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Typominima Free WordPress Theme

Editorial Staff — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:20:10 +0000

Alex Cristache of Blogsessive has brought a refreshing new theme to our attention. Typominima is a clean and fresh theme that clears away the clutter of ads and puts content in its place. With space for clear content and beautiful photos, capped with a header of graceful lines and filigree.

(Click on the Image for Live Demo)

Features

Widget Ready Footer
Custom Control Panel
Cufon Font Replacement
Custom Link Color
Prominent Author Showcase with each post

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Speaky, A Free Twenty Ten Child Theme for WordPress

Editorial Staff — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:31:54 +0000

WordPress 3.0 came out with a beautiful new default theme called Twenty Ten. While that theme is great, it can be styled into something a lot different. That is exactly what we did with our Speaky theme. Speaky is a free WordPress child theme for Twenty Ten theme. Speaky theme is equipped with all the features of the Twenty Ten theme such as:

WordPress 3.0 Menus
Custom Background Option
Header Images Option
Featured Post Images Option
Featured Post Slider on Home Page
Widget Ready Sidebars
Clean Semantic Web Markup

Before we go any further, we have to let you know that this beautiful work was the creating of Dronix (@dronixs) – Follow him on Twitter

Video Preview of Speaky Theme

You can also check out the Live Demo for Speaky Theme.

Ready to Download the theme?

Download Speaky Theme by WPBeginner

This theme is released under the GPL license to support development. If you use this theme as a base to customize other themes, do show it off in the comments below. Download

Setup Instructions

As you see in the live demo, that Speaky comes with a Featured Post Slider. This will work only if it is setup right. Which is why we will show you how to set it up properly. The slider only shows the posts from a category slug called “featured”. That means, you must have a URL Structure other than the default one. Any post that appears in that category and has a post thumbnail with a width of 940px will be shown only on the Home Page. On pages like category, and archive the default header image will be shown. On all single post pages, the post thumbnail will be shown.

The slider displays only 10 slides with the “featured image” of any recent post under the category of Featured by default. To change the category or number of slides open up header.php file and look for:

It should be line 93, then add the category name and number of slides. Here’s an example using the News category with 5 slides.

To install this child theme, you will need to upgrade your WordPress to the version 3.0 minimum, then simply upload this theme into your Themes folder. (For more See: How to Install a WordPress Theme)

We appreciate all of your feedback on the theme in the comments below, on our twitter, or our facebook page. If you can, please help us spread the words out about this theme to all of your friends by using our share widgets

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Hydrogenize Free WordPress Theme

Editorial Staff — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:44:06 +0000

The team of designers at Padd Solutions have created their first WordPress 3.0 compatible design to share with you. Hydrogenize Theme is a quaint theme that gives the user the ability to integrate videos, images, and advertisements into a single multipurpose sidebar. Hydrogenize also gives users the choice of five color schemes (blue, brown, cyan, green, and red) and comes Gravatar enabled for easy interaction.

(Click on the Image for Live Demo)

Features

5 Color Schemes (blue, brown, cyan, green, and red)
Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
Featured Video and Photo in Sidebar
Built-in Sidebar Ad Space
Home Page Image Slider

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Persevero – Free Genesis Child Theme by WPBeginner

Editorial Staff — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:15:54 +0000

WPBeginner is proud to announce our very first FREE theme release. For those of you, who are not following us on twitter, you probably missed our birthday (July 4th). This site is one year old now. Due to this special day, we decided to give back to our beloved users who have supported us through out. We are truly honored for your support and without you this site would not have been where it is. Dronix (@dronixs) from WPBeginner created a Free Child Theme for the best WordPress Framework (Genesis by StudioPress). We released this theme first to our Newsletter Subscribers who got this with other special deals as well.

So lets see what this theme has to offer:

Live Demo

This theme has all features that Genesis Framework has to offer. Even though Genesis Framework is paid framework, we recommend that you get it now. There are tons of awesome Child Themes for it (both free and paid). Aside from that, we will be releasing other FREE Genesis Child Themes as well.

