Sleepy Blue- Free Premium WordPress Themes

  Sleepy Blue (167.1 KiB, 177 hits)

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Sleepy Blue is a theme by Eyoung. It is an excellent Premium Wordpress Theme. This theme is Widget Ready, and has a customizable header, and has 2 columns. It has a Dark blue header with light blue text.

Digg 3 Column- Free Premium Wordpress Themes

  Digg (91.6 KiB, 224 hits)

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Theme information

• Description: A 3-column, widget-ready theme.

Author’s note

Digg 3 Columns is an extended version of my Digg-like Wordpress theme (two columns). Instead of releasing a theme with a unique design for today, I’m releasing only an extended version of one of my previous themes, to take a much needed break from designing.

I don’t want to sacrifice quality just to say that I’ve put out another unique design. After all, I started WPTheme4Free because I wasn’t satisfied with the quality of free wordpress themes out there. So, see you tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll get a good night sleep and feel replenished by tomorrow morning.

***Digg is a trademark of digg.com.  WPTheme4Free is not affiliated with digg.com.
INSTALLATION

- Unzip the downloaded file. You’ll get a folder named “digg”
- Upload the entire “digg” folder to your ‘wp-content/themes/” folder
- Login into WordPress administration
- Click on the ‘Presentation” tab
- Click on the “digg” theme thumbnail/screenshot or title

That’s it. Go back to the front page of your blog and hit refresh to see your newly installed theme.

CUSTOMIZATION

Adding items to the top Menu:
- The top menu features two links: Home and About
- To add more links, use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open the header.php file and copy and paste:
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_permalink(2); ?>” title=”<?php _e(’About’); ?>”><?php _e(’About’); ?></a></li>
- Remember to edit your link title and the destination of your link within href=” “.

Download this Header to customize: Download

Different Header Background:
- By default, the header uses the bg_header.gif image for the background.
- Check the “images/” sub-folder to see if your like the alternate header background (bg_header_alt.gif).
- Use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open up the style.css file, look for #header and change the background image from ‘bg_header.gif’ to ‘bg_header_alt.gif’

Unlocking Author Description and Calendar:
- Use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open the sidebar.php file and un-comment the author description and calendar areas.
- Remember to also remove the phrase “This…is…hidden.”
- If you don’t know how to uncomment in HTML, DON’T!!!

TIPS

- Use alignleft or alignright to make your images float left or right. For example: <img src=”yourimage.gif” class=”alignleft”>

THEME USAGE WITH WIDGET ENABLED

By default, this theme has a search form in the header region. If you enable the widget plugin, don’t add the search box to your widget list. If you rather have the search form in the sidebar then add the search box to the widget list, but remember to remove the search form in the header region.

Andharra- Free Premium WordPress Themes

I am proud to announce my new theme, called Andharra. Sorry it has taken me so long to create a new Theme, I’ve been pretty busy lately. Andharra comes with simple, clean, fresh, minimalist, and easy to navigate design. I love the colors and overall it looks okay.

  Andharra (53.2 KiB, 151 hits)

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Just extract the zip file into /themes directory and activate it.

If you are looking for a nice clean theme for your site, I encourage you to give it a try. And if you knows any cool add-ons/plugins and such, that would be cool to implement it in this themes. Feel free to use it on your own site. If you do decide, a credit link back to my site is appreciated.

I’ve tested it with various browser, except IE7. It seems work very fine at Firefox, Opera, and Safari. However, a friend of mine told me that he just can’t pinpoint exactly why he is not very impressed with it, so I thought I’d ask for feedback and opinions.

Check it out and let me know your feedback. Your input is always appreciated. No matter how harsh.

Thanks

Using Feedburner in WP Premium

In a previous post,  I found my new theme.    I am still very pleased with it but when I was “kicking the tires”, I realized the RSS e-mail subscriptions form was not working.   When digging into the code I noticed that I needed to make a change to get it to work.

In order to make the changes we need to edit the WP Premium header.php file.  Near the bottom, you will find the “subscribeform” div (see below).

