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As you will already know if you read Sarah’s recent article, the new default WordPress theme will soon be available on WordPress.org.
Personally, I love the minimalistic look of Twenty Twelve, and think it makes a great addition to Automattic’s ever-growing portfolio of free WordPress themes.
Microblogging is all the rage these days.
And why not? Services like Tumblr offer users a quick and easy way to create and curate content in a manner that is more accessible and feature-rich than social networking status updates, without requiring the full on commitment of running a blog.
Today marks the introduction of the new Twenty Twelve theme on WordPress.com. Very soon the theme will be available for free in the WordPress Theme Directory and will be rolled into the WordPress 3.5 download package.
A couple months ago we gave you a sneak peek of Twenty Twelve theme and now it’s out in the wild. You’ll probably start to see this theme popping up on many sites around the web.
I tend to review more plugins than themes here on WPMU. After all, you can use multiple plugins on a website, but only one theme.
But every now and then, I find a theme that I can’t help but review. Something that gives me a proverbial slap around the face and demands my attention.
Today I have received such a slap, from a premium responsive portfolio theme available on ThemeForest called BigBang. If you’re in the market for a new theme, this is something you need to take a close look at.
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The Hybrid Core Framework, created by Justin Tadlock, has quite an active community of devoted users, many of whom are contributing themes. Path is a brand new one, hosted at Theme Hybrid and also in the WordPress Theme Directory.
Path is a clean, responsive theme designed for blogs with multiple authors.
Path has some very unique options for arranging your content with different layouts. It also includes a number of helpful features that you might normally have to add as a separate plugin, such as breadcrumbs and content-aware widgets.
Path’s most notable features include:
In February the folks at ThemeShaper, the home of the Automattic Theme Team, released Underscores, or _s for short. Anyone can download the _s theme at github, but in order to fork it, you previously had to make a number of search and replace substitutions.
The good news is that this is no longer the case, thanks to the new Underscores.me website. It allows you to generate your own Underscores-based theme with your custom theme name and the search and replace already complete.
What’s so cool about Underscores?
How about a fantastic free WordPress theme to start off the weekend? There’s a new theme shop in town. GavickPro theme development studio is relatively new to the WordPress theme business. They’re currently a leading theme provider in the Joomla community and have decided to expand their operations to WordPress CMS themes.
Meet GavernWP is their first free responsive WordPress theme.
This beautiful theme is built on the brand new GavernWP Framework, which features:
Responsive Design – Content displays intuitively on all Web-browsing devices with HTML5 and CSS3
A month or two ago, I managed to snaffle tomewer.com. I did so on the expectation that at some point, I would create a “business card” website for myself. Ever since, I’ve been on the lookout for business card style themes that might suit such a site.
If you feel that you should have a business card website (i.e. something that touts your wares in much the same way as a traditional business card does), vCard is a simple, no frills solution:
Although obviously billed as a Pinterest-style theme, the great thing about the new free Pinboard theme is that it’s so much more than that.
While you can obviously make your site look like a “pinboard,” you can make it look like a regular blog, a business site, a portfolio site, or a combination of those things.
The power behind all this flexibility lies in theme’s framework and grid system. For the user, this appears most readily in the easy-to-use customization panels found in the Admin area.
For example, here’s a look at some layout options for the homepage.
Attention female bloggers! Have you ever thought that most WordPress themes tend to be quite masculine and maybe even a little clunky? Or perhaps the themes look too minimalist and bare without any personality. BluChic is a relatively new shop with an entirely different take on WordPress themes. They aim to make fresh and feminine themes that female bloggers will want to use.
Adelle is a pretty WordPress theme that BluChic is offering for free. It sports a clean, responsive design with friendly typography and pink and black accents.
The Adelle Theme Features:
Responsive layout design
