WooTube – A Basic WordPress Video Theme
After the success of Busy Bee, it was time to focus on a more niche style theme, and since we still didn’t have a video theme in our WooThemes arsenal, I thought it was about time.
WooTube is my take on how a basic video theme should be, basic in the sense that it doesn’t have any fancy homepage with images to link to your videos. It’s just a no thrills video post browser. You add your video embed code, put it in a category, add some tags and your set. It shouldn’t be any harder than that.
The design is a reflection of my past themes and also my personal blog, with subtle gradients, arial/georgia font usage and my (self proclaimed) signature style logo with cute icon (which you can pickup here). Some might say it looks to much like Busy Bee, but I only see that as a positive remark, since the theme functionality is totally different from BB, and truth of the matter is that BB is very popular.
The nice jQuery effect in the slider was done by the awesome Foxinni who works at Radiiate (run by Adii). We’ll hopefully be seeing a lot more stuff by him in the coming year, as he is really much quicker than me on anything that has to do with javascript.
So what do you think of this latest outing? Is there anything that is cool or that you think is missing? Does it serve it’s purpose or is it a MUST with a custom homepage?
Tags: busy bee, video theme, woothemes, wootube
Jan 29, 2009
I like it. Like you said, it’s definitely a niche theme but one that I’m sure many will enjoy. The clean, simple design of themes like this and Busy Bee provide a nice canvas for anyone who wants to customize and personalize the theme. That’s definitely something I look for as a designer in a premium theme.
Nice work!
Jan 29, 2009
dude. sheer awesomeness.
Jan 29, 2009
Cheers guys!
Feb 7, 2009
Fantastic work, again! Cheers
Feb 7, 2009
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Feb 15, 2009
Rock on Jepson !
Feb 17, 2009
The design is really great but i wonder if there aren’t already enough video blogs on the internet right now. But if people buy it – why not creating another design to make them happy? Best wishes from Chemnitz / Saxony!
Feb 17, 2009
There might be enough video blogs, but our WooThemes members were asking for one, so I made one
Feb 27, 2009
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Feb 27, 2009
Awesome template. Just bought and can’t wait to set it up. Long waited for theme!!
Mar 6, 2009
Where can I find details of what video formats this theme supports? Doe sit require plug-ins to play mp4 files? There are no technical details anywhere?
Mar 8, 2009
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Apr 8, 2009
hi
is there any readme file to teach us how to post inside the theme?
cause i bought it and there was no read me file
plz help
Apr 8, 2009
Yes, I trust you bought it from WooThemes, in which case you can find documentation for all our themes here: http://www.woothemes.com/support/
Apr 21, 2009
I just searched for some nice wordpress video themes, most I found were premium, but I choose to use wootube for my video blog cause I think it looks pretty neat and it’s free. cheers!
Apr 21, 2009
@Jez – It’s not free, it can be purchased at http://www.WooThemes.com
If you obtained it somewhere else, then you have an illegal copy.
May 5, 2009
very cool
May 7, 2009
this theme is very cool! I will use this for my other video blog. I like this so much! thanks!
May 16, 2009
Hello. this is a very nice theme but I was wondering if there was a way for it to display how many views the video has similar to the speech bubble utilized for comments. if so, you will have a new customer. thank you