On The Go proposes a CMS layout with a featured section by default, but a blog layout is also available. This design is available in 4 unique color schemes, all declinations of this hand drawn style that appears in all the elements of the theme.

Of course, the theme is full of the features common to all themes from Elegantthemes, now accessible through the new admin theme panel developed last year.

I could say more about that theme, but I guess the best I can do is to advise you to go have a look for yourself!

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Do you remember Premiumthemes.net? Created by R. Bhavesh, also the creator for cssace.com, it has been one of the places to look for high quality WordPress themes for some time now.

With frequent releases of themes for all needs (from the wedding site to the kitchen diary), it fits of the needs of everyone and also offers a club membership that will fit the needs of a lot of WordPress developers: for $249 you get access to all the themes and PSDs!

Go have a look! If Templatic is as successful as Premiumthemes.net was, this website is going to have an impact on the theme market!

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It was announced a few minutes ago on WPelements, Jason Schuller’s website that become famous with great Premium WordPress video themes (now available at Press75.com). This website is going to redirect directly to revolutiontwo.com from the 1st of November, and we will be able to see Jason’s work in the future revolution WordPress themes releases. He already released Revolution TV, another great video WordPress theme!

You can also read more about Revolution two‘s launch at Brian Gardner’s blog.

So what’s new with Revolutiontwo?

Well, at first sight it is a new theme club, offering lots of different themes for a reasonable price ($99.95/year or $149.95/lifetime) regarding the quality of the designers and of the themes. But what’s different? All these themes are of premium quality, and they are made available under the open source/GPL license. With these themes a full support is given to the club members as well as all customizations and theme managing tutorials.

What does that mean for us?

According to Wikipedia, The terms and conditions of the GPL are available to anybody receiving a copy of the work that has a GPL applied to it (“the licensee”). Any licensee who adheres to the terms and conditions is given permission to modify the work, as well as to copy and redistribute the work or any derivative version. The licensee is allowed to charge a fee for this service, or do this free of charge.

From that point, I have to admit I do not completely understand it. At first thought I expected the themes to be released for free, with a possibility to become a club member and then receive support for the price of the membership.

But from what I have seen on Revolution Two, we pay for the themes but we can redistribute all what we bought for free? Am I right?

I guess I will keep posted and collect opinions about this “revolution”, this new concept. Starting by the numerous comments on Brian’s post announcing the idea. I guess the idea should not be that bad, coming from one of the main WordPress designers around!

A bit of taste of what’s coming for us?

Well, all the themes seem interesting, depending on what you plan to do on your blog, but I have spotted one, Black Canvas WordPress theme, a photography theme, but knowing the premium quality of the other themes, I am curious to see what the theme options are, and I am pretty sure this will become a famous theme, one of the best among Photography themes today.

To conclude, I would say the revolution is definitely here! It shows once more that Premium WordPress themes were not the best solution, but theme clubs would certainly be much better. This one is new, and I wish good luck to it! I will keep checking it in the coming weeks as I am sure that great quality themes will be released!

Update

I have just found out that it is possible to download the themes for free, without the support of course. That was in grey at the bottom the theme pages, I did not see it before. That means you can try the themes if you wish to, and then get an account if you want to get to know all the possibilities of the theme you downloaded! Even better! Congratulations Brian and Jason!

What are you waiting for now?

Do you remember last January, a big buzz spreading in WordPress community? Small Potato had just launched his 5$ Theme club. In a nutshell, a ridiculous amount of money for a bunch of Premium themes from one of the most famous WordPress designers around. Well 10 months have passed, but Theme clubs have become something more and more popular. It is now time for an overview of the best of them.

1. WPDesigner 5$ Theme Club

I first spoke about WPDesigner as he was the first to introduce the idea. After a few weeks he even launched a big campaign to give away 20 000 club accountsfor free. It turned out to be a big success and the first themes he published definitely worthed the 5 dollars. However in March Small Potato sold his website, and since then no new article was posted, and nobody heard about new themes releases for club members. I personally regret to see such a great website go away like that but we can still hope that the new owner will give us a sign some day…

Speaking of that, if you  spent 5 $ and became a member of this club, Small Potato started refunding everybody as he promised. No doubt now that he was and still stays trustworthy and should be respected among WordPress community. It is a pity we cannot say the same about the new owner of WPdesigner…

2. Woo Themes Club

Woo Themes club was created by Adii in July of this year and proposes Premium like themes for different prices. You can either buy one of them individually or become a club member and get themes, support and source files. However the prices are a bit higher than Small Potato’s 5 bucks: you will spend 250$ for a 6-month single membership. But the themes are really advanced, I invite you to have a look for yourselves, some of them could be interesting.

3. Theme Hybrid club

This Theme club was launched by Justin Tadlock in August and makes good use of the Child themes (if you are not clear with these ones, go have a look at Themeshaper’s post about it). The result can be compared to the Woo Themes, although there is a free membership option.

4.  Elegant Themes

Elegant Themes also started this year and delivers great themes for a much cheaper price than most of the other theme clubs. The latest one, Studio Blue, has been reviewed on WP-Candy and it shows well the high quality of these themes. Like most of the Premium themes released lately it makes great use of theme options.

To conclude all these theme clubs are one good option to choose between a bunch of great quality WordPress, for a reasonable price. If you consider buying a Premium theme you should definitely have a look at these websites and consider all the offers. By the way if you know any other theme club do ot hesitate to let me know in the comments!

5. Now there’s more…

Now that said, what about other opportunities, and the future of all this theme club market? Indeed the Premium themes themselves do not fit much with the Open source model of WordPress. It has been criticized many times, and there seems to be something coming up to shake up the whole Premium marketin November (dixit Matt). This has been announced by the very same person who started the whole Premium WordPress theme idea, Brian Gardner. In the beginning of October he announced that his Revolution theme club would end. Along with that breaking news we also got to know that he will work on a totally new conceptwith Jason Schuller, who runs WP Elements. Well that sounds promising I cannot wait to see what is coming for us, but seeing who are the 2 men behind this idea I expect some great changes to help WordPress expanding!

What do you think of this idea? What are your opinions about the future of WordPress themes?