<div class="subscribeform">

 <p>Subscribe via Email </p>

   <form action="enter your feed address here" method="get">

     <input type="text" value="" class="input" />

     <input type="button" class="sbutton" value="Subscribe" />

   </form>

 </div>

This is the only place we will need to make edits.   First you need to replace the “enter your feed address here” with the Feedburner address http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify and change the method from “get” to “post“.

On the first input line, we need to add name=”email” before the class=”input” .  We also need to change the input type on the 2nd input line.   Change the type=”button” to type=”submit” .

But we aren’t done yet, we also need to add 2 hidden input lines to this html form.   One needs to be named “title” with of a value of your blog’s name.   For this blog it should look like:

<input type="hidden" value="WP Theme 4 Free" name="title"/>

The second hidden input needs to be named “url” with a value of “http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=YOUR_FEED_BURNER_ID“.   You can find this Feedburner ID in the code presented in the Publicize / Email subscriptions of your feedburner control panel.  For this blog it should look like:

<input type="hidden" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=452013" name="url"/>

<div class="subscribeform">

  <p>Subscribe via Email </p>

  <form action="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://www.feedburner.com', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">

    <input type="text" value="" name="email" class="input" />

    <input type="submit" class="sbutton" value="Subscribe" />

    <input type="hidden" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=452013" name="url"/>

    <input type="hidden" value="WP Theme 4 Free" name="title"/>

  </form>

</div>

Aalgalatt- Free Premium WordPress Themes

  Aalglatt (57.1 KiB, 132 hits)

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The Aalglatt theme by Felix Krusch is based on the Green Marine V1.0.1 theme by Ian Main

Xplosive Reloaded- Free Premium WordPress Themes

  Xplosive Reloaded (97.7 KiB, 210 hits)

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I am launching the new and revised version of Xplosive (really had to squeeze time from playing Crysis to make this theme). The theme is called Xplosive Reloaded and it lets you choose between four flavors - Satin, Autumn, Aqua & Prairie using a style switcher. It has three columns, is widget ready and fully XHTML validated.

As per request, this theme features only the current post on the home page and rest of the posts arrange themselves into excerpt boxes below.

WPFreemium- Free Premium WordPress Themes

In short: WPFreemium is a two column WordPress Theme heavily designed for multi-authored blogs.
WPFreemium features a deep integration of Gravatar images for all post authors, author profiles, and comments. Some of the primary goals for creating this theme was for it to be light weight, fast, and really highlight on the contributing authors.

Here’s a few screenshots:

  WPFreemium (669.9 KiB, 197 hits)

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Author Page:

Single Page:

Author Byline, Promotion on Single Pages:

Archives:

Here’s a quick run down of features:

• Valid xHTML Strict 1.0 / CSS
• Code is well commented for the non technical savvy
• Sidebar Widgets enabled
• Custom Front Page with 3 featuring articles
• By default - 6 advertisement spots on all pages
• Gravatars highly Supported for Comments, Author Profiles and Author Posts.
• Author Byline + Promotion on single pages
• Author Profiles feature prominent image of the author with bio, contact details and more
• Image Gallery Support
• Yes Jeffr0, a Print Stylesheet is included.
• Favicon + iPhone Webclip icon Ready
• SEO Optimized title tags and headers
• 404 Error Page notifies admin each time someone sumbles across a broken link so they can fix it.
• …and Lots of minor details

Change Log:

• 2.0 - Completely revamped the backend along with a UI face lift. Using Blueprint’s CSS framework and grid system.
• 1.3 - Bug fixed in single.php - It didn’t generate the author’s promotion section with the correct author. To fix, move “<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/addons/author-metadata.php'); ?>” on line 51 in single.php file above the loop, anywhere above line 8
• 1.2 - IE Bug prevented the logo from being displayed. To fix, just remove “h1#logo a { text-indent: -9999px; }” in header.php on line 31
• 1.1 - Typo, spelled Administrator wrong in author.php on line 25 (Adminitrator)

Recommended Plugins:

I’d recommend installing WP Limit Posts Automatically which enables you to customize the excerpts on the homepage, archives, and more.

