Vacation Home Rental is a theme targeted towards helping you create a quick, professional website for your vacation home. This is not a giant portal but instead, a theme built specifically for the home owner.

The theme will let you list your vacation home or property with all the nifty features you would expect in such a site. However, we are not 100% sure whether we should include the booking module into this one like our earlier Hotel Booking theme? Please comment in here and let us know.

You all know we recently released a professional e-Commerce theme called StoreBox. However, possibilities in this niche are endless and here’s the two more themes that we are working on (pictured above and below this text). We decided to cover both angles with these two, as you can see one of them features light, straightforward design while the other is very rich with content, much like StoreBox.

Other than these three themes, there are some other niche specific themes we are working on but preview of them is coming up later.

As usual, feel free to use the comments section below to share your ideas and opinions about the themes previewed in here.

Become a member now and get all Templatic themes for just $199! No coupon code required.

Other than just themes, Templatic club members also have access to beta releases. That’s right, become a member now and be among first to get your hands on the new version of the Geo Places theme when it becomes available.

Want to become a member but can’t afford it?
Help us spread the word about this promotion and get a chance the win one club membership totally free! To participate in the contest click either on the tweet button to post the news on Twitter or the Like/Share link to share or like the news on Facebook. The contest ends on the last day of the promotion (October 15th).
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If you have any questions about the promotion feel free to ask them in comment section below. Be sure to act quickly, promotion ends in a week (on October 15th 2011).

 
The time has finally come to announce the winner of our club membership contest! First off we would like to thank all of you who participated and spread the word about this contest. The winner is:

• Kim Woodbridge. To follow Kim on Twitter please click here. Also, be sure to visit her Facebook page. Congrats Kim!

Again, thanks everyone who participated!

In this age and day, ‘always-accessible‘ online presence is of prime importance and professionals like you would definitely want to provide optimum experience to your customers irrespective of the device they use. This theme caters to this crucial need while still maintaining the familiarity and flexibility of WordPress. You can create a customizable business portfolio site with beautiful slider and custom widgets in a jiffy. Simply set it up and it will dynamically adjust the layout based on the device used.

Take a look at the demo of the Responsive Business Portfolio theme. Try changing the width and height of your browser windows and see how it ‘responds’! You can even test drive the theme at: test.templatic.com. We hope you like our first Responsive theme. Don’t forget to provide us your feedback.

View Live demo and Buy this theme. Own this responsive portfolio theme now!

Share & Win

Like this theme? Want to have it? Help us spread the word about it and who knows, maybe you’ll be among 3 lucky winners who will get it. Just like the past couple of Share&Win contests, the same rules apply here. You can win the theme by retweeting/sharing or by providing the fastest answer to our question. This time the question will be published on our Facebook account sometime in the next 2 weeks.
 
Note (for Twitter users): In order to participate in the contest you must follow @templatic because winners will be notified via direct message.

Retweet: Win a copy of Responsive Portfolio Theme from @templatic http://bit.ly/WPResp Retweet to Win

Share it on Facebook

 
The time has finally come to announce the winners of our Responsive contest! First off we would like to thank all of you who participated and spread the word about this beautiful theme. Just like last time two lucky souls were selected at random and one person won the theme by being the quickest to answer to our question. So, the three winners are:

• Sarah Weeger. Sarah won the theme by liking our post(s) on Facebook. Be sure to visit her Facebook page by clicking here
• Edmundo Perez. Edmundo won the theme by retweeting. You can check out his twitter feed by clicking here
• The last winner is Dane Glerum. Dane won the theme by being the fastest one to answer our contest question. You can follow Dane by clicking here.

Again, thanks everyone who participated!

Interested in those tickets? Read on :)

To win a WordCamp ticket please click either on the tweet button bellow or share the following post on facebook -> http://www.facebook.com/templatic/posts/225767377480202

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In a few days I’ll pick 4 lucky winners and forward their names to Bhavesh. He’ll make sure they are there waiting for you

Good luck everyone!

