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Red Carpet is a modern, funky, magazine-style WordPress theme perfect for sites covering entertainment or celebrity gossip.
The theme’s features include:
- Complete management via control panel, including setup of advertisements, general options, languages, styles, and videos.
- Thumbnails are created on the fly – cropped and resized according to your own preferences.
- Built-in photo gallery maker, which automates the process of creating photo galleries. Simply upload a series of photos and pictures in your post and publish.
- Built-in video support, with a simple video publisher.
- Custom post and category templates.
- Custom post and category templates for news, photos and videos.
- Advertisement manager, with 14 ad positions and sponsored link position on the homepage.
- Two Widget-ready sidebars.
- Valid XHTML and tested in FireFox, Safari, and Internet Explorer without any known issues.
Cost:
The Red Carpet theme costs $US29 for a single licence or $149 for a developer licence.
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May 20th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Mimbo is a classy magazine-style WordPress theme with built-in ad space, thumbnail functionality and an easy to navigate design.
Mimbo was amongst the first free magazine themes released, paving the way for a whole new category of WordPress themes, both free and premium. Although there’s also a premium version of Mimbo, called Mimbo Pro, the free version has been updated considerably since it first launched and remains a worthy member of the magazine-style theme field.
The theme features two levels of navigation (Pages and Categories) and can highlight a great range of content on the homepage. Other features include:
- A script that pulls images automatically from the post body, then resizes them with TimThumb for the homepage;
- Support for sticky posts, comment pagination, threaded comments, wp_logout_url, and the rest of the new features of WP 2.7;
- Featured categories – a custom control panel sets featured categories with a configurable number of headlines, which appear on the homepage;
- 125×125 ad support via the WP125 plugin and its companion widget;
- Multi-level dropdown menus;
- Better custom archives – a custom template that displays posts by month, plus pagination;
- Better author archives;
- Gallery, inline image and caption styling – there are styles for all the various ways you’d insert an image in a post;
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April 27th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Nouice is a two-column WordPress theme with a simple design highlighting posts in a way that’s somewhat reminiscent of a Polaroid photograph.
The theme has a clean blue background and an elegant, modern appearance. It could service almost any kind of blog.
Be warned: comments are not built in to this theme.
Download:
The original theme author’s site has gone offline, but you can still download the theme elsewhere.
April 25th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
Design Blog is a fun, creative, contemporary WordPress theme perfect for a personal blog or a magazine-style news site.
The theme features a nifty horizontal navigation, paperclip-laden sidebar and crisp typography.
Its look is reminiscent of numerous different design blogs, which is where it derives its name.
Cost
The Design Blog theme costs $US20.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest for a theme demo and download.
(Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using that link, you’ll help support bestwpthemes.com.)
March 4th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Geometric is a contemporary WordPress theme with a well-structured homepage combining a blog and a design portfolio, and plenty of flexibility thanks to the wonders of widgets.
Some of the features of the theme include:
- Geometric allows you to run a blog and a portfolio on one WP installation;
- A custom home page, which is completely widgetised and thus allows you to move different widgets (for blogging, portfolio & social profiles) around as you wish;
- A completely widgetised sidebar, along with 12 custom (Geometric-specific) widgets that you can use;
- Ability to interchange between a left and right sidebar;
- A number of different colour palettes to choose from;
- Styling for both blog and portfolio items that are carried forth throughout the site (category, date-based and tag archives, along with search results); and
Cost:
The Geometric theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $150 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
Visit Woo Themes to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a Revolution Two package using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
February 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Abstract is a beautifully illustrated and colourful theme that resulted from a collaboration between well-known web designer Veerle Pieters and Woo Themes.
The theme has a fun yet professional presentation that’s flexible enough for use as either a business theme or a personal theme.
Some of the theme’s features include:
- 5 colour schemes to choose from
- A custom home page to include specific page content and your latest “x” number of blog posts
- A completely widgetised sidebar and two widgets spots available in the footer
- Custom widgets included in the theme packaging, including “Featured posts (by tag)”, “Contact Details”, “Campaign Monitor subscription”, “Ads” and a dedicated “Popular Content” block. No third party widgets required
- Styling for the lifestream widget.
Cost:
The Abstract theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $150 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
Visit Woo Themes to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a Revolution Two package using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
February 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Ocean is a deep blue WordPress theme that mixes an underwater feel with an effective blog layout.
The theme is widget ready and has three columns for a mix of content, navigation and supplementary features.
The theme also provides ample opportunities for including advertising on your blog.
Cost:
The Ocean theme costs $US79.
Demo and download:
Demo and download available from the Premium Themes website.
Note: The links above are affiliate links. If you purchase using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
December 10th, 2008 | Themes | Comments Off
Who’s Who is a stylish and elegant magazine-style theme for WordPress; it’s spread over three columns, uses a lot of thumbnails and features a blue and grey colour scheme.
The theme makes it easy to create a dynamic news portal using WordPress.
Who’s Who is well organised, is widget-capable, includes theme options pages for easy customisation, creates custom thumbnail images, and comes packaged with the original Photoshop files so you can make the theme your own.
Cost:
Who’s Who is from Elegant Themes. It costs $US19.95 for a one-year membership, which includes all of their (very impressive) premium themes – which number 18 at the time of writing.
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December 10th, 2008 | Themes | 1 Comment
Simply Ornate features a simple layout and an ornate background, combining to create a beautiful, extremely usable free WordPress theme.
The theme includes a tab effect in the right sidebar that allows users to browse latest posts, comments and tags.
The front page is set up to show excerpts of the 4 latest posts, and also includes a mini-nav in the upper right side to allow for page navigation.
Simply Ornate comes in 5 different colour schemes.
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December 10th, 2008 | Themes | Comments Off
Typebased is a gorgeous free personal blog design theme, with a very clean and elegant style.
For a free theme, this is a seriously professional design with a lot of neat goodies included.
The theme includes: integrated banner ad management; Widgetized sidebar, including some specific custom widgets.
The theme also comes in five different colour schemes: default blue; brown; green; grey; and yellow.
Yummy.
Demo and download:
Visit Woo Themes to view the demo and download Typebased.
December 10th, 2008 | Themes | 2 Comment
