Bulletin Board- Free Premium Wordpress Themes
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BizStrips- Free Premium Wordpress Themes
BizStrips
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Amazing Grace- Free Premium Wordpress Themes
Amazing Grace is a lightweight, super-optimized WordPress theme packed with features. It uses 3 column layout for maximum accessibility and small digital footprint for minimum bandwidth usage and loading times.
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Features
- Modern, three columns, Photo-friendly, Widget ready, SEO friendly
- Passes xHTML/CSS validation
- Out of box full SEO optimization including titles and page headings
- Easy to add Adsense
- Optimized for speed and loading time, no javascript usage
- Adjustable rotating images in the header
- Gravatars support
- Out of box Social networking buttons
- Multi-pages widget
- Chunk long urls in comments
- Redirects Google image searches to your site for better exposure
- Customized 404 page
- Access to admin menu from home page (click on blog description)
- Plus much more…
Few words on the theme
The name comes from a popular tune called Amazing Grace. It is my favorite tune and it exactly describes how I feel about this theme. Find more about this beautiful song in Amazing Grace Lyrics, Chords and Movie.
When a theme is in question, I prefer ease of use and speed above everything else. That is why Amazing Grace uses optimized images, excerpts on home page (it helps generate more page views too), no javascript and “you can’t miss ‘em” navigation menus.
Additionally, I have fully optimized the theme for SEO so you do not have to worry about it. Just write your best stuff and the theme will take care of everything else.
Built in social bookmarking include Digg and del.icio.us.
Regarding design, I have hired a very talented designer called Magnus Jepson who did the initial design. I have taken it from there and after few months the theme came to it’s final representation.
Installation & Usage
- Unpack this archive in your wp-content/themes/ directory.
- Go to Admin WordPress and select presentation.
- Select Amazing Grace
- You can also use Theme Test Drive plugin to see how the theme looks with your content before going live with it
Customization
Everyone has a different taste and there are couple of easy customization changes you can do to change Amazing Grace to suit your needs.
- Adding rotating images in header (version 2.0 of the theme and up already has this implemented)
- Create images you want to rotate and put them in your images/folder under the names bg-portait1.jpg, bg-portait2.jpg and so on.
- Open your style.css and remove background reference from #portrait-bg section
- Enter this code in your header.php just below the stylesheet line (one beginning with link rel=”stylesheet”)
<style type="text/css">
#portrait-bg { background: url(<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/bg-portrait<?php echo (rand()%69); ?>.jpg); }
</style>- Replace “69″ with your maximum picture number
- Preparing rotating images – Alternately you can download the instructions by Sven Niemetz for a more flexible solution.
- Show Full Entries/Excerpts on index page – If you want full entries replace the_excerpt() with the_content() and vice versa. Changes should be applied to index.php and archives.php
- Display categories - Theme will display four categories by default. If you have more then this, you need to edit file header.php, and find wp_list_categories (at the bottom). This function controls how your categories are shown.
- Display pages – Pages are displayed also in header.php. You need to find a line with wp_list_pages. This command also allows you to include and exclude pages to show and you can read full description. Alternatively, you can remove the command and just list pages manually one by one in the same way the Home page is listed in the line above.
- Change archives and categories excerpts to full posts – Edit archive.php and change “the_excerpt” with “the_content”
- Add AdSense (or any other) ads – You can add your AdSense code to ad_middle.php. Easiest way to insert ads into sidebar is to create a text widget, paste the adsense code into it and palce it anywhere on your sidebar
- Display Social bookmark buttons – If you want to display social bookmarks buttons, edit function.php, and remove ‘return;’ at the beginning of the file.
- Different Social bookmark sites – It is little trickier but generally can be done by changes in functions.php. You will need some icons too.
- Download Plugins – Find out about all the plugins I use to help you customize the theme further.
Change log
- Aug 02nd, 2008, v2.4 – Compatibility with 2.6 (mostly CSS changes).
- Jul 06th, 2008 v2.0: Added many visual tweaks and gravatar support.
- Feb 19th, 2008 V1.2: Fixed search issue, changed stylesheet to reflect recent changes on the blog
- Jan 18th, 2008 v1.1: Added hover background for entry links; fixed footer link colors; maximum of five categories displayed by default; category drop down boxes styled
- Jan 13th, 2008 v1.0: Initial release
Acosmin v3- Free Premium Wordpress Themes
v3 of acosmin wordpress theme. It’s free and you can download and use it right now, because the all structure is easy to edit, the only thing I request from you is not to delete the links from the footer.
A preview of this wordpress theme you can see right on this blog or in the image bellow with all the ad spaces and other thingies.
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Features
Well as you can see it has three columns, because I like to have a lot of space and options. In the right sidebar you can add a lot of things and plugins like related posts, random post etc and in the left one you can add 125×125px ads or a 120×160px skyscraper, also in the header you have a 468×60px ad spot.
A new feature for me is sIFR, it’s my first time with this method and if you see some bugs please send me some feedback.
For the “logo” I included in the pack the PSD file and the font so you can edit it with Adobe Photoshop.
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Digg 3 Column- Free Premium Wordpress Themes
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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.
WP Polaroid- Free Premium WordPress Themes
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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.
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.
Velocity- Free Premium WordPress Themes
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Please welcome our new free WordPress theme – Velocity. This is a vibrant, fully validated, 3-column theme with two widget enabled sidebars. The theme is fixed-width and suited for maximum readability. Here are some more features:-
- Trackbacks & comments separated.
- Stylized comments.
- Small size (90Kb)
- Web 2.0
- Wide content area.
- XHTML validated.
Silveray- Free Premium WordPress Themes
We always want to release a Free WordPress Theme to WordPress community. And finally we have a clean and soft 3 column, widget-ready customizable WordPress theme called SilveRay.SilveRay has been tested on IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari for windows. You can download it for personal or commercial purpose as long as you keep the credit link at the footer of the template.
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Features
3-Column Layout, Validated XHTML and CSS, Ads friendly, Widget-ready on both sides, SweetTitle tooltip installed, LiveClick installed, Serach bar at the top
Requirements
WordPress 2.3.3+
Rhea- Free Premium WordPress Themes
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New Wordpress theme – Rhea V1.0 is now available for public download! This is a Widget ready, Three-column theme with soft colors and rounded edges. We have made a special provision for you to add a Lightbox image gallery to the sidebars. You can download the Nextgen Gallery plugin and then go to the widgets section to add it to your sidebar.