The time has come to announce the ticket winners. Thanks everyone who participated! The ticket winners are:

• Srinivas Katam. His twitter username is @srinivaskatam
• Prashant Karandikar. You can find his twitter feed over @iprash_com
• Pritish Nandi. Pritish won the ticket by sharing the post on Facebook. You can find his Facebook profile by clicking here
• Srinivas Parthasarathy. Srinivas also won the ticket by sharing the post on Facebook. Visit his profile by clicking here

To receive your ticket please contact Bhavesh via email -> http://scr.im/bhavesh (click to see the email)

Congratulations to all the winners and another big thank you to all of you who participated.

WordCamp Jabalpur visitors will be able to hear speeches from various speakers from all over the country. Speakers include Gautam Gupta, King Sidharth, Mohit Pawar and many, many more.

Other than great speakers visitors will be able to listen to some great topics like:

• Hacking a WordPress Theme
• Theme Development and Customizing
• Tips for Optimizing WP Performance and Usability
• Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in WordPress 3.x
• and many more…

For more info regarding the event be sure to visit

http://2011.jabalpur.wordcamp.org

Publisher is a WordPress theme built for those who wish to showcase and sell digital products online – be it PDF eBooks, audio CDs, DVDs, etc. Book authors can sell their work online with this theme. Music companies can enlist their albums, offer previews as a downloadable file of their songs and sell albums. It is a theme that caters to individuals who aim to earn money by selling digital products.

Here are some of the nice features of this theme:

• Sell unlimited products: You can enlist as many digital products as you want and sell them online.
• E-Junkie integration: We have seamlessly integrated E-Junkie digital download system along with secure native download. Users can easily select any of the two methods to manage sales.
• Secured downloads: We’ve implemented all that’s necessary to secure your uploaded files. Users will be able to download them only after the payment is done.
• PayPal support: Payments for your digital products are handled through PayPal gateway, so you know it’s safe.
• 1 theme for all: Although we’re calling it ‘Publisher’, this theme can be used by individual book authors, small music companies, artists, etc. who wish to sell digital products online.

We have tried to streamline the product management in the back-end as much as possible. You can add new products, specify details using custom fields like Artist/Author’s name, profile link, price, publishing date, language, etc. As I mentioned, you can offer either native selling or off-site selling or both. Apparently, you can specify different prices and download links for each of them. Buyers can easily select the type they want and proceed with the payment process. You can list unlimited sites for off-site selling. E-Junkie digital download system has been seamlessly integrated within the Publisher theme to provide you maximum benefits.

A dedicated short-code [tabber] has been implemented for you to easily create different tabbed sections like ‘Description’, ‘Custom reviews’, ‘Author Info’, etc on product detail pages. Viewers can rate your product and leave feedback. Buyers are provided with their own buyer dashboard where they can view and download previous purchases and manage their account settings. Like most of our themes, there are many custom widgets packed into this theme and the homepage is entirely widgetized.

While it almost looks like one, Publisher is not an eCommerce theme. So you won’t find most of the features of our eCommerce themes. However, we hope that you like it and provide us your valuable feedback. Please check out the demo and test drive the theme for free before purchase.

View Live demo and Buy this theme. Showcase your digital products now!

Share & Win

Like this theme? Want to have it? Help us spread the word about it and who knows, maybe you’ll be among 3 lucky winners who will get it. Unlike our past contests where all 3 winners won the theme by retweeting or liking the post on Facebook, this time you can also win the theme by being the fastest one to respond (with a correct answer) to our Twitter question. The question will be published on our Twitter feed sometime between today and September 25th. Just like before, there will be 3 winners overall, but now 2 will get there by retweeting or liking the post on Facebook and one will win the theme by answering our Twitter question.

Note (for Twitter users): In order to participate in the contest you must follow @templatic because winners will be notified via direct message.

Retweet: Win a copy of Publisher theme from @templatic http://bit.ly/WPPub Retweet to Win

Or, Like it on Facebook

 
The time has finally come to announce the winners of our Publisher competition! First off we would like to thank all of you who participated and spread the word for this beautiful theme. Just like last time two lucky souls were selected at random and one person won the theme by being the quickest to answer to our question. So, the three winners are:

• Oliver Dale. Oliver won the theme by being the fastest one to respond to our Twitter question. You can check out Oliver’s twitter feed by clicking here
• Arun Balasubramanian. Arun won the theme by retweeting. You can check out his twitter feed by clicking here
• The last winner is Kim Lyng Larsen. Kim won the theme by liking our Facebook post. Thanks!

