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Mimbo is a classy magazine-style WordPress theme with built-in ad space, thumbnail functionality and an easy to navigate design.
Mimbo was amongst the first free magazine themes released, paving the way for a whole new category of WordPress themes, both free and premium. Although there’s also a premium version of Mimbo, called Mimbo Pro, the free version has been updated considerably since it first launched and remains a worthy member of the magazine-style theme field.
The theme features two levels of navigation (Pages and Categories) and can highlight a great range of content on the homepage. Other features include:
- A script that pulls images automatically from the post body, then resizes them with TimThumb for the homepage;
- Support for sticky posts, comment pagination, threaded comments, wp_logout_url, and the rest of the new features of WP 2.7;
- Featured categories – a custom control panel sets featured categories with a configurable number of headlines, which appear on the homepage;
- 125×125 ad support via the WP125 plugin and its companion widget;
- Multi-level dropdown menus;
- Better custom archives – a custom template that displays posts by month, plus pagination;
- Better author archives;
- Gallery, inline image and caption styling – there are styles for all the various ways you’d insert an image in a post;
Demo and download:
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April 27th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Metro is a stylish newspaper-themed WordPress theme with a rotating featured content front and centre, and both recent articles and videos showcased on the homepage.
The three-column theme is fully Widget-ready, features advertising positions and a clear, easy to navigate design.
It also includes a space for featured videos on the homepage, allowing site owners to
Cost:
The Metro WordPress theme from StudioPress costs $US59.95 on its own or $199.95 as part of the StudioPress theme pack.
Demo and download:
Visit StudioPress to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a StudioPress package using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
April 26th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Nouice is a two-column WordPress theme with a simple design highlighting posts in a way that’s somewhat reminiscent of a Polaroid photograph.
The theme has a clean blue background and an elegant, modern appearance. It could service almost any kind of blog.
Be warned: comments are not built in to this theme.
Download:
The original theme author’s site has gone offline, but you can still download the theme elsewhere.
April 25th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
Clean Slate is a feature-packed WordPress theme that’s centred around a scrolling ‘featured posts’ section and features plenty of white space and stylish typography.
The theme offers an options page for customising the featured section, as well as changing the site logo and customising a sponsorship panel.
It also comes with a layered PSD file to allow you to customise the design and layout to your liking.
Cost
The Clean Slate theme costs $US25.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest for a theme demo and download.
(Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using that link, you’ll help support bestwpthemes.com.)
April 23rd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Inuit Types is a rare gem – a simply stunning WordPress theme that’s half blog, half magazine site.
The theme is stylish, flexible and beautiful.
Its features include:
- Custom translations of all blog areas
- Great SEO
- Simple pagination
- Management scripts for header and footer
- Fully widgetized sidebar
- Left or right-hand sidebar
- Featured entries
- One or two-column entries on front page
- WP 2.7 full compatibility
Demo and download:
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April 22nd, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
PureType is a clean and sophisticated CSS-based WordPress theme with a strong type-based layout.
The theme features three widget-ready areas, three colour schemes, two layout options and more customisation built into the theme options page.
It also offers custom thumbnails, downloadable PSD files, threaded comments, gravatars and built-in ad space.
Cost
Basic is from Elegant Themes. It costs $US19.95 for a one-year membership, which includes all of their (very impressive) premium themes.
Demo and download:
Visit Elegant Themes for a theme demo and download.
(Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using that link, you’ll help support bestwpthemes.com.)
April 22nd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
A Minor Incident is a stylish WordPress theme featuring light text on a dark background and beautiful typography.
Posts within the theme are highly legible and the navigation scheme is beautifully styled, as is the horizontal navigation bar, which sits to the right of the header.
This theme pays attention to detail and gets the little things right. It’s minimal and graphic-free.
Note: The download site isn’t in English but the theme itself appears to be created in English.
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April 22nd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
