Personal is a blue, 3-column WordPress theme with two widget-ready sidebars, custom templates, a banner switcher, custom text styles, integrated plugins, and a unique way to display entry dates and comment-number links. You can preview it here. It’s compatible with WordPress 2.3 and has been tested with in Firefox, Internet Explorer 6, Opera, and Safari.
Features
- banner switcher
- custom templates:
- integrated plugins:
- Author Highlight
- Comment License
- WP-PageNavi
- WP-PostRatings
- typography / text styles:
- translatable
Upcoming Features
- more plugin integrations
- theme options
- more text styles
Known Issues
Alex fixed the only known issue (invisible entry date and comments link).
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Personal was a club-only theme, re-released for public use. This free version you’re downloading has a link in the footer to credit Wpdesigner.com for the work. If you like, you may remove it from the footer.php file.
Click here for more themes from the club.
From Ian Stewart, LaunchPad is a unique theme originally built for domain parking or blogs not yet ready to debut.
I’m featuring it because it’s a little bit more than just domain parking. I like it because it gives the visitors the option to subscribe to your feed before the actual launch date. If you have a loyal following and are planning on launching a new blog, this would be perfect for you.
This theme is also useful for when your blog’s under maintenance and you need to close it down for a while.
For the less tech-savvy blogger, all you’ll need to do is set up your Feedburner feed and put in its ID through LaunchPad’s theme option page.
Theme Information
This is a beta release for Gluttony. Gluttony is a two-column, widget-ready, rounded-corners WordPress theme. It’s the sixth theme of the Seven Deadly Sins series to be released. Preview This Theme.
Orignally, I wanted to integrate Javascript in order to create an expandable and collapsible food menu layout. But after several tries with several different scripts, it didn’t work out that way. Therefore, this beta-release (version 0.1) does not include any Javascript. In the future, the official version 1 will include the Javascript to add the expandable and collapsible posts feature.
If you can help me make that happen, please leave a comment or contact me. Overall, this theme is work in progress and there’s a lot left to do.
Making of Gluttony
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Disclosure
The author and Wpdesigner.com is credited for this theme through a link in the footer.php file linking back to the original page where this is available for downloads. If you like, you may remove that link.
Known Issues
- The sidebar styles are not compatible with the sidebar Tag Cloud widget.
License and Credits
To prepare for unknown add-ons and external features, Gluttony is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, not the GPL license.
It’s been four months since a theme created by someone other than the potato head (me) was featured on Wpdesigner.com’s free themes gallery. Nowadays, I’m very picky.
Although this theme doesn’t have the eye candies, it’s one feature-packed theme. From customizable elements via theme options to integrated and configurable social bookmarks, it’s impressive. Good luck to anyone interested in writing a full review for this theme. It would be a time-consuming and overwhelming task.
Go to 1blogtheme.com for the full features list.
Theme Information
- Author: Javier GarcÃa
- Description: “1 Blog Theme is a WordPress theme with a clean, simple, classic design. Its layout includes a horizontal menu, a 3-part sidebar (single column followed by two columns) and a 3-column footer. It enables a WordPress panel section with lots of customization options.” - 1blogtheme.com
- License: Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike 2.5
Wpdesigner7 is a red, two-column, semi-grid-based WordPress theme, currently used by Wpdesigner.com (November 14, 2007).
Preview this theme.
The default color is red, but it has a style-switcher you can use to pick blue or green. And if you know how, you can add other colors to the style-switcher. Use the blue or green style sheet as your guide. The style-switcher makes it easy to participate in projects like Pink for October.
Also, My Avatars plugins has been integrated with the comments template, but the avatars will not show up unless you have that plugin installed.
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Disclosure
This theme has a linkback to Wpdesigner in its footer.php file. Although you must credit Wpdesigner.com for this theme, you may remove that link if you like.
License and Credits
Wpdesigner7 is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Thanks to FamFamFam for the icons and Paul Sowden article on A List Apart for the style-switcher script.
Changelog
- November 26, 2007 - Small Potato: Added tags listing to entry meta on the front, archive, and single pages.
Related Info
Check out Wpdesigner5 and Wpdesigner6 (Envy).
Releasing a highly customized and private theme for public use is not always easy. If you spot any trace of Wpdesigner.com within Wpdesigner7 then please let me know.
Jello-Wala-Mello is a news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for multi-media sites. It requires WordPress 2.3 to work properly.
This theme uses the optional excerpt and two custom fields: Thumbnail, and Thumbnail Full (case sensitive).The values of Thumbnail and Thumbnail Full should be the addresses of the images attached to each post. Thumbnail is for the small image and Thumbnail Full is for the bigger one. Learn how to use WordPress image uploader and custom fields.
At least, make sure the first ten entries of your blog use those custom fields and have optional excerpts. Ideally, you want to use this for a new blog as the need for two images and an optional excerpt for each entry is a bit of work for established blogs with hundreds of entries.
However, you can easily tweak it for an established blog with many entries, if you know how that is. (Another version will be created for established blogs to easily adopt this theme.)
