Version 1.1 (released 13 November, 2010)
Prestige is an unique and advanced WordPress theme. It comes with a big pack of various skins, shortcodes, widgets and fonts. Thanks to massive CMS options panel you can fully customize this theme to your needs. Prestige is the ultimate package with functional and powerful features. Prestige Dark Vol.2 is the second version of Prestige Dark theme and it comes with modern and unique 150 skins.
Main Features:
150 classic and elegant skins – you can check all skins on Live Preview via special Control Panel. Some skins work better with some specific fonts and font colors (Main Menu font color can be also changed in CMS backend).
130 shortcodes with full live documentation – a huge pack of simple and advanced shortcodes that allow you to customize text, insert media files (images, videos and audio), create unique mini galleries, use sliders in content, and much more…
25 widgets – you can use it to build sidebars and widgetized footer.
30 fonts – all fonts you can check on control panel in Live Preview
6 header icons sets
DC Ratings System Plugin – it is possible to use rating system for Blog posts, news, projects and regular pages. You can also use special rating shortcodes that allow to use rating system also for Galleries and Portfolios. This plugin allows also to vote comments and display a top comment for each page/post (thumbs system). Plugin can be customized in some ways, like for example you can change the star icons to your own graphics very easily.
DC Newsletter Plugin – allows you to collect emails from your viewers. This feature allows you to build multiple collections of emails
4 Homepage Sliders – classic Prestige Slider, advanced Accordion Slider, unique Progress Slider and functional Chain Gallery Slider (works with NextGEN Gallery plugin). You have full control over sliders via CMS options. Accordion Slider can be configured with one big image split on all slides, or a different slide strip can be used for each slide (like in Live Preview).
Portfolio and News pages with own categories – 5 types of layout for portfolio pages, News page with a functional Calendar Archive search option and 2 types of Fetured News display (slider / single image plus description)
Functional Galleries – thanks to NextGEN Gallery features and special shortcodes, you can easily build and manage a massive gallery sections. To use this feature NextGEN Gallery plugin must be installed.
Multiple Blogs, Portfolios, News and Galleries
Advanced Footer – can be build from four elements (Links, Widgetized footer, Bottom line text, Bottom logo)
Extensive documentation – a full live documentation for shortcodes and a full documentation of all features as a PDF User Guide.
Totally customizable content – using Prestige CMS options and a massive collection of shortcodes, you can customize your pages and posts. You can create full width posts, change sidebar position from left to right
Additional Features:
Search system – Search page allows you and every site visitor to define search. You can search in Pages, Blog Posts, News Posts and Portfolio Posts
Flow player included – allows to display videos directly from your server
Shortcode Sliders as main media item for posts – instead of image or video, you can also use for example shortcode fly gallery as a main item that will be displayed above post content
Map Pages – pages with an alphabetical list of Pages, Tags, Projects
Contact Page – page with working AJAX /PHP contact form
Unlimited Sidebars – create as many sidebars as you want, assign different sidebar for pages and posts, or use a default sidebar option
PrettyPhoto lightbox – choose one of 5 default lightbox styles in CMS options
Main Navigation Menu – custom menu system with menu manager. It is also possible to use WordPress 3.0 Menus system
Header Icons manager – you can choose one of 6 icons sets, choose which icons will be displayed or create your own icons set and use it on our site
Prestige Location Maps – additional map images of almost every part of the world. You can use these images to present your office localization or use it to any other presentation that needs a continent/country map. In Prestige theme you will find example PNG images and ready to use PSD files. You can use these PSD files to mark your city/cities or to modify these maps in some other way to your needs. In package 9 maps are included: Europe, USA , Canada, Mexico, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, East (Arabian Peninsula), South America.
And more…
External scripts and resources used:
– Pretty Photo plugin
– We used some great free brushes for this theme from Mike Martinez, and Bombay101
We would also like to thank photographers:
– Josh Liba
– Mark J. Sebastian
Restrictions and recommendations:
– Homepage sliders must have at least two slides to work properly (except Video Slider)
– This theme requires PHP 5 .0 or higher
– We recommend use of WordPress version 3.0.1
– For image descriptions in galleries it is not possible to use regular quote characters
– Gallery pages and some shortcodes are using free NextGEN Gallery plugin by Alex Rabe and you will have to install it to use these features
Download Prestige – Ultimate Dark WordPress Theme vol.2 (Portfolio)
Screencasts on customizing the theme: