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5 free professional Wordpress themes / templates for your blog / gallery
Brandon DavenportLots of people are struggling with the templates on Wordpress. Trying to get it to look just right. Wondering how the hell to use Photoshop to make a decent logo, or even banging your head against the wall over the jumbled, confusing CSS and HTML.
If you don't know what that is, you especially need to look at this! If you do and you struggle with it all the time, you deserve a break, and try out some new and totally free custom made Wordpress themes. They are made by, and only byprofessionals and your site will stand out from the crowd and demand hit after hit, just to see that fantastic template you have!
...by the way these are free, and you can use them without restrictions, (so use them for whatever you want).You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The theme may not be resold, sublicensed or rented.
Paper Wall
Today we are glad to release thePaper Wall WordPress Theme, an original, beautiful, high-quality WordPress theme, designed by Adrian Lazariuc fromIndeziner.comexclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme has a unique, colorful design that will perfectly fit for your personal blogs and, if customized, can be a perfect fit for a unique magazine-style-blog.
download the theme(.zip, 0.85 Mb)
Blogger template release of the theme(.zip, 11.40 Mb)
See it on Smashingmagazine.com
Gallery
Gallery is a beautiful, free, gallery-style Thematic child theme for WordPress, designed byChristopher Wallaceespecially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It isextremely flexibleand can be used as a starting point for design galleries and portfolios.
download the theme(.zip, 1.1 Mb)
Usage/Installation
To use the Gallery Theme, you will need to follow these installation instructions:
- Download thelatest versionof Thematic.
- Download thelatest versionof the Gallery WordPress theme.
- Unzip and upload both themes to your "wp-content/themes/" directory.
- In WordPress, go to "Appearance > Themes" and activate the "Gallery" theme.
- To change the number of items displayed on the home page, go to
"Settings > Reading" and change "Blog pages show at most" to 28 (4
rows) or 35 (5 rows) or more for the LazyLoad plugin to work its magic. LazyLoader will automatically delay loading of thumbnails that are out of the user's view.
Adding Gallery Items
To use the default options for the Gallery Theme, here are instructions for creating gallery entries:
- Create a thumbnail for each entry sized 125×125
- Create a full-sized image for each entry sized 500×375
- Upload both images to /wp-content/uploads or use the image uploader in WordPress to upload the images to the same folder
- Next, create a custom field called "thumbnail" and enter the
location of the thumbnail file, for example
"/wp-content/uploads/design-name-125×125.jpg" - You will need to create another custom field called "full-image" and enter the location of the full-size image in that field.
- You may also enter custom fields for "web-url" and "designer" if you want to add additional information to each entry.
Imprezz
Imprezz – a simple and beautiful 3-column-theme, a free WordPress theme designed by Gopal Raju fromProductiveDreamsfor Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme can be used in various setting for various purposes - in magazine-blogs, but also in corporate and private blogs. The theme supports WordPress 2.7.1 and works well with the zdcomments widget (which is used to display the top commenters). The package also include the PSD-source file of the logo.
release post on ProductiveDreams
Composito
A special feature of this theme is thelogo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (“blog name”) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in theroot folderof Compositio theme and name itlogo.png. You can also use the PSD Logo Template in the source folder of the Compositio Theme.(Image limitations: max is 590px/85px). If you want to activate this option go toAdministration Panel > Appearance > Logo Options, and select logo type.
live demo(the server experiences some problems)
download the theme(mirror) (.zip, 0.2 Mb)
Black Magic
Black Magic — a free professional Wordpress-theme. The theme has 2 columns and is based on grungy wooden textures and has a cool top menu which includes RSS. The psd source file of the logo has also been included in the package. This can be used for any projects and will be useful especially for portfolios. The theme was designed byGopal Rajuespecially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
download the theme(.zip, 1.8 Mb)
