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Today, we'll review only a handful of the top selling and most popular templates and plugins on sale at CodeCanyon and ThemeForest.
The Top Selling CodeCanyon Items
1. CSS3 Mega Drop Down Menu
This Mega Drop Down Menu is a flexible and easy to integrate solution to build your custom menus. The drop down relies only on CSS /XHTML and comes with a fully working contact form.
2. jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow
This is a jQuery banner rotator plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizable and configurable through the plugin's parameters.
3. AJAX Contact Form
This AJAX jQuery website component allows you to easily place a self-contained Contact Form on any HTML or PHP page of your existing website.
It uses just 1 file to Validate, Process and Send the completed contact form to your e-mail address and best of all, does not reload the page to validate or send the form!
4. Events Calendar Pro - Wordpress Premium Plugin
Events Calendar Pro for Wordpress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation
5. jQuery Lightbox Evolution
Lightbox Evolution is a tool for displaying images, html content, maps, and videos in a “lightbox” style that floats overtop of web page. Using Lightbox Evolution, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
6. Simple PHP Contact Form
This website component allows you to easily place a self-contained Contact Page on any PHP page of your website. Very easy to integrate into any existing PHP page on your website.
7. UberMenu - WordPress Mega Menu Plugin
UberMenu is a user-friendly, highly customizable mega menu ( or mega drop down menu ) WordPress plugin. It works out of the box with the WordPress 3 Menu Management System, making it simple to get started but powerful enough to create highly customized and creative mega menu configurations.
8. Newsletter System
Design a template, send emails, people can subscribe through your website, double opt in option, track who opens the emails, setup automatic email campaigns, import members via csv, users can unsubscribe themselves.
9. Sexy Slider
SexySlider is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript Sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider!
10. AviaSlider - jQuery Slideshow
AviaSlider is a very flexible and easy to use Image slideshow plugin for jQuery with a set of really unique transitions that were nver available before, as well as some basic transitions, so the slider will fit into every project.
11. Drop Menu
With this script you can make nice and interactive drop down menus. The advantage of this script is that it not only gives you the ability to make list drop down menu. You can also use a div as drop down element. This way you can create big drop down menus like under the buttons products and tutorials in the live preview. Or you can create a login panel in your drop down like I did in the live preview.
12. PHP Login & User Management
PHP Login & User Management is the MySQL powered website PHP login script, another high quality script designed and created by Jigowatt exclusively for ThemeForest.
13. iPhorm - Simple yet Powerful Ajax contact form
iPhorm is a simple yet powerful ajax contact form that you can easily embed into any web page in a matter of minutes. If you need a simple contact form to put on your website iPhorm is sure to suit your requirements. It does everything without reloading the page which makes for a sleek user experience that is sure to make a positive impression when your visitors contact you.
14. Ultimate Client Manager
This feature packed system lets you easily keep all your customer and project details in one place. You can keep website information (ftp details, renewal dates), project information (due dates, requirements), support requests (help! my email is broken!) and a PayPal payment history all in one place.
15. DDSlider - 10 Transitions - Inline Content Support
DDSlider introduces a new easy-to-go slider with 9 different unique transitions (+fading & random—11 total) that support Inline Content. You can also have multiple sliders in the same page
16. Sliding Tabs - jQuery Plugin
Sliding Tabs is a jQuery plugin for creating horizontal and/or vertical animated tabs for your website. You can have multiple instances of the tabs and customize them in any way with CSS . The script comes with many customization options, making it very flexible and easy to customize to your needs.
17. Advanced Slider - jQuery XML slider
Advanced Slider is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily create powerfull sliders using either XML , thus making the slider much easier to setup and maintain, or using HTML markup. The plugin also provides an easy to use API which will allow to further enhance the functionality of the slider and make it possible to integrate it into your own application. Please take a look at the list of features below.
18. uBillboard - Premium Slider for Wordpress
uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It is a jQuery based slider with a multitude of transitions and options for you to be able to customize it to your needs while not overwhelming you with options you never wanted or needed. Version 3 is a revolutionary release with most of the codebase rewritten from scratch. This has enabled us to integrate many features that you have been requesting during the first year.
19. Estro - jQuery Ken Burns & swipe effect slider
This jQuery plugin uses unobstrusive javascript to transform a block of simple HTML markup into a georgous elegant slider, which can be completely customized using HTML5 data attributes.
20. Styles with Shortcodes for WordPress
This plugin lets you customize content faster and easier than ever before by using Shortcodes. Choose from 100 built in Shortcodes like; jQuery Accordion, Tabs and Toogle, Tooltips, Column Shortcodes, Gallery and Image Shortcodes, Button Styles, Alert Box Styles, Pullquotes, Blockquotes, Twitter buttons, Retweet button, Facebook Like, Follow me on Twitter buttons, Linkedin, Google +1, Flattr and many more!
21. PHP Event Calendar
PHP Event Calendar is a MySQL Database driven script that displays events on your website quickly and easily through a traditional calendar UI. It can be integrated into any existing PHP page within minutes using a simple file include.
22. li JQuery Slider/Image Rotator
li jQuery Image Slider / Banner Image Rotator is carefully crafted slider/image rotator, full of features, very easy to install and customize. Whenever you need a full featured slider image rotator or you need a simple ad banner, li jQuery Image slider will do the job with ease!
23. ThumbsUp
ThumbsUp is a flexible PHP voting script. It allows visitors to vote for anything you want on your website. An admin area< and six different templates are included.
24. Pure CSS3 Sticky Footer
This CSS3 Sticky Footer will help you to create unique footer with CSS /XHTML only, there is absolutely NO javascript.
