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iFeature is a new free WordPress theme that has been designed by CyberChimps.com. iFeature is a fresh looking theme with an aesthetically pleasing design. Among it’s features includes; an iFeature slider, dynamic header for custom logo, social icons, social sharing features, a contact section, a widgetized sidebar/footer and multiple template choices.

iFeature is one of the more advanced wordpress themes out there at the moment. Its design is very Apple-like with a nice drop-down menu system. CyberChimps have also developed an iFeature Pro theme, it’s a premium version of iFeature that includes a full-width iFeature Slider, multi-color iMenu options, business ready layouts, more widgetized areas, and many of the same user friendly settings that are found in iFeature.

iFeature can be downloaded for free at the iFeature WordPress Theme page or at the iFeature CyberChimps.com page.

Yoko is a modern and flexible, three-column WordPress theme. The cool thing about the Yoko theme is that it adjusts itself automatically to different screen sizes, which means the theme is optimized for big desktop screens, tablet pcs like the iPad or even small smartphone screens.

To further customize the theme you can choose your own background, link color, logo and header image. Yoko also includes a social links widget with mini icons (for RSS, twitter, face­book, flickr, vimeo, lin­kedin and delicious). Custom CSS Styles are also included for the Contact 7 form WordPress plugin.

The Yoko theme can be downloaded from the Yoko Theme page on WordPress.org or by visiting the authors theme page.

Fresh Ink Magazine is a customizable WordPress theme that gives your blog the polished look of a high-quality magazine fresh from the press.

Fresh Ink Magazine has a two-column theme design that keeps your blog neatly organized. The changeable background and customizable header ensures your blog will always reflect your personal tastes.

The theme is widget ready, of course, and has several other features you’ll need to bring fresh readers in and make your blog a success.

To download you can visit the WordPress.org  page here; Fresh Ink Magazine or visit the themes website at adazing.com.

Deep Blue is an amazing new blue style theme for WordPress that has recently been updated to version 1.8. It features a theme options page and it comes with 6 advanced custom widgets, 4 widget areas and almost 40 options for theme tweaking. It’s also full of cool jQuery scripts that make this theme special and, most of all, a great theme to look at.

The custom widgets included in Deep Blue include; Recent posts, popular posts, recent comments, latest tweets, feeds and custom search widget. All these widgets have options for tweaking them to your own preferences. The graphic logo can also be changed from within the theme options page, ie, Theme Option -> Misc -> Text Logo.

The theme is free but there is an option to upgrade by paying $4.95 to get access to extra features, etc.

Download

Deep Blue can be downloaded from the authors homepage or from the WordPress Themes website.

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.

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.

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