Una is Dino Latoga’s first free public release WordPress theme. It is a fantastic new 2 column theme which is divided to give the sidebar a lot more room for you to use. It’s a great looking theme and the proportions of this theme make it a nice theme to view on a widescreen monitor.

The front page shows the latest post with an accompanying large graphic image which helps attract readers more than the usual large text titles. Below the latest post is a list of the 3 other recent posts with each post accompanied by a thumbnail image. Also, the comments and trackbacks are divided to produce a clean and organized look.

According to Dino; “this theme was inspired by a lot of great blogs out there like Web Designer Wall, Matt Brett, Avalonstar and 5 Thirty One to mention a few “.

Installation

Upload to your wp-content/themes folder as normal. But, before you activate this theme you must go to Settings > Miscellaneous and enter the following values for the Thumbnail size. Width=195, Height=155. And also make sure the “Crop thumbnail…” box is checked

Required Plugins

• The Twitter Tools plugin. Install and activate and configure.
• The Advanced Excerpt plugin . Install and activate. Go to the settings and set the Excerpt length to 25 and uncheck the img

Download

The theme has been safely tested on WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.5.1. The live demo for the theme is currently being used on Dino’s Blog. You will be able to see the Una theme in action there. Unfortunately Sidebar Widgets is not supported with this version of the Una Theme, but it more than makes up for it with the sidebar’s great usability.

Visit Dino’s Blog to download Una WordPress Theme version 1.0

Well worth a look !

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iThemes.com has just released the first of its free, professionally designed WordPress themes to the WP community!

The 2 themes released are both called iThemes Web 2.0, and the reason is that this theme comes in two flavors, either a 2-column or a 3-column design. The really great part is that both of these themes are widget-ready and compatible with the latest version of WordPress (2.3.2).

Theme Features

• Great Web 2.0 look and feel
• Text header bar for easy editing
• Widget ready sidebars

Installation

iThemes.com have produced a nice video tutorial to show you how upload and activate a WordPress theme. A great idea for those not too familiar with doing this.

Download

The iThemes Web 2.0 themes can be downloaded from here. Check it out!

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This is a great new Widget Ready theme for the upcoming Christmas season and it is called Christmas Days.

It was created by Design Disease and in true Christmas spirit the theme author created it as a gift to all bloggers around the world.

The theme is really great to look at, with a nice two column design and nice use of blue, white, red and green.

Download

The Christmas Days theme can be downloaded here.

Installation

Once you’ve downloaded the theme and extracted the files, upload the folder to your wp-content/themes/ directory. Then go to the Presentation area in your WordPress administration panel and activate the theme.

Required Plugins

The flickrrss plugin is required for this theme and it is bundled with the theme download in the plugins folder. To install flickrrss simply upload everything in the plugins folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder and activate the plugins from the Plugins page in your administration panel. The plugin is specially customized to match the Christmas Days theme style.

So, if you are ready to get into the holiday spirit early this year, this theme might just be for you.

Have fun,

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Amadeus is a new Widget Ready WordPress Theme which has just been released by headsetoptions.org. It is a 2 Column theme with an eye-pleasing green and white color scheme.

An added bonus with this theme is the fact that it is Adsense ready and it has a very professional look and feel about it. The theme is a fixed width one which can be good thing when it comes to heavily configuring your blog later.

Amadeus also has a very Web 2.0 professional look to it with the cool looking RSS and Technorati icons and crisp text fonts.

Installation Info

• Upload the Amadeus theme to your Wordpress themes folder.
• Upload the supplied plugin files to your plugins folder.
• Activate plugins
• Activate theme

Download

To download the Amadeus Wordpress theme please visit here.

On the whole, Amadeus is a clean, professional theme which is Google Adsense ready and well worth considering for your blog. Hmmm, come to think of it, I’m kinda tempted to change mine to this one as well.

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This great new theme is called Glossy Blue and is a very techy looking, Mac style Wordpress theme which features the excellent Web 2 Mini icons, from nDesign-Studio.com. The best thing about this theme is it’s great use of Web 2.0 colors and is an ideal theme for any technology-related blog or even a general website. The theme is widget ready and has been tested on both WordPress 2.0 and 2.1.

The Glossy Blue theme contains all required template files such as index or category view, search, comments, 404 error page, single view and a static page template. Another great feature is that it contains a print.css file within the theme to ensure that your blog page looks great when you print it out!

The designers ndesign-studio.com have also included a Photoshop PSD file if you wish to further customize this great theme.

To download the Glossy Blue theme and the PSD file (if required) please visit; http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/glossyblue/

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The popular theme TypoXP Reloaded has recently been updated and the latest 1.1 version is a really accomplished theme with built in support for a lot of popular plugins.

