Free WordPress Theme of the Day #0031

Title: Thrilling Theme

Author: Thrilling Heroics

Price: Free

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From the author:

ThrillingTheme is a free, GPL-licensed, SEO- and social media-optimized WordPress template! This is my personal design (that you see here at Thrilling Heroics) that I’ve customized, tweaked, and perfected for a year and a half, and I’m excited to finally release this as a free public download!

Basic Features

• 4 Color Schemes – Shades of Grey, Thrilling Orange, Black & White, Icy Blue
• Search Engine Optimized
• Customize your header with your own logo & snapshot image!
• Auto-sized featured images & thumbnails
• Easy integration with Twitter, Flickr & Facebook
• Tabbed features/popular posts & more in the sidebar
• Integration with FeedBurner email subscriptions
• 125×125 and 300×250 ad management
• Blog category dropdowns
• 3 widget-ready sidebar areas
• Built-in support for WordPress Related Posts
• WP 2.7+ nested comments!
• Gravatar support in comments
• Compressed CSS & minified JavaScript for faster load time
• Custom page templates for archives, sitemap & photo galleries
• Easy customization with the integrated theme options page
• Totally FREE for commercial & individual use

Free WordPress Theme of the Day #0030

Title: Red Steel

Author: Web Design Lessons

Price: Free

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From the author:

If you choose to use Red Steel as your theme, it will quickly grab the attention of visitors to your blog by prominently displaying samples of your featured posts at the top of your blog. Below the header, the theme gives your blog a social splash by displaying your latest Tweet, as well as links to Facebook, Digg and other popular social media websites.

The contrast between the background of the theme and the background of the content makes it easy for visitors to read your blog’s posts. The theme also helps you make as much money as possible from your blog by not only displaying 468×60 ad units in your most recent posts, but by also giving you space for four 125×125 ad units at the top of the right column.

To show featured posts, create a separate category and put all posts you want to feature in that category. Select this separate category from the drop down in theme options page.

To show image in featured posts, create a custom field called “thumbnail” and post a link to 318×215 px image in its value.

Free WordPress Theme of the Day #0029

Title: WhitePress

Author: OnlyWP

Price: Free

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From the author:

WhitePress is in a good sense simple, light subtle colored, two column, free WordPress theme with fixed width by Sencer Bugrahan Yilmaz and Ali Bahsisoglu on onlyWP.com – a new site which will begin to release premium WordPress themes in the close future.

It is so very easy to like the WhitePress theme. The magazine stylish frontpage with the light, tasteful, color scheme and the nifty slider on the top and clean design are some attractive attributes of the theme. And the theme administration panel with fairly many options adds some extra points positive karma to the overall good first impression of the theme (see a preview of the options page below).

With all that positive said – this is only our first impression and we have not tested the theme under some more serious conditions. But we are surprised of the quality’s of this theme and we haven’t discovered any reports of obviously serious bugs.

WhitePress Special Widgets

Although there is already widgets on the market that provide you with these functions, the WhitePress theme has four (4) special widgets with the following functions:

• WhitePress About Me: Introduce yourself to your visitors. Activate it from the options page and then add short info about yourself with your 64 x 80 picture.
• WhitePress Categories: You can show your categories in two columns through this Widget. No settings whatsoever are required.
• WhitePress Featured: Show posts from the featured category, which you choose from your theme options page, in your sidebar.
• WhitePress Sponsors: Show up to four 125 x 125 banners, which you can set up from the theme options page.

As we earlier wrote, you could achieve similar result with already existing widgets, but it is a nice touch by the developers to make some theme specific widgets – it witness of quality thinking and anticipated value in their future premium themes.

WhitePress WordPress Theme Features

• WP 2.9 Compatibility.
• Frontpage slider.
• Featured category.
• Featured posts in the sidebar.
• Support for threaded comments.
• Theme options page.
• Four special widgets.
• Social sharing options.

WhitePress Theme Download And Preview

The Whitepress theme is released under GPL license. It can be used for all your projects for free and without any restrictions and you may modify the theme as you wish – you can read more about the license at A Quick Guide to GPLv3.