I came across YummThemes the other day, and I’ll be honest with you, I actually thought it was a joke. No theme demos or screenshots, just a big bag of money, a promise of getting a “shit load of money” shot at me with a “very big gun” and an email newsletter signup form. Reluctantly, I signed up to the newsletter out of curiosity.

A couple days later, they sent everyone a free theme to everyone on their newsletter. I was impressed by the screenshot of the theme, and with some questions surrounding their legitimacy, I decided to give this theme a try and post the results in a review post.

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Elegant Themes never ceases to amaze me with their feature-packed, great looking, and affordable themes. eBusiness is the latest theme from the theme club. This theme is ideal for those looking for a WordPress CMS-style theme for their website, while still maintaining some blog functionality.

In this review post, I’ll be going over my experience with this theme, including setting it up and how to use it to run a business CMS site, as well as a blog.

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Gallery is a Thematic child theme, designed by Chris Wallace. Yes, that’s right - a child theme. Okay, gallery-style WordPress themes aren’t exactly a new concept, but when I first saw this theme, I was simply amazed.

In this review post, I’ll go step-by-step with my experience with using this theme, including how to install it, set it up, and add content.

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Thanks to a commenter, I became aware of an amazing free theme site called Deluxe Themes, offering professional WordPress themes for free. The site was created by Ahmad, who is the developer of the Guzel Magazine which I reviewed last October. On a side note, it appears the Guzel theme is now available exclusively on DeluxeThemes.com.

In this review post, I’ll be going over their latest theme, Red Carpet. This design would be ideal for any celebrity bloggers out there who are looking for a feature-packed WordPress theme. A screenshot is below.

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Snapshot is a showcase-style theme, suitable for portfolio websites or photo galleries. It’s a rare free theme release from the WooThemes team, who usually produce paid WordPress themes exclusively. I’ll be going over this free WordPress theme in a review post.

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I recently came across this awesome looking magazine theme and I thought I would share it with all of you in a review. It’s called Guzel Magazine, created by Custom Theme Design. I’ll be going over how to set it up and other features.

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Agregado is yet another amazing WordPress theme release by Smashing Magazine, this time in collaboration with designer Darren Hoyt. This theme is known as a “lifestream” theme, designed to preserve the personal website. I’ll be giving this theme a complete review, along with information on how to use it, and an overview of features.

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I receive e-mails all the time with compliments on Theme Lab’s design. People frequently ask if they could get a copy of the theme I use here, but I’ve always politely declined.

I feel that this design is part of the “brand” here at Theme Lab, and I wouldn’t want to dilute that brand by giving away my theme.

To any of you who don’t know, this design was custom designed, specifically tailored for my site. I’ve had it up for a little over 4 months.

It recently came to my attention that an uncreative individual has released a theme that has an eerily similar resemblance (to say the least) of Theme Lab. At first I thought I wasn’t going to post about this. I mean, why would I want to give a theme like this free publicity? I figured giving it a completely “honest” review would be a better option.

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There have been a number of WordPress theme clubs launched relatively recently, and I usually don’t blog about them (with one exception).

Well there’s more good news for those of you looking for another affordable source for paid WordPress themes. It’s called Elegant WordPress Themes. At the time of writing this post, there are 12 WordPress themes, all for one low price of $19.95 per year. By signing up, you get access to not only those 12 themes, but also any future themes the club produces.

In this post I’ll be reviewing just one of those 12 themes, their latest theme called Influx. The rest of the review will be after the jump.

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The Arthemia WordPress theme, designed by Michael Jubel, is probably one of the cleanest and feature-packed free themes I’ve seen in a long time. I thought I share my experience with this theme in a review post.

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