TV.Elements is an excellent, dark, video-centric theme specifically designed to cater for higher-resolution video of any size up to 640 pixels wide.

Video is front and centre in this theme, which highlights the latest clip in the middle of the page and uses a carousel navigation to the right of the main clip to showcase more videos.

The user can select a category from the dropdown menu to browse all video in that category, and simply select any video in the list to watch the video, read its associated content, or comment.

Posting videos is as simple as copying the embed code from the source site and pasting it into a field. The theme works elegantly with Blip.TV, Flickr, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and YouTube — and should work with pretty much any embeddable video, including your own hosted Flash files.

The TV.Elements theme has 5 sidebars, all of which can be configured separately through the standard WordPress widget interface.

When a user clicks through to view a video, it opens in a custom player that fades the rest of the screen to black.

Cost

The TV Elements theme costs $US50 for a single licence or $US125 for a multiple site licence.

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Andrea is blue, modern and funky. This is a Wordpress theme that stands out from the pack due to its great colour choices and lovely typography.

The theme also has a nice expanse of white space (or, perhaps, ‘blue space’).

It’s two columns, with the main content on the right. It also has a simple but effective top navigation bar and lovely styles for images.

The theme’s author says it was “inspired by an incredible woman”. Let’s hope it has done her justice.

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Orange. Contemporary. Easy to read. Those are the key factors that make Keesheep worthy of a place on bestwpthemes.com.

This two-column theme features a large header area, prominent search bar and a right-hand sidebar. It’s well worth a look.

Don’t be frightened off because the demo version isn’t in English. The downlaod link below goes to an English version of the theme.

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Prologue allows a group of people to use Wordpress to create a Twitter-like stream of what they’re doing.

It’s put out by Automattic, the people behind Wordpress. They explain it like this:

“We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more, like a way for each of us to share short messages about what we’re doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups of folks. So last week (we) decided to tackle this problem and within a few days (we) had a new theme…

“Basically how it works is when someone has the ability to post to a blog they see a short form at the top of the home page with a post box and tags. There they can post short messages about what they’re doing.

“Below the posting box is a list of everyone’s latest tweet or message, with their Gravatar next to it. You can click on an author to see all their messages, or a tag to see all of the messages in a given tag (which we use for projects). There are RSS feeds for everything: the entire prologue, each author, each tag, and even combination or searches can be subscribed to in your RSS reader.”

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Monotone is a unique photo blogging theme where the background colours of the theme automatically change to complement those in your photos.

As the demo site explains: “Monotone takes the first image attached to a post and samples colors from it for use in the surrounding layout. Each post needs to contain one image, and optionally, any text you want. The theme does the rest, pulling colors out of and resizing the images for use in the design.”

It’s a very cool and eye-catching effect which means your site will never clash with the photos you’re showcasing.

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Videographer is a free Wordpress theme designed to create a YouTube-like site showcasing a range of video content.

The theme should be of interest to videobloggers and those wanting to create ‘video magazines’.

The theme makes it easy to feature videos from YouTube on your site. Other video sites might be more complicated to set up.

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Do you want your Wordpress site to appear sexy and be easy to read on the iPhone and iPod Touch? Then this is the theme for you.

As the theme author describes it: “Simply put, it’s a complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch.”

That’s right. It won’t replace your normal theme in a browser window, but it will if people access your site through one of these Apple devices.

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The Winter Styled Wordpress theme is a back-to-basics theme with a neat top navigation featuring links built into an introductory paragraph.

The two-column, widget-ready theme doesn’t use any graphics whatsoever, leaving a bare-bones theme that is nonetheless stylish and polished.

This theme is designed to be easily customised to suit any needs.

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The KISS Styled (keep it simple, stupid) theme for Wordpress is very, very clean and very, very simple.

The theme has a nicely styled image-free header and two columns and is widget friendly.

KISS Styled would also be a perfect design to start with if you’re looking to mould a theme into a unique design.

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The Dark Hut Wordpress theme is elegant, stylish and easy to read theme, with the focus immediately placed on the content of the site.

The theme has a dark feel befitting its name but has a white content area to keep the focus on the content and maintain legibility.

The large footer has four columns for displaying various information, and the theme is widget ready.

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