Over the past month, we’ve been keeping rather tight-lipped regarding the latest WordPress themes we’ve been creating. But we think now is a good time to loosen the unyielding doors and give everyone a glimpse at what to expect over the next month.

Huex is the theme that is closest to being released. This theme went through an entire catalog of names until I finally settled and became pleased with Huex. The title of this theme comes from all of the six different hues  you can choose for your color scheme… Including blue, green, gray, orange, purple and red.

When I go on a vacation, the world is lifted off of my shoulders. I get to take an extended break from work and travel to a carefree destination along with the people in life that I love the most. For me, there are so many places in the world that would suit well for a vacation destination… like thousands of beaches, majestic landscapes, renowned cities, tropical cruises, and so much more. The escape away from the everyday life is very much deserved, which is probably why most of us try to go on vacation at least once a year.

Despite how eager majority of people become to go on these vacations, trips, and holidays, it’s always nice to return home. Once settled back into your place of residence, friends and family usually ask how the trip was and they usually interrogate you about practically everything. But what if you could just setup your own blog online and handout the URL to all of those people who want to know about your trip. Then you could write-up articles and post them to your blog, where your family and friends can go everyday to catch all of your vacation updates, photographs, and tweets. Wouldn’t that be cool?

WPWishlist offers WordPress users a quick and easy way to turn a basic blog into fully functional membership website with billing options and file permissions so you can protect your content and offer it to paying members only.   You can get an affordable WordPress plugin for use on an unlimited number of domains for just $297, which includes 3 months of support, free updates and a 30 day money back guarantee.

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The Wishlist member plugin also comes with a great collection of instructional training videos and screenprints which will teach you some of the great ways to customize WordPress so that you can carry out tasks such as importing and exporting members, setting up shopping carts, offering multiple payment gateways, content protection, secure RSS delivery and more.

WPWishlist plugins are compatible with all of the major shopping carts and will provide a registration page for each level of membership available on your site.   Automatic updates are released regularly so that you will be able to install any new versions of WordPress without any hassle.

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UPDATE: The 50% promotion has officially ended. However, that promotion has been replaced with a permanent special. From now on, all themes will start at the price of $29… and some themes (like Simplista) are now free. So enjoy the new pricing structure and thank you again for making WP Now what it is today!

As an end-of-summer promotion, we will be offering all of our themes at 50% off. To get 50% off all of our themes, just use the promotional code WELOVESUMMER at checkout. Enjoy and thanks to everyone who made WordPress Now’s first summer one to remember!

Over the past few weeks, an epic battle between gaming websites and WordPress blogs has been progressing. On one side, the gaming beast gloats with huge game databases, reviews, news, updates, previews, and a sleek yet complex prevailing design structure. On the other side is WordPress, an orderly and methodical platform that dictates proper web standards and usability. The clash between the two giants was long and rigrous one, yet the dust has recently settled from the fiasco. We discovered that this was antonymous to a calamity… what was left behind is anything but disastrous. The lights shone down onto a sublime coalition of gaming and WordPress; we called it GameNow.

Finally, we can introduce GameNow as the gaming theme for WordPress that actually has the beauty and brawn of a real gaming website combined with everything we love about WordPress. On the outside, GameNow has a light and dark color scheme that site users can switch in-between. The fast-loading-yet-modern-looking design shares some congruity with the massively popular GameSpot, but clearly deviates with a creative and unique trail of its own.

Over the past five weeks, WordPress Now has been working extremely hard to bring you some spectacular themes. Even though neither of our themes have reached the point of public release, we would like to take the time to give you a little peak behind closed doors.

Shortly after releasing VintMint, we set our sights on creating a gaming theme that didn’t even appear to run off of WordPress. As some of you may know, most gaming websites run off of advanced content management systems filled with databases of games, images, articles, and more. WordPress is much easier to use and manage compared to these advanced content management systems. So it is easy to see how you wouldn’t expect a gaming website that uses our beloved WordPress to appear so whole and fitting… but it is.

Gravity Forms is a versatile WordPress plugin that allows you full management of WordPress form features.   You can create, edit and organise forms quickly and easily, and is ideal for beginners as you will not need to have any specialist programming skills in order to use the software.

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This versatile plugin allows you to carry out a number of tasks from scheduling forms so that you can set up specific start and end dates, which is ideal if you want to set up a competition and you only want a certain number of people to submit entries.   Some additional plugin features are:   importing of forms, email notification routing, post custom fields, w3c validation, dynamic field population, form scheduling, limit entries, role management, form embedder, autoresponder follow up emails, reCAPTCHA and easy management from the WordPress admin panel.

Gravity Forms is also compatible with many other leading plugins to create seamless integration.   This plugin is available as a single ($39), multi-site ($99) or developer license ($199) and this comes with free upgrades and online support.

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A few 1963 Corvette Sting Rays are still floating around today, but a lot aren’t in good condition, and even more have been completely rebuilt with new parts, a new shiny paint job and maybe some sharp reflective chrome… These rebuilt Corvettes, though in a mint-like condition, are not vintage. A vintage 1963 Corvette Sting Ray would have all of the original factory parts, the engine would operate like it was just dropped under the hood by Chevrolet in 1962, and it would purr like a tiger. VintMint is a lot like this… it looks grungy, old and faded, but it has been kept in its prime.

I’m not saying that it looks like a website did back in the mid 90s. Instead, VintMint looks like a modern website drenched within a much dated flair, yet it still looks first-rate. The cyan-teal, olive-green and orange-red provide the perfect atmosphere and mood when combined with the dark saddle-brown. The background of the site is littered with a lighter liquid splatter, and similar splatters can be found through-out the site’s design.

It might not be an actual word, but to us ‘Simplista’ means simple beauty, and that’s exactly what this theme is. Simplista shies away from the complex and crowded and it is created with very organized and straightforward styling elements.The colors used are a mixture of cool purple, blue and sea blue which fade into lighter variations through a header gradient from top to bottom.

A nifty and useful feature that comes with Simplista is a horizontally sliding Javascript category menu. If, for example, you have too many category links to fit into the menu, then you can use the left and right arrows to scroll and display the links that aren’t visible. In addition, Simplista has customizable WordPress 2.8 widgets, a Flickr photo stream, customizable 125 x 125 pixel ad banners, a featured category post, recent Twitter updates widget, and is compatible with pre -WordPress 2.8 installations.

For those of you who might have missed it – wordpress 2.8 was released the other day. WordPress 2.8 includes some nice new features that we here at WP Now plan on implementing into our themes. First off is the cleaner widget API. The widget API now allows for multiple instances of widgets – meaning you can have more than one of any single widget on your sidebar.

WordPress’ new widget API allows us to create customizable widgets with ease. In future themes – and old ones as well (when we release updates for them) we will be including customizable widgets with individual options for each widget.

An example of one of the customizable widgets we will be releasing in updates and future themes include the adsense widget. This widget is used in almost all of our themes.

Previously you had to manually edit code in the FTP – but who likes that? We have created a bunch of options for the adsense widget that gives you total control over the colors and title of the widget with ease. An example of the widget options is below.

We plan on expanding on these and creating more advanced widgets as we move forward.

Thanks for taking the time to read,

Ryan