Aperturious is a flexible, highly-configurable, gorgeous WordPress theme with the ability to choose between 3 unique designs and 3 different layouts!

Learn More and Purchase

• Buy theme at ThemeForest ($25)
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Three Awesomely Designed Color Schemes

It may be tough to choose, but this theme comes with three color schemes to choose from, two light and one dark themes.

Three Layout Options

Choose between a left sidebar, right sidebar or no sidebar for a Tumblr-style blog.

Video-Ready with Simple Video Embedder

Simply install the amazing Simple Video Embedder plugin from Press75.com and you’re ready to post videos that look great.

Built-in Ad Zones

There are also a number of built-in ad zones in addition to the ability to drop in ad widgets into one of the two widget-ready zones.

Old School is a grungy, flexible, beautiful, magazine-style WordPress theme with lots of options and ad zones, making it easy to build a blog from scratch!

Learn More and Purchase

• Buy theme at ThemeForest ($25)
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Homepage Slider

By selecting a category in your Old School Theme Options, you can set items to rotate as featured on the homepage, which are automatically cropped to fit the 980×240 image area.

Single Post Lead-In Image

In addition to the homepage slider image, you can also reference a lead-in image for each post.

Built-in Ad Spots

This theme allows for drop-in ad HTML viewable in the following locations: above content, below content, above sidebar, and above footer.

Introducing the newest member of the Gallery family, Gallery Pro is two themes in one! This is a highly upgraded version of the popular Gallery theme with two color schemes and endless options for your blog, gallery, or portfolio! Gallery pro includes the original dark color scheme along with a brand new light-colored theme!

Gallery Pro is a flexible, beautiful showcase-style WordPress theme with a very flexible layout, the ability to change thumbnail sizes, post videos, and more!

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Buy This Theme at ThemeForest ($25)

Features

Gallery Pro offers some robust but easy-to-use features:

Two Beautiful Color Schemes

In addition to the original Gallery dark theme, there is now a light theme as well, which can be enabled on the Gallery Pro Options page.

Alternate Blog Post Template

By popular demand, there is now an alternate blog post template that can be enabled on a per-post basis. Simply edit the post, scroll to the bottom of the edit page, and quickly and easily switch the page template.

Simple Video Embedding

Included with the original Gallery theme, the ability to share videos using the Simple Video Embedder plugin from Press75.com is still here and the videos have been resized to better fit the theme. Requires installation of Simple Video Embedder plugin, download separately.

iPhone Template

Gallery Pro now offers a post template for iPhone-style gallery items. That means you can share your favorite apps or mobile sites with everyone you know!

LazyLoad Enabled

Want to have an endless wall of thumbnails that fade in seamlessly? Well, jQuery and LazyLoad ensure that you never use more bandwidth than you have to and includes a really neat fade in effect as the user scrolls down the page!

Resizable Thumbnails

No longer fixed at 125×125, thumbnail sizes are completely under your control! Just set your desired thumbnail size in the Gallery Pro Options page.

Automatic Image Resizing

Gallery Pro now uses TimThumb by Darren Hoyt to resize thumbnails and images within posts. That means all you need to do is upload at least a large image for each post and you’re ready to go. No more manual image resizing/multiple uploads.

Image Gallery with Lightbox

Now a built-in feature of Gallery Pro, simply upload full-size images with the default WordPress image uploader and Gallery Pro will automagically add a gallery to your post with a lightbox for large images!

* WP-PageNavi Built-in

Another new feature, WP-PageNavi is now built-in to Gallery Pro, offering easy page navigation for all!

BuySellAds Built-in

A highly requested feature, Gallery Pro now features two ad sections for BuySellAds ad spots, one below the header and one above the footer. Simply enter the ad spot number into the Gallery Pro Options page and off you go!

Now a Single Theme

The original Gallery theme was a child theme of Thematic, making it difficult for those unfamiliar with Thematic to edit the theme. With Gallery Pro, there is now just one theme folder with all the standard WordPress templates. Edit theme files to your heart’s content!

Installing Gallery Pro

Once you’ve uploaded the theme to your theme directory in WordPress and activate Gallery Pro, all you need to do is visit the Gallery Pro Options page to set your color scheme, thumbnail sizes and then go to Settings > Reading and set “Blog pages to show at most” to a number that makes your bottom row of thumbnails fit on the bottom row. For three across, I recommend 12 or 15, for 4 across, 12 or 16.

To add gallery items, all you need to do is create a new post, upload a large image, select a category and publish the post. Easy peasy. In addition, you can now add multiple images which will create a gallery for that post, complete with sliders, numbered images, and a lightbox.

SimpleCart(js) is a simple, attractive, and flexible WordPress theme that taps into the power of both Thematic and WP E-commerce. Features include AJAX cart functionality, a grid layout for products, and a flexible color scheme, easy to swap out images and completely customize the theme to your needs.

After putting this theme together for the WP E-commerce contest, I am happy to release the theme 100% free of charge. It is a port of the simpleCart(js) theme from the Wojo Group and was changed quite a bit due to its usage of Thematic and WP E-commerce, but I wanted to give credit to the creator, even if there are very few elements left from the original. One important note for this version, there is no link from the products on the homepage to the product info page, future versions will include one. Also, it should be fairly easy to add in there if you know what you’re doing.

Live Demo

• Live Demo of SimpleCart(js)

Download

You will also need to grab a new WP E-commerce theme to be activated if you want your products to appear in a grid, similar to the demo.

• Download SimpleCart(js) 0.6
• Download SimpleCart(js) WP E-commerce Theme
• Download Thematic

Install

To install, you need to install the WP-Ecommerce plugin, add the WP E-commerce theme to that plugin’s themes directory, then install both Thematic and the normal SimpleCart(js) theme to your regular theme folder.