Things to do before you install:

• Update the image with your logo.
• Change both, the favicon and iPhone webclip icon to match your brand. (Currently WordPress logos)
• Inside addons->ads->ads125×125.php: change the source to your correct advertisement page. currently its pointing to “blogdomain.com/advertise”
• I think that’s it. Upload the entire folder, “WPFreemium” in your themes directory and have fun!

Drumroll… Will there be Support?

Of course silly. BUT this is my first public theme so bare with me. I’ve tried coding for public releases making sure you guys can understand what’s going on in the backend and using best practices (always!). If you find something broken or whatever, shout me an email from the email address in _README.txt file, thanks!

Future releases:

Here are a few things I plan on adding in future versions for this theme:

• Theme Options for constant variables.
• Image uploader and cropping tool for logo and other images.
• A few aesthetics modifications
• Ad management (pt’s style)
• Fixes for unknown bugs you tell me about.
• X Feature that’ll be pretty cool.

Creating this theme was and still is a continuous process.  Anyways, I made a lot of backend changes so everything would work for the general public. A lot of things weren’t included in the first release due to time constrains with school and whatnot. So download this theme, test it, love it, hate it, whatever you do, tell me how it goes.

Now if you excuse me, I have another final to take today and it’s math. Last one to go!

WP Polaroid- Free Premium WordPress Themes

  WP Polaroid (515.3 KiB, 297 hits)

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This design has proved to be really popular in the WordPress community and rightfully so. It’s got a very cool three column layout with many tabs and built in features like Flickr and a photo randomizer so you can have a different picture load each time your page refreshes.

The theme is suitably labelled WP-Polaroid and now you too can have some Adii style on your blog!

WP Premium- Free Premium WordPress Themes

The WP Premium theme is public today. “WordPress Premium” is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options.

  WP Premium (184.1 KiB, 293 hits)

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Color Schemes

When I requested user opinions last week, some of them said, why not release in all three colors? And I felt the same. The theme is bundled with all three colors. To change complete color scheme, all you need to do is, open the style.css and change the color style name to your favorite one. More instructions are in readme.txt file in the theme folder. As per suggestion of one of the user, WP Premium contains separate css for layout and color. That means if you only wish to change colors, you don’t have to mess with the other css styling.

Some of the features

The best way to know all the features is to grab the theme and look at it yourself. Here’s the list of few of them..

• Comes bundled with 3 color-scheme options
• Separate css for layout and color. So, If you only wish to change colors, you don’t have to mess with the other css styling.
• Multiple Search option with Tabber Functionality
• RSS e-mail subscription form
• 2 and 3 Column sidebar
• Three 100X100 pixel ad blocks in sidebar.
• Easy Editable, Light weight, Strategic Code
• SEO Optimized
• W3C Valid
• Table Less Coded
• Optimized XHTML code
• Short Hand CSS
• It’s Premium and It’s free!

How do I install?

• Please download the zip file of the theme. Unpack and upload it to /wp-content/themes/ folder at your blog site.
• Once done, log in to your wordpress admin panel, go to “presentation” tab and click on “WP Premium” theme.
• It’s done. Go, check your blog !

Do I get the support?

Please post your suggestions/questions in the comment form below. I will try to answer them if time allows. Also I would request other users to answer the queries by fellow users if possible.

Gossip City- Free Premium WordPress Themes

Gossip City is a theme for WordPress. The theme was created based on what people would want to see from a gossip blog.

  Gossip City (131.6 KiB, 180 hits)

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Theme
Once you’ve downloaded the theme and extracted the files, upload the folder to your wp-content/themes/ directory. Next, go to the ‘Presentation’ area in your WordPress administration panel and activate the theme.

Plugins
I’ve included the following plugins with the theme (in the plugins folder):

• flickr rss

• wp_gravatar

Just upload everything in the plugins folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder and activate the plugins from the ‘Plugins’ page in your administration panel. The plugins are customised to match Gossip City theme.

Logo
By default, the theme displays your Web site’s title and description in the header. If you want to replace that with your logo, it’s easy to do. If you look at the Logo Instructions.txt you will see how easy it is to change the logo. PSD Source for the logo is also included.

The theme is Widget Ready.