Charlene is a minimalist two-column WordPress theme that uses white space beautifully to provide a crisp, attractive appearance that makes your content sing.
The theme offers large, clear headlines, a beautifully set out sidebar and stunning typography.
View the demo and download the free Charlene theme via Paper Tree Design.
Through The Lens is a powerful premium WordPress theme providing a mix of site options, allowing for the creation of a stunning photo gallery or blog site.
The theme offers multiple page templates and a widgetised homepage, providing for a huge depth in layout customisation. This means it could be used as a normal blog, a photo gallery, or a portfolio showcase.
Through The Lens includes a special voting system for each post and sliders that showcase content from various categories on the homepage.
The theme provides a clean 960-pixel-wide design, with clear navigation, no matter how the site owner decides to put it to use.
Through The Lens from Obox Themes costs $US50 for a single licence or $US100 for a developer’s licence.
View demo and download via Obox Themes.
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Star Magazine is a powerful magazine-style WordPress theme offering a beautiful homepage designed for content-heavy websites.
The theme allows the site owner to decide which categories they want displayed on the homepage and how many posts to display for each.
Star Magazine includes a comprehensive back-end options panel for customising and tweaking the theme, including the ability to integrate analytics programs, change colour schemes and manage ads.
Other features include:
The Star Magazine theme from PremiumWP costs $US67.
More information and download from Premium WP.
Snippet is a magazine-style WordPress theme that features a full-width design and publishes an array of post thumbnails and text snippets on the homepage in a grid-like arrangement.
The number of columns and column width on the front page is automatically adjusted to fit the size of the browser window.
The theme is designed for use by photographers, gallery publishers, product reviewers and affiliate marketers to showcase their work and products. However, bloggers open to a different homepage structure could just as easily use the theme to present their thoughts and photos.
Snippet includes a fully customisable homepage, an easy to use control panel and auto-resizing thumbnails. Navigation is clear and simple.
Templatic also offers customers one-click automatic installation of the theme, support, theme guides and tutorials, and a complete PSD file of the theme for customisation.
The Snippet theme costs $US65 for a single-use licence or $US99 for a multi-use licence. It’s also available via the Templatic theme club.
View theme demo and download the Snippet theme via Templatic.
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Leviathan is a strong, simple, two-column WordPress blogging theme that works well on sites offering long posts and large images.
Leviathan is coded as a child theme of the Hybrid theme framework, meaning you’ll need to have both Hybrid and Leviathan uploaded to make it work (both are free).
The blue and white design gives your content plenty of breathing space, while providing clear navigation underneath the banner and allowing flexibility with a well-spaced second column on the right of screen.
The creators of Leviathan and Hybrid offer $US25 a year memberships providing access to tutorials and support for their themes.
View a demo of Leviathan
Download the Leviathan theme.
