For the last 3 week, I’ve been receiving many emails asking the difference between both versions of Arthemia. Some seemed to be confused, referring the free version to the premium version, and one was even trying to get the free version by purchasing the premium version! It is true that WordPress theme reviewers out there categorized Arthemia Free as a ‘premium’ theme already, considering the layout and features the theme has. But somehow, everything became a bit complicated after I released the ‘pro’ version of Arthemia and named it: Arthemia ‘Premium’. Ahh..

Frankly speaking, I have two version of Arthemia; the free version was released on May 2, 2008 while the premium version was released on August 18, 2008. If you want to get a glimpse of the theme, here is the demo page of Arthemia Free and this one is for Arthemia Premium. The most significant difference between the two versions is the theme administration panel, which is included in the premium version. Arthemia Free users would probably be familiar to experiencing the time-consuming installation and configuration as they have to deal with ‘invisible’ category ID in WP 2.5+ and the never-ending frustration caused by the Post Custom Field while trying to assign thumbnail for posts. Novice users would find everything even more difficult as they do not have enough skill and knowledge about PHP, (X)HTML, and CSS to do all the stuff. Then, the theme administration panel is the one-stop-solution to address all those issues.

And this is the side-by-side comparison of the themes:

	Arthemia Free	Arthemia Premium
Release Date	May 5, 08	Aug 18, 08
Template Files
Index Page	YES	YES
Post Page	YES	YES
Archive Page	YES	YES
Search Page	YES	YES
Author Page	NO	YES
Features
Thumbnail Generation	YES	YES
Thumbnail Assignment	Custom Field	Auto (First Image), Custom Field
Theme Admin Panel	NO	YES
Featured Posts (jcarousel)	NO	YES
Random Post Gallery	NO	YES
Video Feature (YouTube and Flash)	NO	YES
Colorful Category	NO	YES
Mini-Headline	NO	YES
Gravatar Author Photo	NO	YES
Google Analytics Integration	NO	YES
Feedburner Integration	NO	YES
Google Adsense Integration	NO	YES
Custom Ad Banner Management	NO	YES
Localization Support (PO and MO files)	NO	YES
Semantic HTML	NO	YES
SEO Optimized	NO	YES
After-Sales Support	NO	YES
Easy Upgrade and Free Updates	NO	YES
Price	Free	USD $70 (1-site)

Anyway, there is an ongoing development on Arthemia Premium localization. Several language files are about to be available in a week: English, French, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Czech, and Bahasa Indonesia. Full list of available languages can be read here.

Well, premium version, anyone? Check it out at http://colorlabsproject.com

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