25. Mobile Site
With this script there is no need for you to create a subdomain for your mobile website. This script detects if the visitor is using a mobile device and then shows the right versions.
The Top Selling ThemeForest Items
1. inFocus - Powerful Professional WordPress Theme
A New Breed of Wordpress Themes Has Arrived!
With our innovative separation of design from content, we've put everything you could every wish to customize into one easy to navigate option panel.
2. Striking Premium Corporate & Portfolio WP Theme
Striking is an extremely powerful and flexible wordpress theme – actually a "Super Premium" theme as it has extraordinary features and coding that are not found in the normal premium WP theme. It is the theme you buy when you want to create a website in every way you imagined possible.
3. Karma - Clean and Modern Wordpress Theme
Karma is a Premium Wordpress Theme built on a highly intelligent framework. It's the only theme on Themeforest to feature the amazing new CU3ER v1 3D slider. Whether your a wordpress pro or just a beginner, you'll have absolutely no problems at all working with this theme.
4. Display 3 in 1 - Business & Portfolio Wordpress
DISPLAY is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who dont know much about coding or wordpress.
5. Dandelion - Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme
Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won't need an image editor.
6. U-Design WordPress Theme
U-Design is a very powerful theme which suits both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers. It will help you build your site in no time to your liking with minimal effort. It empowers you to set any color to elements such as backgrounds, links, text, menu links, etc.
7. BigFeature - Wordpress Theme
Clean and flexible wordpress theme, with big article images and nice typography. Very many settings. Many page templates. 5 custom widgets. Easy to add article and preview images. Check the “Introduction to the theme” article in the live preview for more information. All the documentation is also on the live preview. Also be sure to check out the example websites listed below.
8. Unite - WordPress Business, Magazine Theme
Unite is a merger of crisp design and powerful communication. It takes a clean, organized approach to presenting content so its easier to find what you want.
9. London Creative + (Portfolio & Blog WP Theme)
London Creative + comes with fully working contact form, awesome slider for your featured images, nasty spinning slider buttons (never saw them anywhere else, so you can call it unique), 2 message buttons under the slider and PrettyPhoto plugin (better clone of Lightbox).
10. DynamiX - Premium Wordpress Theme
Dynamix features Dual Skin Mode, BuddyPress Theme, 5 Types of Galleries, Piecemaker 2 and more.
11. Awake - Powerful Professional WordPress Theme
With Awake, you're getting more than just a theme, you're getting a new way of approaching them.
With our innovative separation of design from content, we've put everything you could every wish to customize into one easy to navigate option panel.
12. Simpla Admin - Flexible & User Friendly Admin skin
Simpla Admin is a professional template with a beautiful and user friendly interface. With various smart and intuitive jQuery functions, navigating the interface is a breeze.
13. Openhouse Real Estate & Automotiv car dealership
Openhouse (currently the highest rated Wordpress Real Estate theme (realestate) with 5 stars average and over 250 ratings) is a very powerful and flexible Real Estate theme. It includes a very powerful and flexible Search, where you can search by location, number of baths, beds, max price, min price, and property type.
14. King Size - fullscreen background WordPress theme
Including a variety of options, King Size can be suitable to fit any particular use. Offering you five very different gallery styles (including 4 additional layout styles for ColorBox, FancyBox and prettyPhoto), with ability to blog about your photos (attach featured images) and etc.
15. Photo Nexus Wordpress gallery 2 in 1
Photo Nexus wordpress gallery is a 2 color variation ( Bright and Dark) theme.
This theme is great for those who need a convenient way to publish and showcase a self managed Gallery of Photos, Artworks or Designs.
16. Newscast 4 in 1 - Wordpress Magazine and Blog
Newscast is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and of course gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins:
17. Classica: Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme
Classica is perfect for artists from any discipline, web, graphic, motion, print, art… anyone that needs a showcase. If you’re looking for a gorgeous looking portfolio theme then you’ve just found it. Not fond of minimalism? Then Classica is the perfect blank canvas just waiting to be customised.
18. Twicet Business & Portfolio - Wordpress - 5 in 1
Twicet is a Wordpress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins, if the Wordpress Live Preview is not enough for you, please check out the html templates that are already available, the look stays the same in the Wordpress version:
19. Constellation complete admin skin
Constellation is a powerfull admin skin for building advanced backends, both for desktop and mobile users. It provides a wide range of styles from data visualization to lists and calendars, all fluid and nestable. This skin is build on HTML5 and CSS3 , and is powered by jQuery for maximum user experience.
20. WP FlexiShop - A Versatile WP E-Commerce Theme
This theme utilises the powerful WP E -Commerce plugin to create a versatile and feature packed Wordpress powered shop, with 3 different layout options and unlimited color possibilities. Make this theme your own.
21. Unite - HTML Business, Magazine, Community Site
Unite is a merger of crisp design and powerful communication. It takes a clean, organized approach to presenting content so its easier to find what you want. The theme includes page layouts for: full page, 2 column, 3 column, blog pages, portfolio, HTML contact form and 2 administrative login styles.
22. Prestige -" Ultimate WordPress Theme
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.
23. The Jewelry Shop - WordPress eCommerce
A Flexible, Plugin Free and Localized (Translation-Ready) eCommerce theme!
24. Vulcan - Minimalist Business Wordpress Theme 4
Vulcan template is designed Modern and minimalist template, suit any kind of website. Vulcan available in five color option, it comes with three variations slider. With New Features of Wordpress 3.0 Vulcan has been coded to improve capability of the Wordpresss 3.0 features.
25. PureVISION WordPress Theme
PureVISION is a very powerful theme which suits both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers. It will help you build your site in no time to your liking with minimal effort.
