5/6/2008 ↓

A Unique Monotone 23comments

Author: Jeff Chandler Category: WordPress Templates Wordpress Skins Wordpress Themes

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While Matt Mullenweg attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, he previewed a new theme which looks like might be the perfect WordPress theme for photographers called Monotone. Monotone was developed by Noel Jackson and is a very unique theme in that, the color scheme changes based on the photograph being displayed. Here are two screenshots showcasing the theme in action with two different photographs.

Green Color SchemeGrey Color Scheme

Monotone takes the first image attached to a post and samples colors from it for use in the surrounding layout. Each post needs to contain one image, and optionally, any text you want. The theme does the rest, pulling colors out of and resizing the images for use in the design. You can use the visual or the HTML editor in wordpress to input your image and supporting text.

One of the only problems I’ve seen with the Monotone theme is that, sometimes the link colors blend in with the background making them difficult to see. Other than that, some of the photos really pop out at you thanks to the surrounding colors.

Monotone is generally only available for WordPress.com bloggers because the images must be uploaded to WordPress so they can resize them and extract the colors properly. For more information regarding the Monotone theme, check out the WordPress.com April Wrap Up.

As a side note, if you would like to use this theme on a self hosted WordPress blog, you will need to visit the Automattic SVN and then download and package the following files.

Also, if you happen to be using the Monotone theme on your WordPress.com blog, provide us a link so we can take a look at it!

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1/27/2007 ↓

Wordpress Theme Releases for 1/27 7comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: WordPress Templates Wordpress Skins Wordpress Themes

Akon is a two column, simplistic, minimalist, light colored theme for Wordpress with a very nice header image. Preview here.

ZedSimple is a simple one column layout. Preview

FlyAway is a 2-column wordpress 2.0 theme with Custom Header support with the header wallpaper by KoL. Preview

Small Potato has released three more themes viz. Quadruple Blue, Zip It and Fruitlicious

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1/19/2007 ↓

Wordpress Theme Releases for 1/20 1comment

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: WordPress, WordPress Templates Wordpress Skins Wordpress Themes

Calm: Two column, light blue, simple, minimalist, soothing, left sidebar theme for Wordpress with a very unique header image (has a picture of what I assume is a moon jellyfish). Demo here.

Pink Sunset is a clean pink two column layout made by Arcsin.

The Unwakeable WordPress theme and is a combination of K2 0.9.1 and Unsleepable 2.0.

Vengeance is a theme with a red, black, and white color scheme.

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