Wow, is it just me, or can Brian Gardner read minds? A couple of weeks ago I invested in a couple of Geographical domains with plans to develop them into portals for their respective areas. With the focus of the internet continuing to become more and more local, I think these types of domains are the best way to invest money online right now.
As Brian has been prone to do in the past, he has released a theme that is exactly what I am looking for, and this time it happened to be at the exact time I needed it. Today he has released his new City WordPress theme, which was of course designed to serve as a portal for a geo domain or similar website.
Revolution City theme features:
- Featured tabber and thumbnail section on the homepage
- Dropdown menu navigation
- All 3 sidebar areas are widget-ready
- Theme options page inside WP dashboard
- Comments section coded for Gravatars
- Google AdSense integration in between posts and comments
- Blog page template
As you will see the the screenshots, it is designed for a city portal, but is truly much more than that and could be used for just about an design. Here is a screenshot of the Revolution City homepage:
A common strategy among city domainers is to develop a blog along with your city domain, so I really like that Brian included a blog template with this theme, and he has also created a PHPBB forum template for anyone to add a free forum to their blog!
Single-Use Package ($79.95) | Multiple-Use Package ($199.95)
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Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Hi there,
This looks interesting. Thank you for posting about it.
I am curious though. I current have leased portal system loaded on my domain http://www.shuswapbc.ca .
I want to find something that I own and don’t have to pay monthly fee for. I want to have simular to what I have, live feeds coming in for news headlines, weather, business listings, classifieds, etc.
Is this theme good for something like this?
Cheers,
Jeromy
Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Hi Jeromy,
The Revolution themes were put in the vault at the end of October (gone forever) so it is no longer available for sale.
You may want to check out their new website, which has similar themes available for free, but for about the same price you get theme support for ALL of their new themes instead.
That might be the best option for you. You may also want to check out these themes which may be more like what you are looking for.