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Pinterest has obviously gotten a lot of attention lately. And whenever something like that comes along and gets hot in people’s minds, you can be sure that some enterprising WordPress theme developers will come along and offer themes that allow you to give your site a similar look and feel.
Below we’ve collected twenty free themes that can give your site at least somewhat of a Pinterest feel.
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
Pages are one of the defining features of WordPress. Not just because they are different from Posts, which are category and tag based, but also because you can feature a Page as your sites front page. With the added functionality that templates provide, the sky (metaphorically speaking) has become the limit for theme designers and developers.
Here are five code snippets you can use to enhance what you can do with a Page!
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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
When was the last time you considered “The Five Ws of Cyberspace?” Perhaps you applied them over a decade ago, when you were cranking out your first HTML site and wondering if folks would “surf your page.” Modern webmasters, on the other hand, may have never heard of them. Since the days of static websites, content management systems like WordPress have emerged and simplified the process of web development.Turnkey solutions, while convenient, typically promote ease-of-use at the expense of thought and intelligent practice.
Envato’s ThemeForest theme marketplace is one of the most popular locations to buy WordPress themes.
One of the benefits is receiving lifetime theme updates, but, in the past, it was difficult to know when updates were available.
The Envato WordPress Toolkit enables you to access your Envato WordPress purchases from within your WordPress Dashboard. It allows you to not only install themes but also to receive update notifications and update automatically, just like regular WordPress themes.
I recently came across an article by Alex King regarding the “right way” to include a plugin into a theme. In it, Alex integrates a plugin called Social, available here, into a theme they sell called FavePersonal. I understand they want to provide a great user experience out of the box, but rather than integrating a plugin, why not just direct their user to install it from WP.org? You could even use conditional statements to limit certain functionality till it’s installed.
Did you know that you can easily edit your Visual Editor to look exactly like your published article? All it takes is one simple piece of code in our functions.php file.
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Customize Your Visual Editor
Open up your themes functions.php file and add this snippet of code anywhere, preferably near the top:
add_editor_style();
This tells your Visual Editor to load by default an editor-style.css file, if it’s present. If it does not find it within your theme files, it won’t load anything.
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.
The new WordPress Twenty Twelve default theme is coming along nicely. Drew Strojny and the team are working to have it ready for the WordPress 3.5 release. Today he offered an update on the Theme Foundry blog, outlining the progress and what they’re shooting for with this new theme:
Twenty Twelve isn’t finished yet, but all the major styling is complete. The goal was to design a clean, minimal, and responsive theme, with a focus on typography and readability.
The theme has come a long way from the first sketches seen back in April of this year.
