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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Chromatic Sites have just announced a brand new WordPress Themes community website which features only professionally made Wordpress themes. You can browse over a small collection of these professional themes right now at their Professional WordPress Themes website. Remember these are still free, high-quality WordPress Themes! Well worth a look.

It is worth mentioning that only themes that satisfy strict criteria will appear on this website. All of the WordPress themes published there will be inspected for;

• W3C validation,
• quality of design,
• bugs,
• profanity

If a theme passes all 4 requirements then it will be published on the Professional WordPress Themes website. This will ensure WordPress theme lovers will get high-quality, bug-free, standards compliant WordPress themes made available to them. The site is deliberately meant to look like the original themes.wordpress.net website but to have a similar website dedicated to quality Wordpress Themes is a terrific idea.

Remember, this site is brand new and so are starting from scratch. There are just a few themes uploaded at the moment. So if you are a theme maker, please do upload to this new site.

You can check them out now by visiting the Professional WordPress Themes website.

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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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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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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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