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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The people at BlueVerse.com have just released a new theme which firmly focuses on monetization of your Wordpress blog.

The theme is called Weblogger and is fully Adsense ready with a nice Web 2.0 look and feel. The side bars are well done and widget ready too which makes it easy to expand your blog with extra monetization code if required.

According to the website this theme does a lot of the monetization for you and just by installing it your blog will be nearly 40% monetized! The Adsense integration is great because the theme is designed to get your visitor’s attention in the first load of a page. The Adsense ads are displayed prominently at the very top of your blog where there is a much better CTR (Click Through Rate).

From the screenshot above you’ll see the top half of the theme is completely monetized for Adsense and these ads are very easy to edit as well. You will simply need to edit the pub-id code in 4 php files. These are;

• ad-header.php
• ad-nav.php
• ad-post.php
• ad-top.php

The Weblogger theme is available for download here; Weblogger Wordpress Theme

Enjoy!

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Zen 8 is a another great 3 Column widget ready WordPress theme designed by MandarinMusing in collaboration with Headsetoptions. This theme provides an easy to customize platform for both blogs and websites that run WordPress as a Content Management System.

The theme is Google Adsense ready and Search Engine Optimized using conditional statements and SEO corrections making it one of the best SEO Adsense themes out there at the moment. The theme is XHTML/CSS validated and has 2 widget ready sidebars styled with contextual ads in mind that can easily be inserted within sidebars and posts.

This design was originally ported to WordPress for Atlanta New Homes/New Homes Atlanta and has now been released for public use. Please go to the WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, queries or customized web design projects.

Download

You can download Zen 8 SEO and Adsense Ready WordPress Theme from here.

You can also test run the theme here.

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Zeke 1.0 is a new 3 column, widget-ready Wordpress theme designed by Michael Pollock of SoloStream Webstudio. This theme is built to work with all Wordpress versions 2.1 and above.

Michael has a demo site available here and the theme can also be downloaded from that demo page or by clicking here.

Zeke 1.0 is very easy to install. As usual, simply unzip the download file. That will give you a folder titled Zeke10 which should contain all the Wordpress theme files and then upload this folder to your wp-content/themes blog directory.

A cool feature of this theme is that it has a Featured Articles section which appears above the start of your main posts. To create a Featured Article that looks like the one seen in the picture above, all you have to do is create a post, then create a category called “Featured”, and then place any of your posts into that category. The theme is set up to select and display the most recent Featured Article.

Zeke 1.0 is a very pro-looking Wordpress theme that you could have some fun with.

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Following my last post I have played around with several more themes from the YGoSearch.com site and I am getting to like the variety and quality of the WordPress themes that they make. The latest one I am experimenting with is called YGo Health and it is a 3 column widget ready theme with a couple of additional navigation sections that makes it look superb.

The header blends nicely in the main content area and the text fonts used are well suited to the theme and easily readable. The most striking thing about this theme is it’s use of color which makes it one of the most eye-catching themes I have come across in a while.

So if you are looking for an eye-grabbing theme for your blog it may be worth checking this one out. Btw, did I mention it’s also widget-ready!

Download

The YGo Health theme can be downloaded from here.

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This brand new theme is called YGo Lively and it has just been released today. It is an interesting theme as it looks more like a CMS (Content Management System) type of site when activated.

When installed on your blog the home page resembles a main-stream type of website as the posts are presented in 2 columns in the centre section with a sidebar at each side. This theme definitely feels more like a website than a blog.

YGo Lively , unfortunately, is not widget ready which is a slight disadvantage for quick and easy sidebar setup, but the lack of widget support does not take away from the fact it is a nicely structured theme that is still very configurable. The theme makes great use of bright colors and features a fluid-width design that has been tested in Opera, Mozilla and Internet Explorer up to 1280—1024 resolution and it fits extremely well.

If you are looking for something different for your blog, then this theme may suit you. The left and right columns can be easily adapted to whatever you would like to have in there and overall this theme is definitely worth taking a look at

Download

To download the YGo Lively Theme please visit here. To try it out you can see the demo in action here.

Have fun.

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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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Newfangled is a new and sleek-looking Wordpress Theme by headsetoptions.org which features a 3 column layout with nice rounded corners on each of the sidebars. It’s a very Web 2.0 looking theme which seems to be an ever-increasing trend with a lot of newer Wordpress themes.

The Newfangled theme is also widget ready which is great for easy configurartion of the left and right sidebar of your blog layout. This theme could make for a nice, all-purpose theme for use with your own blogs or even as a business type site because it features a professional Web 2.0 look and feel. Overall, this is a clean and sleek-looking theme that’s well worth having a look at.

To download the Newfangled Theme please visit; Download. You can also test run the theme here. Have fun!

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Bright Side is a brand new 3 Column, widget ready WordPress theme with a very nice header image.

The theme features a left and right sidebar and has a large white content area with a blue background. The theme has been created by Headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing.com.

Also, I really like the page navigation on the upper right of this theme and the way the search box has been hard coded into the header. Very nice!

Overall, Bright Side is a very neat and clean-looking Wordpress theme that can easily be adapted to suit your own blog, or even just using the theme as it is.

To download this and more themes by Mandarin Musing please visit here.

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TechPress is a great-looking 3 column Wordpress theme by WpDesigner.com. It is inspired by a number of tech blog designs, such as TechCrunch and Engadget. The theme is awesome as it looks great, and it is Sidebar Widget Ready as well!

This theme features a non-graphic based header which is a nice change. I always prefer these narrow header blog themes the best anyway. They just make more room available to the important stuff… the Text! Also in the header is the page navigation bar which is classy-looking and there is nice Web 2.0 feel to the whole theme. Overall, TechPress is a great-looking new theme from WpDesigner.com.

Download: TechPress Theme

It’s well worth taking a look at all of the WpDesigner.com website. There are a lot of nice themes there.

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