Motion is colorful new Wordpress theme with lots of transparency features. It is a 2-column theme with a drop-down categories menu and a widget enabled footer and sidebar.

This is an ideal theme for a computer or tech related blog as the transperencies does remind you of the Aero type features of Windows 7/Vista operating systems.

The typography is nicely done with good readable fonts used, which is great for text heavy blogs.

Theme Features

• Compatable with Wordpress 2.8.6+
• 5 widget-ready areas
• Threaded comments
• Drop-down categories menu
• Gravatars enabled in comments
• Valid xhtml and css
• Tested on Firefox 2+, Safari 3+, Opera 9+, Chrome 2+ and IE8, IE7 and IE6 (some transparency features disabled)
• Tested and ready for the wp-pagenavi plugin for better navigation

You can download the Motion theme here at the official repository (latest version 1.0.4) or visit the authors page here.

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The Swift wordpress theme is a fast loading, SEO optimized, Adsense ready, server friendly wordpress theme.

It comes with a lot of options to build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme. Swift is the perfect choice for those who need a powerful and customizable theme. It also has a active user community to help you with support queries.

This theme is mainly aimed at bloggers who like a clean and simple design and also requires low server resources.

Swift Theme Features

• 2 magzine layouts
• two different header styles
• tabbed interface
• a featured post slider
• the ability to disable all javascript features with a single click.

The Swift wordpress theme cane be downloaded from here.

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Mystique is a new, free Wordpress theme that succeeds in its attempt to top a lot of the available commercial templates in terms of design and functionality!

The Mystique theme has some nice features including three built-in widgets; Sidebar tabs, Twitter posts and Flickr gallery. It also features several page templates with different layout styles and many other theme options which are accessible from the backend Theme options page.

The theme has some minor issues with Internet Explorer 6/7 at the moment, which I’m sure will be worked out, but at the moment it works great with Firefox and IE8!

A demo of this great looking theme can be seen here.

To download the latest version of this theme, please visit the Mystique page on the Wordpress Theme directory or visit the Mystique Theme homepage.

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Eos is a free WordPress theme that has just been released with the elegant and clean look inspired by the colors of an aurora.

The theme should work with WordPress 2.5+ and has been tested in IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 3.0, Opera 9, Safari 2 and Google Chrome. The developer of this theme, SRS Solutions, strived to create a superb looking theme for the WordPress community and I think they succeeded.

The design is very modern, with the background and header area having a aurora style grading that is very eye-pleasing.

The back end has an admin options page which is good to see. The admin options are just for the top menu bar which displays the categories of the website. Also, the drop down menus can be enabled or disabled here.

Overall, this is a nice looking theme with a modern feel. In particular, the top header area is very nicely done. To download, visit the  Eos Wordpress Theme page.

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The dfBlog wordpress theme is rated no.1 of the “Featured Themes” in WordPress Themes Site at the moment. It is a fixed width, two column theme with a right sidebar and is standards compliant. The dfBlog theme is compatible with the latest WordPress 2.8 and uses valid CSS & HTML.

There are up to sixteen style combinations available with four colors (default, blue, pink and white) which are configurable from the Theme options page.

Supported languages: English, Spanish & Italian.

Features

• Current version: 1.1.5
• WordPress 2.8 compatible
• Valid CSS & HTML code
• Languages: EN, ES & IT
• Widget supported
• Support for PNG images with transparency
• Sixteen style combinations

Theme options

• Header Style (Default- Blue – Pink – White)
• Background Style (Default- Blue – Pink – White)
• Logo type (as image or text)
• Label of the first menu item
• Subscribe to Feed visibility (show, hide)

Download dfBlog from WordPress Site here or visit the authors dfBlog wordpress theme page.

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Compositio is a new two column theme, made to for those who want to feature a lot of their content in the front page. The theme features a unique light blue design. The theme has random square shapes in the background and a really nice graphical layout.

Theme Features

A nice feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (“blog name”) or you can use your own logo. To use your own logo you must upload it to the root folder of the Compositio theme and name it logo.png. You can also use the PSD Logo Template in the source folder of Compositio Theme. (Image limitations: Not more than 590px/85px).

To activate the logo option go to: Administration Panel > Appearance > Logo Options, and select logo type.

Other Features

The theme is widget ready and the CSS is customized for the default widgets to match the site style.

The theme does not require plugins as they are already integrated into functions.php, so there is no need to install them. The only plugin you need to install manually is FlickrRSS (included in the theme folder).

Download

To download the theme (.zip-package) please visit the Compositio theme page.

To view the Compositio theme in action you can view the demo here.

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Fluid Blue WordPress Theme is a simple and graphics free theme that would make a great foundation for building up your blog and creating the look and feel that you want, from the very start. It is a fluid width, two column theme with a right sidebar as default. The srinig.com website, features a downloadable file which will convert the theme to a left sidebar if you wanted to.

The Fluid Blue theme also supports sidebar widgets, tags and gravatars. Another great feature is that this new 1.7 version of the theme now supports nested comments and comments paging which is only available if you are using the latest WordPress version 2.7.

Download

To download the latest version of Fluid Blue WordPress Theme, please visit here.

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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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