate domains.  The dev license allows unlimited use of all of the themes for the duration of your subscription.

Both club subscriptions get you all of the current themes (26) plus any that are released while you are a member.  You can see all the WooThemes on their themes page.

Woothemes Features

WooThemes come right out of the box with a ton of features.  First, there is documentation for each theme to help you get it set up.  Some other features that most of the themes have:

• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme ;
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page;
• Threaded Comments for WP 2.7;
• Trendy drop-down menu’s for your main navigation;
• Custom Page Templates for Archives, Image Gallery & Sitemap;
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments; and
• Integrated Banner Management script to display banner ads of your choice site-wide.

All of the themes have a few color and layout options to change the palette of your site instantly. Each theme also has features unique to itself and most options can be set in the WP backend.  Things like your Feedburner ID,  Google analytics code and other settings are all done from the WP control panel.  No more adding the code to your footer manually.

WooThemes Support

The support WooThemes provides its members is 2nd to none.  As I already mentioned, there is documentation for each theme.  Also, there are tutorials created by members to help you get things running the way you want them to.  Woo also has a forum so if you can’t find the answer in your theme’s documentation, or in the knowledgebase on the site, you can get an answer from a Woo Ninja.  A recent issue I had with one of my themes was answered within 20 minutes!

Woothemes also puts out about 2 themes per month, but that doesn’t mean they neglect the current themes.  All of the themes are compatible with Wordpress 2.7 and most new features added in WP are also available in your themes.

What are you waiting for?  Go check out Woo now!