Last Version 1.4 (released 16 April, 2011) Update instruction

Version 1.3 (released 23 December, 2010)
Version 1.2 (released 18 November, 2010)
Version 1.1 (released 9 November, 2010)
Version 1.0 (released 21 October, 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.

Now Prestige comes in two versions: Dark (with 300 various skins) and Light (with 50 new unique skins).

• Live Preview for dark version: Prestige Dark

• Live Preview for light version: Prestige Light (this version comes with the same functionality and all the features included in the released earlier dark version)

Main Features:

350 skins – you can check all skins on Live Preview via special Control Panel. Some skins work better with some specific fonts and font colors. In Prestige theme two skins collections are included:

- 150 classic and elegant skins in vol.1 collection

- 150 modern and stylish skins in vol.2 collection

- 50 skins for Prestige Light version

130 shortcodes with full live documentation – a huge list 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… Here you will find a detailed description for all Prestige shortcodes with some examples: Shortcodes List

25 widgets – all widgets are described in short here: Prestige widgets list. You can use it to build sidebars and widgetized footer.

30 fonts – you can also check all fonts 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

5 Homepage Sliders – classic Prestige Slider, advanced Accordion Slider, unique Progress Slider, functional Chain Gallery Slider (works with NextGEN Gallery plugin), and Video Slider (allows to display embeded videos from YouTube and Vimeo). You have full control over sliders via CMS options.

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 David Leggett, and Bombay101

We would also like to thank photographers:

- Josh Liba
- Mark J. Sebastian
- Chris Willis
- Dawid Wong
- Helga Weber
- Mark McArdle
- Tim Wang
- Tony Chen
- Nic Redhead
- PopCultureGeek.com

Restrictions and recommendations:

- Homepage sliders must have at least two slides to work properly

- 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