Sometimes we release themes that have a knack of immediately shooting to the top of the Theme Leaderboard and then staying there for months to come (thus becoming an all-time bestseller in no time at all). This is exactly what happened when we released Simplicity last month and when this happens, it’s too tempting not to follow up that success with a similarly awesome, new theme. 
So we approached Orman Clark, who has been making quite a few waves in our circles recently with all the freebies he’s been giving away via Premium Pixels, to design a brand-new business theme for us. The result is the beautiful and uber-trendy, Kaboodle.
(Kab)Oodles of Sexy.
Kaboodle features a super-flexible homepage, where you have all the standard WooThemes components to create a stunning homepage: a flexible featured slider, a secondary featured section with spiffy illustrative icons, testimonials and of course all of those other widgets. Throw in a few jQuery bits and you have a stunning page out-of-box.
Beyond the homepage, we’ve again included separate portfolio functionality and Kaboodle supports all of the standard WooFramework page templates & functions. All-in-all, this is just the type of quality, flexibility and beauty that you’ve come to expect from us.
This is the kinda pixel-precision that is evident throughout Kaboodle's design
Have a skwizz at the demo or view all of Kaboodle’s details here.
36 Responses to “A Whole Lot of Kaboodle”
It is really tempting me with the design of featured slider and dribbble features. Great work has been done!
Good luck with the sales!
Yay! Love this, as I thought I would. Glad I held out on designing my site…. Now, I’ve got to get to work!
. Better go get the espresso machine warmed up…. 
I think I’ll be doing the same thing soon too!
Beautiful! Can’t wait to put it to use.
Maybe your best one yet! Love it! Beautiful! Can’t wait to use it!
Looks great – love the new (to me?) slider fade in/out option.
Noticed a bit of a typo/copy & paste on one slider example (screenshot: http://d.pr/14Xw):
“…the “Simplicity Custom Settings” panel” should probably be the Kaboodle custom settings? Not sure though.
I could be wrong.
Love all the themes and work you guys do in the WP community!
Chris
Ha, good catch
Fixed!
Wow…you have another winner here!
I’m presenting Kaboodle to a client today. Very nice timing.
I see the Subscribe and Connect I was pleased to discover in Simplicity still only works with Feedburner for Kaboodle Email subscriptions. Do you have ANY plans to offer an option for your many customers that use other services? It is a shame we cannot implement the wonderful Subscribe and Connect feature.
What other services could we integrate? MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, etc…?
We use MailChimp, so that gets my vote.
I’ve looked at Mailchimp and I can’t see any easy way to integrate it into a standard input like this. If you find a way, please let us know
You have a text field where you can paste any other form.
Meaning I can use a link to my MailChimp form rather than putting a Feedburner link in there? I thought the field wanted the Feedburner link and that the code was designed to use only a Feedburner link. Good to know if not.
The input is only for Feedburner ID, but you can disable that and add your Mailchimp code in there, and style accordingly.
Thanks Ryan.
My clients and I primarily use MailChimp for managing our Email lists. We use FeedBurner only for RSS.
The winning solution is to let us use any external system we want. I know there are others that are dissapointed we can’t implement the Subscribe and Connect at the bottom of our posts.
Cheers
As mentioned, all others aren’t easy to integrate into custom input forms unfortunately.
I’ve been using Gravity Forms and just embedding the form wherever it’s needed, it integrates well with MailChimp.
Yeah, we love Gravity Forms!
Fantastic theme! Great work, all.
I do think the form inputs could use a little care. They’re fantastic when focused on, but not super clear when idle.
Also still wishing that alternative template styles went a little farther than just a slight change in the hue of the background. The variations of Canvas, for instance, make the variations of the last few releases look like weak tea.
That said, Orman’s work still kicks ass!
You have full control over background color, image, fonts, links and button in your dashboard so that should make it easy to customize
Congratulations! WooTeam have come back! I like see your refocus and re-thinking in last weeks.
Regards,
Pedro,
A old-old user.
WooTeam is back! Thanks for the love Pedro!
well… all you need is love, haha.
You know, I was sorely tempted to make use of your 5-for-1 offer, but I was waiting for this theme to be released. Ever since your preview post I had a strange feeling that it will be the theme that will finally convince me to make the switch to WooThemes. And convince me it did
I have to say, this is your best-looking theme to date. The most elegant, the most “pixel perfect” in every sense. Please consider working with Orman Clark in future!
Thanks! I hope we have some more themes with him planned, great stuff yeah?!
I like it very much! So clean and soft!
Thanks so much Alexandru, definitely have to say Orman did great on this!
Cool and crisp. Very nice work!
Thanks Johnny.
Orman really hit it out of the park. The texture and attention to detail is amazing. Not having had time to add some elements to the simplicity mod on my website, I have a bit more inspiration and may mash some things up.
I love these themes because I like to see how certain elements are approached too. The image scroll on the homepage is an awesome feature.
Awesome!
Scott
http://www.nuwomb.com
Interesting integration with Dribbble. Dribbble is invite “draft” only to show work and they are “cool kid” (your words from the Kaboodle demo page) designers whom I assume wouldn’t use a theme for their own website. This theme is targeted for business, but I’m not sure what type (freelance designers, photographers?). One other note, type used for text is barely legible in Win 7, FireFox 4.
Truly do love this theme
Great work!
Looking forward to the upcoming update where the portfolio pages show testimonials if filled out in the portfolio custom post settings
Btw; regarding the subscribe options;
1. When disabling the subscribe by email form in the widget, the email icon and text is still visible, which makes it look odd
would also be cool if you can add the option to disable that part in the posts as well..
2. Would be real cool if you can add an option for a CUSTOM email autoresponder, so people can integrate Aweber, Mailchimp or other services with the built in optin.. adding options for name / firstname / lastname would be cool too..
I love such clear and minimalist themes!again everything is visible and well designed. You took all the best features from your older works. Congratulations
I’d be interested in Woo’s take on a people CPT being included in the next business theme.
Huge numbers of business themes these days seem to come with a portfolio CPT and a portfolio page.
While I am sure there are a large number of creative’s that do use the portfolio. They do often seem to be best suited to displaying web projects or some other creative’s online work. Generally they come with an image field and a field for a URL. It seems a bit odd that these Portfolio’s are in such highly demand given that as a web designer you might think your own website is the one place you would want to craft your own site to show off your skills? Surely the majority of businesses are not creative types and do not need a portfolio?
Often when I am creating sites for small businesses they are for people working in services and want to display pictures of their staff/team, contact details, CV, position in the company etc It seems generic enough to be included in a business theme
Examples: Dentists, Vets, Lawyers, Finance advisers in fact there are millions of small businesses that need these sort of pages. WordPress is a great CMS for these sorts of businesses.
I have seen a few themes where people have added contact details etc to the users profile. However, in most small business cases the people in question are not ever likely to log onto the site as a user, so I am not sure if this is the best way display these people.
Instead should there be some kind of CPT for people where this info is added?
In addition it would be good if somewhere in the theme options you could turn on and off CPT’s so that they are hidden from the admin/theme options menu.
Then if I am say working on a business site for a vet practice I can very quickly nip into theme options and switch off the portfolio cpt/ mini boxes cpt and switch on the people cpt.
Likewise if the site is for a one man painter I can keep the portfolio on and switch off the people CPT.
i love this theme very much
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