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Announcing Photographer on WordPress.com

wp.com_photographer Organic Themes is excited to announce the release of our first premium theme on the WordPress.com marketplace, Photographer.

It has been an exciting process working with the WordPress theme team to get Photographer prepared and launched on their blogging community. We can’t thank the team at Automattic enough for giving us the opportunity to provide our themes to their community. We are looking forward to releasing our next theme on wordpress.com soon!

We’re confident Photographer will be a great addition to the wordpress.com marketplace, and an excellent solution for the thousands of photographers using the community for their website and blogging needs. If you would like to use Photographer for your wordpress.com blog, you can purchase it here. Don’t forget to purchase the Custom Design upgrade if you would like to change theme colors, fonts and styles!

In addition to Photographer, we have 2 free themes available on wordpress.com — Structure and Blissful Blog.

Note: The WordPress.com version of Photographer is separate from the Photographer Theme offered on our site, and only for use on the WordPress.com blogging community. Not to be confused with the open source version of WordPress from wordpress.org. The wordpress.com version can not be used on a self-hosted WordPress site. Please purchase the Photographer Theme from our website for use on a self-hosted WordPress site.

Posted: March 11, 2013 by David Morgan

Non-Profit Theme Version 4

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The NonProfit Theme has been been rebuilt from the ground up. We have improved everything while still maintaining the familiar layout. It’s simply the best WordPress theme available for organizations promoting peace, awareness and good will. New theme features include the following:

Fully Responsive Framework
Retina Optimized Design
Several Shortcodes
Slideshow Page Template
HTML5 and CSS3 Construction
WordPress 3.5 Custom Header and Background
WooCommerce Compatibility
New Customization and Color Options
Much More

Get started with the NonProfit Theme immediately using our Auto Install service.

Posted: January 24, 2013 by David Morgan

Photographer Theme Update

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My wife is a professional wedding photographer. I have the advantage of asking for her advice when designing a WordPress theme for photographers. As I understand it, most professional photographers don’t want giant versions of their images floating around the internet. While full screen photography themes look great, they’re generally not practical because they require such high resolution images that can be downloaded and printed. Rather than creating a full width photography theme, we decided to create something a bit more practical and elegant.

The Photographer Theme design was simplified with the most recent update, as seen in the demo. The updated minimal design brings the focus where it should be — to the images. Changing the logo, background, colors and images to match your brand is a breeze. Although the design was simplified, the theme itself has new options and features. The Photographer Theme now includes shortcodes and several social media options. The theme is responsive and retina optimized, so your photos will look extra crisp on any device.

We hope you enjoy these updates!

Posted: January 10, 2013 by David Morgan

Introducing The Response Theme

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The fully responsive, retina optimized Response Theme is our latest and greatest WordPress theme. View the demo on any device to see the theme in action. Scale your browser to see the responsive framework take effect.

The Response Theme marks the beginning of a new era for Organic Themes. We have taken extra time and care to create this theme from the ground up with several new features, while still maintaining our easily understood code base. This theme is a dream for designers and developers.

New features are overflowing within the Response Theme. Several shortcodes are available for easily displaying beautiful buttons, icons, tabs, headlines, toggles, modal boxes, galleries and much more within any page or post. The theme contains options for changing colors, site width, social media options and more. There are several background options for posts displayed in the featured slideshow. The Response Theme contains post formats for a variety of blog posting options. In addition, the theme is WooCommerce compatible for selling online products.

The Response Theme is an excellent solution for any storefront, business, portfolio or blog. Its extreme versatility will adapt to your brand with ease. We hope you enjoy the latest addition to our theme collection. Happy New Year from Organic Themes!

Posted: January 2, 2013 by David Morgan

5 Tips For Creating A Beautiful WordPress Site

The appearance of a website matters, greatly.

During the first milliseconds of viewing a site, if the logo, fonts, colors or imagery make my eyes bleed — I won’t proceed to the content. For myself and other professionals, design equals credibility.

While an Organic Theme will provide a huge head start towards creating a beautifully designed website, there are still potential poor design choices that can be made on the path to completion. Here are a few tips for staying on the path to creating a beautiful WordPress site.

