Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
HelloBlogger isn’t flashy; it’s a simple, clean, two-column WordPress theme with a splash of colour.
The theme is predominantly white and grey; it’s easy to read and has a very clean, traditional blog-style layout.
Plenty of white space and attractive typography make this one a winner.
Ashes is a lightweight magazine-style WordPress theme with an extra-large, tabbed main story box, dedicated ad space and a weblog style highlighting images for each post.
The grey-and-blue theme also includes Flickr integration, Gravatars and auto image resizing.
It’s worth a look for bloggers who want a little more zing than the average free WordPress theme.
The Ashes theme costs $US49 for a single licence, or for $US500 you can join the Wordpress Developers club and get a developer’s licence for all their current themes, as well 1 per month for the next 12 months.
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Newspress is a stylish and modern premium Wordpress theme which includes beautifully displayed feature content sections, a built-in video player and integrated ads.
The theme also offers an options screen for changing the default white, grey and orange colour scheme, and for switching the homepage layout.
The video player allows the publisher to publish their videos easily and seamlessly on the homepage.
Other features include dropdown navigation menus, a tabbed display box, automatic image resizer, custom page templates for archives, sitemap and an image gallery, as well as support for gravatars.
The Newspress theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.
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Massive News is a highly appealing magazine-style Wordpress theme with considerable additional functionality built in.
At first glance, Massive News might look like an appealing two-column Wordpress theme. That it is, but it’s also so much more.
It comes with an automated featured article carousel that rotates through your featured posts, with images.
The Massive News Theme control panel allows users to easily edit the sidebar items, the carousel component and much more, making customisation easy as pie.
The theme uses the Optional Excerpt field to add images to posts.
A fabulous magazine-style layout, Overstand is free from clutter and highlights content beautifully using a combination of white space, large slugs, neat headlines and thumbnail images.
Orange and grey are the predominant colours and the layout ranges across three columns.
The theme takes a little bit of extra work in set-up but the results can be worthwhile.
GimpStyle is a simple two-column Wordpress theme with a grey header and navigation bar running full width across the top of the page. Then follows a clear layout with nice typography and a left-hand sidebar.
The theme is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and the CSS is valid, too. The theme is available in English or Spanish versions.
There’s nothing flashy or fancy about GimpStyle. It’s a minimal, stylish theme that will allow the stories and images you post to shine.
Demo (choose GimpStyle in the dropdown menu)
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Blueprint-WP is a simple, clean two-column Wordpress theme with a white content area and a grey sidebar. It’s a very traditional blog look but has considerable flexibility.
Since the theme is based on the Blueprint CSS framework, it’s built on a grid-based design, is cross-browser compatible and is easy to customise through CSS.
Thanks to Blueprint, it’s easy to change the column widths or add extra columns. The typography is stylish and clean, also set to a grid.
The theme is Widget ready and has a simple look with a top navigation bar.
Silhouette is an impressive free Wordpress theme, which comes in both two and three-column versions, though the three-column is probably the pick of the pair.
It’s got a clean grey header and beautifully styled sidebar areas, as well as a simple but effective top navigation bar.
If you can figure out how to pronounce the name of this three-column black-white-and-blue Wordpress theme, then more power to you.
If you instead just go ahead and install it, you’ll find you’re powering a site that has three columns, crisp and clear design. We’re talking a minimalist aesthetic, even though the name doesn’t seem at all minimal!
Margot is a simple but effective blog theme, with two columns, a simple navigation bar across the top, clean and crisp typography, rounded corners and a large header image.
It would be easy to change the header and the colours to make a unique site design if you have some limited Wordpress templating and CSS skills.
TV Elements: Sharp and dark, this is a perfect video showcase.
