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Notable Free Premium WordPress Themes

Arpit Jacob — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:59:03 +0000

Time for showcasing a few notable Free Premium Quality WordPress Themes that caught my eye. With a little a bit of creativity and extra work you could modify these themes to get yourself a free high quality theme.

LeoPress Leopard Inspired WordPress Theme

LeoPress is a free three column WordPress. The design is inspired by Mac OSX Leopard.

Download Link: Here

Preview: Here

Lemon Twist

A green coloured two column WordPress theme from farfromfearless. Theme was developed for the authors own site and later release to the public to download. The panels in the side block are collapsible, it also has a large footer in the front page to showcase your flickr images and latest posts.

Download Link: Here

Preview Demo: Here

Probama WordPress Theme

A politically inspired theme supporting Barack Obama. The home page is a two column WordPress theme with a large footer, for single posts and pages the layout switches to a single column layout. The menu supports sub pages and are shown as drop down lists.

Download Link: Here

Preview Demo: Here

Neoclassical Three Column WordPress Theme

This a clean Three column WordPress theme with great typography.

Download Link: Here

Preview Demo: Here

Massive Mobile

If you want to display your site or blog in a more user friendly way on the iPhone or PSP you can make use of this free theme.

Download Link: Here

Preview Demo: Here

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CoolWater Two Column Free WordPress Theme

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:32:03 +0000

This is another beautiful free CSS XHTML web template by Styleshout that I really liked and decided to convert into a WordPress Template. The WordPress theme design is called CoolWater. As the name suggests this theme is really clean and has a bright punchy look and feel. The Theme is a two column theme and has support for widgets and is supported for wordpress 2.3 and above. The template is released under a Creative Commons license, Please leave the original designers link intact.

Demo: Click Here to look at the demo.

Please link to this page do not link to the download link directly.

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FreshMedia Free Two Column WordPress Theme.

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:04:03 +0000

Its been a while since I wrote about WordPress Themes. I saw a beautiful CSS and XTHML Template provided by styleshout.com for free. So I decided to convert it into a WordPress theme and release it. Let me know if you find any bugs. The theme is released under the a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Please leave the original Web Designer link intact as he has requested on his site. The Theme is a two column template with a large footer and has support for widgets both in the sidebar and the footer.

You can view the demo here.

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Free Magazine Style WordPress Themes And More

Arpit Jacob — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:42:15 +0000

Its been a really long time since I did by best WordPress theme series. In the last few months there seems to be a new trend catching up. Designers/bloggers seem to be focusing on Magazine style layouts for blogs. I can easily understand why people are attracted towards a Magazine style layout. A Magazine style layout gives more room to showcase content and advertisement, the normal blog layout has been used too often and has been overused. If you notice I tried a bit to incorporate a magazine style layout on my site but my focus was more on achieving a unique layout and to give more focus to the latest post. But lately I have realized that some of my best/quality posts have been buried among my rants and reviews. I was supposed to finish a redesign on this site on October 1st which also happens to be 6 months since I have been blogging. But if you noticed I have slowed down my blog posts. Hopefully before this years end I should have a spanking new design.

In case you haven’t read some of my previous posts in this series then take a look at the links below. I try to collect and present some of the best and beautiful looking Free WordPress themes and templates that I come across in the past month(s).

Lets Start with The Magazine Style Themes First.

Mimbo 2.0 Magazine Style Theme

I have featured this theme before but I would like to showcase it again since a new and better version of the theme is out.

Download The Mimbo Theme From Here

The Morning After

A beautiful clean and minimalist Magazine style layout.

Download The Morning After WordPress Template Here

Jello Wala Mello

A Dark Magazine style WordPress theme from Small Potato.

Download The Jello Walla Mello Magazine Style Theme From Here

WP-Polaroid

A monotone Gray and Red Magazine style layout from Adii freelance Web Designer. The theme is based on Adii’s own blog theme.

Download The Theme From Here

Trevilian Way

Super Clean Minimalistic Theme I don’t expect everyone to like this theme but it caught my eye.

