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Justin Tadlock has become one of my favourite wordpress templates designer. He produces a style of templates that im very fond of: magazine style templates.

Recently, he created what he calls, a super theme. It is called Options theme, and it is a wordpress magazine style template. It is not only a magazine, it is a versatile theme that will fit every blogger need. As Justin says, the options theme is like Structure (the theme im currently using) on steroids!

The name says it all. This theme is packed with a load of options for you to choose. It will take some time for you to get comfortable with the options this great theme has to give

This theme is still in Beta version, but Justin plans to release this week the “final” version. He already made some changes for the current beta version.

But enough of this talk and lets head for what the options theme has to give.

Right now, the package comes with 3 CSS layouts. The original release came with a Dark css template and a light css template. This week, “new groove” style was added. You can choose which CSS style to use within the administration panel. If you know a bit of CSS coding, you can easily create a CSS layout to implement on options theme, if not, than you just need to wait for more releases from Justin or the growing community around this theme.

The homepage layout can be changed in multiple ways. There are five blocks, and in each block you can choose 14 different options.

The sidebar is totally widget compatible, and the theme comes with several widgets to help you customize the blog, from several ad widgets to flickr or a video widget.

One of the things a like most on this theme, besides the CSS customisation, is the Features Gallery option. This option uses Smooth Gallery. This allows you to cycle featured posts with a nice transition effect between posts.

If you want to see how the theme looks, and the transition effect I’ve just mentioned then visit the demo.

As you can see, the demo is using the Dark version. The light version in my honest opinion it’s nothing special. There is now the new CSS style, new groove:

image from justintadlock.com

Pros:

- Great looking theme!

- Easy CSS customisation;

- Options for every kind of blogger;

- Widget Ready theme;

- Great support from the author and form the community

Cons:

- You will need to try, try, try all the options to see what fits best for you. (is this really a negative aspect? lol)

- Hum, can’t really think of more negative aspects…. lol

To download or gather more info about this theme just visit Justintadlock.com

So, in conclusion. this is one of the best (if not the best) theme around. Im tempted to change my current theme (Structure theme) to this one. What do you thing? Should i change? Im really tempted, but i will wait a couple more days for the new release.

Last week, during my scarce free time i decided to search for a wordpress plugin that could manage my ad sales on this blog in an almost automated way. I found a couple of them but none gave me exactly what i wanted.

So, i decided to invest some money to buy a tool for the first time to use on this blog. I decided to buy OIOpublisher. I knew this wordpress plugin for some time now and read good reviews about it. So it seemed the right choice for me.

The plugin is somewhat cheap, it costs only a one time fee of $37 dollars, and you can use it on an unlimited number of blogs, the buying process is extremely fast. But to talk you into buying this wordpress plugin i need you to show you exactly what oiopublisher is.

Oiopublisher lets you cut the middleman in your ad sales. The plugin is a direct ad sale platform that can manage a the majority of advertising deals you want to use.

WIth OIOpublisher you can sell in a easy way:

- Banner ads (Like the 125×125 button im using on the right side);

- Text Links (home page, site wide, single post links);

- Inline ads (video, image);

- Reviews (written by you or by the buyer);

- or you can customise your ad deal;

The plugin even comes with a referral system that allows you to reward your members that refer advertisers to your blog! pretty cool huh?

As you can see, by managing ads itself, oiopublisher will take down the headache of managing who bought ads from you, or if they have paid you or not. For the days i have used this script, i could see that was a good investment, it is a time saver. But it is not only that. You can now have more advertising options, that before you wouldn’t have the patience or the right script to do them.

The plugin installation couldn’t be easier. Just download (after you paid the $37 fee), unzip and upload to your wordpress plugin directory and activate it at the plugin panel in your administration area. Then you just need to go to the business tab and configure your ad spots. After that, go to your widget configuration and choose where the ads are displayed.

It is as simple as 1-2-3. If you buy this script you won’t regret. This is by far one of the best plugins i have found for wordpress. It is cheap, and you even get 50% for every new costumer you sent to oiopublisher.

I love searching for new wordpress templates, and specially magazine style templates and preferably, free templates. Unfortunately, they are not very common, but from time to time there is a new release.

It is called BrandFordMagazine from Michael Oeser. The theme combines the best of other three wordpress magazine templates:

The revolution theme from Brian Gardner, The structure theme used on this blog, and Mimbo Theme from Darren Hoyt.

The layout of theme is very similar to the mimbo theme, which was the pillar of this new template.

This theme will require from you some editing, but nothing of extraordinary.

Overall, it is a good theme, that will suite the needs of many bloggers.

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As a final note, wordpress templates interests many bloggers, and due to the demand of the visitors, i will write more frequently about new themes, and not only about magazine themes.

However i will search only for not very common wordpress templates, although i admit it can be difficult…

I know most of you look for great wordpress templates. There are hundreds if not thousands of wordpress templates around., but most of them suck! From time to time we see a new quality release for free, but rarely we see a release of a magazine style template.

I personally want this kind of template for this blog, but all the good ones are expensive maybe one day ill buy), but today i found 3 free wordpress magazine templates.

Let me tell you right now that the first two look great, but they fail terribly on my blog. If you visited my blog in the last minutes you would noticed that i have been “playing” with templates.

1- The morning after This is a great looking theme but, to be compatible with wordpress 2.3 you need to edit a few lines. But the worst of it, is that it is not widget compatible!!! and basically it’s only a 2 column theme…

Click here to download Morning after

2- Mimbo Magazine This theme is also great looking! but again i can only write about the negative aspects. The letter is to small, but the main problems are that in order for it to work properly you will need to do a lot of editing!

The first time you view the template you will see your old posts showing. you need to edit in code what you want to show on front page, and even that you will see that not all options are good for you….

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This is my own opinion. These are great looking themes that have in my point of view lots of problems to be solved. Im sure many of you will do a great work with these themes.

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