If you like the Boston Globe’s Big Picture photography blog then you’ll love the Zack 990 WordPress theme.
The theme is designed exclusively for photo and video bloggers with a one-column design that’s wide enough to showcase images 990 pixels wide, allowing for the creation of stunning photo blogs.
EversonNews is a fresh, clean and flexible news and magazine-style WordPress theme.
The theme features a beautiful jQuery tabbed slider/teaser on the homepage, which you can easily update from your WP admin area.
It also has movable and collapsable blocks with cookie support (to save positions, collapse/close states) that display the latest content from your categories.
The EversonNews WordPress theme costs $US59.
Foreword Thinking features a flexible three-column homepage design, with a modern magazine-style layout.
The theme comes bundled with a moveable sidebar, a customisable featured posts section, 10 theme styles and the ability to set alternating colours for specific areas of the design.
Some of the other features of the design include:
The Foreword Thinking theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $150 for a developer licence.
Visit Woo Themes to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
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Urban Elements is an advanced WordPress blog theme making good use of images accompanying posts and offering a wide array of customisation options.
The theme includes an options page to customise the site header; manage advertising; configure the sidebar; configure social media links; set up Google Analytics; and manage thumbnail options.
All of these items can easily be configured, disabled or maintained via the theme options page.
Thumbnails are framed in an attractive metallic wrapper which makes your content pop.
The Urban Elements theme costs $US75.
Visit Press75 for a theme demo and download.
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The Stars is a sexy magazine-style WordPress theme ideal for fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, gossip or lifestyle websites.
The theme includes a wide range of features, including: dropdown navigation menus, a featured content section, automatic thumbnail generation and integrated social bookmarking buttons.
It has widget-ready sidebars, an asides section and an author bio section within posts; it also features integrated banner ad positions.
The Web News is a neat and tidy three-column, magazine-style WordPress theme featuring thumbnails on the homepage.
The theme includes a popular posts panel, 125×125-pixel banner ads, and a featured video section.
It includes threaded comments, gravatar integration and SEO optimisation.
Renaissance is a beautifully designed three-column theme with a robust ad management system, asides and 14 widget areas.
The theme lets you easily add content from your Tumblr or Flickr account, features excellent typography and allows authors to easily change the header layout for their blog.
It includes a theme options panel within WordPress that allows considerable flexibility and provides three colour schemes: default, light and dark.
Renaissance costs $US55.
Elite Video is a clever videoblogging theme with a video slider as the central element of the homepage.
The theme has clear navigation, displays categories prominently and features space to showcase recent, popular, highly rated and most commented videos.
Elite Video boasts one-click video integration, is compatible with most video sites (YouTube, MetaCafe, Blip etc.) and offers theme customisation options from within the WordPress control panel.
It has gravatars and widgets ready to roll and includes an AJAX star-rating system.
Elite Video costs $US50 for a single-use licence or $US125 for a developer package.
Basic is a gorgeous theme for WordPress with a traditional weblog layout on the homepage but featuring excellent attention to detail throughout the design.
The theme showcases images and text for recent posts on the homepage, and includes a narrow secondary column for anything that fits into a widget.
Other features include theme option pages, custom thumbnail images, PSD files, valid code, threaded comments and advertising-ready.
The theme comes with four colour schemes ready to use.
Basic is from Elegant Themes. It costs $US19.95 for a one-year membership, which includes all of their (very impressive) premium themes.
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Gumball Special is a funky, colourful magazine-style WordPress theme that highlights recent posts using images alongside short blurbs.
The theme has a really “fun” feel and would be perfect for many an online zine.
As the theme author says: “It sports Gravatars, an awesome layout, custom image field thingies and well, just looks plain ‘ol awesome.”
Thesis: Version 1.7 is out now, offering super SEO, easy customisation and beautiful type.
