Themes Review
WordPress Personal FlipBlog Premium WordPress Theme
FlipBlog is the hottest new thing since sliced bread. This theme is like a Rock Star buisness/portfolio theme got together with a hip blog theme and had a baby. Yeah… FlipBlog is the whole package.
FlipBlog Video Tutorials
I want you to know exactly what you’re buying with when you purchase FlipBlog, and so I’ve prepared about 30 minutes of video tutorials here for you. FlipBlog is packed with features, but I went ahead and picked out my favorite ones to show you.
For the entire Vimeo playlist of video tutorials click here.
And did I mention that all of these video tutorials are simply in addition to some rock-solid documentation that comes with the theme?
Total Customization
With FlipBlog, visual customization is key. It’s impportant that you have total control over the look of your site all from the comfort of your WordPress admin panel; this theme gives you that! So, if you’re planning on using FlipBlog for your next website, there are a few questions you’re going to have to answer for yourself…
How are you going to flip it?
Which homepage layout does it for you?
What style are you going with?
What color are you going to pick for the header?
What color are you going to pick for the footer?
And what about an accent color?
Here’s how your basic visual customization is set.
Built-in SEO
FlipBlog comes with SEO built right in. You can take advantage of all it’s features or just disable it if you want to use a third-party SEO plugin. Watch the video: ThemeBlvd SEO Plugin Overview.
Note: This is not stand-alone WordPress plugin. It comes integrated into this theme and is designed to work perfectly with ThemeBlvd themes.
Introducing “Theme Hints”
If the rock-solid documentation included, built-in documentation scattered throughout your WordPress admin panel, and over 30 minutes of video tutorials wasn’t enough, I’m also introducing a new feature to help you get started called Theme Hints. Turn on Theme Hints and then browse through the front-end of your website to see clues on where and how to edit the different parts of your website.
Flip it on…
And browse the front-end…
For more information on Theme Hints and other tips on getting started with FlipBlog checkout this video tutorial: Getting Started
In a nutshell, this is what you’re getting for only $35…
- Over a hundred custom options and settings.
- Total Visual Customization through your WordPress Admin panel – See screenshot or Learn More
- 4 ways to “flip it”
- 2 overall styles (Light and Dark)
- 9 header colors (Aqua, Blue, Brown, Dark, Green, Light, Navy, Purple, and Red)
- 9 footer colors (Aqua, Blue, Brown, Dark, Green, Light, Navy, Purple, and Red)
- 6 accent colors (Aqua, Blue, Green, Navy, Purple, and Red)
- 11 Page Templates
- Archives Page
- Blog Page
- Contact Page
- Full Width Page
- Homepage #1
- Homepage #2
- Homepage #3
- Homepage #4
- Magazine Page
- Redirect
- Sitemap Page
- Tons of Shortcodes
- 10 Custom Widgets
- ThemeBlvd Ads (125×125) Widget
- ThemeBlvd Author Box Widget
- ThemeBlvd Feedback Widget
- ThemeBlvd MP3 Audio Widget
- ThemeBlvd Recent News Widget
- ThemeBlvd Recent Posts Widget
- ThemeBlvd Simple Contact Widget
- ThemeBlvd Tabs Widget
- ThemeBlvd Twitter Widget
- ThemeBlvd Video Widget (supports Vimeo, YouTube, and self-hosted mp4, flv, and f4v videos)
- 6 dynamic widget areas
- Blog Sidebar
- Pages Sidebar
- Drop Down Panel Boxes
- Homepage #1 Boxes
- Homepage #2 Boxes
- Homepage #3 Boxes
- 5 Homepages to choose from – Learn More
- Built-in ThemeBlvd SEO plugin – See Screenshot
- Font Control – See Screenshot
- Unlimted Slideshows – Learn More
- Unlimited Portfolios – Learn More
- Built for WordPress 3+ – Learn More
- Contact Form Builder – Learn More
- Full Lightbox Integration – Learn More
- 6 Video Tutorials
- Extremely detailed and well-organized documentation
- Localization .PO file included (for translation into other languages)
- Self-Hosted Video!
- new “Theme Hints” to help you get started – Learn More
Server Requirements
In order to run this theme, your server must have PHP5 and you must have WordPress 3.x installed.
If you’re not running at least PHP5 on your web server, it’s a bit of a security risk, anyway. Any respectable web host should update you for free if you just ask. If you’re on some sort of dedicated server plan, they will sometimes charge you a small fee to update.
Sources and Credits
I would like to thank the following providers:
Update Log
v2.0.3 – January 27, 2011
This update fixes a lot of little annoying bugs with the theme and all of the PHP warnings many of you have been seeing on your servers. Also make sure to checkout new live font previewing on your theme options page along with a whole bunch of new, awesome Google fonts to pick from.
- Added many new fonts from the Google Font Directory and also added live font previewing on theme options page.
- Fixed compatibility issues with WordPress 3.1.
- Theme now compatible with official Breadcrumb NavXT WordPress plugin.
- Excluded slides from appearing in search results.
- Fixed video/audio flash embedding (for shortcodes and widgets) in IE8 .
- Added width option to audio widget and shortcode for embedding of flash audio player.
- Fixed analytics code bug.
- When creating portfolio item, fixed “Learn More” link in admin panel that shows all supported ways to insert media item URL ’s.
- Updated to prettyPhoto 3.0.1
- Made SEO titles compatible with WP attachment pages.
- Added “Next/Pre” in gallery shortcode.
- Fixed all the pesky PHP warnings.
You can view complete change log for files here.
v2.0.2 – December 14, 2010
These are really minor little fixes. This not a critical update.
- Fixed Archive page template and Sitemap page template so they can be selected for use.
- Fixed search results page layout when “no results” found.
- Fixed default.po file rendering issue for localization. All translatable strings should be available now.
You can view complete change log for files here.
v2.0.1 – December 10, 2010
- Fixed some minor PHP warnings.
- Fixed hide/show option for dropdown panel widget area.
- Fixed non-working “effect” selection on primary slideshow.
- Fixed archive.php (for displaying categories, tags, archives, etc.)
- Adjusted default Josefin title font to be just slightly darker and bolder.
- Fixed non-working pagination on portfolio pages.
- Theme is now compatible with official WP-PageNavi plugin. Now, you must install the most current version of the WP-PageNavi plugin separately, opposed to it being built-in to the theme. This will ensure compatibility with a wider range of servers, allowing for you to always stay up-to-date with the plugin itself.
- Added info to documentation about WP-PageNavi plugin.
- Updated default.po file to reflect any changes made (localization file)
You can view complete change log for files here.
v2.0 – December 6, 2010
This was a huge update. This update incorporates the new ThemeBlvd WordPress theme framework. Make sure and explore the theme’s live demo to see all the new features added.
All files and folder have been edited in this update.
v1.3 – October 31, 2010
Fixed bugs with social media share icons and added Twitter button to icon set.
Effected files:
- style.css
- /layout/css/core/core.css
- /layout/images/shared/icons-share.png
- /includes/posts.php
- single.php
v1.2 – October 1, 2010
Fixed bugs with slideshow not using custom descriptions and links.
Effected files:
- /includes/slideshow.php
v1.1 – September 20, 2010
Added localization!
Added files:
- /languages/flipblog.po
- /languages/flipblog.mo
