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This is a continuation of series on “Different Uses of WordPress”. Previously I have covered:
WordPress as eShop (Shopping Cart)
While WordPress has already been covered as eCommerce site in Part-1, this is a theme that is worth mentioning here. First of all, it’s free. Secondly, it comes with multiple free themes. Finally, its web2.0 features with ajax functions make it a better choice if you are setting up an eshop.
WordPress as Social Bookmarking Site
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Freemium Theme is a free premium theme for wordpress, it was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki and made free by freebiesdock.com.
You can see the demo here.
Some of the features of freemium theme are:
Download: freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/
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Brian Gardner, the person who revolutionized premium wordpress themes by his first project RevolutionTheme, has came up with a new project - StudioPress.com
Since it’s a newly launched project, currently there is only one wp theme available. However, more themes expected to be added very soon. The first theme is for real estate sites.
If it works, don’t fix it
As you all know, RevolutionTheme project had been replaced with R2 (RevolutionTwo), and became Open Source. That meant, as I predicted no more less income for both affiliates and Brian Gardner himself. Brian wanted to change his business model from selling themes to selling support.
Before revolution themes were open source, they were selling like hot cakes. Obviously after they became “free”, no one wanted to pay for the support. Because most bloggers are very familiar with wordpress and most of them wouldn’t need a paid support to customize their themes.
Revolution2 was a huge misstep for Brian (from financial point of view). In order to correct this business decision, he had two choices; to bring back the old revolution themes or to launch a new project. Brian has chosen the second option. And I think that was a wise decision. Otherwise it would have been even more confusing for his existing customers from revolution-1 project. Because they are already confused with the whole discontinuation of revolution-1 project and revolution2/open source thing and how it affects them.
Making Money for Bloggers
StudioPress.com is a great news for bloggers. Because it means “back to making money” for most bloggers. Brian Gardner is a great designer, and his themes are one of the best wp themes on the net. Therefore, I have no doubt that this project will be a success.
His affiliates are paid 25% of the sales, that means if you sell one template worth $79.95 you will get $20.00. And if you sell all-inclusive package ($299.95) then you will get $75.00 of commission.
Are you ready to make money?
URL: StudioPress.com
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Today, in Part-4 of our series of “Different Uses of WordPress”, we will be looking on how you can use WordPress as a Social Network Site and a Contact Manager.
WordPress as Social Network Site
Each BuddyPress component is independent. This means you can pick and choose which features you’d like. In that sense, it works more like a Joomla, deactivating one plugin won’t cause any errors with the rest.
It has lots of other features, see full features here.
Price: Free
URL: buddypress.org
Demo URL: testbp.org
WordPress as Contact Manager
Price: Free
URL: artisanthemes.com/themes/wp-contact-manager/
Demo URL: people.thedesigncanopy.com/
P.S There is another wordpress based contact manager called WP-CRM. It’s a free theme plus plugins that turn WP into a contact manager.
We continue our reports on different uses of WordPress, besides using it as a blogging platform.
Today we will be looking at two more uses of WP; as Discussion Forum and Membership Site.
WordPress as Discussion Forum
It fully integrates into your WP based site utilising the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customisable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started.
Price: Free
URL: www.simplepressforum.com
Demo: www.contestblogger.com
WordPress as Membership Site
You can restrict access to any pages, posts and comments. Members without subscriptions see only the title, or excerpt of the post depending on the administrator’s preference.
Suma also manages the recurring billing of the subscriber according to the details of the subscription plan they choose. The administrator is able to define different types of subscription plans and has the option of including one-time initial setup fees, free-trial periods, and discounted periods as well as flexible billing periods defined in days, weeks, months or years.
Price: $199
URL: www.sumaplugin.com
Demo: www.camacit.com/suma/demo
In Part-1 we have looked at how WordPress can be used as Job Board site and e-Commerce site. Today, we will be looking at two more themes that can extend your WordPress blog into a Review Site and turn it into a Portal.
WordPress as Review Site
WP Review Site combined with the free WordPress platform, allows you to easily create powerful review-driven websites. It comes with its own set of plugins and professionally designed themes. It turns comments section into a review writing form, integrating star rating feature in it. It’s a bit pricey - selling at $97 - but it’s the best of its kind that you can get if you want to setup quality review site in 5 minutes.
