If you ever need to chose a theme for your WordPress blog or for somebody else, you now that this can be a difficult and time consuming task. At first look it may seem like an easy thing to pickup a theme and add it to your blog. But then you realize that something it’s missing: ability to install widgets, fonts are not exactly your type or the theme looks bad overall when compared to the “demo” where you saw it.
I know that there are a lot of lists out there with themes, but the ones below I used them personally and there are some of the best on the market considering the fact they are free but also have premium features.
Red Captik is a free Premium WordPress Theme comes packed with a custom featured content. Suitable for magazine and blogging websites. Theme options at admin panel with advertisement & google analytics ready.
The Sidebar Manager allows you to replace all widgetized sidebars and footers in our themes with unique custom sidebar.
With Red Captik you can place 125×125 banner images in your sidebar with ease. Advertisements are handled from within wp-admin, and can be turned on and off at any time.
Threaded Comments
Tracking Backlinks
Gravatar Ready
Logo PSD File
Pagination Ready
WordPress 3.0 Compatible
Advertisement Ready
Widget Ready Sidebars
Theme Options Page
Custom Thumbnail Images
Featured Posts
Valid XHTML + CSS
Header & Footer Script Code
SEO Optimized
Kimtea Theme is a high quality magazine wordpress theme that suitable for magazine, blogging and personal blog, the latest WordPress 3.0 goodness, shortcodes, jQuery and much more.
The Sidebar Manager allows you to replace all widgetized sidebars and footers in our themes with unique custom sidebar.
With Kimtea you can place 125×125 banner images in your sidebar with ease. Advertisements are handled from within wp-admin, and can be turned on and off at any time.
Threaded Comments
Tracking Backlinks
Gravatar Ready
Logo PSD File
Pagination Ready
WordPress 3.0 Compatible
Advertisement Ready
Widget Ready Sidebars
Theme Options Page
Custom Thumbnail Images
Featured Posts
Valid XHTML + CSS
Header & Footer Script Code
SEO Optimized
Fetolinos is a Magazine WordPress Theme with a large sidebar that can be used also for personal blog
Features:
468 x 165 banner slot
10 200×125 custom banner slots
Banner positions can be turned off
Theme Options
Flickr widget
RSS ready, Twitter ready, Subscription ready
3 Columns
Pages menu
Exclude pages menu option
Post thumbnails (automatic image resizing)
Page navigation included, no plugin required
Google Analytics code script can be inserted
WP 3.0 ready
Widget ready
Readme included
PSD Logo included
Gravatar ready
Threaded comments, Trackbacks & Pingbacks are separated
WordPress 3.0 menu system supported + backwarkd compatability
Cross browser compatibility IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
Casual is a Tumblog like WordPress theme, which can be used as a regular theme (see my blog). The only disadvantage is that some of the Theme Options are enabled only if you purchase an account on Obox Design worth 50$. I’m using it without those premium functionality (maybe I’ll buy them in future) and it’s working just great.
Features:
125 x 125 banner slot
Banner positions can be turned off
Theme Options
Flickr widget
RSS ready, Twitter ready, Subscription ready
2 Columns
Post thumbnails (automatic image resizing)
Page navigation included, no plugin required
Google Analytics code script can be inserted (with premium features)
WP 3.0 ready
Widget ready
Thumblog ready
Gravatar ready
Typhography supported with premium features
WordPress 3.0 menu system supported + backwarkd compatability
Cross browser compatibility IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
Casandres is more suitable for a multimedia or magazine (e.g. fashion, movie, tv…) blog due to its large featured scrolling banner on the top of main page. Of course you can use it for your personal blog, if you have a rich set of multimedia elements (like images) in posts, so you can display nice scrolling elements on top of your page.
Features:
Content slider built in
468 x 165 banner slot
2 180 x 100 custom banner slots
Banner positions can be turned off
Theme Options
Flickr widget
RSS, Facebook & Twitter Buttons
2 Columns
Pages menu
Exclude pages menu option
Post thumbnails (automatic image resizing)
Page navigation included, no plugin required
Google Analytics code script can be inserted
WP 3.2 ready
Widget ready
Readme included
PSD Logo included
Gravatar ready
Threaded comments, Trackbacks & Pingbacks are separated
WordPress 3.0 menu system supported + backwarkd compatability
Cross browser compatibility IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
