Akay has created a stunning new WordPress portfolio theme.  With a slick vertical slide combined with a horizontal slide, this theme promises to make your WordPress portfolio stand out.  It comes with a unique layout which strays from the standard right-column layout.  The dotted gradient effect with screenshots stands above other examples we’ve seen.  This [...]

Wordpress themes have come a long way. As the exceptional Wordpress team builds in more and more features, they give web designers tons of options for creativity and innovation in theme design. We hope that this post brings up trends in Wordpress themes that you have noticed, but didn’t know you noticed.

We Love WP is a blog that has been around a while bringing you original and unique wordpress designs.  What they are not is a source for free or commercial wordpress themes, rather a place for design ideas, creative examples and pleasing designs.  Their own design is one of the first showcase themes we ever [...]

We downloaded the free trial version of Artisteer, a WordPress theme generator that also can export Joomla and HTML website themes.  We then dished out $49 to test the full version with all the features enabled.  It had a promising feature list and made some heady claims as to what was possible with this $49 [...]

For anyone developing WordPress templates, these tags are the most commonly used and helpful to have handy. Many of these tags include parameter options which can be found in the WordPress Codex or this helpful tool. <?php the_author_nickname(); ?> Insert the author’s nickname. <?php the_category(‘parents=multiple’); ?> Insert the category of a post. <?php comments_number(‘No Comments’, ’one’, ’more’, ’number’); ?> Insert the number of [...]

These are amazing themes, demonstrating the flexibility and options native to WordPress. These are not just pretty themes and they aren’t available for download anywhere. They are examples of custom designs that truly flex their WordPress codex muscle.