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FotoFolio is an attractive free portfolio theme for photographers and designers.
The developer of theme has taken extra effort to make this theme flexible and highly usable, with nifty features such as automatic image resizing and jquery effects to display photos.
In all, this is a very neat package, and makes a great platform from which to promote your creative services.
The design has a nice, bright and airy feel to it. Adding your own branding to the site is as simple as installing the theme and replacing the theme’s logo with your own.
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Convergence is a sensational modern blogging theme designed for community-based sites; it integrates photo thumbnails into the homepage and allows for stylish advertising options.
The theme includes many of the popular features that are seen in today’s industry-leading community sites.
Anyone who has looked at sites like Net Tuts or Smashing Magazine with envy will appreciate the quality of design in this WP theme.
The theme has two levels of navigation, usefully pointing to site pages and also categories of content. Some of the Convergence theme’s other features include:
- Feedburner integration
- 2-column table-less CSS layout
- Widget-ready sidebar
- Gravatar-ready comments sections
- Valid CSS and XHTML
- Browser compatibility: All major browsers
- Related posts
- Popular posts
- Author highlighting in comment areas
- Flickr photo showcase built in
- Ad management system included
- Social linking (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)
Cost:
The Convergence theme costs $US25 for a single licence or $US75 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a theme using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Hash One is the initial offering from Obox’s premium Wordpress shop, and if it’s anything to go by their Signature Series should be outstanding. Hash One caters for both video and text blogging as well as providing full gallery features.
The theme has great attention to detail. Small elements such as the black wrap-around ribbons used on the “Read More” and “Add Comment” links and also on the Search bar all come together to give the theme a real premium look and feel.
Hash One uses the “OCMX Live” content management system to easily manage your content without extensive coding knowledge of Wordpress 2.8. This means you can easily manage comments, install Google analytics, upload and update your logo, modify the menus, create your own galleries and manage site advertising.
Cost :
Hash One is available from Obox. It costs $US50 for a single user license or $US100 for a developer’s license that provides you with the layered image files.
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
On The Field is an extremely attractive, modern blog theme aimed at sports bloggers, however the sports references are subtle and flexible enough that it could be used for a wide variety of blogs.
On The Field is a two-column layout with plenty of room for advertising on the right of the page.
Some of On The Field’s features include:
- 2 Tier navigation powered by CSS & JQuery
- 2 Pre-defined spots for 300×250 ad banners
- Recent comments cycle through on the sidebar with JQuery Innerfade
- Last comment is displayed after the post to entice viewers to “Read More”
- Built with future expansion & customisation in mind
The author advises he can also provide alternate color schemes if required. This is a reasonable theme that could be tailored to suit a variety of needs.
Cost :
On The Field is available from ThemeForest for $15.00.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest for a theme demo and download.
August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Vanity is a three-column magazine-style WordPress theme developed with celebrity- and gossip-oriented websites in mind.
The theme features a carousel article slider at the top for featured stories and has a distinctive narrow middle column, which includes category navigation and space for 125×125 or 120×600 advertisements.
Vanity also features:
- Two theme colors (Aqua and Pink);
- Widget-ready sidebar;
- Automatic image resizer;
- Comment Gravatar support;
- Flickr and Google Feedburner integration;
- Compatibility with IE6+, Firefox, and Safari.
Cost:
The Vanity theme costs $US79.95 for a single site license, or $US179.95 for a developer license. All future updates to the Vanity theme will be provided free of charge to licensed users.
Demo and download:
Visit Gorilla Themes to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a Vanity package using this link, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com
August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
AutoFocus is a beautiful free WordPress theme built specifically for photographers looking for a simple way to showcase their work online.
The theme features a unique homepage layout with autosized images and large full-width images on the individual article pages. An optional single-column version of the homepage is also available.
AutoFocus makes great use of typography considering its photo-centric focus. Also, mousing over any of the images on the homepage or the category pages reveals an excerpt of the post content, which is an attractive touch.
Perhaps best of all, no custom fields are needed. Images are uploaded using the Media Uploader, and resizing is handled automatically. The theme grabs the images directly from the article, making this a great theme for a less experienced user.
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Since Best WP Themes launched in 2007, it’s sported a slightly modified free WordPress theme. The presentation was lean, clean and, well, a little mean.
From today, the site features a purpose-built design, created by the incomparable Sam Brown from Massive Blue.
The goal of the new design was to maintain a minimalist aesthetic, while creating a more professional look and feel, and making it easier and more pleasurable to explore the featured themes.
Apart from the more professional look and feel across the site, improvements added alongside the new design include:
- Clear promotion of new featured items at the top of the front page. This is a place to showcase the “best of” collections Best WP Themes has put together. We’re looking to add more of these from now on.
- Clearer navigation, allowing easier access to the best WordPress themes on the planet.
- New premium theme categories make it much easier to find particular types of paid themes, such as photo galleries, blog themes and magazine themes.
- Improved tag pages, providing a much more useful way to browse the Best WP Themes archives.
- New Top 10 lists for free and premium themes. This may be a controversial addition, but I’m going out on a limb and choosing what I think are the top 10 WordPress themes in circulation for both free and paid themes. The selections are based on my personal taste, and to some degree on what themes prove popular with Best WP Themes visitors.
You may have noticed that new additions to our collection of themes have been few and far between recently. Now the new design is up and running, this should change dramatically.
Your feedback is welcome. Feel free to let us know about any glitches in the new design. Sam and I will be trying to stamp these out in the next few days.
August 5th, 2009 | Features | 3 Comment
Manifest is a beautifully minimalist one-column weblog theme with elegant typography and nothing to distract from the main content, be that text, photos or video.
The theme has a simple horizontal navigation and absolutely no clutter or cruft to distract the eye. If you want your visitors to read your words, this is a theme that will help achieve that goal.
The main body text is justified, and the footer features elegant links to the site owner’s social media identities.
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August 1st, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
