Bookclub is the first childtheme for Listings, a directory theme for WordPress from WooThemes. Listings is one of the most powerful premium WordPress themes that allows any niche business to create a listings/directory based website thanks to a Woo-powered content builder for custom post type, taxonomy and custom field generation. The Listings theme also offers advanced search capabilities, Google Maps integration and the ability to upload a listing from the front end. Bookclub is a the first Listing child theme that allows for a directory of books, categorized by authors, publishers and genres all to be displayed, archived and searched through in a very clean and crisp layout. So it’s perfect for your local book club, or as an affiliate site where you can list and recommended books for your industry, followers or community. For a more closer look check out the screenshots of the home page and blog page below :
Bookclub, directory style child theme for Listings from WooThemes - front page
Bookclub, directory child theme for Listings from WooThemes - blog page
Features
Check out the features of the Bookclub theme :
- Custom Homepage: Contains a unique carousel, recent book listings, book category modules, and widgetized footer areas. All are optional and can be setup in the options panel.
- Featured Book Carousel: Can be set up in the theme options where you specify what tag to pull posts from. Those posts are then pulled into this neat, visual javascript slider.
- Custom Book Author Archive Pages: Thanks to the content builder you can add custom fields to taxonomies. This means you can add an image and biography to an author, with the author being a taxonomy/category. When you view the taxonomy archive you’ll then see this additional content.
- CPT, Taxonomies & Custom Fields for Book Directory Listings:
- Custom Single Listing Template: Once you activate the Bookclub theme a “Books” custom post type is created, with taxonomies for authors, publishers and genres, as well as a few custom fields for the book listings.
- Add Affiliate Links and Purchase Buttons: When adding a book in your WordPress backend you have the option to add a book cover image, an affiliate link to a site where they can purchase the book and another field for the price of the book.
Other features :
- Sidebar Manager: Allows you to replace all widgetized sidebars and footers in the theme with a unique custom sidebar.
- Woo Custom Navigation: Allows you to customize the themes navigation to include pages, categories and custom links.
- Custom Shortcodes: Allows you to easily add buttons, boxes, social buttons, columns and more to your posts, pages and widgets.
- Backend Theme Options: Making simple changes without editing code, like adding your own logo, changing to an alternate colour style, adding Google Analytics code etc.
- Auto-sizing Thumbnails: An image resizer script built into the Woo framework automatically scales your post images for pixel perfect display in our templates.
- Localized for Translations: WooThemes come packaged with a .po file for easy WordPress theme translations into your desired language
- Custom Page Templates
- Built-in SEO options: Helps to boost your website’s search engine rankings
- WooFramework2: Framework with updated options panel, modifications are a breeze, whilst all is neatly coded for search engine readiness and further theme development
Pricing
Standard pricing of the Bookclub theme from WooThemes is as follows :
- Bookclub Child Theme: $20 (relies on Listings in order to work)
- Listings Theme: $200 (comes bundled with the layered Photoshop file)
- Standard Club Membership: $85 (+$15 month recurring, gives access to all existing + to be released themes incl. updates)
- Developer Club Membership: $140 (+$20 month recurring, gives access to all existing + to be released themes incl. updates & PSD’s)
Check out the WooThemes page on WPwebshop to check out all themes from WooThemes, or click here to go directly to the WooThemes website.
