One Column Themes

Rainbow Feather

Rainbow Feather is widget-ready fluid one-column three-segment theme with vivid colors. The theme is available in 6 different languages.

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Two Column Themes

Flower Grunge

Flower Grunge is a widget ready two column theme with valid xhtml and css. The theme is made up of variants of the brown color.

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Three Column Themes

WP Wedding

WP Wedding is a three column widget ready theme based on marriage. The header of the theme pictures a newly married couple. Quite useful if you want to advertise your marriage to your friends.

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33Module

3 Column theme with the sidebars placed to the right and left side of the content. The theme also has a large footer area.

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Two Column Themes

Triology Next

This is a two column themes with 4 different variations. The theme comes inbuilt with a lot of customizations and inbuilt plugins.

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Three Column Themes

Black and Red

Black and Red is a simple three column theme. The theme is aesthetic to look at and also comes in Black and Blue colors.

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Aperio Prototype

This is a theme specifically created for image heavy sites: photographers, illustrators, designers. It is built on Sandbox for power and flexibility.

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Over the weekend, I caught a glimpse of what was supposedly a new design for the WordPress Themes Repository. As was explained by Steven Hodson, the screen shots were taken from his browser when he visited the theme repository. The screen shots showcase a carousel view for browsing through themes, icons for navigating and downloading themes, a single page view which displays detailed information regarding the theme ect. No matter how hard I and many others tried, we couldn’t get the theme repository to display in the same way that it did for Steve.

Lloyd Budd stopped by my blog post and left this as the comment:

Hi Jeff, those screen shots are fake. I’m 100% certain. I just checked and there isn’t any code, nor has there been, to produce that type of experience.

I’ve been subscribed to Steve’s blog for quite some time and he is not one to post fake images or fake content. I believe that one of two things happened. The first is that, this is quite possibly a fluke. I don’t know how I would explain it, except that it’s wrong. The second thing is that this could be a theme repository setup on a website to mimic the current repository albeit with a different way of browsing themes. After browsing the web for quite some time looking for themes, I have come across numerous sites which have a theme showcase which is nothing more than a different setup for the theme repository.

Then, a fellow WordPress blogger Mike sent me an article that was written by 5thirtyone which reminds users that you have to be careful where you download your WordPress themes from. I must of missed the boat back when this event took place, but there was an incident where themes that were hosted on the official theme repository were being hosted on 3rd-party theme galleries such as WP Sphere. These themes were the same with the exception that the themes that were being hosted on the 3rd-party theme gallery websites were riddled with malicious code/malware.

I think now would be a good time to remind current users, especially new ones of WordPress to only download themes from the author’s website or from the official WordPress Themes Repository. Please note that not every site hosting a WordPress theme is bad. However, downloading a theme that is outside of the authors website or the repository is a risk that may not be worth taking.

Two Column Themes

CoolWater

CoolWater is a two column widget ready theme which is largely made up of green and blue colors. Overall the theme looks aesthetic.

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Squared

Squared is a two column theme based on sandbox and is customizable through the admin panel. The theme is available in English and Italian.

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Three Column Themes

Chronicles

Chronicles is a three column widget ready theme made up of brown color. The content area is large enough to hold medium sized images.

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Anumati

Anumati is a theme based on World of Warcraft. The theme is largely made of purple colors and its content area can be used to show of smaller images.

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One Column Themes

WP-Photogenic

As the name suggests this theme is specifically made for photo blogs who update their content using pictures. The theme is single column and does not feature any sidebars.

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Two Column Themes

Monochrome Gallery

A two column magazine based theme with a AJAX based post slideshow on the home page. The home page also displays category post with thumbnails. You can also find a extended sidebar in the footer. Only for WordPress 2.3 and above.

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FreshMedia

FreshMedia uses some fresh and lively colors and provides with a widgetized sidebar and footer area, though the huge header steals some screen real estate in the first scroll.

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BoxTube

This is a two column theme with vibrant colors and some nice graphics. The theme also sports a extended sidebar in the footer area. Overall a nice looking theme with some handy options for advertising.

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Three Column Themes

Deep Fear

Deep Fear is a three column theme which makes use of dark colors. Again the huge header steals screen real estate in the first scroll.

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ThemeShaper has published an article titled, The Future Of WordPress themes which highlights comments from a number of movers and shakers that exist within the WordPress theming community. A number of individuals contributed to the article such as myself, Brian Gardner, Justin Tadlock, Cal Coleman and more. The basis of the article was to try and get a glimpse as to what the future of WordPress themes might be. What better way to find out than to ask those that set the tone for WordPress themes in their current state.

I enjoyed reading a number of the responses and it was interesting to see the differences amongst the crew as to where we see themes in general heading. I hope that ThemeShaper does the same article a year from now to see if any of us actually gave a correct prediction.

Now the question is asked of you. What and where do you think the future of WordPress themes is headed?