One Column Themes Stripped Stripped is a minimalist one column theme with the text made up of red and black color. The theme contains no sidebars and the navigation is at the bottom of the page. Demo | Release Page| Download Two Column Themes Forte Magazine Style Forte is a two column theme which comes built in with lots of features. It comes with ample amount of space to do banner advertisements and tabbed content in the sidebar. The theme is widget ready and comes with a extended sidebar in the footer. Demo | Release Page | Download Three Column Themes  Ansi Y   Ansi Y is a theme which makes use of black, gray, brown and white colors. The theme is widget ready and makes use of two sidebars. The theme looks simple and content area is big enough to allow you addition of medium width images. Demo | […]

Two Column Themes Sonette Sonette is a two column theme which makes good use of the green color. The sidebar has enough space to add 125 x 125 banners. The date and comments meta information is displayed to the right of the post. The theme is widget ready. Demo | Release Page | Download Gradient Brown Beauty This is a widget ready two column theme which makes use of a mix of brown colors. There are ample amounts of advertising space and you can easily add 125 x 125 and 300 x 300 banners. This theme also supports tabbed content in the sidebar. This theme is widget ready. Demo | Release Page | Download Hope Hope is a two column WordPress theme which looks quite simple and uses fluid width. The theme uses a mix of pink and brown colors. The header looks good. Content area and sidebar uses rounded […]

Deconstructed WP admin theme: Read about this new admin theme on BloggingPro and had to check it out. Deconstructed is a highly minimalistic simple theme for the WordPress backend that is focussed on responsiveness and cleanliness. The menu highlight is a little bright for my taste (as has been noted by others) but the theme is worth a looksee. Installation is simple via a plugin and the author welcomes changes and modifications to the original theme.

Two Column Themes Orange and Black This is a widget ready two column theme with contrasting colors. It makes use of orange and black colors. Content area is quite big allowing to fit in more content, sidebar is to the left of the page. Sidebar comes built in with Recent Entries and Recent Comments so you do not have to install those plugins. Demo | Release Page | Download Simpleton Simpleton is a two column theme which makes use of simple colors. The theme comes built in with recent comments and recent themes. The sidebar is big enough to fit in two rows of information. The theme is widget ready. Demo | Release Page | Download UnGrid UnGrid is a three column theme based on grids which is widget ready. The theme features an integrated banner management and a featured about section. Font color is a bit light and could […]

About a week ago Smashing Magazine released an article covering 100 free WordPress themes. And just yesterday they released an article covering premium WordPress themes. My questions to the reader is: what makes a WordPress theme premium? Is it the Features? What features does a theme have to have to be considered premium? What are you looking for that will immediately tell a premium theme apart from a non-premium theme? Is it the Design? Are premium themes designed any differently than their non-premium counterparts? What design elements does a premium theme have that others don’t? Is it the Support? Do premium themes offer more in terms of author support and upgrades? Or Something Else… Please weigh in on what you feel makes a WordPress theme premium.

Antropov is a 3-column, light-colored theme built on the Cutline theme. Brilliance is a 2-column theme with a very simple, clean layout and design. Deadwood-lite is a 2-column, minimal theme primed for writers who want to focus their online efforts on readability, pull quotes, and clarity. Dilectio is a 3-column theme with artistic stylings. Hardcover is a 2-column theme with crisp design and typography. Landis is a 2-column theme with two customizable options for the site title and tagline. SparkWP is a 2-column, minimalistic, light-on-dark theme. Webdesign is a 2-column theme with light-blue colors. (Download page is Dutch.) Why walk alone? is a bright beachscape theme available in 2- and 3-column varieties.