Over on Performancing, they have released another theme. This one, called Estranged was designed by Thord Daniel Hedengren, who I am a fan of.
Here are some notes on the design:
Estranged is a two-column theme that features large, standout headers, and easy-to read body and link text. The color scheme involves subtle shades of grey and [...]

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Have an XHTML/CSS based design that you think would make a great WordPress theme, but only have $10 to your name? Well, ThemesPress is looking at filling that void with their service.
ThemesPress is a service that allows you to automatically convert your HTML and CSS based design into a WordPress blog theme, allowing you to [...]

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There are very few themes that catch my eye anymore, but I have to admit there is something about the Retro MacOS that just makes me both wince in pain, and laugh like a little child.
The theme takes elements from Mac OS system 6, back in the days where your choices for color were [...]

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Over on Duct Tape Marketing, a blog I read pretty much every day, a new WordPress theme has been released.
Key Features:

Three column
Widget ready
Header graphic (PSD file included)
125×125 graphical ad ready for your products and services

It is a modification of the previous theme, but I think its worth mentioning, especially since I didn’t mention the [...]

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Darren Hoyt has put up two parts on WordPress and how great it has been as a content management system. In his latest part entitled “In Praise of Wordpress Template Tags, Part II: The Magazine Layout” he shows how he integrated WordPress into a website, using it to run an online magazine. A very cool [...]

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Much has been said over the whole sponsored/not sponsored theme issue, and I really don’t want to touch on that again, but what I do want to talk about is how it is being dealt with, and the effects that the sweeping edit of what is and isn’t allowed effects the community.
Like many others, Cory [...]

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The amazingly popular Illacrimo now comes in a Widget ready version for all to download. I am not a big widget user myself, but the demand was out there for us to get a Widget ready version out, and while there are some limitations, I think it will allow people to modify the two sidebars [...]

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Steven Campbell, a friend of mine online, has released a photoblogger focused WordPress theme called PhotoWP.
It is a one column theme created just to display images, and comments on those images. It is lightweight, not requiring any images, other than the ones you want to display. This makes it easy to manipulate into any color [...]

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For those of you that have loved previous themes released by Bloggy Network here on Blogging Pro, we have gone and released another one over on LifeSpy.
LifeSpy is one of Blogging Pro’s sister blogs that covers all your lifestyle news and some great quick tips on how to better your life.
Check it out [...]

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The folks over at Performancing have released another theme called Photopress. This time attempting to capitalize on the lack of great themes for photobloggers.

Have you ever wanted to display your pictures in a photoblog without sidebar uglification? Well, that was the motivation behind Photopress; a one column WordPress theme specifically designed for photoblogs. With Photopress [...]

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Since I last wrote about WPZipper they have added themes to their tool, and improved the interface one hundred times over.
They have added some interesting AJAX’y interface elements which makes adding and removing both themes and plugins a snap. They have also added a user system, in case you want to keep that great custom [...]

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What happens when you release a WordPress theme based on a very popular website design? You get links, lots of links. That is exactly what happened to the iLemoned blog, as he released the Dark Theme.
It is based on the last design used by Wolfgang Bartelme at Bartleme.at.
The theme has been tested on WordPress [...]

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There are so many themes out in the WordPress community, and while that can be a great thing sometimes, other times it is hard to cut through the noise, and so one of my good friends, Elliott Bäck has released his list of the Top 7 Free WordPress Themes.
He includes some favorites of mine like [...]

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There are so many themes out in the WordPress community, and while that can be a great thing sometimes, other times it is hard to cut through the noise, and so one of my good friends, Elliott Bäck has released his list of the Top 7 Free WordPress Themes.
He includes some favorites of mine like [...]

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For those of us that loved the old Copyblogger theme, they have released it now as a free download. A great use of old themes, and I am really happy that they did this. I have to thank both Brian and Chris for pushing it out.
When Brian rolled out the latest design for Copyblogger, [...]

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Kyle Neath of Warpspire has come out and expressed his feelings in concern to the WordPress community saying simply that he is not happy.
I felt like Hemingway was my little chance to give back to the community.
But that relationship has gotten more and more sour over the past year and a half. What started off [...]

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Performancing has released another theme for WordPress, called Gangway, this time we have another three column black and white theme, developed in cooperation with Forty Media. I like the direction they took with this theme, though I have been getting into more of the elegant simplicity lately when it comes to design.
Check out Gangway, Performancings [...]

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Over on yvoschaap.com, a really neat little project has been created that allows people with no coding knowledge to create their own semi-custom theme.
Here is the description text on the project:
This online generator will create your own unique WordPress Theme. Without need for any HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.
Change the colors, settings, layout, preview [...]

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If you are a big fan of the blog designs used by Bartelme Design’s blog, then you’ll be happy to know that he has moved on to a new design, and thus a new freely available theme has been released. iLemoned did the coding for this release and overall between the design and coding, this [...]

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Performancing has released a new theme for WordPress called ModernPaper, a complete inversion of their previous theme’s colors, ModernPaper is a three column, mostly white theme. Very clean and very effective, I can see ModernPaper being tweaked in a variety of ways by the bloggers that will use it.
Check it out on Themes.Performancing.com.

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