Looking for a slick theme for your PremiumPress powered website?

Coming very soon will be a range of themes for PremiumPress suitable for both CouponPress, DirectoryPress and Shopperpress.  Stay tuned for more info.

Theme Sneak Previews: CouponPress Ice Blue and DirectoryPress IceBlue

Premiumpress Ice Blue by AzzX

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The Image link Issue

When creating a link for an image in one of your posts, upon saving or updating your post,  WordPress defaults the link to the image source.  Annoying? Yes very much.

Apparently the issue has been resolved though has yet to make it into a stable build: Source.

This WordPress thread highlights the issue in greater depth:

Now when you upload an image it puts the url of the image in the link box (to where it is on your own site) and when you attempt to replace that with any other link, say, to the source of the image offsite) it erases it and puts the original.

A temporary solution until wordpress gets updated to version 3 is to link your images as normal in your post, then use the HTML editor to edit the image source and remove the

<a rel="attachment wp-att-3434" href

of the image and replace it with

<a href

Hopefully that tides you over until the bug is finally fixed.

I have been dabbling a bit with the creation of a coupon type savings site based on a particular genre and have been trialing a few different scripts and plugins.  The last one I tried was a script called BACS php coupon script, which allowed you to create your own coupon stores along the lines of RTN and its popular brethren.

The issue I had with this script was the limited feature set, as it was missing basic features like RSS, Expiry date functionality and the lack of updates for some very significant issues.  Whilst searching good old Google, I came across CouponPress which is a plugin and theme environment for WordPress.

Don't let the fact that it just a WordPress theme because quite frankly, Couponpress is outright fantastic.  The fact it sits on top of WordPress gives you the best of both worlds, 1 it is easily the best coupon script I have found and 2, it works with WordPress making customisation, integration and design an absolute pleasure.

CouponPress Features

• Ready Out of the box.
• Easy Administration.
• No programming required
• integrated ‘social booking marking’ tools
• Complete Store Management
• Google Analytics tracking integration.
• Aweber integration options.
• Plugin and widget ready
• SEO Friendly, the list of functionality just goes on and on.

Ironically there is a coupon code available for CouponPress which is constantly updated on CouponIce Australia and yes this site runs CouponPress.

The most powerful Open Source PHP CMS now has themes available from the best designers in the business, RocketTheme. In the past Drupal has always suffered from a limited choice of paid themes and those that were available were never in the same class as what you could find available for Joomla and WordPress.

As a starting point for creating your own unique website, Rockettheme has always been a fantastic starting point, not just for their unique template features but also for the extensive documentation and the massive power of the forum community.  If you have a problem, the forum will likely solve it almost immediately.

Our Drupal themes are based on existing Joomla templates providing you with the ability to create a stunningly unique site design to enable you to stand out from the crowd.

Check out RocketThemes new Drupal themes right here.

Drupal Theme Club features

• Access to all Drupal themes in the RocketTheme Drupal club portfolio
• Access to all new RocketTheme Drupal themes released during your membership period
• Theme usage based on number of entitlements you have accrued
• Unlimited non-profit use
• Access to the RocketTheme Drupal Community Forums
• Ability to remove branding and user-facing copyright
• Access to RocketTheme video tutorials

Searching or creating a wordpress theme to suit can be a long and tedious affair.  There are an abundance of free themes available and you could spend days finding one that you like.  Sure you can create a theme from scratch or use a free one as a starting basis, but this takes time - and time is valuable.

Why not buy a premium theme?

In my journey into the wordpress world of online blogging and publishing, I have come across some sensational wordpress templates.  Some like the one this site is using, can turn a simple blogging platform into a fully dynamic cms.  Check out some of these paid wordpress templates or simply go to Pressed Themes for all the best themes in the one place.

ELEGENT THEMES

Elegant WordPress themes have some rather spiffy looking designs covering almost everything you could want out of a blog.  My wife uses the Elegant Bluemist theme which you can see here: HeVShe

Simplicity, professionalism and a dose modest elegance is what you will find at Elegant WordPress themes and at a price of $19.95 per year for unlimited access, you can't go wrong.  In the past few months, Elegant has come a long way, integrating a fantastic theme admin panel.  Great Stuff.

WOO THEMES

Woothemes sell wordpress themes separately or packaged with their themeclub and have on offer some truly impressive designs covering magazine type designs to marketing blogs.  A custom admin backend is also on offer along with custom write panels and some fascinating uses of wordpress.

Cutting edge WordPress templates

RocketTheme

The newest and possibly the most advanced entry into WordPress theme designs are RocketTheme's WordPress Theme Club. This new club is based on the highly popular Joomla Template Club which now offers WordPress themes that can either be used along side an existing Joomla site or as for a stand-alone WordPress blog.

Some features:

• Multiple Preset Styles on each theme
• RokBox
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS Valid
• Widget variations, styling and positions
• A unique Color Chooser making it simple to change your sites look.
• RokMooMenu or Suckerfish menu abilities.
• And Heaps more...

The WordPress Theme Club starts at $50 for 2 domains and access to all their themes.  RocketThem also allow Developer solutions for small business or web developers who have the need to use many RocketTheme WordPress themes as a basis for their client production.

Some available RocketTheme WordPress themes:

PremiumPress

These themes are unlike any other listed here as they can turn your generic wordpress install into a fully featured Shopping cart, directory script, coupon collection or even a real estate website.  Mixing the power of WordPress with the flexibility of the PremiumPress range of themes allows you to build a fully featured SEO friendly Ecommerce website in well under an hour.  Scripts that offer this sort of functionality can cost thousands of dollars yet these themes are well under $100.

What themes are available?

CouponPress is a professional coupon script for WordPress that turns any WordPress blog into a powerful coupon code or voucher code website with lots of coupon site features, in minutes!

RealtorPress is a premium Real Estate Script that will transform any WordPress blog into a powerful, SEO friendly, feature rich real estate website with lots of changeable real estate designs built in!

ShopperPress is a premium WordPress shopping cart theme and comes integrated with lots of professional shopping cart features, extra store designs and a ton of addons and extra plugins.

DirectoryPress is a clever directory script turns a WordPress blog into a powerful online directory website with lots of features, import tools and built in payment gateways allowing you to charge website visitors to submit their website to your directory.

Classifieds Theme is a powerful, secure, SEO friendly classifieds script for WordPress with lots of professional features and extra classified website designs.

AuctionPress is due for release next month and will transform any WordPress blog platform into a feature rich auction website with built in features such as member messaging,

Use the Coupon PREMIUMPRESS for a 20% discount on ShopperPress, CouponPress, DirectoryPress and the PrimiumPress Classifiedstheme.

A prototype Iphone was lost in a bar in in Redwood City and amazingly made its way to Gizmodo:

After reading the Gizmodo article it is entirely evident that this phone prototype was leaked to Gizmodo by Apple themselves.  This viral marketing attempt is actually quite humorous as Gizmodo have infused what is obviously a list of Apple prerequisites to be included in the blog entry:

It feels completely natural up to your face, and the fact that both the front and the back are glossy makes no difference on how well you can hold it without the phone slipping. And because it's thinner, it feels even nicer in your pants.

I mean really, It feels natural to your face and pants, not the sort of typical tech perspective there Giz, enjoy your free hits while it lasts.

The launch for the next version of the ever popular Adobe graphics suite, Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5), will be coming out on April 12th, 2010!

An Adobe CS5 launch event will be happening on April 12th via Adobe TV which you can register for free here and also preview some sneek peaks on some of the new enticing features right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy04KdO0wJY