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This entry was posted on 9 September 2008 at 21:44 and filed under Arthemia: Free versus Premium Comparison
9.09.08 at 21:44 in Wordpress and Themes # 71 CommentsFor 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 |
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| 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 
I love this theme – is it possible to buy the 1 or 5-site licence and upgrade to the developer pack at a later date?
Wow, i will get this Premium later …. i will! Awesome Theme!
h?mm interesting but this template is wondurful
I am like everyone here very satisfied whit this theme. Howerver I do have af question. How du I limit the article on the frontpage. It is displayed in its full lenght. Isn´t there a way to show only the resumé of the newest article on the frontpage. Just like this – How is it done? http://www.beingmrs.com
did you figure it out? i’d like to know as well. the latest post is displayed in it’s full length on the front page. i would like to limit it.
Hi,
this premium version is one of the best magazine theme that I have ever seen. Thank you very much for this great work !!!
Is there a Mailinglist for Update-Information?
Best wishes from Germany
Silvi
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Bumping into arthemia just make me an arthemia maniac now. LoL. Needless to say, these ingenius themes blending magazine style with blog style hit the target of futuristic bloggers. I’m running my blog (http://www.beingmrs.com) with arthemia premium and currently working on my other blog using arthemia2.
Nice dev. work here. It’s great to see more and more wordpress templates being used as complete CMS. Great work.
wow… kalo bisa aku dikasih yang premium secara cuma cuma… wkwkwkkwkwkwkwk…
I just love you theme. Period.
Amazing work.
Feature you include in premium one simply worth the tiny price.
However I have to say way you wrote some people expected to get Arthemia free after paying.
I think it is way more clean and less cluttered.
Or, at least, it suits more my needs.
I think I’ll go for it, trying to personalize it myself.
Thank you for your work
Michela
Outstanding georgeous theme, at least two level better than any other free WP-Theme. Great job!
@localization: if you’re interested to localize the theme for german user either, please let me know, would love to contribute
Greetings from Vienna!
WOW!!
I missed the launch Michael, I got big appreciation from the Arthemia free version and was really looking for something like arthemia premium. Count me in mate, soon I will drop an order mail
Between, May I know that is arthemia permium is customizable? like can I change its colors and looks to my need? is it easy to do so? and what about the footer copyright, do I need to buy any permission to take it off?
What do we need to tell our servers to make sure the thumbnails show up? Only getting blank white squares where thumbnails should be.
Hallo. It looks like one of my questions in the forum It is nice from you that you made a chart like this. Looks realy good! Although there are a lot of NO NOs a person with some php + plugins should be able to run it like the premium.
PS: Wha have you used to generate such a nice comparision table.
Oh sorry, forgot to add where you can see the test blog I installed. Here’s the url:
http://www.myinfohq.com
Thanks again.
Stu
I’ve installed the free version as a test blog to show a potential client of mine. However, no matter what I do, I cannot get the homepage to show up as a separate static page.
I’ve selected the static page radio button and one of the pages I created previously as the “Front Page:
Now what I get is the homepage and the other page I created are the same.
How can I create a separate static homepage with it’s own unique content and still keep the page I created as a separate page too?
This set up is paramount to the set up of the blog for my client and is the only sticking point between them purchasing the upgrade.
Hope this all makes sense and is the right place to ask for advice.
Thanks in advance and thanks for a great template.
Stu
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I too prefer the look of the free theme, but I presume you could achieve that with the premium version — you just get more options, I’m guessing, which they are trying to show off here. Right?
@Oscar: well, that tutorial is in progess.
I purchased the premium veriosn and, as a first time wrdpres user, just love it… praise!
However, I would like to localize it to a Dutch version. Any feedback appreciated on which files I need to process?
@wendi:
check http://colorlabsproject.com/demo/
Ahh! I am torn. I love the look of the free theme but the features of other premium theme. I do have a question: The categories have sub categories right? I was hoping to see an example of a subcategory list in the sidebar after click on a pick. Let me know.
Definitely worth every cent.
Thanks again for the nice theme.
One question, how can I localize the numbers? I mean, I can localize everything based on the original .pot file. But I could not find anything so that the digits are shown in my language. Help me plz.
Wah yang Free&Premium beda jauh yach…!!
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Pengen yang premium bayar, tp skrg buat apaan!!!belum butuh2 amat.
Nanti kalau gue butuh web designer gue hubungin lu deh..
Themenya mantaff beL…
Btw pertama niy..
hi, please post Arthemia Premium theme support questions in its own forum:
http://colorlabsproject.com