TypoXP Reloaded is a cleanly coded, two and/or three column, fixed width Wordpress theme with valid XHTML. It is also Widget Ready. The theme features both SEO optimization and Google Adsense optimization bulit into the theme which definitely makes the choice of using this theme a whole lot easier,

I believe this theme has to be considered as one of the better Wordpress themes yet released.

So, check out the TypoXP Reloaded theme now. It will be worth it. The page also gives details of the huge range of plugins supported by this theme.

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It’s great to see that the Misty Look Theme has been upgraded to Version 3. The theme is designed by Sadish on WpThemePark.com and it has some really nice extras.

Custom Header Image

In version 3 you now have the ability to import your own header pictures directly in the presentation admin area. The pictures are then cropped to the right size and it will automatically become the new default header for you blog. This is the first WordPress theme to accommodate ‘Custom Header Image’ feature.

The theme also incorporates many other upgrades, in line with the recent release of WP 2.1, and the full list can been seen here.

Theme Features

MistyLook V3 has a lot packed into it for just one theme. Here is a short list of some of the features of this theme;

• Sidebar Widgets Compatible.
• Theme Options page allows you to exclude/sort Pages for the top Navigation bar. Options page also supports Asides. Asides are ‘quick bits’ of information you want to post. They do not have to look like a regular post.
• Includes Page Template for an Archives Page. Just create a new page and use ‘Archives’ as the Page Template.
• Includes Page Template for a Contact Page. Just create a new page and use ‘Contact’ as the Page Template.
• Includes Page Template for the Links Page, so you can display all the links you have in a separate page.
• 404 Template and Search Template too.

All in all, this is a great update to an already great theme. MistyLook is one of the highest downloaded themes on the Wordpress Theme Viewer site at the moment. It is also cool to see this theme being used by some of the Top Bloggers, such as John Chow dot Com blog and many others.

I would highly recommend this theme to anyone looking for a good solid theme. It looks great, it’s cleanly coded, has nice page templates and lots of cool features built-in. Recommended.

Download

Misty Look Version 3

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Internet Broadcast is a great looking corporate type Wordpress theme by GFXEdit.com which is based on an excellent CSS template by Luka Cvrk. This is a really nice, quick loading theme and features a couple of nice built-in effects such as featuring a recent articles list / archives list just above the main content and also three separate highlight areas which can be individually customized from within the theme options panel.

While the fonts used in this theme are quite small, they are crisp and easy to read which is ideal for an article site or news site which would naturally feature a lot of text. The theme has been tested on Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.5+ & Opera 9 and works just fine.

Theme Features

• Widget Ready
• Quick Loading
• Supports multiple browsers - Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera & Camino.
• Features three highlight areas which can be edited in theme options.

Download

To download Internet Broadcast please visit here: GFXEdit.com

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Hoofei V4 is an excellent looking two column Wordpress theme with a blue, green and white color scheme. It is a simple and clear theme. If you are thinking of changing your own theme, this one is well worth looking at.

A live demo can be seen at www.hoofei.com

This is Hoofei’s 4th wordpress theme and they just keep getting better and better. The only slight drawback with this theme is the fact that this theme is not widget-ready. However, when a theme looks this good, it is easy to overcome this by getting creative with the clearly written sidebar.php code.

Installation

As usual, simply extract the hoofeiv4.zip file to your theme directory, wp-content/themes/. Then log in your wordpress Administration Panel and activate the theme.

Integrated Plugins

WP-PageNavi - Hoefei has integrated the WP-PageNavi Plugin by Lester Chan into this theme so you don’t need to download and install it. And don’t worry it will be wrong if you have installed this plugin before, I have renamed the function in plugin code. )

Required Plugins

Gravatar 2 - This is an updated version of the original Gravatars plugin by Skippy. Important: You must install this plugin for this theme.

Conculsion

An excellent and fast loading theme worthy of gracing your blog. To download please visit the Hoofei Version 4 Theme page. Have fun!

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WPThemes.info has released a lovely new Wordpress theme called GreenFlower. The creator Sadish has done it again by producing an excellent theme with many cool features built into it.

Some of the built-in features include a Theme Options page and several Page Templates which are great for setting up quick pages to your blog. As always with Sadish’s themes it is Sidebar Widget ready for easy customization of the sidebar.

Here is a complete list of features included in the GreenFlower theme;

• Support for Asides
• Sidebar Widget Ready
• Theme Options Page
• Archives Page Template
• Contact Page Template
• Automatic Page Navigation
• Sub Pages
• Author Page
• 404 Not Found Page
• Category Page
• Date-wise Archives Page
• Search Page

For more infomation and to download this great theme visit the GreenFlower page at WPThemes.info.

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