Download Theme From Here

Pink For October Themes

Two beautiful WordPress theme for Pink For October to Bring attention to breast cancer awareness.

PFO Stripes

PFO Corporate

Download These Themes From Here

EXT WordPress Theme

This theme based on the EXT Javascript Framework it looks and feels pretty slick.

Download The Theme From Here

Marine

Another Beautiful Theme from DezinerFolio

Download Theme Here

Smashing Theme

A Smashing Theme from Smashing Magazine.

Download Theme Here

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Best Three Column WordPress Themes And More

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:43:51 +0000

Its been a while since I did my Best WordPress theme series. For this series I decided top focus on 3 Column themes I’ve been hunting around for the best 3 column themes in the past month. At the same time I came across a few more beautiful themes. So I Decided to combine them into a single post rather than review them separately.

So here are the list of some of the beautiful, professional, 3 column WordPress Themes that I could find.

Beautiful Three column WordPress Themes

Illacrimo

A beautiful three column theme called Illacrimo. Created by Design Disease. It has a number of Supporting Plugins like: Gravatar FlickrRSS Pagenavi. Download and Demo Here

Feel The Freedom

A Colorful theme that claims to incorporate Web 2.0 design elements. Download and Demo Here

Mezzo

Download and Demo Here

Brown And Dark 3 column WordPress Themes

Zeke

If you love brown and crisp typography then this WordPress template is for you. I love every bit of it. lots of space to put you widgets in the sidebar. Download and Demo Here

Clean 3 Column Themes

Alexified

Clean Theme Though the font are a bit micro sized. Download and Demo here

Moo-Point

Super clean minimalist theme Also placed second in the SandBox theme competition. Download and Demo Here

Silhouette

Clean Professional 3 columned theme. Download and Demo Here

SubStyle

Download and Demo Here

NetWorker

Clean red and white theme. Download and demo here

Blog Oh Blog

Download and demo here

A few more Beautiful WordPress theme

Elixir

Dark theme pure eye candy. Get the theme in various colored flavors. Download and demo here

Feather

I love this Theme. I am a sucker for bright colors this theme is really beautiful. Download Here

Mimbo

Magazine style layout Download and demo here

Other Notable Three Column WordPress Themes

JS Paper
i3Theme
Upstart Blogger Modicus
Rockin Web 2.0
fresco
Cutline 3 Column
Dm Bloodless
Suhweet
Simplicity
Genman
BloggingPro
Blueberry
Indiblogger(Note Not a Three Column Theme)

Want to see more 3 columns Theme check these posts

http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/06/26/13-double-right-sidebars-wordpress-themes/

http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/07/28/3-column-wordpress-themes-my-picks/

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SandPress 0.71 WordPress Theme Update

Arpit Jacob — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:09:40 +0000

Update: SandPress For Blogger Has been Released by zonacerebral You can see the demo here.

The SandPress WordPress theme has been updated to Version 0.71 its has a number of minor css fixes, and a few other fixes based on user feedback. I am thinking of moving to a better host soon. My current choices are Mediatemple.net and Bluehost. If anyone has any suggestions let me know.

Below is the ChangeLog. You can view the Demo Here

Updated To the Latest SandBox Version 0.9.7
Fixed 31st Date-Stamp CSS bug
Fixed Strong Bold text CSS Bug
Removed SandPress Header
Changes To The Menu, Smaller Font
Reduced Header Size (based on SmallPotatoes Feedback)
Search box looks much better now
Prettier Vista fonts for headings
Better Styling for the Calendar Widget
Added Home Link in menu
Max-width for images

Download The Theme

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Say Good Bye To Sponsored Themes, Wordpress.com Introduces New Feature

Arpit Jacob — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:00:35 +0000

Update: Matt just nuked sponsored themes on the Wordpress Theme Viewers.

Sponsored theme authors had it coming, while I have nothing against sponsored themes, lately the quality of themes being posted on the Wordpress planet have degraded with most of them being sponsored themes. As someone who watches out for good looking theme I am sick of looking at some of the most ugly designs every day. Mark Gosh posted on the Webtoolscollection that they will no longer showcase or blog about Sponsored themes. This is welcome news and a step in the right direction. If only the Wordpress themes Viewer also took the same stand, we could get rid of these sponsored themes and let the quality theme get better exposure.

