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Titan is a refined and super clean two-column WordPress blog theme with impressive typography and a delicious ‘fat’ footer.
The theme is ready for Twitter integration, includes Flickr integration in the footer and has a customisable dropdown horizontal navigation across the site.
Titan is a completely free WordPress theme, but offers a paid membership option with ongoing support, customisation tips and tutorials.
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May 30th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
Sugar Cane is an eye-catching two-column WordPress theme with beautiful typography, great use of images and a distinctive style.
Theme author Able Parris notes that the theme’s strength “is that it makes both long and short posts look great and easy to read”, which is dead right.
Site owners can use the two built-in image classes to have large landscape images span the entire content column and to have portrait images offset alongside the posts.
For those inclined to tweak things a little and make a theme their own, it would be relatively simple to make a few changes to colours and fonts to turn Sugar Cane into your own distinctive web presence.
Sugar Cane is a child theme for the Thematic framework by Ian Stewart. As the author’s page explains: “Child themes allow you to create layouts without touching the source theme’s template files. For this theme to work, you will need to upload both Thematic and Sugar Cane to your theme directory, but only activate Sugar Cane. It’s that easy.”
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May 20th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
For designer Rob Goodlatte, Flow is a proof-of-concept WordPress theme, but to my eyes it’s a highly readable blog layout with minimalist stylings.
Goodlatte created the theme to showcase a web design technique known as ‘variable type size’, meaning that as a user resizes their browser window the type size in the main content area changes proportionately. The result is that the key content is attractive and easy to read no matter what size the browser window.
The sidebar column, present only on the home page, is set at a fixed 12-pixel font size so it always remains secondary.
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May 13th, 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.
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The original theme author’s site has gone offline, but you can still download the theme elsewhere.
April 25th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
Inuit Types is a rare gem – a simply stunning WordPress theme that’s half blog, half magazine site.
The theme is stylish, flexible and beautiful.
Its features include:
- Custom translations of all blog areas
- Great SEO
- Simple pagination
- Management scripts for header and footer
- Fully widgetized sidebar
- Left or right-hand sidebar
- Featured entries
- One or two-column entries on front page
- WP 2.7 full compatibility
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April 22nd, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
A Minor Incident is a stylish WordPress theme featuring light text on a dark background and beautiful typography.
Posts within the theme are highly legible and the navigation scheme is beautifully styled, as is the horizontal navigation bar, which sits to the right of the header.
This theme pays attention to detail and gets the little things right. It’s minimal and graphic-free.
Note: The download site isn’t in English but the theme itself appears to be created in English.
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April 22nd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Magazeen is a stunning free magazine-style WordPress theme that has a contemporary look and feel, and wouldn’t look out of place as a premium theme.
The theme features an interactive showcase of recent posts at the top of each page, using a horizontal panel of thumbnail images. When you scroll over the image the title appears – encouraging your visitors to explore and enjoy your posts.
It also includes drop-down navigation with a difference – with the drop-down menus under the category headings revealing some posts from each category.
Magazeen also has some custom widgets that you can control from the WordPress admin panel to easily change the settings for the latest and featured posts in the sidebar. These panels are among the best-looking available in any WordPress theme – free or premium.
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March 2nd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Modern Clix is a beautiful WordPress blog theme built using a grid and featuring a generous use of whitespace and a strong focus on typography.
The theme comes with a range of neat features, according to its release page:
- A strong focus on typography. The combination of leading, weights and type families is essential in any published media. Modern Clix displays texts and images beautifully and includes a set of nice ampersands, by-lines and other type goodies for you to enjoy.
- A strong grid. Texts and images are perfectly aligned to a 960px grid; uncomment a line in the CSS file to show up the underlieing grid.
- An elastic design. Flexible layout? Fixed Layout? Elastic! Modern Clix is coded using EMs, so its layout is automagically stretched when you adjust the font size in your browser. Wowers!
- Golden rectangle. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci proportioned their works to approximate to this rectangle, which has been considered universally aesthetically pleasing. The theme was designed following this principle.
- Full width images and captions. Display images as large as 596px of width, with their proper captions or descriptions. The theme also include classes to align images to the left, center or right.
- Twitter and Flickr integration was never so easy. Just change the sample usernames for your own ones and you are ready to go.
- Extensible and modular. Modern Clix is minimal, but it’s extensible to suit your needs. Uncomment certain parts of the code to unlock gravatars, tags and widgets. Google Adsense is also supported.
- Standards compliant. Modern Clix validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and it’s cross browser compatible. This means that it works well in every browser in the planet.
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March 2nd, 2009 | Themes | 3 Comment
If you like the Boston Globe’s Big Picture photography blog then you’ll love the Zack 990 WordPress theme.
The theme is designed exclusively for photo and video bloggers with a one-column design that’s wide enough to showcase images 990 pixels wide, allowing for the creation of stunning photo blogs.
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February 28th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
