NewsTheme Pro Review
July 7, 2008 by Editor
Filed under NewsTheme Pro
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Product Name: NewsTheme Pro
Developer: Media Design Services, Inc.
Company Name: Media Design Services, Inc.
Price:
Single Use License: $125.00
Developers Use License: $250.00
Five stars out of five. We don’t see that very often in our reviews of WordPress themes.
NewsTheme Pro is by far one of our favorite WordPress themes.
It is very user friendly and comes with complete and specific setup instructions.
This theme is ideal for affiliate maketers and is optimized for adsense. An advertising block is built in the upper left “golden triangle” area and additional advertising code can be placed in any of the three sidebars using a text widget. This theme works very well with the muiltitude of plugins available for AdSense ad placement, SEO, rss feeds, etc.
The video player container on the home page lends an extra media element that will grab the attention of visitors, not to mention the fact that the search engine spiders love video.
It’s sleek contemporary design style really does set it apart from most of the other theme styles on the market.
Customer support is prompt and, if necessary, available by telephone during normal business hours Pacific Standard Time.
The features rival many of it’s competitors:
1. Featured Articles container on the Home Page utilizing jQuery coding to either display or hide the posts.
2. Dynamic tabs for displaying Recent Posts, Tag Cloud and more.
3. Optimized AdSense Placement.
4. Feedburner email subscription link.
5. Integrated YouTube Video Player to display YouTube video feeds on the Home Page.
6. Three Widget ready sidebars for adding advertising banners using the Text Widget.
7. Image resizer for Featured Articles thumbnails.
8. Theme options within the Presentation/Design area for defining Featured category, Video display on/off, Feedburner ID and more.
9. Photoshop PSD files for editing the logo and header background images.
All of the usual WordPress features, including, but not limited to:
- Integrated link management
- Search engine-friendly permalink structure
- Extensible plugin support
- Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
- TrackBack and Pingback
- Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
- Static Pages
- Multiple Authors
- Can store a list of users that visit your blog
- Can block a persons IP address
- Tag support
Tested in WordPress 2.5.1
Validates to XHTML 1.0 strict standards.
CSS validates to W3C standards.
Overall Rating: 5/5
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