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Keep It Simple

Two columns, widget ready, elegant theme.

Fat Mary

Fat Mary is a green-like, three column, rounded corners theme with the header and footer in the main column.

Urban Life

Urban Life is 2 columns green-gray, widget ready WordPress theme.

Square Splatter

Single column theme with information at the bottom

Prologue Gaboogle

Inspired by social networks such as twitter, Jaiku, plurk, and Pownce, the Prologue Gaboogle? WordPress theme is an extended version of Automatic’s Prologue theme for WordPress. It’s perfect for bloggers wanting to offer social streaming with a few of the standard WordPress bells and whistles readily available.

Scuba

Scuba consists of a fixed two column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.

Horoscope

Two column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets - dark background…

Fire And Ice

Two column, dark colored theme with a left sidebar and flames on both sides

Xeiro

Three column blue and white widget, adsense and gravatar ready theme.

Web 2.0 Simplified

Three column, blue and white, widget and gravatar ready theme.

Transport

It’s dark, and stylish, with a static patterned background, it’s grey with a dash of blue. It has two columns, and is widget ready.

White 2 cols

it is plain, simple, and grey and white.

Blue

Simple two column, blue theme.

Green Island

Two column, green and blue theme. This theme uses the frontpage as a summery of the blog/site. Not only can you see the latest posts, you can also see the about-page, the categories and the tags.

WP Plasmashot

Two columns, widget ready, left side bar WordPress theme.

miniBlog

Simple two column white and grey theme

OneNews

Turn WordPress into your personalized news aggregator.

Teal

Simple two color theme made up of two colors, teal and white.

AcosminTECH

Three column, widget, gravatar and ad ready theme

mts Journey

A classic 3column, widgetready, gettexted and flexible width theme that supports print and PDAs.

Ocular Professor

Ocular Professor (OP) is a WordPress theme designed expressly for photobloggers. Designed to incorporate the new gallery features of WP 2.5+, OP also includes a widget-enabled footer; a “Featured Post” section that, when enabled, allows posts to sit outside the normal flow of blog posts; special formatting, such as drop-caps and image captions; and author comment highlighting.

Dust

A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.

Brown Stitch

2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.

Notepad Chaos

The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins.

WhiteWash

A fast loading theme without distractions, images and cluttering. WhiteWash is easy to customize and it’s ideal for users who don’t want a blog with many colors or stuffed with features. Because of the wide spaces, this Theme is easy to read. Image-styling, when a picture is linked with a larger image or URL, there’s a nice hover-effect.

Yelloh

Yelloh is a simple, yellow and white, two column WordPress theme

Humble Dark

Dark, single column theme with a bottom bar and an elegant pin striped background

CrzyRedBinks

Three column theme comes widget ready. Custom sidebar ad widgets. Easy to manage ads from php file. No option page, not really necessary. Uses php files for ads so its easier to use google adsense codes in it.

Just three themes today for you folks. Are you a theme author, remember the faster way to get featured in our daily releases is by submitting your theme to our News forum.

Humble

Humble is a simple, single column, green theme

Techy People

A three columns, fixed width, light weight, fast loading theme. Widget, adsense and gravatar ready, separate comments and trackbacks. Logo .psd included. XHTML and CSS valid, tested on Firefox, IE 6 and IE 7.

BlueShadow

Widget and gravatar ready theme with a featured last post, 5x ad on latest post and 5x ad on single post, custom pages, image-styling, nice graphics and a lot more.

Simple

Simple grey, white and blue, two column theme

M (removed due to sponsored links)

Adsense and widget ready, seven column, fixed width brown WordPress theme

Ubuntu WP

Three column, widget ready theme named after the popular operating system

Ellise (removed due to sponsored links)

Ellise is a 2 column theme, right sidebar position, widgetized and adsense ready.

PureCSS

PureCSS theme is a pure CSS WordPress theme, no image. The theme is compatible with latest WordPress, widget, valid CSS and XHTML, and has been tested with in Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 &, Opera, and Safari.

mts Gossip Rag

Gossip Rag is a simple, two column, localized, widget ready, fix width WP Theme for gossip or celebrities.

NYC Reds

Fluid four column outfit with news slider built into the frontpage, widgetized sidebar and footer columns with typical WordPress, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled.

Connections Reloaded

Connections Reloaded is a complete reload of the highly popular and extremely beautiful Connections theme by Patricia Muller. Connections Reloaded 2.0.1 is a two column, widget and Gravatar ready theme. Includes few inbuilt widgets as well as many page templates.

Ginseng Coffee

Ginseng Coffee is a three column, brown, widget and Gravatar and tag ready theme.

Floral Day

2 columns, widget ready, right side bar, with Ajax picture viewer enable

Simplest

A simple two-column WordPress theme with a small splash of color.

While on the topic of themes, you might like to take a look at Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours and Collapsing WordPress Widget-Ready Areas & Sidebars and Show latest comment(s) for each post on main page.

