Gridly: A Free Minimal and Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme

by Sarah Gooding July 18^th, 2012 4 Responses

Looking for a free WordPress theme to launch your portfolio online? Gridly is a great minimalist theme option for displaying your work in a clean, responsive grid layout. It’s designed in such a way that when visitors view your site on a mobile device, the grid will automatically respond to the available space in the browser.

The Gridly theme features:

Minimal Design
Responsive for mobile devices
Simple Options Panel
Support for Featured Images
Logo upload option
2 Colour Schemes: dark and light
Widgetized Footer
jQuery Masonry for automatically adjusting columns
WordPress 3.0 Menus

Freebies, Themes

Pachyderm: A Free Responsive WordPress Tumblog-Style Theme

by Sarah Gooding July 16^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Pachyderm is advertised in the WordPress Theme Directory as “A cute, clean, responsive microblogging theme,” and it is just that. The theme is built with post format support for a Tubmler-like blogging experience. It comes with special icons for each post format and sticky posts even have their own unique icon. When you’re composing your post you can select the post format and the icon will automatically be assigned.

The Pachyderm theme features:

Supports all WordPress post formats
Featured images
Change the layout with an optional right sidebar
Drop-down menu
Flexible header image
Custom backgrounds
Responsive layout for mobile devices

Freebies, Themes

Free Coming Soon WordPress Theme for App Developers

by Sarah Gooding July 9^th, 2012 Leave a comment

If you are in the business of creating kickass apps for mobile devices, this new free WordPress theme is for you! Most apps cannot depend on the very little exposure they receive within the various app stores. Apps also require a solid web presence in order to be successful. AppifyWP Launchpad is a coming soon WordPress theme that was designed and developed specifically for app developers who want to start getting the word out about their upcoming app releases.

Freebies, Plugins

Use Microsoft SkyDrive To Make Your WordPress Site Load Faster

by Matthew Tschoegl July 3^rd, 2012 4 Responses

Online file storage sites like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft’s SkyDrive are beginning to change how average site owners manage their content. Instead of having all of their content on their own servers, website owners are beginning to see the value in having some of their content, especially images and video, housed remotely on special storage sites or CDNs (Content Delivery Networks). This makes for:

Lighter sites that load faster, due to much of the content being hosted in a separate location
Cheaper sites, due to the decreased space and bandwidth requirements.

Which One Should You Use?

Use Microsoft SkyDrive as a CDN to improve website Performance

Freebies, Themes

Free WordPress Resume Theme: Create an Online Resume in Minutes

by Sarah Gooding June 27^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Presenting yourself online as a professional is quickly becoming far more important than the traditional paper resume. One of the fastest ways to create an online resume is to use a WordPress resume theme on your own domain. This gives you the advantage of being found by search engines for your skills and experience.

Freebies, Plugins

9 jQuery WordPress Menu Plugins + Bonus Tutorial for the Adventurous

by Patrick Cohen June 25^th, 2012 3 Responses

Search “WordPress menu plugins” in Google = Eeek!
A quick search for WordPress menu plugins in Google will bring up over 32,000,000 results. Oh, dear Lord! Dozens, if not hundreds, of those results can be quite mouth-watering at first glance. But sifting through the mess of unappetizing stuff to find something satisfying can be frustrating to say the least. Even searching the WordPress plugin repository can be quite tedious.

WordPress Menu Plugins - Enhance your user experience

Freebies, Themes

Free Online Magazine and News Theme for WordPress

by Sarah Gooding June 13^th, 2012 3 Responses

Today, gazpo.com released a nice new, clean and highly customizable news theme, silverOrchid. This free magazine WordPress theme is available from the WordPress theme directory. If you are trying to fit a lot of content into your site’s real estate, you may want to give this theme a download. It makes space for lots of images and headlines, and provides plentiful widgets and socially interactive features.

The SilverOrchid theme is for use with WordPress 3.3+. Its most notable features include:

Custom Menu support
Featured Image Support
Extensive Theme Options – Custom logo, favicon and banner upload, custom CSS code, tracking code

Freebies, Themes

Meeta: A Free Responsive WordPress Theme From WPZOOM

by Sarah Gooding June 1^st, 2012 4 Responses

Happy Friday, everyone! Today I thought we’d take a look at a free WordPress responsive theme designed especially for bloggers. I think you’re really going to enjoy this one. Meeta is a beautiful theme, created by the great folks over at WPMZOOM.

The Meeta Theme Features:

Responsive Layout – will adapt to fit any screen resolution from desktops to mobile devices
Custom Headers – easily change the representative image in the theme top header section
Easy Customization – includes a theme options panel to easily change the colors for various elements from the theme
Custom Page Templates – including archive, full-width, slideshow, etc.

Freebies, Themes

Free WordPress Svbtle Theme Provides a Revolutionary Blogging Experience

by Sarah Gooding May 24^th, 2012 5 Responses

WordPress themes are becoming more and more minimalist these days as users are gravitating towards simplicity, but this new one really takes the cake. It’s based on the Svbtle blogging network design. The team at Gravity On Mars has created a WordPress theme that replicates this interface, both on the front end and within the dashboard.

The WP-Svbtle theme provides a truly simple, content-focused blogging experience. Here’s what it looks like on the frontend but you definitely need to check out the WordPress Svbtle Theme Demo to see it in action.

Freebies, Plugins

Free Template For Designing WordPress Admin Icons

by Sarah Gooding May 16^th, 2012 1 Response

Today we want to look at a new tool available for WordPress designers and plugin developers whose work requires custom admin icons. WordPress admin icons are important for branding your custom plugin in the dashboard. Web and UI designer Matthias Kretschmann has created a free template and code samples for designing your own admin icons.

Custom admin icons are needed in when creating new custom post types, plugin settings and theme options pages. At the very least you will need three icons:

two 16px icons for the admin menu, one non-colored and one colored icon for the hover state