Posted: November 12, 2012 by David Morgan

The New and Improved Organic Themes Site

Our customers deserve better, more cohesive solutions from the Organic Themes brand. The old ways of managing support and product fulfillment just wasn’t cutting it any more. The web is such a fast evolving environment, solutions that were once industry standard in 2009 have become archaic at the end of 2012.

As a result, we have been working tirelessly over the past several months to improve — well, everything.

We couldn’t be more excited to share the results with you! Organic Themes now features a new responsive and retina optimized design, payment and product fulfillment solution, support system, affiliate program and more!

Making so many changes at once is a delicate process. We have tried to make the transition smooth for new and old customers alike. To avoid any confusion, we would like to inform you of the changes in detail:

Posted: October 30, 2012 by David Morgan

The Portfolio Theme v4

It’s that time again — time for another major theme update. The Portfolio Theme is the latest theme in our collection to receive a makeover. Like a fine wine, the Portfolio Theme has just gotten better with age. We have refined the design and development, and included a slew of new features. Don’t take our word for it, check out the updated demo.

Posted: August 13, 2012 by David Morgan

The Music Theme

Introducing the Music Theme — the best way to promote and sell your music online. Our latest theme was designed and developed with the independent musician or band in mind. Play your music. Sell your music and merchandise. List your tour dates. Display your discography. It’s the website solution musicians have been waiting for.

Posted: July 25, 2012 by David Morgan

The Magazine Theme v4

The Magazine Theme has been rebuilt from the ground up. It now features a fully responsive framework, the new WordPress 3.4 custom header and background, WooCommerce shop compatibility, Ajax loading content, HTML5 and CSS3 transitions, color change options and much more. With simple, but powerful customization options, the theme can be changed to match your brand with ease. It’s the only Magazine Theme you will need.

So you want to see the theme in action? Check out the demo and scale your browser window to watch the fully responsive layout take effect. If you’re interested in having the new Magazine Theme automatically installed on the latest version of WordPress with our premium cloud hosting service, check out our Instant Setup form.

For a full list of upgrades, check out the features below:

Posted: June 19, 2012 by David Morgan

WordPress 3.4 Theme Updates

WordPress 3.4 “Green” arrived last week. We’re proud to announce all Organic Themes are compatible with the latest version of WordPress. In addition, we are updating several of our themes with the new WordPress 3.4 functionality. The latest Magazine Theme is the first to receive the updates, in addition to a new fully responsive framework and several significant enhancements.

Posted: June 18, 2012 by David Morgan

Free Structure Theme Update

The free version of our famous Structure Theme has been updated with a plethora of new features! While it still doesn’t offer the full functionality of the premium version, it’s leaps and bounds above its predecessor. Check out the updated demo for the free version, and see why the Structure Theme remains among the best free WordPress themes available. A few of the new features include:

Posted: May 25, 2012 by David Morgan

The Photographer Theme

The people have spoken, and we have delivered. The Photographer Theme features several options for displaying your photography in a fully responsive layout. View the demo to see the theme in action. The theme includes several portfolio page templates, and the options to display categories in a 1, 2 or 3 column portfolio layout. Customization is a breeze with the Photographer Theme — all colors are easily changed within the theme options. In addition, a full width blog template and slideshow template are included with the theme.

But wait! There’s more! We also created the theme to be compatible with the WooCommerce plugin, and added a full width shop template. Selling your work has never been easier than with the Photographer Theme! We hope our customers enjoy what they helped create.

Posted: April 23, 2012 by David Morgan

Our Next Theme?

We love our customers! Organic Themes provides a refined choice of high quality WordPress themes for a variety of markets. We believe in quality over quantity, and less can be more. Rather than pumping out several themes per month that are essentially the same — we aim for diversity in design, functionality and appeal. We believe that improving our existing themes is just as important as providing new themes. When releasing a new theme, we want it to be a useful solution for our customers — not just another theme to be tossed on the pile and forgotten.

Now it’s your turn to choose the next Organic Theme! We want our customers to tell us what they want. Vote on the theme concepts below, or if you have something else in mind, leave a comment with your thoughts. We’re listening, and thanks for supporting Organic Themes!

