Thank you for everyone who participated in the ThemeFuse WordPress theme giveaway. Below are the three winners of the same. Aakarshan Theme: NEWSSETTER devnullius Theme: Envision Gio Theme: Envison ThemeFuse will be contacting you shortly with the details on how to receive your theme.
Update: This giveaway has ended and winners have been declared. We are excited to announce that ThemeFuse has been thoughtful enough to share 3 WordPress themes licenses with our lucky readers. There’s nothing like free stuff to brighten your day! The winners of this exciting giveaway will have the chance to choose their favorite ThemeFuse theme, and download it completely free of charge. This is an extremely valuable opportunity if you are, or are planning to, use WordPress to power your website. We will be distributing 3 ThemeFuse vouchers. This is how you can get yours: Enter Now to Win…
Last week, I pointed you towards Constellation, which is an HTML5 based starter theme for WordPress. Another similar bare bones theme that you can use as your starter is called Bones. Bones is also HTML5 starter theme that is powered by HTML5 Boilerplate. It includes several features and ready made code for you to base your new WordPress theme on. The theme comes inbuilt with support for LESS / Sass that lets you right clean style code. And, is also well compatible with mobile browsers. Custom Post Types & Custom Dashboard Functions are preloaded in well documented examples should you…
A few weeks back we highlighted a cool plugin to help you code your own. The WordPress repository has a tonne of themes available for you to download. However, if you’re looking to create your very own theme you’re better off starting with Constellation. The Constellation theme is the perfect starting point for any WordPress project. It gives you the flexibility to provide bespoke styles for different devices, totally up-to-date HTML5 code which is fantastic for SEO, a flexible grid system on top of all the other goodness bundled in to the HTML5 boiler plate. Key features: HTML5 Boiler Plate…
Gmail introduced themes back in 2008. Since then there have been several enhancements including the addition of HD images. Taking this yet another step further, Google announced that you can now create custom themes in Gmail. You can upload your own images directly, select from your Google+ photos or simply paste any image URL. Or, if you don’t have a particular image in mind, you can browse our searchable Featured Photos section to find one that speaks to you. Check out the video below which gives you an idea of how to go about creating your own custom theme for…
Barely a day after 3.4 RC3, the team at Automattic have released WordPress 3.4 “Green”! I’ve been running 3.4 on my test blog which I use for my plugins for quite a while now and am impressed by the sleek interface. It’s not just the look that has been enhanced. If you like to test out new themes, 3.4 brings in the theme customizer which allows you to play around with various looks and settings for your current theme or one you’re thinking about switching to without publishing those changes to the whole world. For themes that support it, you…
SpringFestival Retro style to the performance the Chinese history?colorful frame shape, patterns made of Kaleidoscope. Futuristica The Futuristica theme for WordPress 3.1+ is a futuristic, modern, customizable, clean, and readable with a custom created background by the german digital artist Ali Karababa. Create your own custom menu, you can also upload your own custom background and give your theme an individual touch. Futuristica supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images Lugada Simple minimalist responsive two column theme with built in slider. Suitable for a blog-based website with custom menu, custom header, custom…
The mobile is taking over the world. Today, almost all mobile phones come equipped with browsers, not to forget the whole host of mobile devices out there. While most mobile browsers can easily support your normal blog theme, you might want to create a better experience for users by offering a custom look for mobile devices. You can manually do this or use one of the many services that allow you to do so. MobStac is one such powerful service that helps you get the job done. Creating your mobile blog is extremely easy and you’ll be done in 20-30…
Mashable came out with a list today of 20 Great Free WordPress 2.7 Themes. And, I’m glad that my theme Connections Reloaded has been featured in this list. Connections Reloaded is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme based on Connections theme by Patricia Müller. Download Connections Reloaded or view the Demo.
While WordPress plugins are really useful, you don’t need plugins always to add certain features to your themes. Here are a few code snippets you can add to your theme files to display recent posts, random posts and recent comments. Recent Posts The following code will enclose the latest 10 posts in an unordered list. Change numberposts=10 to display a different number of posts. <ul> <?php $myposts = get_posts(‘numberposts=10′); foreach($myposts as $post) : ?> <li><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title();?></a></li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> This uses the get_posts function to fetch the latest posts. An alternative method is to use wp_get_archives…