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 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.
I'm a half English, half South African, digital designer, photography lover & co-founder of WooThemes.com. This site is my dedicated creative outlet.
Adii
12. Feb, 2008
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… :)
Tristan Owen
12. Feb, 2008
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.
Tyler
12. Feb, 2008
Great job Mark & Adii. It looks really good and I played around with the demo, it rocks.
hash
12. Feb, 2008
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.
Adii
12. Feb, 2008
@ 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…
Stii
12. Feb, 2008
Fantastic job you guys! Wow!
hash
12. Feb, 2008
@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?
Mark
12. Feb, 2008
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.
Tristan Owen
12. Feb, 2008
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?
hash
13. Feb, 2008
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.
Robin Pietersen
13. Feb, 2008
It rocks! May the web bless you with many downloads!
Mark
13. Feb, 2008
@ 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!
Marsattacks
13. Feb, 2008
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!
esvl
13. Feb, 2008
That is such a brilliant theme. Well done.
Tim
20. Feb, 2008
Isn’t CNN.com going to be a bit upset that you copied their website template?
miami
12. Jul, 2008
that is awesome theme. i totally like it.
CristaN
19. Jul, 2008
perfect theme.. special thanks sir.. very nice..
UnS
19. Jul, 2008
its cool thanks…
Depoblog
19. Jul, 2008
wow … cool theme
CristaN
19. Jul, 2008
Depoblog do you understand me? Perfect theme! (:
flash tasarim
yahoo's web hosting
03. Aug, 2008
i do it like though, even if it’s like cnn’s
pyrmont
17. Aug, 2008
Love your new theme mate. May well give it a twirl.
MikeyM
29. Aug, 2008
What a cool looking theme. I’ll find some use for it for sure
Don
16. Sep, 2008
Great Theme Mate,
May just pop out the wallet for this one
mr.Evil
18. Sep, 2008
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?
Mark
18. Sep, 2008
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.
mike
31. Oct, 2008
oh my gats.
thanks
Guest
18. Nov, 2008
http://wp-premiums.com/category/woo-themes-adii/the-gazette-edition/
Mike
16. Dec, 2008
This is a lovely theme. I am planning to use it for my new website. Thanks for sharing.
emotürl
07. Apr, 2009
saol güzel paylaşım :)