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WP Remix is an advanced WordPress theme suite offering a range of page designs and colour schemes; it’s very well designed and turns WordPress into more of a complete content management system than just a blog publishing tool.
The theme’s features are too extensive to list here but some of the highlights include:
- WYSIWYG page template editing;
- More than 50 pre-structured, strategically built page templates to choose from;
- Smart dropdown navigation bar
- Seven colour schemes;
- The flexibility to create different pages that have different sidebars, headers and footers
- Ad placeholders
- Grid-based layouts
- Clean typography
- SEO ready
All in all, this is an impressive theme that would serve small businesses in particular very well.
Cost
The WP Remix theme costs $US75 for a single licence or $US275 for a developer’s licence.
Demo and download:
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July 16th, 2008 | Themes | 4 Comment
HelloBlogger isn’t flashy; it’s a simple, clean, two-column WordPress theme with a splash of colour.
The theme is predominantly white and grey; it’s easy to read and has a very clean, traditional blog-style layout.
Plenty of white space and attractive typography make this one a winner.
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July 16th, 2008 | Themes | 1 Comment
Una is a professional-looking, two-column, blog-style WordPress theme with a clean and organised layout and a brown colour scheme.
Its two columns are divided using the guide of the divine proportion. The front page shows the latest post with it’s accompanying large graphic image, followed by three other recent posts with each post accompanied by a thumbnail image. Each section title is supported by a subtitle.
Una has comments and trackbacks divided.
Demo and download:
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July 16th, 2008 | Themes | Comments Off
Hamasaki is a beautiful magazine-style WordPress theme that perfectly showcases recent articles, provides ad space and simple navigation.
It includes full Widget support, built-in spots for 125 x 125 pixel ads and a top banner ad, a theme options page for easy customisation, and Gravatar support.
The typography is impressive and the double navigation bar (using Pages and Categories) is effective. Hamasaki could make a great base for a magazine-style or personal site.
Demo and download:
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July 16th, 2008 | Themes | Comments Off
Offering a choice of 20 colour schemes, VibrantCMS is an elegant WordPress solution for small business owners wanting to build a modern, attractive website.
It features a prominent “featured items” scroller to broadcast your business’ most important information and a separate company blog that is tucked away from the homepage.
The VibrantCMS WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.
Cost
The VibrantCMS theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.
Demo and download:
View demo and download via Woo Themes.
(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using that link, you’ll help support bestwpthemes.com.)
July 10th, 2008 | Themes | 3 Comment
ProudFolio gives designers, developers, artists and photographers a framework for a great-looking portfolio site and a feature-rich blog.
The homepage is a combination of those elements, highlighting the latest projects from your portfolio, as well as your most recent blog post.
Throw in clear navigation, a dark, worn look, and a simple options panel for tweaking the layout and colour scheme, and you’ve got one of the best portfolio themes around.
The ProudFolio WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.
Cost
The ProudFolio theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.
Demo and download:
View demo and download via Woo Themes.
(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using that link, you’ll help support bestwpthemes.com.)
July 10th, 2008 | Themes | 1 Comment
There are now more than 100 premium WordPress themes on the market but the quality of those themes varies greatly. In fact, some ‘premium’ themes don’t really deserve that title; they’re only ‘premium’ themes in that you have to pay to use them. In some cases, you’d have to be mad to do so.
At the same time, amazing free themes keep coming onto the market. Some of those free themes are far and away more impressive than some of those being offered up as ‘premium’ themes.
Here are 10 free WordPress themes that will knock your socks off. They’ll also blow many so-called ‘premium’ themes out of the water.
Brightness
Half magazine and half blog, Brightness is one of the most impressive free theme launches of recent times. Its modern, sleek look is reminiscent of some of the best in professional blog design, sites such as Freelance Switch and PSD Tuts.
Lightning
Lightning reminds me a lot of sites like Smashing Magazine, although it’s much more stripped back in its out-of-the box format. Nonetheless, with the addition of a custom header image and a little tweaking of the styles, this could easily become a professional, eye-catching blog theme.
