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Splendio WordPress Theme

Admin — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:42:45 +0000

@From SmashingMagazine – Free WordPress 3.1 Theme: Splendio (With PSD Sources)

Today, we are glad to present a new freebie: a beautiful theme, designed by Vlad and Elena Scanteie which was developed exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is free to use in both private and commercial projects. The theme is based upon the Twenty Ten WordPress theme and requires WordPress 3.0 to run.

Visit the demo or a large view.

The upper area contains a slider where you can place extra emphasis on your most important pages. The main area can include the content of your latest blog posts. On the right side youâ€™ll find an overview of latest blog entries as well as the latest tweets.

The upper area of the sidebar features five latest comments. You can place any widget under it as it is defined as a dynamic sidebar. Also, right above the footer youâ€™ll find a Flickr gallery in case you wish to showcase your latest shots. The footer itself is designed in a pronounced blue, giving it a nice contrast to the rest of the design. There you you can place yourâ‰ˆ widgets such as Pages, Categories, Archives, and others. A soft upper area, a useful middle area, and a strong footer are the essence of this theme.

Download the Theme for Free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

live demo

large preview (.png, 0,23 Mb)

download Splendio (Theme + Plugins) (zip, 0.8 Mb)

download Splendio (Theme + Plugins + PSD Sources) (zip, 6.4 Mb)

download mirror (zip, 6.4 Mb)

release on the developerâ€™s site

Behind the Design

As always, here are some insights from the designer:

â€œReleasing a theme on Smashing Magazine is always a challenge for us at DesignDisease. A challenge we look forward to. â€˜Splendioâ€™ is a theme where we try to solve the empty space that exists around most themes with a joyful rhythm of lines and squares, complimented with a light color palette. The specialized header images complete the package, as it can be used both in a static or randomized manner.â€

Thank you, Vlad and Elena! We sincerely appreciate your work and your good intentions.

OneNote Theme Released

Admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:25:18 +0000

Hello! We’re always pretty excited when we get to release another free theme for you guys, so here it is – OneNote. The theme features an elegant design that uses a dark (brown) content area against a light page background accented by a spiffy floral pattern reminiscent perhaps of libraries of old estate manors in the movies (or if you own one).

The theme features a two-column design and is widgetized for easy customization. It also uses two plugins (which we’ve included in the download file) WP-PageNavi and WP Categories and Posts to streamline the navigation and for you to modify the “In Other News” section in the content area. The theme also features quick links (via icons) to your social network pages (Twitter and Facebook) at the top of the page.

OneNote Theme

Plug-ins Needed:

This work is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This means you may use it, and make any changes you like. Just leave the credits on footer to respect the designerâ€™s work.

DesignDisease Theme Released

Admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:09:42 +0000

Finally the old blue design has become a free theme called, what other than DesignDisease Theme. Many of you requested this theme from the time we first launched it on this website. So, when we redesigned the main site, we knew we knew we had to release it to the masses. For those who aren’t familiar with the old theme, it can be described as a dark, oceanic, with long curvy stripes. All shapes morphed to curves.Â You can download it here

The theme is fully widgetized as all our themes are. The plugins needed are included in the theme files so there is no need to download them again. After installing WP-Page Navi deselect the option of using the default css style for this plugin.

DesignDisease Theme

Plug-ins Needed:

Enjoy !

@Update 02.07.2010

DesignDisease Theme Blogger Version:

DesignDisease redesign

Admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:00:59 +0000

We have finally changed the design after 2 years of using the ocean blue theme. We didn’t change much from the original structure but we have a new design approach.

We evolved from the spectacular curves to the abstract world of straight lines and squares. We made the content a bit more visible by enlarging the portfolio images and designing on a much lighter background. We did not make this design to be “vintage” because we don’t want to look back. What we do with this new design is put forward a new way to use regular shapes.

Because of the release of this new design, we will release in a couple of days the previous theme (this one) as a Free WordPress Theme, which over the past couple of years, a whole lot of people have asked for. Stay Tuned!

Also, if you’re here, please subscribe to our new e-mail list or follow our twitter. Â We will never share your e-mail with anybody else.

DailyNote Theme Released

Admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:40:21 +0000

DailyNotes is our latest theme release. We wanted a theme for the every day person, It uses a dark background with a lighter background around the content. 2 columns and an area to link to your twitter account in the sidebar. You can download it here

The theme is fully widgetized as always. A special feature of this theme as we use in many of our themes is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (â€œblog nameâ€) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of the DailyNotes theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template. You will find the source in the root folder of the DailyNotes theme.

