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Handgloves

Handgloves is one of the best free WordPress theme releases for some time, offering a striking two-column design that emphasizes content and uses typography and white space to create a professional tone, with good integration options for photos in posts.

The two-column design packs a huge punch, featuring a sidebar dedicated to recent posts, Twitter and Flickr.

Handgloves includes a noticeable but unobtrusive search box. The download includes key plugins you will need to operate the site as shown on the demo.

This theme features easy to read text, straightforward horizontal navigation, and awesome support for plugins.

Handgloves WordPress Theme

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TutorialPress

TutorialPress is a modern, eye-catching WordPress theme design with easy navigation and a simple layout.

It’s a two-column, fixed-width theme that focuses on easy navigation and a simple layout. The layout is designed for presenting tutorials, featuring an expanded navigation section, but could easily be put to other uses.

TutorialPress comes in 5 different color schemes, which allow you to easily change the mood if you’re not willing to do an entire facelift for your site.

The background image sets the mood of the site without overwhelming your visitors.

Some impressive features of TutorialPress are:

  • Easy to monetize with built-in ad placeholders;
  • Widget ready;
  • Ability to add images to each post;
  • Fixed layout;
  • Prominent search box;
  • Easy to read text;
  • 5 different color schemes

Tutorial Press Wordpress Theme

Cost

TutorialPress costs US$25.00.

Demo and Download

Visit ThemeForest to view the demo of TutorialPress and download the theme.

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P2

P2 is a powerful WordPress theme useful for group collaboration, a kind of combination of blogs and Twitter.

At first glance it might come across as another simple Wordpress theme, but if you take a closer look, P2 has a lot more to offer.

In simple terms, P2 is like a combination of Twitter and blogs. Instead of long, monologue posts, P2 is for group bloggers. It features inline comments on the front page for easy group interaction. It does everything that your standard blog does, but faster.

P2 does away with logging into your post editor. Logged-in users can post directly on the front page. Posts are published in real time and the page is updated automatically with no refreshing.

P2 also features an effective iPhone interface. It’s from Automattic, the makers of WordPress. If you’re working in a small team it’s worth experimenting with.

P2 WordPress Theme

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Zenko Magazine

Zenko Magazine is a premium WordPress theme with a unique slant on the popular magazine style. It’s an easy to read, polished three-column design.

The theme has a simple white background with pops of color, like pink or green, to keep it interesting and also to distinguish the sections. Although there’s a lot of information crammed on the front page, it never appears crowded or overwhelming. This theme does a great job of keeping everything organized.

Zenko Magazine includes a number of robust features, such as dropdown menus and prominently featured posts. Its built-in support for features like Google Analytics and Feedburner make it an even sweeter deal.

Some important features include:

  • Built in widgets;
  • Ads management system;
  • Flexible layout;
  • Threaded comments;
  • Drop down menu;
  • Custom templates for archive page;
  • Free future upgrades

Zenko Magazine WordPress Theme

Cost

Zenko Magazine costs $69 for a single licence and $149 for a developer license.

Demo and Download

Visit WP Zoom to view the Zenko Magazine demo and download the theme.

(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using that link, you’ll help support bestwpthemes.com.)

Doc

Doc is an unashamedly minimalist WordPress theme, and that’s where its appeal lies. It’s all about writing and reading.

The theme places all emphasis on content. In fact, its one-column design demands that you focus directly on what’s in front of you, not the shiny icons to your left or right. If it weren’t for the subtle references to comments below each theme, you could almost be convinced you were reading right from your word processor.

Once you scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll notice all the comforts of a well-rounded theme: blogroll, categories and search box. The beauty of this blog design is its simplicity. It will be a nice change of pace for your visitors. Its effective use of white space keeps it from looking boring or amateurish.

Doc WordPress Theme

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Foliotastic

Foliotastic is a crisp, 2-column, photo-centric WordPress theme with a lot of built-in extras that would make it perfect for a photography or design portfolio site. The theme comes with two default visual styles — light and dark — as well as allowing for complete color customization straight from the Admin panel. Other features include:

  • Built-in Flickr and Twitter widgets
  • Beautiful jQuery mouseovers and lightboxing
  • Nested threaded comments with Gravatar support
  • Full-featured, tabbed Admin panel for on-the-fly customization

Cost:

Foliotastic costs $US35 for a single-use license from ThemeForest.

Demo and download:

Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and download the theme.

Note: The links above are affiliate links. If you purchase using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.

Wordsteel

Wordsteel is a premium WordPress theme with plenty of bells and whistles and a sleek metallic look.

The Wordsteel homepage comes with a slick built-in featured article slider based on the jQuery framework, making it easy to keep your best content up front and center.

Wordsteel also features:

  • Automatic image resizing, so you don’t have to worry about producing multiple versions of the same image.
  • Widgetized sidebar and footer areas.
  • Built-in widgets for Flickr images, videos, popular posts, and more.
  • Ad widgets for easy advertising integration.

Cost:

Wordsteel costs $US25 for a single-use licence from ThemeForest.

Demo and download:

Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and download the theme.

Note: The links above are affiliate links. If you purchase using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.

Frugal

Frugal is a clean, three-column theme that comes in two flavours: premium and professional. While both boast many similar conveniences, such as built-in ad widgets, an ebook guide to working with the theme, and threaded comments, the two paid versions do have some extras.

Frugal Premium is a more traditional WordPress theme built with easy customization in mind. It was developed for non-programmers, and most aesthetic changes can be made from the WordPress backend, without having to write a single line of code. But for those who do want to dive into the code, Frugal Premium’s structure is easy to understand.

Frugal Professional was built for the more code-savvy WordPress developer. Although many simple changes can still be made in the backend, larger changes will require working with the theme itself. Further, Frugal Professional was built as a framework, providing the end user with ultra clean code and myriad hooks for custom content.

Cost:

Frugal Premium and Professional are sold as a combo pack. A single use licence costs $US79, a multi-use licence costs $US149, and a developer licence runs to $US199.

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UnderCon

UnderCon is a free, simple theme with a single purpose: to provide an attractive, customizable domain parking theme for WordPress users.

Think of this theme as an “Under Construction” page for the modern web.

This theme is a great solution for WordPress users who already own their site’s future domain, but aren’t yet ready for their site to hit the big time. It offers a sign-up form (powered by Google Feedburner) for visitors to subscribe to receive updates on the site’s progress and eventual launch.

The title, description, and logo are all customizable from within WordPress, so there’s no back-end work to do.

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Clean Home

Clean Home is a clean, lightweight (48 pixels of image total) theme that comes in both free and professional versions.

The theme’s streamlined two-column design ensures that the design stays out of the way, leaving your content to speak for itself.

The free version features:

  • Full widget support in three different sections of the theme (top navigation, blurb area, and sidebar)
  • Valid XHTML and CSS
  • Customizable eye-catching blurb area at the top of the page
  • GPL licensed — customize however you wish

The pro version of Clean Home includes:

  • Adsense integration in three separate locations
  • Seven color schemes and two distinct styles
  • Google Feedburner integration with an email subscribe button and auto RSS feed redirection
  • Fully customizable home page

Cost:

The pro version of Clean Home costs $US20 for a single license, or $US60 for the developer version.

Demo and download:

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Visit MidMo Web Design for the free version, or Gazelle Themes for the professional/developer version.