A new version of UbuntuWP WordPress Theme is now available for download. In this version there are made major changes and introduced new features.
UbuntuWP is a simply WordPress design with powerful options that allows you to customize your theme in an incredibly way.
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New Blank WordPress Theme by Automatic
This blank theme is a brilliant idea! All the times when I want to make a new theme I have to start from the default WordPress theme and remove all unwanted values! But with theme _s we have all clear ready to implement our design.
Theme _s is not recommended as child theme but a generic framework for adding your own responsive CSS.
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The Wiki for Tutorial Themes
Want to create your blog theme by yourself? ThemesWiki can help you! No matter what your CSM Platform is, inside you can find tutorials for most popular platforms. ThemesWiki is designed to provide you with comprehensive and free guides for designing web themes and templates on a wide range of Content Management Systems and related software.
Color Paper: a Free professional WordPress theme
DreamTemplate released a professional WordPress theme, Color Paper. This theme aims to combine visual appeal with clean typography and vivid design elements. Designed especially for Smashing Magazine where the news come from. The theme is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License and you can use for free in all of your projects.
Fervens – Free WordPress Theme by DesignDisease
Fervens, free professional WordPress-theme. The theme has 3 columns of fixed width, widget ready. Fervents come in three versions content in the right, center, and left. Theme is designs by DesignDisease with Smashing Magazine collaborations.
Main features of the theme
- 3 columns of fixed width
- widget-ready — two sidebars (both sidebars are supporting widgets, but I recommend to use the smaler one.
- the theme is using 3 plugins; 2 of them are integrated into functions.php, so there is no need to install them. These plugins are Gravatar, Recent Comments and FlickrRSS. You can use the last one to present your Flickr images in a Flickr Photostream (see the demo).
Video Tutorial for Custom WordPress Theme
Finally Chris from css-tricks.com my favorite CSS blog, has finish all the three screencast parts for a Custom WordPress Theme. You can view online or download for free, from the links below or from the Chris page. The Custom WordPress Theme that you see on the screenshot above is also free for download, is a good point to start, if you don’t like to do everything from the beginning.
Part One: Download, Install, "Reset" Theme
Video Page
Direct Video Download (.mov)
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