It’s easy to take a WordPress theme and strip it down to its bare essentials… but it’s not easy to make it look good.
In fact the more you strip a theme down the more the remaining elements have to work together perfectly.

A great example of how it should be done is Runway the latest Genesis child theme by Heather Jones of Viva la Violette. [Read more...]

One of the big problems for any WordPress theme designer is coming up with something original. If you’ve tried it yourself, you know how difficult it is.
One guy who comes up with original themes and who does it theme after theme is Wes Straham of Appfinite themes.

I’ve no idea how he does it, but as if to prove me right, he’s just brought out a real honey of a theme… Epik 1.0.
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I have a client who runs a local re-upholstery business.
In his work he deals mostly with women so for his new website we needed to find a theme that was artistic and feminine and at the same time modern and packed with features.

I looked long and hard before I found the perfect theme and that theme was by Shannon Dow of Eight Crazy Designs and the name of the theme was… Fabric8ted 1.0.
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Some themes look good, some themes are functional and some themes are clever… the Modern Portfolio theme is all three.

The homepage has a single top menu, which includes: About, Portfolio, Services, Blog and Contact and each menu item is a “scrollable link”, which scrolls you slowly down the page to the appropriate section.

Modern Portfolio is a specialist theme, it’s been designed for anyone who wants to provide a graphical display of their work and needs that display to be totally mobile responsive.

As Studiopress put it:
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The Genesis Metro magazine theme has just been released.
Is it any good?
Let’s put it this way… it’s the sort of theme that you look at and think… I have to find a site where I can use this theme, I have to.

I like the way the background image fades in slowly, I like the colours and the fonts, I like the proportions of the layout and the use of whitespace and I love the cheeky little gap between the content and the footer.
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Oh dear, I’m in love again.
As soon as I saw the Pretty Pictures theme I fell madly and deeply in love with it.

The wide open layout, gorgeous colour combinations and inspired choice of fonts have conspired against me and stolen my heart.

If you’d like to see why I’m so infatuated then head over to the Studiopress website and gaze upon the beauty of the Pretty Pictures theme.
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The Stretch 1.0 theme is the “little black dress” of WordPress themes.
It may not have been designed by Coco Chanel, but it’s simple, sophisticated and absolutely stunning!

Simple - because all the frippery has been stripped away, no sidebar and no fat footer just content, content, content.
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Shock horror… a theme without sidebars!
That’s right Apparition 1.0, the latest Genesis child theme from Studiopress, comes without sidebars.
Take a look at the top image – header, content and a fabulous footer… but not a sidebar in sight.
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