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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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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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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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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I just came across a nice new theme by Pilkster on his new themey.com blog which has a great look and is based on the look and feel of the brand new Apple iPhone. As you can see from the screenshot the theme is a single column theme but it is very eye-catching and professional looking. The normal sidebar contents are displayed below all of the posts.

The iPhone theme is built on the famous K2 structure which makes it easy to adapt to suit your needs and it also should support a wide variety of plugins out of the box. The theme also supports pagination and has a built-in options page. This is a nice theme that’s sure to be popular.

For a full and comprehensive review of the iPhone theme you can visit the Theme Critic.

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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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