theDawn Premium All-in-one WordPress Theme

€œtheDawn€ is a powerful all-in-one premium WordPress Theme that brings to the table many front-end and back-end features. While working on it, Ia€™ve been paying attention to the design and structure of the theme as well as the options variety and customizability and ease of use. With its 30+ layout options, 60+ built-in shortcodes, and many other features (see features list below) it will make your WordPress life easier and joyful. Since many of €œtheDawn€ features are built-in -some of them are exclusive, it will give you more control over your site, and induces your creativity, take a€œMbiz slidera€ as an example.

Features

• Ten Skins: dark, light, colorful and what I call a€œluxuriousa€ styles.
• Powerful backend option panels: nearly 70 admin options for managing your content, site design and layout.
• Layout varieties: multiple layouts for: homepage, portfolio, blog, gallery, page, sidebar, footer, and other options. See a complete list of layout variety
• Three Sliders: Mbiz slider, Nivo slider, fixed image.
• Mbiz slider: exclusive slider that provides many features and options which are easily manageable through powerful a€œSlider managera€. Take a look here. You will find more explanation and tips in the documentation. Free slider background images are also included.
• Four different homepage layouts: two magazine-like layouts which are widgets based i.e easy to manage, blog, normal page which uses shortcodes. Homepage can be given an exclusive sidebar.
• Portfolio custom post type: for easy management and organization.
• Portfolio layouts and options: portfolio can be presented in one of seven different layouts, and can be featured in your homepage. It also has video support.
• Gallery templates: creating a gallery is a cinch and fun with €œtheDawn€ gallery templates. See the demo, and check this YouTube video tutorial.
• Sidebars: add/remove as many widgetized sidebars as you want and attach them to pages, posts, or portfolio items.
• Left and right sidebars: align your sidebars either to the left or to the right, globally, or in a given page, post, or portfolio item.
• Three blog layouts: floated image, full-width image, and disabled image layouts.
• Single-post optional widgets: a€œShareThisa€ on 10 social networks, about the author, and popular/related posts.
• Single post can split and can be protected (password protection is supported).
• Comments: nested four levels deep. Support for comments pagination and avatars.
• 10+ custom widgets: theDawn provides its own widgets as well as re-styled default widgets. Added widgets -for sidebar and footer are: popular posts, flickr -which supports user photos and group pool, latest tweets, contact form, contact info, social networks, google map.
• Footer: has three areas:
  • Optional big footer: widgetized and provides 9 column layouts.
  • Optional sub-footer: located inside big footer, and has 2 widgetized columns.
  • Standard footer: at the very bottom, and contains footer menu.
• WP 3 .0 Menus: top menu which has dropdown capability to unlimited levels, and footer menu. In addition to those two, WordPress a€œcustom menua€ has been enhanced to become dropdown ready. With WordPress 3.0 menus and theDawn sidebar generator you have the ability to add any menu to any page.
• Shortcodes: over 60 shortcodes available, all are integrated with WYSIWYG editor in a neat an organized way (you will like it). Shortcodes include but not limited to: lightbox, video, typography, contact form, sitemap, price boxes, tabbed content, column layouts, and more.
• Sitemap: a shortcode which has a lot of options, ita€™s simple and highly customizable. See it live.
• Working ajax contact form: with a spam protection. Ita€™s available as a shortcode to be added in any page, and as a widget for sidebars and footers.
• Header intro: the area beneath top menu which I call a€œHeader-introa€, ita€™s optional and customizable.
• Optional breadcrumbs navigation
• Lightbox: for single image, gallery, and video. Ita€™s based on prettyPhoto. Could be implemented by shortcodes.
• Video support
• Automatic thumbnails by timthumb
• Price boxes: implemented with shortcodes.
• Admin visual editor: WYSIWYG editor is re-styled so content will have similar look to the front-end page.
• Translate ready
• Browser compatibility: IE7-8, Firefox 3-3.6, Chrome 4-8, Safari, Opera.
• Cufon font replacement
• PSD files: of basic design elements are included.
• Extensive documentation.