I'm a fan of the AllTop style of website, whereby rss feeds are aggregated and grouped into categories. For a while, I've wished that I could apply this type of design to Become the Media and now, with the release of the Accumulo theme by Pro Theme Design, I can.
The theme, priced at $59 for a Single License and $149 for a Multi-License easily installs into WordPress and provides you with custom control panel screen. From the control panel, you can easily set up tab names and add your Google Analytics code. You can also configure which tab will represent your WordPress Blog.
Adding feeds to your newly created tabs isn't intuitive at first. I had to dig around the FAQs on the website to figure it out. Basically, you visit the Widgets section of your WordPress Dashboard, drag the 'Accumulo RSS' widget into a 'home tab' sidebar and then add the details such as Blog Title, Website URL, Feed URL, and a link to the site's Favicon. Once you've added one, it's simple to add the others. However, as a paying customer, I would have expected this kind of information to be made available in a readme file that accompanied the theme rather than having to visit the Pro Theme Design site FAQ for the answer. Perhaps there is documentation that accompanied the theme but I can't find it.
The good news is that Pro Theme Design has a forum where you can get support for whichever theme you've purchased. I left a few support questions after purchasing this theme and they were answered in a short period of time. However, one of my questions, 'how do I get an RSS feed for a Google search?' resulted in an answer that hasn't led me to figure out how. I'm still hoping to figure out how to do this. And since one of the examples on the Accumulo theme demo site shows Google searches aggregated onto a page, I once again wish Pro Theme Design would go the extra mile and provide step-by-step directions for their customers on how to make the best use of the theme.
These nit-picks aside, I'm extremely happy with the Accumulo theme. It was well worth the money and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants this style of aggregated website.
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