There are a large number of portfolio WordPress themes available, many of which also are integrated with a blog setup.   The new Teal Gray Retro theme at Theme Forest is one of these, but with an interesting twist.   This premium theme is designed to be the complete package, giving you a way to display your entire online portfolio in one place!

Here are the details we’ve collected about the Teal Gray Retro blog theme:

Teal Gray Retro Blog Theme

You can view the live demo of the Teal Gray Retro theme here.

Teal Gray Retro Theme Features:

• WordPress as CMS – one and two column design
• 2 PSD Files for easy customization ( Main layout and widget titles )
• jQuery Lavalamp for page navigation
• jQuery slideshow gallery for project previews
• Breadcrumb navigation with nested page/category support
• Comments of Post Author and admin are highlighted
• Gravatar Support
• 1 widget-ready area with customized design and style
• Valid XHTML /CSS Transitional
• 3-level drop down menu combined with Lavalamp animation menu
• jQuery based plugins – updated Lavalamp for page navigation to work with jQuery 1.3.1. (Lightbox now works like a charm)
• Slideshow gallery for homepage in header (a little gift to all of you)
• 4 widget areas (sidebar for homepage, pages, posts + footer)
• implemented TimThumb for posts and portfolio thumbnails
• implemented related posts
• custom field for header image/slideshow based on hierarchy
• Theme options panel:
  • Thumbnail settings (width, height)
  • Header settings for homepage (default, must be set)
  • Related posts settings (option yes/no, title)
  • Advertising (6 banners or custom code)

Teal Gray Retro Theme Prices:

• Single-Use ($20.00)
• 10 Licenses ($60.00)

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There are a large number of high quality blog designs available, but very few are available with an incredible design and are available at an extremely affordable price.   One of the themes that is all of these things is the Wisdom Tree theme currently available at Theme Forest.

Here are the details we’ve collected from the Wisdom Tree blog theme designers:

Wisdom Tree Blog Theme

You can view the live demo of the Wisdom theme here.

Wisdom Tree Theme Features:

• Easy customization with theme options page
• Built-in 125×125 banner ads (manageable in theme options)
• Widget ready
• 8 PSD files included
• Twitter and RSS feed design integrated in header illustration
• Easy logo change
• jQuery LavaLamp menu (Each page is a new menu item)
• Compatible with all major browsers (FF 2/3, Safari, IE6 /7, Opera 9, Chrome)
• Valid XHTML 1 .0 STRICT / CSS
• Tidy CSS
• Highlighted author’s comment
• Separate trackbacks / comments
• Comments with Gravatars
• 2 column tableless fixed layout
• Cool footer area with custom links
• Quotes design with special highlight
• a 450×450px vector PSD file of the OWl – for your freedom of making additional images, avatars & customizing its color

Wisdom Tree Theme Prices:

• Single-Use ($20.00)
• 10 Licenses ($60.00)

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There have been some incredible premium blog themes released over the past couple years, but very few compare to the Business Solutions theme by Theme Forest.    In addition to the incredible look and nice feature set, the price is less than half of most premium blog themes!

Here is some information we were able to gather on the Business Solutions theme:

Business Solutions Blog Theme

You can view the live demo of the Business Solutions theme here.

Business Solutions Features Overview

• Clean, sleek, and professional design suitable for wide ranges of applications.
• On-page Search Engine Optimized – neatly formatted titles, meta descriptions, and proper use of headings.
• Multi-level drop-down navigation for pages and categories.
• Valid XHTML and CSS
• Styled HTML elements and WordPress widgets
• Separation between comments and pings/trackbacks
• Support for WordPress 2.7’s threaded and paged comments
• Built-in support for FlickrRSS.
• Lightbox-powered images.

Business Solutions Package Contents

• WordPress Theme
• PSD of homepage/archive and post/page
• XHTML /CSS versions of homepage/archive and post/page
• Documentation

Business Solutions Price Options:

• Single-Use ($25.00)
• Ten Licenses ($75.00)

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Distinctive is a clean and simple feature rich blog theme designed for WordPress users, which allows you to create a dynamic content managed community site.  Here is some additional information about the Distinctive blog theme:

Distinctive Community Theme

You can view the live demo of the Distinctive theme here.

Distinctive Theme Features:

• Two Column Tabless Layout – based on a grid utilizing the rule of thirds
• Custom Theme Administration Panel – Allows you to edit template and home page content including the logo, footer logo, Flickr group url, about me verbiage, Google Analytics code as well as many other options. No need to go searching through code to make template changes.
• Custom Write Post Panel – Adds all the necessary image fields without the use of a WordPress plugin. This is built in and ready to go once you activate the theme.
• Banner Ad Management – built in banner ad managment from the theme admin panel.
• Fully Widgetized Sidebar – includes 2 custom widgets (flickr, banner ads)
• Slick Categories Drop-down – custom jquery categories drop-down on archive, search and single post pages
• Gravatar Ready
• Author Highlight – includes author Gravatar, website link and brief description for each post
• Social Bookmarking – built-in social bookmarking at the bottom of each post (Digg, Mixx, Stumbleupon and Delicious)
• Related Posts – includes a related posts section at the bottom of all posts
• Most Popular – includes a most popular posts section in the footer
• Dynamic Image Resizing – Never worry about having to re size your images, upload large images via the WordPress admin and the theme takes care of the rest generating thumbnails, medium and large size images on the fly with caching.
• Very Easy to Change Color Scheme – by modifying the pre-sliced PSD
• Very scalable page structure – allows for accommodation of large amounts of content without breaking the layout
• Compatible with all major browsers
• Seven nice large stock photos are included as well. – that’s a seven dollar value in itself!

Distinctive Theme Price(s):

• Unlimited Websites ($25.00)

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