Again, thanks everyone who participated!

Here’s some of the key things that we plan to include in new version of the theme..

• Recurring PayPal payments
• Multi Region, Multi City
• WPML compatible
• Social Media logins
• Security revised completely
• User profiles
• Custom field management – per category :)
• The code will be based on a new framework, making upgrades easier
• Supporting WP Mega menu
• Better events, better listings
• Any and all bug fixes
• Much more..

And this is just some of the big ones among lots and lots of small new updates coming up into this theme (I’ve got a 3 page brief on my table containing bullet points of the new features + improvements to be done on this theme). Personally, I am sure this will be the most advanced theme of it’s kind that is available anywhere (and also better than any similar theme that is to be published elsewhere :)

Now that you know it’s coming be sure to keep an eye on our Twitter feed and Facebook page. Some things are too short for a blog post, but equally interesting :)

Again, thank you so much for your support with Geo Places! I think it’s safe to say that the theme wouldn’t be the same without your suggestions and support. I am disabiling comment for this post and would like to invite you to the discussion over at out our support forums

On the other hand, WordPress as well has evolved to a totally different height with lots of new possibilities. Some of our popular themes like Real Estate, Job Board, E-commerce Themes, GeoPlaces etc. need a well-deserved facelift. On top of that, several recently released themes like Daily Deal, PlusOne etc. need some important additions.

This leads us to a decision of releasing one theme per month instead of two. The additional time will give us time on upgrading existing themes and spend some more time on a theme that we release every month.

This directly affects our existing club members and we would love to know your views on what do you think about this decision.

If you had a good experience with us and want to share it with the world please provide the following information:

• Short testimonial about your experience with Templatic themes and/or support
• Your full name
• Link to a site you created using our theme
• Picture of yourself

If for some reason you don’t feel like providing some of the wanted information, it’s no problem – just provide the info you’re comfortable with.

Please send this information to vedran@templatic.com

Yes, that’s right. We will be releasing a niche WordPress theme for publishers and book authors where they can not only showcase their work but also sell their digital books online. We have tried to make it as relevant as possible for book authors by including features most required by them. Although the feature list is still growing, we can’t wait to give you a teaser.

Even though our main focus is for digital books, it can be used to showcase and sell any kind of digital products – Music files, Themes, Software, Icon bundles etc. The custom fields in the theme can be managed by the admin so, you can easily change the fields that match with the product you are selling.

More than one book

As per the name of the theme, this theme is not limited to mere one book. You can showcase unlimited books with a dedicated detail page for each of the books you have published.

Sell your digital products

Each book page in the theme have two options.

1. Custom Link: You can specify a custom link that leads to another site such as e-junkie, your affiliate link, a link to Amazon book store or any other.
2. Upload & Sell: This option will let you upload .zip file of your product or let you specify a download link. In front-end, when a user clicks on Buy button, they will be taken to Paypal and once they make the payment, they will receive login credentials to your site. Once they log-in, they will be able to download the product zip file you uploaded. Isn’t that cool?

E-junkie integration

The theme also support e-junkie integration. This means you can showcase your products nicely using this theme and can manage the entire selling process via e-junkie – the easiest and most trusted way of selling digital products. Once you enable this, users will be able to “add-to-cart” the products and “view shopping cart” of e-junkie on your site.

PayPal supported

This theme will support PayPal payment gateway.

Not an e-commerce theme

Though it works that way, this is not entirely an e-commerce theme and hence, it will not have all the features that our other e-commerce theme have. This theme is built for Publishers to showcase their work in a very professional manner and sell them.

Your turn. Any feedback before we release it?

Are you an author? What do you think of the Publisher theme? Do give us your feedback in the comments and its entirely likely that we will include them before we release this theme.