You may not notice offhand, but we made some rather significant under-the-hood changes over the weekend. Despite often drooling like fan boys over the latest and greatest WordPress features, much of this theme has been hard-coded. For those of you who aren’t familiar with what “hard-coded” is, it means that the sidebar was just HTML in the theme’s sidebar template, not widgets, and the navigation menu was just HTML in the theme’s header template, not a custom menu. Why did we do this? Because it was easy, fast, and we didn’t need to change anything. Well, as WordPress continues to mature, more features are implemented as widgets. As we began desiring some of these, it became clear that the sidebar needed to be widgetized, and the existing modules (or non-widgets) needed to be switched over to widgets. Are you stuck with a theme that isn’t widgetized? If so, don’t worry, […]
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Arbor is a clean, highly readable theme with sans serif typography. Discussion is designed on a notice board using push pins and sheets. San Francisco is a mobile-optimized theme.
[Continue Reading...]Bright Economy is a simple, minimalist, highly readable theme with clean, sans serif typography. Runo Lite has been made especially for poets and writers. Twenty Twelve is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.5 Beta 1 has been released and can be easily upgraded to with the Beta Tester plugin. This is the first beta release, so it’s not recommended for live sites, but plugin and theme developers, and anyone with a keen eye for bugs, are encouraged to try it out now. This new release includes tons of changes to how images are handled, a new color picker, keyboard navigation, support for favorited plugins from the official directory, and much more. If you run into any bugs, please check the known and fixed issues first, report them if they have not already been reported or fixed, and visit the support forums if you need any help. Twenty Twelve, the new default theme for WordPress 3.5, has also been released separately and is available for anyone running WordPress 3.4.2 or higher.
[Continue Reading...]GamePress is a gaming-oriented theme. Keiran is a clean, dark, two-column theme. Murmur is a portfolio theme for showcasing web design and photography projects. Rustic creates a natural, clean mood set against a textured stone wall of mixed colors.
[Continue Reading...]Convention has lots of great features like post thumbnails and custom menus. iPin is a Pinterest clone theme. Light is designed with readability in mind. Living Journal is a very simple and minimalistic theme with nice attention to details.
[Continue Reading...]D5 Corporate Lite is a customizable business theme. elegantWhite is a white and blue theme. Growing Things is specifically designed with one column and no sidebars to best suit a journal or diary site. Sampression Lite is a fully responsive theme, perfect for blogging. Skylark is a bright, clean, and responsive theme that’s a great starting point for individuals and businesses.
[Continue Reading...]iRibbon is professional responsive drag and drop starter theme framework. Stone is a stark, beautiful theme with a somewhat monochromatic feel.
[Continue Reading...]Autumn Leaf is a rich, textured theme with a leaf background. Commodore is an HTML5 and CSS3 theme in the style of the good old Commodore 64. Priimo is a lightweight, clean, and elegant theme. Seismic Slate is an excellent minimal theme, with a “hiding” menu on scroll. Shiro is a clean and minimal three-column CMS and blog theme.
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- James
James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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