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:

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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 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.

Facebooked- Free Premium Wordpress Theme

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Very customizable, 3-column, widget-ready, fixed-width design based off Facebook. Features expanding/collapsing and movable sidebar boxes.
Requirement(s): Wordpress 2.1+

Elegant Blue- Free Premium Wordpress Theme

It is a 2/3 column, option packed, wide content column, widgetized theme ready to use out of the box with no coding experience necessary. That’s right, there are several options that will help you customize this theme without ever touching a line of code!

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This theme features:

• 2/3 column layout, with a right split sidebar (2 sidebars total)
• Both sidebars are widgetized.
• WordPress 2.3 compatibility, and backward compatibility for previous versions.

• Tagging Support
• Options to use either a graphical or text header
• Theme Options that let you integrate your feedburner account information seamlessly!
• Separated Comments and Trackbacks
• Post Author Comment Highlighting

I’ve never spent more time and effort on a free theme release before, and you get to reap the benefits of all that hard work FOR FREE!!!