Charade
Sprinkled with beautiful icons, packing visual punch and offering up stylish typography, Charade is a free WordPress theme that impresses.
Thematic
Thematic mightn’t look all that special but under the hood, this theme offers a wider range of simple customisation than pretty much any premium theme on the market.
MassivePress
With a main content column featuring thumbnails for each post, a central navigation-type column and a right-hand sidebar visually showing off featured articles, MassivePress offers a great degree of flexibility.
The Morning After
There can be little doubt that the creator of The Morning After could charge people to download. It’s a clean, mean magazine-style WordPress machine.
Overstand
Free from clutter but with beautiful visual style, Overstand delivers a magazine-style homepage combining large slugs, neat headlines and thumbnail images.
Thunderbolt
Another clean and simple magazine style, Thunderbolt offers a beautiful, customizable WordPress solution for moderate to advanced users.
The Unstandard
As the name attests, this is not your average WordPress theme. It catches the user’s attention with headlines set over the top of large images on the homepage.
Neoclassical
A three-column classic offering a central column for main content, rotating header images and picture-perfect typography.
Natural Power
It mightn’t have the flexibility of some premium themes but for stylish, modern blogging, Natural Power has all the bases covered.
Don’t miss our full list of the web’s best WordPress themes, including the cream of the premium theme crop.
July 4th, 2008 | Features | 63 Comment
Freelancers need a homepage that’s professional, uncluttered and has a clear emphasis on providing key information about the freelancer, including their contact details.
Here are 60 WordPress themes that make creating such a site simple.
Best Free Portfolio Themes for Freelancers
Portfolio
ProudFolio
Linquist
Sharpfolio
Monotone
Videographer (for video portfolios)
Nishita
Professor
Notepad
Best Free Blog Themes for Freelancers
Brightness
WP-Polaroid
Firebug
Neoclassical
Andrea
Charade
Rio
Press Box
MassivePress
MNML
Springloaded
Colourise
Thematic
Natural Power
Brodie
Danvers
Oh My Grid
Gotham Nights
GimpStyle
The Azure Hut
Olegario
30April
WPCandy
Revolution Blog
Futurosity Eos
PocketT
Copyblogger
Salmon
Skittlish
Elite
Upstart Blogger Minim
ColdBlue
Blueprint
Whitespace
DePo Clean
Grid Focus
Agneka Simple
Best Themes As Tools For Freelancers
LaunchPad (for projects you’re launching)
WP Contact Manager (for your contacts)
WP Touch (for mobile display)
Prologue (for team communication)
Best Premium WordPress Themes for Freelancers
Shutter Themes Photo Galleries (for portfolios)
Revolution Pro Business
Thesis
Fresh News
VideoFlick (for video portfolios)
Quommunications Video (for video portfolios)
TV.Elements (for video portfolios)
Market (for an ecommerce solution)
Elegant Blubs
Smoke Signal
Viz | Biz Portfolio
Please note: This post was updated after publication to add in the new ProudFolio theme. This means it now lists 61 themes, an extra little bonus.
July 4th, 2008 | Features | 19 Comment
Sharpfolio is a beautiful theme that makes the creation of a professional portfolio a snap.
The code is clean and the design is simple yet stylish, with all the focus on the work being presented rather than on flashy headers or sidebar widgets.
Adding your recent work is extremely simple, making the upkeep on a portfolio site easy.
Demo and download:
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July 4th, 2008 | Themes | 2 Comment
Sketch’d is a grungy weblog theme with a neat featured post highlight, excellent typography and great attention to detail.
The theme is easy to use, without the need to play around behind the scenes.
It includes integrated social media buttons and auto image resizing.
With a little Photoshop work, it could also be a great base for a unique, customised theme as you’d really just have to adjust the background images and the colours of a few CSS elements.
Price:
The Sketch’d theme costs $US49 for a single licence.
Demo and download:
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July 4th, 2008 | Themes | 4 Comment