If you buy Genesis Framework Package Today (July 5th, 2010), then you will get 2 Additional Child Themes Free. So technically, you are getting 4 child themes. You can use these themes on as many sites you like due to the awesome GPL License. So your purchase can be for 4 different sites How can you do this?

1. Purchase a Genesis Child Theme Package
2. Use Coupon: GENESIS2
3. Download Persevero (Our Free Child Theme)

If you don’t want the deal above because you already own the Genesis Framework, then use the link below to download the Persevero Theme.

Download Persevero Child Theme

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Fashion Press Free WordPress Theme

Editorial Staff — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:51:48 +0000

The great people at Theme Junkie have released the Fashion Press Free theme. Fashion Press is a premium WordPress theme released free for you! Fashion Press is a great theme for photo-filled blogs.

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Features

Built in sidebar and header ad space
Widgeted Sidebars
Custom Page Templates
Advanced Theme Control Panel
Built in Flickr RSS in Sidebar

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Blue Rooster Free WordPress Theme

Editorial Staff — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:00:39 +0000

Thanks to Michael Soriano of Fearless Flyer, we bring you the Blue Rooster theme. Blue Rooster is a stellar theme with a built in home page with an image slider, a slick gallery, and a beautifully designed blog page with seamlessly integrated thumbnail images.

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Features

Built in TimThumb script to automatically resize thumbnails
Testimonial and subscription options on front page
jQuery custom login form in header

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Beauty Style Free Theme from New WP Themes

Editorial Staff — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:25:02 +0000

BeautyStyle is a stylish theme that displays ads, post images, and social media buttons with a clean and functional grace. Created by a company with more than one hundred themes worth of experience, BeautyStyle is a glamorous free theme with excellent support.

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Features

Ready to go sidebar ad space 125×125
Header ad space
Widget Ready
Featured post image slider

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Free Koi Theme for WordPress by N.Design Studio

Editorial Staff — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:39:42 +0000

N.Design Studio has released a stellar free WordPress theme called Koi Theme. Koi Theme has delicate and beautiful colors and shapes reminiscent of the swimming and darting koi fish it is named after. Koi is a simplified version of N.Design Studio’s 2009 theme.

(Click on the Image for Live Demo)

Koi Theme also features a theme options page where you can control your favicon, dropdown, social media, and footer tracking options.

Key features

Multi-level dropdown menus
Social media buttons
Threaded & paged comments
Sidebar widget
Three footer widgets

Koi Theme has been tested on WordPress 2.9.

This theme is released under the GPL License.

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MadBlogger Free WordPress Theme by WordPress Madness

Editorial Staff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:51:30 +0000

Federico Moreno of WordPress Madness have submitted his free theme to be published on WPBeginner. MAD Blogger is a free WordPress theme bloggers, and/or photographers. This design features a clean look with smooth shadowing to improve the readability of blog content.

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Features

3 color schemes (blue, purple and orange) – Or add your own with 5 lines of CSS codes
Multiple Sidebar Support
MadPanel (Theme Options Panel) with plenty of options to play with.
Dynamic Auto-sizing Thumbnails

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Guerrilla v2: Free WordPress Theme by Giant Themes

Editorial Staff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:54:58 +0000

Mike Smith of Giant Themes have submitted his free theme to be published on WPBeginner. Guerrilla v2 is a simple WordPress blog style theme with custom back-end features to make your theme-editing easier.

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Features

Logo changer: add your logo url & the size of the logo
Stylesheet Changer: the three styles are built into a drop down for you
Google analytics: add your code into the box and it’s automatically added into your site
Timthumb options: Activate timthumb’s image resizer and also choose the width/height
RSS Feed options: add your feed url and feedreader name to get the rss box to show up and allow email sign ups
Twitter options: Add your twitter name, choose how many tweets to show & choose the twitter section title
Advertisements: 300×250 in the sidebar, 300×250 on single post pages, 468×60 on the single post pages (and under the first post on every page), 125×125 ad block in the sidebar

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