Today we’re taking a look at PixelEmu – a WordPress theme and plugin shop based in Poland.
PixelEmu launched in June 2015 and is a sister company of the Joomla template shop – Joomla-Monster.com. Joomla-Monster has been around since 2009 developing high quality Joomla templates and extensions. They launched PixelEmu in response to a growing demand for WordPress themes.
As the Joomla Monster team explain on their website: “Many customers are asking us for WordPress version of our Joomla templates. The same team works on best quality of WordPress themes. Since we are used to create flexible Joomla templates, the same flexibility you will discover with WP themes. The collection of WordPress themes is still expanding. For now you will find themes for cooking blog, small company, accessible site for people with disabilities, beauty, doctor and clinic, architect company, hotel, car mechanic, school and many more.”
PixelEmu Themes
PixelEmu currently offer 4 premium WordPress themes as well as one free theme.
PE Hotel
PE Hotel is a hotel and resort WordPress theme that’s a ready solution for any hotel, motel, resort, guesthouse or other accommodation website. It has a modern and professional design that follows the latest trends in web design and is packed with all the features and functionality you need in a hotel WordPress theme.
PE Services
PE Services is a multipurpose business WordPress theme that has a flexible design that could be used for any type of small business or corporate website. It allows you to showcase your services and other information the way you want with lots of service presentation layout options. It also has a heap of other features such as team and staff pages, theme customizer, unlimited color options, Google fonts, Accessibility support, Max Mega Menu system, off-canvas sidebar, responsive layout, and much more.
PE Cleaning Company
PE Cleaning Company is a multipurpose WordPress theme designed for service businesses and other small companies. It has a modern and clean design ideal for displaying the services you provide and information about your business. Its mobile friendly with a responsive design and has lots of great features and options so you can easily set up and customize the site to suit your business. It has a an advanced menu system, Google maps, theme customizer, unlimited color options, Awesome icons, sticky topbar, a wide range of widget positions, HTML5 and CSS3 coding, and a lightweight fast loading design.
PE Cooking Blog
The PE Cooking Blog WordPress theme is designed for food and recipe websites. The premium theme is ideal for food bloggers to publish recipes and create a professional cooking and recipe site. It allows you to categorize and describe your recipes with lots of handy options for displaying them in different ways. It has advanced search functionality for finding recipes and option for front-end recipe submission so visitors can submit recipes to the site. Some of the other key features include: lots of different homepage layout options, powerful admin panel, 6 different blog views, detailed recipe pages (with descriptions, recipe, ingredients, bar code scan for shopping list, recipe details, rating and comments etc), 5 different recipe page layouts, fully mobile responsive, rich typography and much more.
PE Beauty Center
PE Beauty Center is a free beauty salon WordPress theme suitable for hair salons, hairdressers, spa centers, massage salons, nail and manicure shops, health and fitness centres, fashion stylists, gyms, and other small businesses. It has a clean, elegant and modern design that allows you to present your services in a professional manner. It has a custom template to display your staff or team members. Some of the other key features include an advanced mega menu system, 2 homepage layout options, advanced theme options (to customize like colors, backgrounds, fonts, layouts etc), lots of widget positions, Google fonts, and much more.
PixelEmu Plugins
PixelUmu also have a couple of free WordPress plugins available.
- PE Recent Posts – a simple but customizable plugin that allows you to display recent posts with image thumbnail, title and description with a nice slide in animation effect.
- PE Easy Slider – a simple plugin that lets you display image slides (with title) linked to posts from a selected category
Pixel Emu Pricing & Licensing
PixelEmu themes are priced from $32 to $39 and include 6 months of support and updates. Subscriptions can be renewed at a 50% discount.
They offer free installation and will install any theme you purchase on your server for free.
Unlike most commercial WordPress theme shops that licence their products 100% GPL, PixelEmu use a more restrictive split GPL licensing for their themes and extensions. Specifically the PHP code portfolios are released under the GNU General Public License, while images, manuals, cascading style sheets, and included JavaScript are NOT GPL, and are released under a “Pixelemu Proprietary Use License”.
Unfortunately PixelEmu state a theme license only gives you “permission to use purchased theme on one domain”.
Wrap Up
PixelEmu offer some nice free and premium WordPress themes. The themes have attractive and professional designs and come with an extensive set of features and functionality to help you easily setup and customize your website to suit your needs.
The themes have a reasonable initial purchase price, however the six monthly subscription term for updates and support as well as the more restrictive split GPL licensing could be a concern for some people.
For more information and to download PixelEmu themes visit PixelEmu.com
Pros
- Attractive professional designs
- Themes have a nice set of features
- Reasonably priced
Cons
- Six monthly subscription term for updates and support
- Split GPL licensing