Tag Archives: themes

 

Quick tip! If you’re using Git when developing WordPress themes and would like to create a clean “export” of the theme that would be installable from the WordPress admin interface and accepted to the WordPress.org themes directory, you can use the git archive command for that with some special arguments:

git archive --format zip --output /path/to/themename-1.1.zip --prefix=themename/ master

This will create a zip file called themename-1.1.zip with a themename directory inside from the master branch of the Git repository. This means that when the theme is unarchived either by WordPress or manually, you won’t end up with a themename-1.1 directory.

Published 7 months ago with 11 comments tagged , , ,


 

Artiste by Orman Clark

Artiste by Orman Clark is a very nice looking portfolio theme for WordPress released today. Just like the rest of Orman’s themes, this one’s got a bunch of options, widgets, shortcodes and templates as well as a layered PSD for heavy customization. Doesn’t seem like it responds to media queries but the layout is flexible enough to fit an portrait iPad.

Published 7 months ago with no comments tagged , ,


 

Kriesi, one of the top authors on Themeforest has released his first eCommerce theme called Abundance. Quite experimental but the sales figures are looking good so far. Thinking of giving it a spin very soon.

Published 7 months ago with no comments tagged , ,


 

A Freebie WordPress Theme: San Fran

San Fran Theme for WordPressHey there, hope you’re all doing great and having an awesome weekend! We’ve been working hard on one of our free themes projects over at Theme.fm and just last week we got through the approval process straight into the WordPress.org themes directory, so meet San Fran for WordPress.

A few of the features of the theme are custom colors and typography, multi-level navigation, clean layout and easily customizable via child themes, sidebars, localization, and well-commented code. A really nice thorough explanation through the planning, design and development as well as the submission processes could be found right here, and if you’re looking for the demo or download link, it’s this one: San Fran.

Feel free to share your thoughts, give any suggestions on how the theme can be improved and what you would like to see in the next update. Twitter, e-mail, Facebook or whatever you’re comfortable with. Thank you for reading! Oh, and we’re still looking for WordPress writers so give me a shout if you’re aware of any.

I don’t remember if I mentioned this before, I’m on Google+ and if you’re still not there, poke me and I’ll send you an invitation. We’ve been giving theme out on Theme.fm a few weeks ago, was quite a popular post, although nobody seemed to read it, they were there mostly for the invitations hehe ;)

Published 11 months ago with no comments tagged , ,


 

Fine Tuning Your WordPress Themes with Theme.fm

Hey there, long time no read eh? Well the reason to that is that I’ve been extremely busy with an exciting project, and today I’m glad to announce it, although it’s been launched last week. Theme.fm is a blog, journal, magazine (call it whatever you like) about fine tuning your WordPress themes. And what does that mean?

Theme.fm: Fine Tune Your WordPress Themes

Well, themes for WordPress are certainly not new, but they are hot. Especially with the competition constantly growing (both free and premium themes) and the different market places getting bigger every day. This definitely is an opportunity for both businesses and freelance designers and developers to “get out there and make some good products” (and some money, of course).

Theme.fm is focused on the “good” part of that sentence, meaning that we’ll eventually teach you how to get the best out of WordPress for you and your customers (whether they’re developers/agencies or end-users). We’ll show you the best practices of creating free and premium themes, where the free ones are more strict, while the premium ones are less strict but require that “extra thing” to get the attention of the buyers.

We’ll guide you through all the aspects of web design and cover the design trends, the ones adaptable for WordPress themes. We’ll give you some performance tips to make sure your customers (and Google) are always happy with the speed of their websites. Perhaps some WordPress and SEO tips for the ones hungry to get exposed and obviously WordPress related news and discussions, so that you’re always up to date, while being on schedule these busy days ;)

Here’s are the highlights of Theme.fm from last week:

Hope that’s something to catch your attention, but wait, there’s more! Probably something I shouldn’t speak about yet, but I will — we’re getting an iPhone App for Theme.fm. Now ssshh ;) Subscribe to the Theme.fm RSS feed and follow us on Twitter, and if you feel like you can contribute to Theme.fm, we’re always open to discussions, just hit me on Twitter or Skype ;)

Published 12 months ago with 4 comments tagged , ,


 

Themes Weekly: Blogitty — A Magazine & Blog Theme

I loved Blogitty the first second I saw it and @cosmothemes have clearly done a good job at this one — clean and easy to understand layout, awesome built-in widgets, social tools and of course things you’ll normally find in a good premium theme: custom shortcodes, typography, layout changes, colors and styles, page templates and a pseudo-portfolio page done with the standard WordPress gallery.