Wordpress.com rolled out a new feature which is stated to come in the next Wordpress release i.e. 2.3

We have a nice little workflow improvement for those of you who use the Contributor role on your blogs. Contributors can now submit their posts for review by an Editor. When Contributors are done editing their post, they press the “Submit for Review” button to put the post in the Editor’s pending review queue.

This will be useful for multi-author sites or for contributors.

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Wordpress Themes and Plugins Competitions

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:30:35 +0000

Two Wordpress competitions are taking place simultaneously one is for Wordpress Plugins and another for Wordpress themes. There is more than $1000 in Prizes to be won, more than the prize money this gives an opportunity for Wordpress users to contribute and give back something to the Wordpress community. There is a time period of 2 months, so you have a lot of time to decide and work on your Theme and Plugin. I am personally looking forward to the Theme Design Competition and hope to see some really cool themes, since I have exhausted my list of Wordpress themes for my monthly “Best Wordpress themes” series.

The Wordpress Theme Design Competition

Prizes

First prize. The Contest champion will win US$500.
Second prize. The Contest second-place winner will win US$300.
Third prize. The Contest third-place winner will win US$200.
Runner-ups. The Contest runner-ups will receive honorariums.

An Official Site has been setup you can see it here. you can also read the Rules for entering the competition on the official site.

Here is a brief summary of of the submission rules

Designs will be created for the Sandbox theme, version 0.9.x
1. All designs will be limited to style sheets (CSS) and images (no theme PHP mods)
2. Submissions must be in full accordance with Submission Procedures (below)
Designs must be wholly original, sole works of the submitting designer(s)
1. Designs must be released with GNU General Public License or compatible license
2. Designs may not be included for judging if deemed offensive or inappropriate
Submissions must be submitted by 12:00 AM (UTC), Sunday, July 29, 2007
1. All submissions are final, i.e. , you may not later resubmit a revised version
2. Designs may only be released publicly after submissions close
Results will be announced at 12:00 AM (UTC), Monday, August 6, 2007
1. Judgments shall be considered final and complaining left to a minimum
2. Winners shall receive cash awards at verified PayPal accounts within 48 hours.

I am also keeping a watch on the Plugin competition. I have decided to take part in the Wordpress theme competition and make a Free Wordpress Theme. I want to give 100% of my time and energy to this theme with the few hours of free time that I have everyday after work. Expect me to post less on the blog in the coming month.

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Clean Wordpress Theme Updated To Version 0.6

Arpit Jacob — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:57:49 +0000

The Clean Wordpress Theme has been updated. I have now added support for widgets, Wordpress 2.2 has the widgets plugin bundled by default. I have also done some minor changes and CSS bug fixes. The Theme version has now been bumped to 0.6. Download it if you would like to have widgets support. You can see the changelog below.

Changelog for Clean Wordpress Theme

Widgets are now supported.
Search Box moved into the header so you that the menu doesn’t break if you have more than 7 links.
Fixed Firefox FlickrRSS CSS Image bug.
Fixed BlockQuote Styling

Click Here to download the latest Clean Wordpress theme.

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Dezinerfolio A Dark Free Wordpress Theme

Arpit Jacob — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:25:48 +0000

Dezinerfolio is a Dark Wordpress Theme released by my friend Navdeep. While This theme was released a week back. I never got a chance to sit and install and work with it. I not a big fan of dark themes but this look great, since the content area has a white background so the text is readable and easy on the eye though the text on the sidebar is a bit hard to read. I usually prefer themes that work out of the box and which are not dependent on other plugins but in this case I’ll make it a exception since the Theme was packaged with the plugins. Navdeep has incorporated a few nifty JavaScript effects here and there. for Example clicking the About Me link will bring a slide down area from the top of the page, similarly the sidebars have cool sliding effects for expanding and collapsing them. There is a font-size changer button on each post to increase and decrease the size of the fonts.

You can view the demo here and Download the Theme from here

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