Grab Your Free Premium Themes

Since WooThemes‘ launch a little over four months ago, the site has already grew quite successful, with an increasing number of themes and new features for themes.  After all, it has only been a year since the owner first set off in the direction of the premium themes market and was on his own.

Now, one year later, the theme that helped launch the site (then branded as Premium News Theme) is now being released to the public for free.

The theme, titled “The Original Premium News Theme” is now downloadable straight from this page.  

While the theme(s) may not be the ideal solution for all bloggers, they each have a unique purpose.  In this case, this “anniversary” theme is best suited for blogs that want a magazine/blog appearance, while being able to include videos, advertisements, and featured images on the main page.

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The Original Premium News Theme, was the very first premium theme that we ever released. This theme may be a bit rough around the edges (in terms of its looks), but we’ve used the same solid base for all our subsequent themes. Enjoy this themes’ minimalistic beauty and make it your own today!

Features

• Featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technoliogy to display and hide the posts.
• Layout supports all three of the most popular web ad sizes – 468×60, 300×250, and 125×125.
• Animated horizontal drop-down menus for category navigation.
• Integrated theme options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, color scheme, and more for the theme.
• Built-in video panel for publishing any web-based Flash videos.
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images.
• Custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap, and Image Gallery pages.
• Built-in Gravatar support for authors and comments.
• Integrated banner management script for displaying randomized banner ads of your choice across your entire site.
• Widget-ready sidebars.
• Pretty drop-down navigation across the blog theme.
• Theme package includes all of the color schemes and with the Theme Options backend, you are able to change the theme’s color scheme whenever you see fit (although the demos do not work for the different colors).

Terms and Disclaimer

Absolutely no support will be provided for the themes, so you’ll need to purchase a Support Access package, which will give you access to the support forums, customization help, and the “community goodness.”  It is released under the same terms as the recently released Snapshot Theme.

Upcoming Announcements

There are more themes to come at WooThemes, with many new concepts placed here and here as part of their recent contest.

Conclusion

There is no doubt that the recent release of the new Revolution Themes prompted the availability of the free themes, although moving to an all-free themes model would prove more detrimental in this case, as they began building the brand seriously over the past six months.

It is recommended that you check out their premium themes as well as their free themes, which have all been created by “top” designers in the community.