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When you launch a new website, you want something that looks great, is easy to set up, and doesn’t cost too much. While some free WordPress themes fit the bill, I usually recommend finding a reputable, supported premium theme. Caution: You should think twice before choosing some of the most alluring, beautiful, feature-packed themes out there. Let me show you what I mean.
Beautiful demos
Hunting for just the right WordPress theme can be very time-consuming, even if you know a dozen different places to look for themes. It involves browsing each of those sites to look at all of the themes offered. Themescroller is a new site that lets you browse WordPress themes from marketplaces like Themeforest, Woothemes, WordPress.org, Elegantthemes and more coming soon.
You’ve probably seen the Parallax Effect but might not have known what it was (see the demo link near the end of this post).
A typical slider has a static image, movie, text, or some other item. There are options to auto-play, and there are navigation controls. This is all the same for a parallax effect slider, but there are layers of content within each slide that make it look three-dimensional, thanks to CSS3 and jQuery.
Free WordPress Parallax Slider Plugin
Keeping this post to the point, there’s a free WordPress plugin that makes all this fairly easy to do: WP Parallax Content Slider.
You can find thousands of different themes for WordPress, both free and paid. Some people still want to give a stab at creating their own, but don’t know how. If that sounds like you, then check out the best free WordPress theme generator I’ve found. It’s called “Lubith.”
Trying Lubith
To check out Lubith for yourself, visit lubith.com, sign up, and click the “Start Here” button to start the in-browser editor.
The Lubith interface
On this the first day of August, clearly now into the dog days of summer (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), what better than a little relief from the complicated and the heavy, from the ornate and the overdone?
What better than a little simplicity in the form of some clean, uncluttered WordPress themes?
And so below we present to you thirty-five such simple themes. They’re all free (at least at the time of this writing), so download away.
Last updated: 9:45 am Eastern Time on December 12, 2012
(Also see Round 2)
About this Theme Review
When looking for a theme framework, I want to make sure it can handle any project that comes my way. I want to know my chosen theme framework inside and out. I don’t want to have to pick Genesis for this, Elegant Themes for that, and PageLines when “X”. I want to know it will work with MultiSite and popular plugins. I want page loading optimized, the ability to choose responsive or not, and a solid support channel for when I need help or want to flesh out some ideas.
Want to do something interesting with the WordPress dashboard? Magazi Admin Theme is a beautiful, clean WordPress admin theme that comes to you in the form of a plugin. It was originally built for the magazi.org network of stores. If you’re running multisite, simply install and activate the plugin and it will be turned on. If you want to use it with multisite, make sure to ‘Network Activate’ it.
Your admin will be transformed to look something like this:
Pilot Fish is a brand new portfolio theme in the WordPress Theme Directory, created by Daniel Zhao. This theme features a minimalist style with a responsive design and a custom post type for projects / portfolio items.
It also includes a cool parallax scrolling effect that you can only see if you view the live demo.
The portfolio is nicely arranged on a full-width page with mouseover titles linking to each project page.
Let’s be honest — there’s no big intro needed here. You want to run a video site. You want to run it on WordPress. You want a theme that will help you do that. And you want that theme for free.
Voila! …
1. Sundance - DEMO | DOWNLOAD
2. Video from Templatic – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
3. WTB Video Theme – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
4. Selecta – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
5. Word Tube – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
6. Cinematic – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
7. Smashing Multimedia – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
8. WPTube – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
9. Foxinni Video – DEMO | DOWNLOAD
Ever visit a site and wonder what WordPress theme it is using? Of course you can sniff around in the source code or view the theme’s main stylesheet, but not everyone knows how to do that. What WordPress Theme is That is a site that lets you simply enter the URL and it will tell you the information you want to know. It pulls the information from the active theme’s stylesheet:
