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Graphene theme for WordPress 3.0 is a stylish new WordPress theme with lots of customizable options. One of the nicest features is a built-in Twitter widget, it’s very nice. The theme also has a customizable header and background which can changed to anything you like.

Other features include;

*built-in AdSense placement

*an AddThis social sharing button

*A custom menu can also be created allowing for drop-down navigation of up to 5 levels deep

*threaded comments of up to 10 levels deep.

*A one-column, full-width page template without the sidebar is included.

The theme has been tested and compatible with IE8, IE7, IE6, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.

To download the theme, you can visit the Graphene theme page.

Dirty Blue is a recently updated WordPress theme that has a unusual look but is very usable as your own blog theme. As the name suggests, Dirty Blue is dark blue color theme featuring high and moderate contrast colors, cross-browser compatibility and valid HTML.

The theme is certainly eye-catching and it is the first official free theme release by Blogtap.net.

Theme Features

  • Two column layout
  • Ghastly blue background glow
  • Dazzling dark blue color theme with high and moderate contrast colors
  • Cross-browser compatibility
  • Valid HTML Transitional 1.0

Download

To download the theme your can visit the Dirty Blue Theme page or visit the authors website at Blogtap.net. The current version is v1.4.

A great new WordPress theme called Calotropis is now available. The WP theme has a wonderful amount of selectable layout options such as; right or left sidebar or no sidebar, magazine style or traditional style, and many more options.

In fact, it’s hard to believe that this is a free wordpress theme because of all of the theme options that are available, it’s like it’s a premium theme!

The latest 1.1.1 version of the Calotropis Theme has added more new features. A tabbed column widget is included and a new Favicon feature, which means you can set your own desired favicon. If not set, the default favicon used, very handy.

You can download 1.1.1RC version of the Calotropis Theme here or visit the main Calotropis Theme page for the latest updates.

myMag is a new magazine style WordPress theme which has lovely Javascript effects such as Slideshow, Article Sliders, News ticker, Image Mouseover Effects, Dropdown Menu and lots more.

The theme offers 3 widget-ready sidebars, 2 or 3 columns layout, a big option set with custom logo uploader, 3 colour schemes, display options, advertising options and more. The theme also supports the latest WordPress features such as Post Thumbnails and many more.

The myMag Theme comes with a lot of features and an eye-catching design. It literally makes your WordPress blog look like a professional website!

To get this theme you can visit the myMag WordPress Theme download page or go to the wp-themix.org page for support and instructions.

zBench is new, fast-loading WordPress theme that uses small images, instead of big fancy headers images, to speed up your blog loading time. It is designed and created by zwwooooo.

zBench is also a WordPress theme without any plugins needed. It has built in support for plugins like WP Page Numbers, WP-PostViews, wp-utf8-excerpt, Related Posts, Simple Tags and WP-PageNavi.

The author’s site is in a foreign language so it may be tricky to chat to the author if  you have problems with this, but I have used it and it really is a solid theme to work with.

Current version: 1.0.1

Demo: http://demo.zww.me/?wptheme=zBench

Download: zBench WordPress Theme

Producer is a highly flexible wordpress theme that can be used to build a magazine or news type blog.

The theme features many layout options such as a photo slideshow layout, newspaper or magazine style with 3 static layout options and the ability to build your own widgets based layout from scratch.

There are similar configuration options for the sidebars, such as the ability to hide one or both sidebars on 404, index, search results, single post, and static pages.

Page templates for additional layout options and also included. The header section items ( logo/slogan row, horizontal menu row, search bar row, hidden leaderboard row) can also be re-arranged. 10 featured category slots available. Sticky posts, feedburner, youtube are all integrated too.

The theme has been recently updated to Version 2 and the latest news about it can be found at the authors site AntiSocialMediallc.com.

The Producer WordPress Theme provides an attractive design right out of the box and allows you to get a unique look for your site without editing a single line of code!

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.

swift.4.1.5The 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.

mystiqueMystique 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.

EosEos 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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