Themes Weekly: Blogitty -- A Magazine & Blog Theme

With 8 color skins, Google Web Fonts logo creator, slick image slider and a bunch of other options, Blogitty costs $35 at the ThemeForest Marketplace — Purchase Blogitty.

Published 1 year ago with no comments tagged , ,


 

Themes Weekly: Continuum for WordPress

Released only a few weeks ago, the Continuum Magazine Theme is doing quite well on Themeforest with two updates already published which means a lot in terms of support. The theme is optimized for WordPress 3.0+ and claims to be working out of the box, although still over 150 options to play around with for customization-crazy people ;)

Continuum WordPress Theme

Suitable for magazines and blogs, gaming and music websites. Has many different page layouts and of course a hell-load of different shortcodes as well as typography sweeties and the “usualities” we would expect to see in a premium WordPress theme. So it seems that @outerspice have done quite a nice job here and doing well on their other themes too!

Hope you enjoyed this release of Themes Weekly and join me next week. If there’s a particular theme you’d like me to feature feel free to poke me on Twitter (@kovshenin) cheers!

Published 1 year ago with 2 comments tagged ,


 

Themes Weekly: The Agency for WordPress

The Agency by @simonbouchard has been released today, offering two columns, two color schemes, over 40 shortcodes, typography customization (Cufon, Google Fonts and custom), custom widgets and more! The theme has got a minimal layout, making it perfect for agencies to publish projects, updates and news stories, making the content more relevant. The Nivo slider makes it even more appealing!

Themes Weekly: The Agency for WordPress

The Agency is a premium WordPress theme available at Themeforest for $35 at a regular license.

Published 1 year ago with no comments tagged ,


 

Themes Weekly: Business & Portfolio for WordPress

I’m doing a beta launch of a new posts series on my blog called Themes Weekly where I’ll be featuring and reviewing different hand-picked themes from different places, hopefully. Both free and premium themes, mostly WordPress of course. So in today’s edition of Themes Weekly we’re going to look at some new Business and Portfolio themes for WordPress.

Amphion Lite for WordPress

This theme was released in February 2011 and is available for free from the WordPress Themes Directory. Main usage is a blog, but the theme has got quite an awesome featured posts slider and can easily be used as a Portfolio Theme. The typography is quite interesting too with a shiny looking web-version of the Lobster font.

Amphion Lite for WordPress

Other features of Amphion Lite include multi-level drop-down menus, social buttons, threaded comments, theme options, page templates and some shortcodes. Download Amphion Lite for WordPress.

Folioway: The Perfect Portfolio Solution

This premium theme has made it into my favorites. It was launched a few days ago, with over 60 downloads already! It’s fully customizable, well-documented and is the perfect choice if you want to get a portfolio website up and running in only a few minutes.

Filioway for WordPress

As almost all premium themes do, this includes a bunch of page templates, custom shortcodes, social widgets, sidebars, thumbnails and loads more. It’s got 12 different background patterns and a built-in portfolio custom post type. Purchase Folioway for WordPress ($35).

Brightbox: Business & Portfolio

I came across this theme by @Kriesi a few days ago and I really loved the homepage 3D slider as well as the “mega menu” feature. It will be perfect if you’re planning to launch a corporate website since it’s got many different styles, stretched versus boxed layout, quite a lot of color options and of course some typography settings.

Brightbox for WordPress

Of course a bunch of shortcodes for columns, quotes, icons, buttons and widgets. Lovely integration into the TinyMCE editor that makes it very user-friendly and easy to use, so beginners will just have to handle the WordPress setup process. Purchase Brightbox for WordPress ($35).

So that’s about it for today. Hope you loved my picks and hope I’ll have some time to explore the theme market next week. If you’re aware of a nice-looking theme or perhaps have authored one, feel free to hit me on Twitter (@kovshenin) cheers and have fun!

Published 1 year ago with no comments tagged , ,


 

WordPress Experiments: Visual Styles Editor

In a previous blog post I demonstrated a video of the color wheel concept. Today I’d like to show you another WordPress themes experiment — visual styles editor.

As shown in the video, the styles editor pops out as a dialog box which you can move around the page. The dialog itself contains a select box where you get to pick a certain style (like headings, menu anchors, etc) and the actual properties below. An “element picker” might also be introduced, but has to be very well implemented in order to work.

So yeh, editing WordPress themes on the fly is possible, the parameters are saved when the save button is clicked via a short AJAX call and the next page will contain the modified CSS. Next up is column widths, probably the most dangerous thing to mess around with ;)

Published 1 year ago with 6 comments tagged , , ,



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