Configure

You will want to set the page ‘products-page’ as your homepage in WordPress. To do that, go to “Settings > Reading” and tick the radio button for ‘A Static Page’ and select the products page in that list, then save.

Perfect for the design professional with little or advanced knowledge of HTML /CSS and WordPress, DesignFolio Plus comes with the following features:

• jQuery Slider for Portfolio Items
• Easy portfolio uploading (create a portfolio category and upload an image for each post and the theme does the rest)
• Museo Sans headings using Cufon text replacement
• Theme Options page with Flickr integration
• Colorpicker to change colors of “The Stripe” and other text and links
• Custom Breadcrumb Trails (utilizing the BreadcrumbXT plug-in)
• Twitter Integration (utilizing the Twitter Widget Pro plug-in)

Using DesignFolio Plus, it is easy to set up an online Portfolio using WordPress. This is one of the most straightforward and easy-to-use Portfolio-style themes out there, designed and developed by popular WordPress theme developer Chris Wallace, whose high-quality themes speak for themselves.

This theme allows you to integrate Flickr, twitter and even to pick your own colors for the colored stripe background and hyperlinks. DesignFolio+ is now available on ThemeForest for $30.

IMPORTANT: Upgrading from earlier versions of Gallery requires removal of /gallery/ theme folder due to removal of page templates in prior versions of Gallery.
IMPORTANT: Gallery 1.2 only works with Thematic 0.9.5. Make sure to download and upgrade to Thematic 0.9.5 first.

Gallery is a beautiful showcase-style WordPress theme built on the Thematic framework as a child theme.

Download Gallery 1.2.1
Download Thematic 0.9.5+

Live Demo

Widescreen Video Embedding with Simple Video Embedder Plugin

Thanks to Jason Schuller’s easy-to-implement video embedding plugin, Gallery now supports video embedding from popular video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, even allowing you to add your own custom code if not supported. This is an awesome addition to Gallery and I even created a new icon for posts with video so you can differentiate between regular posts and video posts. You will want to download Simple Video Embedder from Press75.com to take advantage of this beautiful plugin. I believe it is also available from WordPress.org, so you can install this via the WordPress admin, just search for the title and off you go.

Theme Options

The theme options page currently allows modification of the number of days a post is considered “new.” This is currently the only option, but will be expanded upon in future releases.

Rusty Grunge is a simple WordPress theme yet still gives you the “destroyed” look. This theme utilizes a fully-widgetized sidebar and has been downloaded over 28,000 times and is featured as a pre-installed theme on Dreamhost’s default installation of WordPress.

Take it for a test drive
Download ‘Rusty Grunge’ (Version 1.2)

12/09/2008 Update – Version 1.0

• Bugfix – updated comments.php closing div inside if statement

12/29/2008 Update – Version 1.1

• Bugfix – updated <title> tag with proper bloginfo() functions

12/29/2008 Update – Version 1.2

• Bugfix – updated <title> tag with wp_title() function
• Bugfix – updated language settings in header
• Bugfix – Search form now works.
• Enh – replaced included search form with get_search_form()
• Enh – added threaded comments and wp_list_comments()
• Enh – added new functions to support threaded comments to functions.php
• Cleanup – Removed javascript from global.js file
• other various HTML and CSS code cleanup and code commenting

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Purchase ‘Absynthe’

This theme utilizes the Last.fm plug-in by Jeroen Smeets (if you don’t have it installed, don’t worry, your site won’t break, it just won’t show the Last.fm stuff) and this theme looks wicked awesome when you use Twitter for WordPress by Ricardo Gonzalez.

As mentioned above, this theme is licensed under the GNU General Public License. As always, if you encounter any bugs or issues with this theme, please let me know.

08/01/2008 Update – Version 1.5

• Moved Last.fm plugin into theme folder, updated theme to work with newest version
• Updated footer design to fit theme more
• Added widgetized area to footer
• Added Cufon text-replacement for headings
• Updated twitter widget design to work with latest version of plugin
• Made various IE6 fixes so it works across all browsers

01/05/2008 Update – Version 1.2

• Now WordPress 2.7 compatible – threaded comments included. Make sure to enable threading in your WordPress admin to take advantage of this feature.
• Fixed overflow issue inside post body. Images ran to the very edge of the box.
• Added a couple functions to functions.php
• Added wp_title() function to header.php
• Added javascript hook for comment replies
• Updated log out link to use correct function
• Updated post div wrappers to include post classes, new in 2.7

12/09/2008 Update – Version 1.1

• bugfix – updated comments.php closing <div> inside if statement.

Holiday WordPress is a gorgeous holiday theme for WordPress. With transparent backgrounds, it allows your main background to be seen through various parts of the design, which allows for the ultimate flexibility in changing the background to something that fits your style. Theme includes a featured post area with the option of adding a custom field image.

Take it for a test drive
Download ‘Holiday WordPress’ (Version 1.1)

Annexation is a free WordPress theme co-released with Six Revisions. This is a bright and colorful theme with a pixel-perfect bird icon for your tweets and a sweet Last.fm footer.

Take it for a test drive
Download ‘Annexation’ (Version 1.2)

This theme, like Absynthe, also utilizes the Last.fm plug-in by Jeroen Smeets and the Twitter for WordPress plugin by Ricardo Gonzalez.

12/09/2008 Update – Version 1.2

• Optimized background header image, converted to .gif.
• Added W3C Valid icon in footer, tightened up spacing of credit area.
• Added readme.txt with customization instructions.