Platformate is a magazine-style theme that keeps your blog personal. Have you ever wished to have a unique, one-of-a-kind design for a personal WordPress blog? A touch of magazine block elements showing popular posts in the front page while having other posts remain as usual blog date-ordered lists? Along with automatically generated fancy thumbnails that are displayed at a pretty sidebar to show your latest posts? There is Platformate for you, your blog’s total makeover. You can take a look at some features of the theme here, some theme screenshots here, and see the demo here.

The Theme Walk-Through

The upper part of the theme shows a list of most commented posts, titled here as “Hot Discussions”, and a list of most popular posts that are generated by the Popularity Contest plugin. Why putting these lists on the top? Don’t these lists usually displayed in the sidebar or at the bottom of a blog? Well, why not? Imagine if there is someone who accidentally bumped into your blog and they have no idea what your blog is all about. Isn’t it a good idea to deliver them the most popular post? Isn’t it an effective way to show them the best that your blog has and hope them to become one of your loyal readers?

The content is positioned at the centre of the theme in a width that will give your visitor a good content readability. It is not too wide nor too narrow; yet giving you enough space to post a medium-sized (500 pixels-wide) pictures. The paragraph spacing is enough and the font typeface is Arial, the every browser’s favorite. Breadcrumbs are located above the post title, giving the readers the information about where they actually are; post meta data is located under the post title. Comment and trackbacks are displayed separately to give the readers more focus on the current discussion and the comment list is Gravatar-ready.

To the left, there is the left sidebar, a usual sidebar that a blog usually has. This sidebar is widget-ready and configurable through WordPress administration panel. To the right, there are the color-configurable category spoilers. This section will display some posts from several categories along with their thumbnails. These thumbnails have some hover transparency effect so that these elements do not make the whole layout look too “full”. The footer is located at the bottom of the page with a bit Apple Mac grey color touch. Pages from your blog will be displayed here. There is also a login/site admin/logout link available for you so you can get rid of the WP Meta sidebar widget.

The Main Features

If you’ve been wanting a personal blog with a personalized magazine look, we believe that The Platformate Theme will suit your needs.

1. Theme Administration Panel.

   You’ve got no idea about PHP, (X)HTML, and CSS? Don’t worry about all the complicated commands and manage everything from the theme administration panel.

2. Auto-Thumbnail Your Old Posts.

   Seriously, please forget the time-consuming thumbnail generation with Photoshop, forget WordPress Post Custom Fields. Thumbnails across the theme will be assigned and generated automatically as requested, for every image sizes. You don’t need to spend your valuable time creating the thumbnail images but purely focus to your website content. Both automatic and via-custom-field assignment are available.

3. Easy Customizations.

   You can also customize the look of your pages. Show or hide headline spoilers, colorful category bar, category spoilers, and video/random post gallery with a single click. If you don’t need any of those features, simply turn it off to suit your liking. The theme panel is designed to make all users, both novice and advanced users, experience the ease of customizations without getting any CSS/XHTML problem.

4. Google-friendly Website.

   An in-depth integration with Google Analytics, the best and the most reliable web statictics, and with Google Feedburner, a feed and podcast management, giving you a better control of your RSS feeds. Feeds are automatically redirected and Google Analytics code is optimized to give you the best performance.

Copyright Notice

1. TimThumb is an open source automatic image resizing script developed by Tim McDaniels and is distributed under the MIT License.
2. Feedburner “Feedsmith” plugin was originally developed by Steve Smith and is now available for download to all Feedburner.com users
3. Google Analytics is a web tracking and statistics tool from Google.com. Tracking codes are available to all Google Analytics user and can be downloaded from Google.
4. All sample images are courtesy of its respective authors. Details about sample images can be read here.
5. WordPress template files and CSS stylesheets are developed by Michael Jubel Hutagalung.

Screenshots

How to Purchase?

Simply sign up with us and purchase the theme here. There are two types of license available: Single License (US$ 50) and Developer Pack (US$ 175).