Simplifi Dark (Red) and Simplifi Dark (Grey)

Simple, two column, red and grey themes

Fresh’d

Fresh’d is a two-column, widget and gravatar ready theme with a left sidebar, and colors and layout greatly inspired by the WordPress Administration interface introduced in WordPress version 2.5. This theme has a built-in “Recent Comments” and “Previous Posts” section in the sidebar.

Mad Meg

Mad Meg is a 2 column fixed-width theme with right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets. The Mag Meg theme is based around the painting, Dulle Griet. It a dark theme to match the subject matter of the painting and is ideal for blogs on political satire, art, poetry or any dark writing especially that poking fun at the establishment.

Unknown Theme

Unknown Theme v3.0is a grey and white, two column theme ideal for news, video and reviews blogs.

Refreshed

Refreshed is a one column, white-spaced, and clean design with a lifestream feature outside the regular post stream. So your lifestream will not junks to any RSS reader.

RingBinder

RingBinder is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets - the name is reasonably self-explanatory.

Entrecard

4 columns, widget ready, right sidebar, login menu at the header

Simplifi Dark (brown)

Dark brown, two column theme

Vista

Three column, widget and gravatar ready, SEO optimized theme

[Not] So Serious

Three column, fixed widget, gravatar and adsense ready theme

Web 2.0 Pinky

Has a great use of colors and neatly centered in the browser. Gorgeous web 2.0 looks and can edit the top sidebar if you know some coding. It support widget and can easily modify colors and other thing if you have some basic knowledge in HTML and CSS.

Indomagz

Simple, two column, highly customizable theme. Credit Removal requires $20.

Simplest Blue Theme

3 columns theme and widget ready, blue and white theme

Tremor

This theme is a 3 column widget ready theme. It is XHTML Strict and a CSS 2.1 compliant and uses the author’s comment highlight hack.

Birdie’s Blog

Two column, brown WordPress theme with a birdie calling out!

Crush

Crush is a simple three column theme with a single column sidebar and two columns for posts.

Grayplicity

Grayplicity is the public release version of the theme being used for SuperSatellite.com. The default setup is a one column, full width (split ~70%/30% content/sidebar) layout. Has support for several plugins as listed on the theme page.

HelloWest

A dark, simple two column theme based on HelloWiki’s latest theme release.

BlueSensation

Clean and minimalist theme with 2 columns, and ready to display 125×125 ad blocks

Unwakeable

A two column theme based on of K2 and Unsleepable.

1024px

A light and extremely simple theme with 2 columns. It is based on Andreas’ 1024px XHTML/CSS template. Updated to support tags, category descriptions, gravatars and more. Validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Public domain.

Alibi

Alibi is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

Starlite Diva

3 column, with pinkie violet colors, widget-ready sidebar. Tested on WordPress 2.5.

Vita

Three column, widget ready, fixed width, custom image header theme

Kitten in Pink

Two column, pink, widget ready theme

WP-Andreas01

Three column, widget ready theme with support for tags, gravatars and including 12 additional header images.

Daleri Sweet

Fixed width, two / three column, widget ready blue WordPress theme

Secondary

Consists of a fluid two column outfit with news slider built into the frontpage: widgetized sidebar and footer columns with typical WordPress action like calendar, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled, native WP tag system, flickr is enabled in its own options panel.

QuickPress

A 2/3-column, widget-ready, SEO-optimized, Ad-ready, WordPress 2.6 compatible wordpress theme which is useful for all types of bloggers.

TheGrunge

TheGrunge WordPress Theme is a widget and ad-ready WordPress 2.5 Grunge Theme re-developed by the PositiveNoize design team.

Squared

Squared is a very simple theme, two columns, widget ready, and valid XHTML 1.0

Simple

A two column colorful theme

Rateka

Two column theme comes widget ready. Custom sidebar ad widgets. Also has 3 color schemes incorporated. Allows you to add subscription by email from admin panel. Easy to manage ads from php file.

Scruffy

Scruffy is a WordPress theme with a standard two column layout and all the basic WP features. What makes this theme special is it’s unique “grunge” design.

Web 2.0 Blue

Great web 2.0 looking, Great use of colors, Simple, Plain, Minimalist theme, Hemingway Style, Can be customized easily through detailed CSS. Support all plugins that Hemingway supports, Huge space for Widget lovers as it is 3 Column theme, Can customize images for blockquotes and so on…

iF

iF is a clean, simple theme with a left sidebar.

FunkyZine

2 Columns, Wood Design, Rounded Corners, Dark, Banner Ad Ready, Tested on WordPress 2.5, Fixed Width, PSD logo Attached.

Our aim here at Weblog Tools Collection is to provide a platform for authors of themes and plugins and at the same time provide WordPress users a single place to keep up-to-date with the WordPress world.

We try to keep abreast with both plugin and theme releases. The first place that we look for releases is the WLTC News Forum and in this post I’ll try to cover some of the points that you should keep in mind to facilitate your listing.

