It’s clean, minimalist, white and free. Wu Wei offers an attractive WordPress template that’s designed according to a grid system and provides options for site owners to break out of the box with large images.
As the theme’s owner puts it: “Information is presented in a logical manner, without any superfluous elements getting in the way. Just like the Taoist concept of wu wei, it’s knowing when to act, and knowing when not to act.
Journic is a stunning two-column blog theme with gorgeous typography and excellent use of white space that will make viewing your blog content a pleasure.
The theme includes a built-in settings page within the WordPress admin interface, including advertising and subscription management.
The theme is very flexible thanks to its wide implementation of widgets.
The colourful brush-stroke background is eye-catching but won’t apply to all uses of the design; luckily, it’s relatively simple to remove or replace the background image.
Visit the One Theme Per Month website for more information or to download the free Journic theme.
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Photo Graphic is a premium WordPress theme with an image-dominated homepage designed for a multitude of uses, including blogs, news sites, photography showcases and portfolios.
It comes with a couple of nifty widgets built in, allowing site owners to easily manage 125×125 pixel ads and featured posts in the sidebar.
The design is grey and clean, with good navigation and a strong focus on the content, though you’ll need images to accompany each post. Adding those images is made easy thanks to a built-in thumbnails plugin, and the theme also boasts a powerful configuration page, allowing site owners to easily add their own logo, or switch to a text-based logo.
The Photo Graphic theme costs $US75 for a single-use licence.
Visit Press75 to view a demo of Photo Graphic and download the theme.
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WPESP is a free WordPress theme that makes it easy to create and update a beautiful, crisp portfolio site for web design or art of any kind.
The grey-toned and grid-based theme is customisable so site owners can make it their own.
It includes a custom write panel to edit the content and a content slider to incorporate featured items on the homepage.
AdvancePress is a two-column blogging theme with an emphasis on clean, modern design. The textured background is subtle but sets the right tone for a serious blog. Each post features a placeholder for a thumbnail image.
The theme is ready-built for ads in the sidebar and the footer. AdvancePress effectively uses white and black to convey a sense of simplicity and focus the visitor on content.
Features of this theme include:
AdvancePress costs US$25.00.
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and download the theme.
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Cypher v2 is a two-column blog theme that features effective use of white space on a subtle, crinkled-paper backdrop, along with big, bold titles and easy to read text.
The search box takes a prominent position at the top of the second column, allowing visitors to easily find what they’re looking for.
Cypher v2 is done in the bold colours of black and red, and places emphasis on your content.
It offers a bold horizontal navigation, large search box, custom default avatars, sidebar widgets and a customisable layout.
Grass Roots is a serene three-column traditional blogging theme that has a minimalist layout and clear typography, and thus invites your visitors to stay a while.
Although the design places maximum emphasis on content, navigation is smooth.
The theme’s colours are a soothing mix of green, grey and white. The fonts are white and easy to read, reducing high-contrast eye strain.
Grass Roots offers a robust set of features, including an easy to find search field and a fully widgetised sidebar. No additional plugins or add-ons needed.
Clear horizontal navigation and harmonious colours make this a great download.
Grace Photoblog is a unique theme that places emphasis on your artwork, whether it’s photography or graphic design.
The top of the home page showcases your featured work with the help of a jQuery rotating banner. Posts are organised gallery style, by your most recent images. As you click on the post, you open to a page that features a 900-pixel wide version of your image.
Grace Photoblog is intentionally minimalistic. The design draws all focus to your art, and features a very soft and subtle background. In this case, a picture is worth a thousand words.
My WordPress is a two-column modern blogging style premium theme with a strong emphasis on community-building elements.
The theme comes packaged with six colour versions and allows the user to change the location of the sidebar from left to right within the admin interface.
Its host of additional features includes:
My WordPress costs $US25 for a single-use licence from ThemeForest.
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and download the theme.
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WP Distinctive is a clean and straightforward WordPress theme which utilises a grid and the rule of thirds to create a harmonious, professional feel.
The theme breaks out categories into a navigation bar under the full-width banner, as well as offering a dropdown menu of categories adjacent to article breadcrumbs, thereby providing a number of ways users can find their way around your site.
WP Distinctive also customizes the Add New Post screen, making it easy to integrate images and videos into your posts without the use of third-party plugins. And a custom Admin panel makes customisation simple.
WP Distinctive costs $US25 for a single-use license from ThemeForest.
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and download the theme.
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