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Posted: March 19, 2012 by David Morgan

The News Theme 2

The News Theme is the latest Organic Theme from our original lineup to receive a heavy new dose of AWESOME! Check out the theme demo to see it in action. Basically, we rebuilt the theme from the ground up, cleaning up the code, design and adding a ton of new features. Some of these features include Ajax loaded content on the home page — snazzy! Color change options galore, making changing the red color scheme a breeze! More featured videos and the addition of social media buttons. The addition of a top horizontal navigation menu instead of the previous sidebar navigation. New page templates, featured image banners for pages, a ton of options and much more. If you’ve got loads of content, the News Theme will display it beautifully. And if you only have a little content, that’s okay too — you can easily hide content areas within the theme options. New theme features include:

Posted: March 16, 2012 by David Morgan

Introducing The Shop Theme

In case you haven’t heard the news, we released our first eCommerce WordPress theme, the Shop Theme! Check out the demo to see the theme in action. The Shop Theme is compatible with either the Jigoshop or WooCommerce plugins — both of which are free and simple to use. The design is clean and modern, and can easily be adapted to match any brand or product. The theme also features a responsive layout for mobile phones, so your shop will be more accessible for mobile customers. In addition, there is a full width shop page template, color change options, Gravity Forms styling and much more! The Shop Theme is an excellent, cost effective solution for selling products online. Start selling today!

Posted: March 9, 2012 by David Morgan

The Block Theme 3 Update

During the busy holiday season we forgot to inform our awesome customers about the latest version of the Block Theme. You can view the updated demo here. We have made several improvements to the theme including the ability to change link and highlight colors within the Options Framework. The new slider is capable of displaying video and features a thumbnail image navigation. In addition, the Block Theme has the option to display a horizontal or vertical navigation menu. The layout was tightened up even more — retaining its unique pixel perfect appearance. If you’re looking for a theme that stands apart from traditional theme layouts, look no further than the Block Theme. Additional features include:

Posted: January 14, 2012 by David Morgan

10 Essential Plugins

As a WordPress theme designer and developer, I am constantly creating, testing and using themes. Along the way, I’ve gathered a collection of essential plugins that I consistently use myself or recommend.

Before sharing, I urge users not to install more plugins than they need, and delete the plugins they are not using. This will generally increase your site’s performance and save space on your server. I’ve logged in to several customer and client sites to find up to 100 plugins installed. This is a recipe for disaster, particularly if some of the plugins haven’t been updated for years — 20 SEO plugins don’t make your site any more search engine optimized than having 3 SEO plugins. There’s no need to go plugin crazy. Use only what you need.

Posted: November 10, 2011 by David Morgan

The New Business Theme

The latest theme added to our repertoire is the Business Theme. Check out the demo here. The theme features a clean, corporate and responsive design perfect for companies that are seeking a beautiful option for both the web and mobile devices. In addition to many of our standard page templates, the Business Theme also includes a page template for posting jobs, and an RSS news page template. The theme contains several color options — the header, background, link and highlight colors can easily be changed to match your brand. The Business Theme is a solid foundation to build your company website upon.

We’re so excited about this theme, we even decided to use it for our company, Invulu, Inc.

Posted: November 2, 2011 by David Morgan

Complete Theme Localization

Organic Themes is excited to announce the localization of all our themes. Meaning, the themes have been updated to include files for translation to languages other than English. While our themes previously contained the groundwork for localization, they were only partially prepared for translation. Now, translating our themes is a relatively simple process.

Translating the theme to a different language can be accomplished by editing the .po and .mo files included within the theme folder. You can begin the process by following these steps:

Posted: October 31, 2011 by David Morgan

The Restaurant Theme 3 Update

It’s time to announce another major theme update. The Restaurant Theme is the latest in our collection to be spiced up. Check out the updated demo here. Like the Natural Theme, we have condensed the 3 previous color variations in to one super theme with several color choices available in the new Options Framework. We have updated the food menu page template and custom post type, and given the design a major update. The new Restaurant Theme is more delicious than ever. Check out some of the additional features:

Posted: October 28, 2011 by David Morgan