Example of excerpt and custom fields:
Features
- News / Magazine-styled front page layout
- A sub-page design for single post view
- Integrated Domtab
- Separated Comments and Trackbacks through Domtab
- Flexible sidebars that change location and styles depending whether you’re viewing the front page
- Widget-ready sidebars (unlike some of the other magazine-styled themes out there)
Installation / Activation
- Upload this folder to your themes folder at: wp-content/themes
- Log into WordPress administration and click on “Presentation”
- Look for the Jello-Wala-Mello image and click on it to install / activate this theme
- Go back to your blog’s front page and refresh / reload it
Download(s)
Usage
- By default, the second horizontal menu displays only three category links to prevent over-loading that second menu with too many links. To add more category links: open header.php and find wp_list_categories(’hierarchical=0&title_li=&include=1,2,3′). 1, 2, and 3 are examples. Add your own category ID numbers to add more category links to that menu.
- Use the ads-300×250.php file for advertisments.
- To replace the ads with a list of your most popular content links: open index.php, look for ads-300×250.php, and change it to domtab.php. Modify the domtab.php file to fill in your own list of links.
Disclosure
This theme has a link back to Wpdesigner to credit me for creating this theme. You may remove it. Leave the link in tact if you’d like to credit me for it.
Licenses and Credits
Support
For answers and support, use the Wpdesigner.com support forums.
Theme Information
For two months now, you’ve been egging me to release this theme. It’s only right that I release it as Envy of the Seven Deadly Sins theme series.
Although this public release is far from the original debut, I’d like to think it’s still a good looking theme, great for blogs that need lots of main-column space.
Changelog:
- August 09, 2007 - Removed link to Wpdesigner forums in the comments template.
Theme Information
- Author: Will Wilkins
- Description: A black, white, and blue three column theme with double right sidebars.
- License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Comments by Small Potato
I’ve been a sucker for bold, stylish, and clean themes like IAMWW w2 lately. I hope it’s just a phase.
If anything at all, this theme proves that you’ll get my attention if you use a huge post title font size! Although stylish, this isn’t the easiest theme to modify. At least, it won’t be easy for newbies to modify. It’s important to note that IAMWW w2 is based on Upstart Blogger Minim.
The one thing I’d like to see removed or fixed is the inline CSS.
Theme Information
- Author: Small Potato
- Description: Wrath is a red, three-column design, based on the Sandbox theme’s template files (by Andy Skelton and Scott Allan Wallick.)
- Disclosure: This theme comes with three links in the its footer (
footer.php
) to credit WordPress, this blog, and the Sandbox theme, which Wrath was based on. You may keep or remove them.
- License: GPL
- Preview Wrath WordPress Theme
- Download Wrath 0.1
Comments by Small Potato
I’m starting to like Sandbox. Hopefully, I will get to do a more detailed design with many page-to-page variations to display the full potential of Sandbox.
For Wrath, I ran out of ideas for details because it felt right to stop. Without the rounded corners and mini icons, I know it doesn’t feel like a design by yours truly. But, I felt that those characteristics and adding more to it would have cluttered it.
Wrath is simple, sharp, and I painted it bright red, unlike the soft, rounded corners, and dark red of Lust.
This theme marks the fourth release of the Seven Deadly Sins theme series. Check out the previous releases: Lust, Pride, and Greed.
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Theme Information
- Author: Small Potato
- Description: A red, two-column, widget-ready WordPress theme, the third release of the Seven Deadly Sins theme series. Lust is compatible with WordPress 2.2, 2.1, and 2.0.
- License: GPL
Author Comments
Right now is 11:12 PM. I thought I had to wait until tomorrow to have time to wrap up everything for this theme’s release. After painstakingly long hours of trying to get all the details in place for this theme through coding, I can’t express how much of a relief to finally release it. I’m loving Lust! Now, I can stretch, kick back, and relax.
Here’s the behind the scene image compilation of Lust. Warning: It’s a big file (677kb).
p.s. - Initially, I wanted the banner to feature a pair of breasts with curvy brushes and textures covering the nipples. And, I wanted to promote it as the only theme that would make you blog more often. Luckily for you, I reconsidered. Hahaha. I kid! I kid.
Theme Information
- Author: Robert Ellis
- Description: A three column, widget ready, fixed width, minimalist WordPress theme.
- License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
The home page is optional. If you want to use it, just rename _home.php to home.php. You’ll also need to edit it to put in the names of the categories to display. See the comment in the file.
Comments by Small Potato
Thanks to Robert for the heads up on this theme. I’m glad I took the time to check it out. Despite this theme’s style and appearance, it’s one of those themes that the more you look the more you’ll find.
The default home page displays only excerpts, but you can easily change that. On the single post view, the first paragraph is bold by default. I’m assuming Robert used the
p:first-child
pseudo class to target the first paragraph. For those using Internet Explorer, you won’t get to see this technique in action.
For more nifty details, download Modicus and give it a test run.
Theme Information
- Author: Small Potato
- License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
- Description: A three column, widget-ready, blue, white, and green theme with a horizontal menu, Wpdesigner5 is Wpdesigner.com’s previous design, modified for public use. It’s compatible with WordPress version 2.1 and 2.2, no support for 2.0.
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Known Issues
- Comments doesn’t display correctly. (Fixed) Re-download the theme for the fix. To fix it manually, open comments.php and remove the author_highlight function.
Author Comments
I released Wpdesigner5 under Creative Commons (CC) because it uses quite a few icons from the FamFamFam Silk Icons set, which was released under (CC). And unlike the two previous themes, this one doesn’t support the old WordPress 2.0.x series.
Along with the theme, there’s a psd file up for download to customize the About box in the main column, just in case you want to replace my orange eatin’ monkey face.
