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!

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• 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.

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.

With the “smashing” success of Gallery 1.0 I am happy to announce the release of version 1.1, which includes quite a few changes, including a custom write panel (shown below), bugfixes for IE6 (mainly the navigation menu), and other bugfixes. As always, you need to grab and upload both the Gallery and Thematic themes.

Custom Write Panel

At the request of a commenter on Smashing Magazine’s release post, I have added a custom write panel, which streamlines the process of adding new posts by giving you a new section with your custom fields pre-defined and ready to be populated.

Custom Write Panels Make Life Easy

List of updates and bugfixes:

• Next/Previous buttons changed to basic links to avoid breaking long names
• ‘New’ icons no longer being cut off on top
• Custom field entry changed to custom write panel
• functions.php – remove sidebar instead of hiding it for non-pages.
• Single page images were only allowed to use a relative path, now allow for relative or absolute
• IE6 update, menu displays horizontally
• IE6 update, space between thumbnail rows eliminated
• Single page image container no longer cut off on left side
• Other minor CSS updates

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

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