Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
Dark yet colourful, the Firebug WordPress theme has two widget-ready sidebars, space allocated for ads and social tagging options built into the posts.
It’s also Gravatar ready, works with WordPress’s built-in Gallery feature and offers Photoshop file for replacing the logo in the banner.
Firebug has a stylish, modern layout. The background can make the (small) text a little hard to read, so a flat colour without the texture may be a better option.
WP-Polaroid is a modern, funky design perfect for a personal website, with pink and blue versions.
It offers widgetized sidebars and valid XHTML/CSS code (if you care about that sort of thing).
It has three columns, with space allocated for ads, a top horizontal navigation and a central image inserted into a polaroid-type context, perfect for a shot of the site owner.
Demo (use the style switcher to select WP-Polaroid)
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MassivePress is a three-column, widget-enabled WordPress theme featuring thumbnails for each post, giving the site a mixed look - half magazine site, half weblog.
The theme has a very cool-looking, fully automated “Featured Article” section within the second sidebar and integrated recent comments.
This theme is based on Grid Focus but with some additional styling and polish. It’s a very attractive theme out of the box and could easily be adapted and customised to make it look unique.
TrueBlogger won’t appeal to everybody but for those attempting to become probloggers and earn an income from advertising, this might be an appealing commercial theme.
The theme has a blue and white colour theme, includes a news ticker, is widget-ready, XHTML compliant and has well-commented, easily edited CSS code.
It features four ad spaces in a very prominent location in the central column of the theme, above the main body content.
The TrueBlogger theme costs $US79.99 for a single licence or $US280 for a developer’s multiple site licence.
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Revolution Blog is a stylish, free theme with the option to choose between three different traditional blog-style layouts.
Whether you choose the two-column version with a right sidebar, the three-column version with left and right sidebars, or the three column version with two right sidebars, you’ll get a clean and elegant, widget-ready blog with a blue and white colour scheme.
All feature crystal-clear typography, a stylish header and a lovely, functional horizontal navigation bar.
Revolution Blog is a free theme from the creator of the premium Revolution series of themes.
Demo (Choose which version you’d like to view.)
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Sans-serif Racer is a three-column, fluid-layout WordPress theme which uses one theme color, default sans-serif typeface and no images.
The theme features a wide main column for your stories and images and two sidebars on the right. It supports widgets and tags out of the box.
It’s a minimal theme but with its own unique touches.
The Sans-serif Racer theme’s code features some nice flexibility for theme users, including an option to have page titles that are different from the text that will point to them in the main navigation bar. There are also a number of different image classes to provide options when placing images in your posts.
Futurosity Eos is a sophisticated Wordpress theme with a minimal three-column design and the flexibility to create a magazine-style site.
It includes a large image for one featured story, and large, clear headlines for the latest stories running down the left-hand column.
The design is minimal and the colours are classic - black, red, grey. The two sidebars present navigation, comments, categories and anything else you desire.
Despite the name, WP Premium is a free theme. But it does offer some impressive ‘premium’ features, including the option to choose between two or three columns.
WP Premium is also widget-ready and has a choice of three stylish colour schemes: brown, black or soft red.
The template is designed with advertising built in to the right sidebar and has easy to edit code.
The Neoclassical theme for WordPress is a simple and elegant template system that offers classical styling, rich typography and huge random header images. It’s created by Chris Pearson, who also made themes such as Cutline and Copyblogger.
This three-column theme lives and breathes courtesy of its elegant typography, which makes your content pop.
It’s worth noting this is a sponsored theme, with a sponsored link inserted in the footer. Despite that downside, it’s a beautiful template for bloggers looking for a three-column solution.
Agneka Simple is a neat, solid three-column design for Wordpress that emphasises your content.
It features a main navigation bar that’s active depending on what page you’re looking at, and secondary navigation in the sidebar of the homepage.
One neat feature is the stripped-down sidebar used on single post pages. Agneka Simple also features attractive category and archive pages. It’s well worth checking out if you’re after a minimalist Wordpress theme.
It’s also simple to customise the main theme link colour for a personal touch. Widgets are included.
