Ashes is a lightweight magazine-style WordPress theme with an extra-large, tabbed main story box, dedicated ad space and a weblog style highlighting images for each post.

The grey-and-blue theme also includes Flickr integration, Gravatars and auto image resizing.

It’s worth a look for bloggers who want a little more zing than the average free WordPress theme.

Price:

The Ashes theme costs $US49 for a single licence, or for $US500 you can join the Wordpress Developers club and get a developer’s licence for all their current themes, as well 1 per month for the next 12 months.

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If you’re a photographer wanting to showcase your works in a stylish and professional manner with plenty of options and a minimum of fuss, the five photo gallery themes from ShutterThemes could be just what you’re after.

With black backgrounds and grey borders, your photos will really pop off the screen.

The themes also feature effective navigation and widget-ready areas so you can include information about yourself and your photos.

The themes could also easily be adapted as portfolio themes for designers.

Price:

Each of the 5 Photo Gallery themes from ShutterThemes costs $US29.95.

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Elegant Blubs is a stylish, flexible, two-column blog theme with beautiful typography and easy ad integration, a good choice for professional or group blogs.

It features a dropdown navigation menu, a widget-ready, right-hand sidebar, and a largely black, white and red design.

The theme also has a print stylesheet, author profiles and separate archives for individual authors. It has clean and valid code and is cross-browser compatible.

Cost

The Ecommerce theme costs $US49 for a single licence or $US99 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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The Ecommerce theme allows you to set up and manage your own Wordpress-powered store online, and comes with a choice of six colour styles.

The theme has multiple widget-ready feature boxes, allowing the user to tweak special feature areas easily with widgets.

It’s search engine optimized to help spread the word about your store and its products.

Cost

The Ecommerce theme costs $US49 for a single licence or $US199 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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The Market theme allows you to easily run your own Wordpress-powered marketplace (i.e. online store). It’s easy to set up and run, and comes with numerous configuration options.

The theme uses the custom fields system built into Wordpress to do much of the work for you - from setting a price to including that price, the name of the product, and other info and sending it all to Paypal for you.

The theme automatically generates Paypal “buy now” buttons and adds them to each post. It uses thumbnails and Fancyzoom to display product images in a nice, organised manner, with full versions of each product image easily available with a simple click.

Alternatively, the theme can be used as a way to showcase a portfolio of design work.

Cost

The Market theme costs $US55 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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TrueBlogger won’t appeal to everybody but for those attempting to become probloggers and earn an income from advertising, this might be an appealing commercial theme.

The theme has a blue and white colour theme, includes a news ticker, is widget-ready, XHTML compliant and has well-commented, easily edited CSS code.

It features four ad spaces in a very prominent location in the central column of the theme, above the main body content.

Cost

The TrueBlogger theme costs $US79.99 for a single licence or $US280 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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Monochrome Pro is a feature complete magazine-style theme for Wordpress packaged with an AJAX post slideshow and a custom theme admin page to easily customise the design.

The theme also features archive pages for individual authors, two different page templates, multi-tier dropdown menus and two widget-ready sidebars.

It uses custom fields to display images on the homepage, among other things, and employs a CSS framework to make customisation easier. The theme also has valid HTML and CSS code, and is optimised for search engines.

Cost

The Monochrome Pro theme costs $US75 for a single licence or $US199 for a developer’s multiple site licence. Alternatively, you can buy all the themes by Graph Paper Press for just $US99.99

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Content Press is a stylish magazine-style design Wordpress theme offering treats such as customised author pages,featured articles, customized category and search results, and even a bbpress forum theme.

If you want to integrate a forum into your Wordpress website, this is a good choice of theme to make it happen.

The theme has one large featured post front and centre, then two columns of recent posts, all with a sidebar to the right. At the bottom is a four-column footer.

You’ve also got integrated ad spaces, a tabbed content box in the sidebar and a video highlight box.

Cost

The Magazine News theme costs $US75 for a single licence or $US249 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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Magazine News is an awesome, Web 2.0-ish magazine-styled theme highlighting lots of content and providing built-in ad spaces.

It’s a three-column, widget-ready, adsense-ready theme with valid code and a large footer.

Magazine News allows publishers to easily highlight one article at any time, simply by creating a category called ‘featured’ and putting the posts they want featured in there.

Cost

The Magazine News theme costs $US49 for a single licence or $US199 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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Newspress is a stylish and modern premium Wordpress theme which includes beautifully displayed feature content sections, a built-in video player and integrated ads.

The theme also offers an options screen for changing the default white, grey and orange colour scheme, and for switching the homepage layout.

The video player allows the publisher to publish their videos easily and seamlessly on the homepage.

Other features include dropdown navigation menus, a tabbed display box, automatic image resizer, custom page templates for archives, sitemap and an image gallery, as well as support for gravatars.

Cost

The Newspress theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.

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