Astereo, I have been monitoring my RSS reader closely waiting for your latest wp design. This is very nice indeed, but i like the WebUnload theme much more. I would prefer to have the listings menu an the top of the page. Also, it would be nice if you could add a comments and star rating features.

@idiaz - I considered a star rating system, but the thing is that most people don’t want any additional clutter, especially when downloading a theme. A star rating system would require an additional plugin, which some may consider access backage, especially for a theme. (I’d write my own if I was good with php, but I’m not). Right now this is all about testing the waters, as this is my first attempt with a paid theme (all my other public releases have always been free). If people find the price too high, etc, I will consider lowering it. I’ve also considered adding additional features available in different download packs (that the one time fee would give you access to) including one with a comment-bid like system similar to Appbid and possibly a product rating system, but right now that is all up in the air.

The reason I decided to leave comments off this release was because on most store fronts, you don’t have the option to leave a comment on the item. Maybe as a rating further down the road as a product feedback system, but not at this moment. And it also all depends on what you are selling. If you selling tshirts, what could somehow have to say - “The fabric was really soft”. See what I mean?

aj, I see what you are saying. I was thinking more on the lines of an digital art gallery, were customers could comment/rate the artist work and ask for a particular size/quality of a picture. I like the idea on the comment/bid system. Keep up the good work.

It’s an excellent theme! So funny - that type of marketplace was the next thing I wanted to talk to you about!

Anyway, that’s exactly what I meant when I wrote “Thinking outside the WordPress theme box”. I think this qualifies to be called more than just a theme. As much as Webunload and Appbid took WordPress one step forward, this is taking it to a whole different level. Bravo!

I am interested in your market theme. However I am also wonder if it is possible to ask for your services when modifying the theme?

Hi AJ,

I’ve just had a client ask me about a classifieds system — and since I am loving WP — wondered if your theme might be used like this. Payment and categorisation look good, but what about expiry and such.

Cheers GD

@garthadirect - I’m looking into ways to be able to set a post expiration for a different download pack. I’ll let you know what I come up with.

@Macrunch - I could customize it for you, just shoot me an email (see my address at http://www.astereostudio.com).

@Opi - Thanks for the comments!

Hi,
looks fantastic, I could certainly use this. One thing though, as a Textpattern user thats fairly new to Wordpress - can you have clean URL’s on the product pages for SEO purposes?

Keep up the good work

Ruaridh

@Ruaridh - Yes, you can. Much like how the postings are here, you can set the permalinks (under the options tab in the wordpress dashboard) to whatever you’d like. I’d recommend “/%category%/%postname%/”.

I purchased the theme yesterday. However, I want to have my normal blog posts display as well. For example.. on the top part, i want to display my normal blog post and in the second half of my homepage, i want to display the products as I have only 10 products or so and not whole market place.

Please let me know how to do.

@Bliss: You’ll need to add in another loop. Tonight, if not early tomorrow I will get you a copy of a modified index.php that does just this.

hello, very nice theme - but my question to you goes in another direction - for this time what font is this you are using in your header/logo?
ive seen a similar at elan-page ( snowboards and skiers ) and i would like to use it for a project.

would be nice if you can answer me whenever your time allows you to do. greetings and good luck and lots of suxxes with this theme.

I’m pretty sure it was Segoe UI.

thx, the downloadlink on that page is broken but i found another one. aj, pls allow me again to ask you about the handwritten font - is this also done by you or is this font available somewhere in the web?#
have to say i really digg and love this font

Would you be talking about the one in the header where it says revive? It’s called pointy, and it’s available at dafont.com (sorry the other link was broken, didn’t realize it)

hello, really nice theme!

My question is,
a) will you offer an affiliate program for people that want to sell your theme in their sites?

b) I am a web designer. if I want to customize it and install it for my customers how do I go about it? Do you offer a master resale license where someone pays extra but have the right to resell it?

Or do you offer discounts if someone buys a second and third license?

@Paul - I’m thinking I will creating a “Developer License” for those interesting in doing just that (question b). It should be up later today, so check back later on for more information.

The WP community has needed something like this for a long time. How hard would it be to create a version that accepts major credit cards?

Take my advice, skip school, and launch an affiliate program while the iron is hot.

Congrats on the concept of Market so you really can do one more thing that will make WP more popular by video gallery. We need a better way of using WP for videos. A plugin to show each post page of video and clips below the player of each category that related with the video that u are watching. If you could do something like that. Please contact me for a contract service to use your concept with video gallery! I love Wordpress for comments, etc so time to make it a video tool to broadcast in a better way!