Free Twitter Bootstrap Admin Theme For WordPress

by Sarah Gooding June 17^th, 2013 6 Responses

It’s not very often that I come across a WordPress admin theme that doesn’t make me want to poke my eyes out, but this one caught my attention.

Our very own @aristath has created a plugin that brings Twitter Bootstrap styles into your WordPress dashboard. Bootstrap Admin is a clean, minimalist administration theme that totally changes the look of your dashboard with new icons, colors and Bootstrap as the backbone.

After you install and activate Bootstrap Admin, your WordPress dashboard will be transformed to look something like this:

So far Bootstrap Admin includes:

General styling of the WordPress admin area

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30 Premium Yet Absolutely Free Clean and Minimalist WordPress Themes

by Raelene Wilson May 30^th, 2013 10 Responses

Complexity in design isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and often – and as the old adage goes – less is more.

If you’re like me and clean lines make me go weak at the knees, you appreciate stripped back, clean themes that allow your content to shine, without all the unnecessary clutter.

I’ve done the hard work for you and handpicked a bunch of beautiful, minimalist themes that are absolutely free. What’s not to love?

If you decide to use one of these themes, don’t forget to give the designer kudos for all their hard work!

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120 Free WordPress Themes from Premium Theme Developers

by Joe Foley May 6^th, 2013 34 Responses

Everyone familiar with WordPress knows the tactic of giving away free themes in order to build a name or attract customers to your paid offerings.

It’s pretty much a win-win for everyone. If you’re happy with the free theme, then carry on with it. It you want more functionality (or support in many case), then you’ll need to upgrade to a paid option.

At the very least, free themes let you check out a designer’s work from the inside with zero pressure involved. And so all in all, free themes from professional theme developers are a good thing.

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7 Free, Modern Starter Frameworks for WordPress Designers

by Andrew Shekhirev March 22^nd, 2013 27 Responses

There are several ways how designers approach the process of creating custom WordPress-based websites and WordPress themes:

one can start from scratch, writing the entire code “by hand”. This is the most time-consuming and, to the best of our knowledge, relatively rarely used method,
one can take a ready-made WordPress theme (either free or premium) and tweak it until the desired result is reached,
or one can use what is called a theme framework to save a significant amount of time which would otherwise be spent on writing and testing the same code base over again.

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Top 20 Free WordPress Themes of 2012

by Sarah Gooding January 2^nd, 2013 10 Responses

One of the highlights of 2012 was the large number of excellent free WordPress themes released into the wild by benevolent open sourcers. I have compiled 20 of the most popular free themes featured on WPMU.org during last year. Cheers, and here’s to an even more vibrant WordPress theme design community in 2013.

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Clean Retina: A Free Responsive and Retina-Ready WordPress Theme

by Sarah Gooding December 19^th, 2012 3 Responses

The folks over at Theme Horse are making their debut in the WordPress theme market with Clean Retina, a beautiful and super functional theme. You’ll be happy to know that it’s also free and may be just the thing for your blog’s or website’s new 2013 look.

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Site5 Releases Two Free Responsive WordPress Themes: Veecard and Shortnotes

by Sarah Gooding December 6^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Who doesn’t love free WordPress themes? Site5 has just released TWO free WordPress themes at once. The folks at Site5 hosting have a special place in their hearts for WordPress and have created a growing collection of beautiful free themes.
Shortnotes: A Free Tumblog Style WordPerss Theme

Shortnotes is a simple and free responsive WordPress theme built for microblogging. The theme features support for post formats and built-in pagination. It’s also localization ready.

Check out a live demo of the theme and read more about Shortnotes on its project page at Site5.
Veecard: A Responsive vCard Website Theme

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30 Free Business WordPress Themes

by Joe Foley November 28^th, 2012 5 Responses

Need a theme to highlight your business? We’ve got thirty free ones here for you.

A WordPress business theme is a theme that generally doesn’t put a blog front and center. It might certainly have a blog element to it, but you won’t see the “latest posts” taking up much (if any) of the screen space on the front page of a business theme — at least not above the fold (i.e. the top part of the site you can see without scrolling down).

Freebies, Themes

Agency: A Free Responsive Business Portfolio Theme

by Sarah Gooding November 27^th, 2012 5 Responses

With more web traffic happening on tablets and phones these days, it’s invaluable for an online business portfolio to be responsive, minimal and effectively eye catching. If you are looking for a WordPress portfolio theme that accomplishes this and much more, right out of the box, you should take a look at Agency. It’s a beautiful free theme offered by EGrappler. Agency was built using Twitter Bootstrap and was designed to be the perfect theme for businesses or creative agencies.

Freebies, Themes

WPExplorer Releases 3 Free Responsive WordPress Themes

by Sarah Gooding November 21^st, 2012 2 Responses

The folks at WPExplorer have just launched a redesign of their website and a brand new logo. To celebrate the new branding and redesign, they have also decided to release three free WordPress themes, all of which include responsive design and built-in theme options for easy customization.

Here’s a quick overview of all the new freebies:
Tetris: A Free Masonry Tumblog WordPress Theme
The Tetris theme employs a masonry-style layout to display tumblog-style posts. It makes use of the excellent Soliloquy plugin for the featured slider on the home page.