Category Archives: WordPress
Mar 17, 2010 by Matt | Posted in WordPress
InstantShift has published a roundup of 60 new free WordPress themes. It’s one of the better roundup posts I’ve seen lately. The themes are split into categories, making it easy to find the type of design you’re looking for. Clean, “Artistic and Fancey,” magazine-style, portfolio, news portal, e-commerce, and domain parking are a few of the theme types covered.
The templates selected are high-quality, and each item has visible links to preview and download the theme, as well as visit the original source.
Mostly people talk about premium themes these days, but I think the commercial theme market has helped improve the quality of the freebie options.
60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes [InstantShift]
Mar 8
Have you ever noticed that some product review results in Google display a little 5-star rating under the title? What you’re seeing is something that Google calls a “Rich Snippet” — some metadata pulled from a microformat embedded on the page the result links…
Feb 26
Mike Wasylik of Perpetual Beta has an interesting argument in the legendary GPL debate surrounding premium WordPress themes and plugins. He thinks that themes and plugins shouldn’t be required to be licensed under the GPL for the simple reason that they’re not derivative. U.S.…
Feb 22
I’ve always thought it was a neat idea to be able to apply custom CSS stylings to different posts on a blog, allowing you to make subtle tweaks to the overall design on a case-by-case basis. A post about an upcoming movie could have…
Feb 18
A few weeks ago, WooThemes introduced their WooNav widget-based navigation manager. In an unexpected turn of events, the theme developer has allowed it to be incorporated into the next major WordPress release, version 3.0. We are excited that we can give something substantial back…
Feb 16
Ben Gillbanks has unearthed a neat, undocumented API. If you have a look at his WPVote site, you’ll note that next to each link there is a thumbnail or the originating site. There are several services that can generate thumbnails like that, but most…
Feb 10
WooThemes has released a new theme called Canvas, a theme that looks like it might be a competitor to the ever-popular Thesis. Canvas is a “blank slate” theme, with minimal styling, that you customize by either creating a child theme and using hooks, or…
Feb 9
WordPress has a convenient function that can create a new post: wp_insert_post(). Suppose that you wanted to create a plugin to automatically create weekly roundups of your social media activity. You could gather your Delicious bookmarks, Twitter posts, etc. with SimpleXML, mash the data…
Jan 25
Here’s a part of WordPress that many people overlook: Category Templates. It’s actually quite easy to set up your theme so that it adapts to the content being displayed, allowing you to set up “departments” or “sub sites” that are styled differently. This isn’t…
Jan 21
There is no shortage of “premium” WordPress themes nowadays, and their creators are fairly large in number as well. You have the monumental WooThemes, the bargain ThemeForest, and DIYthemes, the people behind the ever-popular Thesis theme, to name just a few. Companies aside, what…