Enjoy !

Gadgetizer Theme Released

Admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:43:00 +0000

Gadgetizer is exactly what it sounds like it would be about. Gadgets. We wanted a simple theme that focused on the products themselves, so we have a big Flickr area in the footer section, as well as a mashup of images right below the featured post. As always, the front page has an easy to use â€œfeatureâ€ section so you can easily put on display your most in-depth posts. You can even slot in a nice picture and a post excerpt to accompany the headline by editing the feature-image custom field and setting the category to â€œFeaturedâ€.

We kept it pretty similar in color scheme to the last design, with the colors white, blue, and green. Also we have included the psd files for the logo, robo girl, and for the gadgets snapshots.

The theme is fully widgetized. A special feature of this theme as we use in many of our themes is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (â€œblog nameâ€) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of Gadgetizer theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template. You will find the source in the root folder of the Tipz theme.

This theme also has a large footer bar that includes a links section, Flickr photostream, and latest comments section. Because some people might not like this option, we also included in the theme options the ability to have this section not show up.

The theme is using a few plugins, with some already integrated into functions.php, so there is no need to install them. The only plugin you need to install manually is FlickrRSS.Â (FlickrRSS plugin is in the theme folder) (see the demo).

Download Name:

gadgetizer.zip

Must contain:

gadgetizer folder
psd folder
plugins folder

View theme demo
View theme demo (mirror)
Download the theme (Theme, Plugins, PSD Files)
Download the theme (Theme & Plugins)

This work is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This means you may use it, and make any changes you like. Just leave the credits on footer if you respect the designerâ€™s work.

Enjoy !

Tipz Theme Released

Admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:14:17 +0000

We wanted a good strong theme that could fit a wide variety of topics for Tipz, which mainly writes how-to articles among various other topics. The front page has an easy to use â€œfeatureâ€ section so you can easily put on display your most in-depth posts. You can even slot in a nice picture and a post excerpt to accompany the headline by editing the feature-image custom field and setting the category to â€œFeaturedâ€. We always like our rounded corners, which give the theme a simple Web 2.0 feel.

The theme is fully widgetized. A special feature of this theme as we use in many of our themes is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (â€œblog nameâ€) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of Tipz theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template. You will find the source in the root folder of the Tipz theme..

Enjoy !

Update! – 02.12.2009

Gravatar problem fixed
Page Navigation problem fixed

Many ask about feature image usage. Click on this screenshot and you will see how can make that image appear on featured post. For the design quality try to use a standard 150px/150px image. See how!

LapOfLuxury Theme Released

Admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:01:49 +0000

Here is the third in our series of theme releases.

We made this theme custom for our Bloggy Network blog Lap of Luxury. We wanted a theme conveyed rich and glitzy. Gold in the logo, and white and black are used as the main colors in this 2 column theme. It contains a sidebar on the right that allows for a large square ad up top, and splitting into 2 columns below that. Comes fully widgetized

A special feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (â€œblog nameâ€) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of LapOfLuxury theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template. You will find the source in the root folder of LapOfLuxury theme. (Image limitations: No more than 910px/120px).

Enjoy !

CelebrityHQ Theme Released

Admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:55:07 +0000

Here is the second in our series of theme releases.

This theme screams celebrity. Blues and pinks dominate this design making it perfect for either your celebrity blog or any other topic that needs a bubbly personality. This blog theme is simply 2 columns and is fully widgetized

A special feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (â€œblog nameâ€) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of CelebrityHQ theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template. You will find the source in the root folder of CelebrityHQ theme. (Image limitations: No more than 560px/60px).

@Update

Gravatar issue fixed. Download the theme again.
Header Problem still persist…working on it :(

Money Theme Released

Admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:46:03 +0000

We decided to further tweak some themes we released the other day as we just weren’t happy with the final outcome :) Anyway, here the first one is rereleased. First up is……

Money Blog

Nothing says money more than the color green so here’s a theme for you. The front page banners a “feature” section so you can easily pimp headlining posts. You can even slot in a nice picture and a post excerpt to accompany the headline by editing the feature-image custom field and setting the category to “Featured”. Rounded corners give the theme a Web 2.0 feel. The theme is fully widgetized.

A special feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (â€œblog nameâ€) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of Money Blog theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template. You will find the source in the root folder of Money Blog theme. (Image limitations: No more than 400px/37px).

If you want to activate this option go to:

Administration Panel > Appearance > Logo Options, and select logo type.