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Titan is a refined and super clean two-column WordPress blog theme with impressive typography and a delicious ‘fat’ footer.
The theme is ready for Twitter integration, includes Flickr integration in the footer and has a customisable dropdown horizontal navigation across the site.
Titan is a completely free WordPress theme, but offers a paid membership option with ongoing support, customisation tips and tutorials.
Demo and download:
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May 30th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
Tubular is a dark, clear WordPress theme developed for videoblogging but also offering the ability to create a static website and blog.
The homepage is configured to display featured videos, though it could be used to display a straight blog. The item pages are very clean, with a simple layout and good typography; and the site-wide navigation is good.
The theme comes with widget-ready sidebars and threaded comments built in.
Cost:
The Tubular 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.
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May 24th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Red Carpet is a modern, funky, magazine-style WordPress theme perfect for sites covering entertainment or celebrity gossip.
The theme’s features include:
- Complete management via control panel, including setup of advertisements, general options, languages, styles, and videos.
- Thumbnails are created on the fly – cropped and resized according to your own preferences.
- Built-in photo gallery maker, which automates the process of creating photo galleries. Simply upload a series of photos and pictures in your post and publish.
- Built-in video support, with a simple video publisher.
- Custom post and category templates.
- Custom post and category templates for news, photos and videos.
- Advertisement manager, with 14 ad positions and sponsored link position on the homepage.
- Two Widget-ready sidebars.
- Valid XHTML and tested in FireFox, Safari, and Internet Explorer without any known issues.
Cost:
The Red Carpet theme costs $US29 for a single licence or $149 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
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May 20th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Sugar Cane is an eye-catching two-column WordPress theme with beautiful typography, great use of images and a distinctive style.
Theme author Able Parris notes that the theme’s strength “is that it makes both long and short posts look great and easy to read”, which is dead right.
Site owners can use the two built-in image classes to have large landscape images span the entire content column and to have portrait images offset alongside the posts.
For those inclined to tweak things a little and make a theme their own, it would be relatively simple to make a few changes to colours and fonts to turn Sugar Cane into your own distinctive web presence.
Sugar Cane is a child theme for the Thematic framework by Ian Stewart. As the author’s page explains: “Child themes allow you to create layouts without touching the source theme’s template files. For this theme to work, you will need to upload both Thematic and Sugar Cane to your theme directory, but only activate Sugar Cane. It’s that easy.”
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May 20th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
WPUnlimited is an advanced WordPress theme offering complete customisation of the site layout, fonts and colours without any need for coding.
The theme’s promotional material boasts: “With a few simple clicks you’ll have a completely unique site designed exactly to your specifications. You specify the colors, typography, site layout (choose between 1, 2, and 3 column layouts), and even the content width!”
The default layout is clean and simple, with good navigationand tight typography; with a little customisation, you can make it your own.
The theme also offers easy SEO optimisation and built-in support for Adsense ads.
Cost:
The WPUnlimited theme costs $US59 for a single licence or $150 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
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May 18th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
For designer Rob Goodlatte, Flow is a proof-of-concept WordPress theme, but to my eyes it’s a highly readable blog layout with minimalist stylings.
Goodlatte created the theme to showcase a web design technique known as ‘variable type size’, meaning that as a user resizes their browser window the type size in the main content area changes proportionately. The result is that the key content is attractive and easy to read no matter what size the browser window.
The sidebar column, present only on the home page, is set at a fixed 12-pixel font size so it always remains secondary.
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May 13th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Yamidoo Magazine is a clever magazine theme for WordPress, boasting a stylish ‘featured content’ section, lots of highlight images and a content-packed homepage.
The theme includes tabbed widgets, dropdown menus, a theme options panel and built-in management for advertising.
Each story page is highly legible and great attention to detail is shown in design elements such as blockquotes.
Cost:
The Yamidoo Magazine theme from WP Zoom costs $US69 for a single licence, $US119 for a five-site licence or $149 for a developer’s licence.
Demo and download:
Visit WP Zoom 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.
May 9th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