Price: $97 - Single License, $199 - Multi License, and $299 for Developer License
URL: www.wpreviewsite.com
Live Demo: www.awardwinninghosts.com/
WordPress as Portal
Want to setup a portal with your favorite WordPress script? Well, look no further than Onyx Portal theme. It comes with comprehensive control panel that has 71 settings, 4 widgetised areas, banner & adsense ready, integrated plugin & social links, built-in promotional blocks and theme alignment options. It’s priced very reasonably at $37.
Price: $37
URL: http://stylewp.com/products/newspaper-magazine-themes/onyx-portal.html
Live Demo: http://stylewp.com/demo-onyxportal
As you can see from the above examples, WordPress is definitely becoming more comprehensive platform besides just being a blogging system. In the next part, we will be looking on more different uses of WordPress.
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I talked to few people about Revolution Two themes going open source and everyone I talked to said they couldn’t find the download links. Some people were not able to find the download links even after several visits to the site. So, where are the links?
They are there, it’s just that they are little bit hidden (at the bottom of the page) and in small text size (see below):
I know Brian is trying to push paid support service, but I think it’s confusing too many people.
Update: It’s confirmed that the themes are no longer open source, therefore the download links are no longer available. Unfortunately now if you want the themes you need to buy them.
URL: www.revolutiontwo.com
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WordPress is evolving from just being a blogging platform to more advanced systems, proving my personal theory that it will become full fledged CMS in the near future.
Thanks to its simple and easy theme structure, now people are coming up with different types of themes that can do specific functions. These themes are not just ordinary themes that have the creatives (graphics and designs) only, but they can be considered a whole system of their own - because they come with their own plugins included. These plugins do theme related functions, for example an eCommerce theme would have a Shopping Cart plugin of its own, making it easy for you to setup an eShop.
Below we will be looking at two different themes that use WordPress as their platform, namely; using WP as a Job Board and using WP as an eCommerce platform.
WP Theme as Job Board
JobPress is a wordpress theme that turns your website into a perfect working job board. It comes with its own payment system as well, you just have to insert your paypal email in the settings and you are ready to accept payments. According to the description, it does accept Credit Cards as well.
Price: $59 for Single License, and $149 for Developer License
URL: http://www.dailywp.com/jobpress-wordpress-theme/
Live Demo: http://www.dailywp.com/jobpressdemo
WP Theme as an eCommerce Shop
Market Theme transforms any standard Wordpress into a fully functional eCommerce store complete with backend product administration. It utilizes its own ajax shopping cart and uses PayPal as a payment gateway system. Adding product is simple as well, it generates a sub-tab “Add Product” under “Write Post”.
Price: $55 for Single License, and $150 for Developer License
URL: http://www.markettheme.com
Live Demo: http://www.markettheme.com/demo
OmniTheme is a premium WordPress theme that comes with four different styles: Original, Black, Pink and Tan (see pic).
Normally they are sold separately for $79.99 each (for single license) and $199.99 for a developer license.
However for a limited time, the author is giving all four themes for the price of one. That’s right, for $79.99 you can now get all four of them.
Another good thing about this offer is that when you purchase you will receive free updates for life!
URL: http://www.omnitheme.com/buy/
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Brian Gardner, the creator of popular Revolution Themes for WordPress has made the themes open source. That’s right, the themes will be free after this. Old themes will be discontinued and the website closed. The new website (www.revolutiontwo.com) has already been launched with initial 10 themes.
Below are the Live Demo links to some of these new themes:
Just like any other open source project, the support for the themes won’t be provided. If you need a support you will have to pay for it. The fees are quite reasonable though; $99.95 for one year unlimited support, and $149.95 for lifetime unlimited support.
But I am sure, most of the experienced bloggers won’t need support, they just need an access to free, professionally designed themes ;) For that reason, I am not sure if Brian and his team can earn the projected income as they planned with this new business model.
Because previously Revolution Themes were selling like hot cakes, and I am sure they (Brian and his team) made tons of money. In good month, I alone sold close to $700 worth of themes for them. But now, since they became open source, it’s difficult for bloggers to sell subscription based plans for Revolution2. I am afraid bloggers (i.e affiliates) will be shifting to other premium wordpress theme providers like OmniTheme, WooThemes, PressBox etc. thus reducing the earnings of Revolution2 team significantly.
Whatever it is, good luck to them and thanks for the free themes!
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