1. Post in the appropriate category

The forum has been divided into several categories for different content. The two primary categories that you should be looking at are the New Wordpress Plugins category and the New Wordpress Themes category for plugins and themes respectively. We also have a Premium WordPress Themes category for those themes which require payment to use.

2. Writing your post

This is the most important part of the process. Remember that the key to attracting a user to visit your plugin or theme page is a good detailed description. I, for one, would like to gather as much information about the plugin or theme from the post. Browsing to your site and then making a search for the right post / page is a big big no no!

Plugin Authors should ensure the following is present in the post.

1. Plugin Name: short forms are OK, however the full form of the name is ideal
2. Plugin URL: This should be the direct url to the plugin page and not your site. Ideally keep a separate page for each plugin. It provides for a single interface to interact with users, as well helps in SEO.
3. Description: Let me iterate; provide a detailed description. Mention what exactly your plugin does. Elaborate on some of the features that the plugin has. Ask for suggestions. State what plans you have for the future of the plugin. Optionally, add information on installing and using the plugin. This information should also be present on the plugin page on your site.
4. License

Theme Authors should ensure the following is present in the post.

1. Theme Name: same rule to follow as that of plugin authors above
2. Theme URL: Once again, link to the url of the theme page. Putting several themes on a single page only serves as a distraction to a person looking for that specific theme.
3. Description: A detailed description for the theme should come here. Mention if your theme is widget ready, or if supports gravatars. Does it have an options page? Is it a one, two or three column theme? What colors is it available in? Is the header customizable?
4. Demo URL: Every theme should have a demo for a user to see what their site will look like. It is a pain to download and install a theme to check if it looks good, only to find that this is not the case.
5. Screenshot: This is optional but again highly recommended. A screenshot is the first view that a potential user sees.
6. License

The points I have made above are not just pertaining to our News forum. In fact this should something that you should follow strictly whenever you are looking to get listed at any site announcing releases.

3. Other methods to inform us about your release

The News forum is the preferred method to bring your creation to our attention. Not only does it bring your theme / plugin to our attention but it also ensures that you reach out to our regular readers even before our daily release posts.

You could also use the contact form to inform us about the release. However, this is a much slower method to get listed. Remember to provide as many details as you would if you were to make a post in the News forum. Also, change the Subject line to Plugin Release: your theme/plugin name.

Happy posting

Only two themes on the platter today.

WordPress Dating Theme

Simple, two column, widget ready theme for dating sites

SuperFresh

SuperFresh is a 3 Column fresh theme base with natural green. It contain 2 widget-ready sidebar, custom templates, with a featured post section in the main page. It’s compatible with up to WordPress 2.6 and has been tested with in Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, and Safari.

Would you like to have your theme featured on WLTC? Then, head over to the News Forum and post a link to your theme. Remember to add a good description and preferably a link to the a demo of the theme.

This is pretty exciting news and I am very enthusiastic about it. The new WordPress Theme Directory has just been announced. It is available through http://wordpress.org/extend/themes just like the plugin directory and has all the features and infrastructure support of the WordPress Extend umbrella. The look of the plugin area has also been maintained to provide a familiar feel.

That being said, there are only a few themes on the new directory. You can upload your themes by just logging into the Theme Directory using your WordPress.org username and password and following the instructions and meeting the requirements on the upload page. The theme upload process is mostly automated except for a manual review. When you upload your theme, you should expect to receive an email (soon after uploading your theme, email reception times may vary) saying that your theme is waiting to be reviewed. If you do not receive this email, your upload did not work.

A lot of usable and popularly expected features have been added to the system including some that I believe the theme authors will love and will really help highlight them and their designs. Thanks to Joseph for his hard work on the Theme Directory.

Two Column Themes

Thematic

Thematic is a two column WordPress development theme with widgetized areas above and below the content, Options for Multi-Author blogs and many other features.

Portofino

Portofino is a postcard from the Italian Riviera - once fishing village, now resort of the rich and powerful who wouldn’t be seen dead in Monte Carlo next door. Portofino is also a 2 column fixed-width WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

Minimalist Vintage

Minimalist Vintage Wordpress Theme, was created based on original theme for WebMinimalist.com. You can choose to make a site with Static Page on the home page or make regular blog as your home page.

Three Column Themes

Atari Command

Atari Command is a three column theme based on the arcade console. It has place for 155px images in the sidebar. EDIT: Link removed due to copyright complaints

Ndomche Summary Theme

A clean three column version of the Ndomche Summary theme. It has 4 sidebars - the single post has customizable sidebar of its own where you can place various widgets and so on. This theme includes no images — ads apart.

Two Column Themes

Word Press’d

Word Press’d is a free two column WordPress theme based on the the WordPress Admin interface. It’s like viewing the admin screen on the outside.

One Column Themes

Notepad

The new Notepad Theme is a simple, clean and sharp template designed for small business websites for personal branding that is ideal for personal coaches, consultants and independent professionals.