30 Aug
Posted by bc as 1 Column, 2 Column, Options Page, Right Sidebar, Themes, Web 2.0
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.
13 Jul
Posted by bc as 2 Column, Fixed Width, Options Page, Right Sidebar, Themes
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.
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.
04 Jul
Posted by bc as 3 Column, Fixed Width, Options Page, Right Sidebar, Themes, Widget Ready
The Regal Theme has recently been updated to version 1.8. It is a nice, clean WordPress theme with an optional magazine layout with two columns.
It is a fixed width theme and of course, is widget ready. The theme has valid CSS and valid XHTML and is compatible with wordpress 2.9.2+.
The Regal WordPress Theme is designed by Gauson Design and can be downloaded here.
07 Jun
Posted by bc as 1 Column, 2 Column, 3 Column, CMS Style, Options Page, Themes, Web 2.0, Widget Ready
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.
29 Apr
Posted by bc as 2 Column, Fixed Width, Options Page, Right Sidebar, Themes, Widget Ready
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
30 Mar
Posted by bc as 1 Column, 2 Column, 3 Column, Media, Options Page, Right Sidebar, Themes, Widget Ready
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!
01 Mar
Posted by bc as 2 Column, Options Page, Right Sidebar, Themes, Web 2.0, Widget Ready
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.
You can download the Motion theme here at the official repository (latest version 1.0.4) or visit the authors page here.
29 Oct
Posted by bc as 3 Column, Left Sidebar, Options Page, Right Sidebar, Themes, Web 2.0
DesignDisease have just released another great wordpress theme for you to use. It’s called Tipz Theme and has a lot of nice features in it. One great feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use your default blog name or you can use your own logo. To use your own you can upload your logo in the root folder of Tipz theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template to create one.
The theme has rounded corners, which give it a simple Web 2.0 feel and it is fully widgetized. The front page has an easy to use “featured post” section so you can easily put on display your best posts. You can even put in a picture and a post excerpt to accompany the headline by editing the feature-image custom field and setting the category to “Featured”.
To download the TipzTheme visit the Tipz Theme page on the DesignDisease.com website.
14 Oct
Posted by bc as 2 Column, Fixed Width, Integrated Plugins, Options Page, Themes, Web 2.0, Widget Ready
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.
20 Sep
Posted by bc as CMS Style, Fixed Width, Integrated Plugins, Options Page, Themes, Web 2.0
Urbane is a new free wordpress theme by the awesome developers at blogohblog.com. Urbane has an integrated theme options page that let you specify the categories to use on the home page, configure your feedburner/twitter settings and much more. The theme looks absolutely great!
Urbane is a colorful, rounded theme design that has a lot of features built into the theme. The front page has a CMS type layout with everything you would possibly need to have, all displayed on the home page. A really useful feature is the auto-generated thumbnails feature, which works without having to mess with resizing pictures yourself.
To download the Urbane theme, please visit the Urbane WordPress Theme page at blogohblog.com