Free WordPress Themes

WordPress Multi-user Themes

Sorry, but we don’t guarantee that our themes, free or premium, will work 100% if used in a WordPress multi-user environment.
Why not? Simply because there’s too great a variation in paths, subdomains and subfolders etc. and it just doesn’t seem to be possible to cover all eventualities – at present, anyway. This isn’t particularly [...]

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Panorama 2.0 released

Panorama – the new release has only very minor changes in function (so certainly no need to rush to update) but does have some additions in terms of language mo files, sv_SE Swedish now being an option…

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WordPress Themes Security

Time, perhaps, to renew the regular warning about obfuscated theme code – if you’ve just come to self-hosted WordPress, it’s worth being aware of what tricks can go on in this area.
Be cautious when and if you’re going download a WordPress theme from a third-party repository, gallery, call ‘em whatever. Not all sites do this, [...]

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Persephone – Free WordPress Theme

Persephone is a free WordPress theme, two-column, with a right sidebar, compatible with WordPress version 2.7 upwards, and all ready for paged and threaded comments. 3 styles to choose from, good old blue, red, green…
Version 1.1 has been tested on Firefox 2,3, Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Chrome, Opera 9.
Features

Twitter badge link
Add your own logo [...]

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Free WordPress Theme – MagicBlue

MagicBlue 7th Nov 2009: with the new 100% GPL regime in place, we have, reluctantly, decided to withdraw our support for MagicBlue.
It will continue to be hosted at the Themes repository for as long as, but won’t be updated for new versions of WordPress – sorry…

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WordPress Theme Functions

1. Conditional functions
To begin at the beginning, we’re talking about is_home(), is_search() etc. The whole collection of functions is here – and the majority are handled in a very similar way.
This family of conditional functions is related to the template file hierarchy – and since their use can save a lot of time and [...]

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Ringbinder Free WordPress Theme

Ringbinder has been updated and improved (hopefully) – a free WordPress theme, two-column, with a right sidebar, it’s now compatible with WordPress version 2.7 upwards, and all set up for threaded comments.
Version 1.3 tested on Firefox 2,3, Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Chrome, Opera 9.
Features

Horizontal page menu – configure order and exclude pages
3 color styles [...]

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Alibi3col Free WordPress Theme

Alibi3col is a three-column free WordPress theme, with central content and left & right sidebars.
Compatible with WordPress versions 2.7+
Tested on Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7 and 8, and Opera 9.

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WordPress RSS Functions

So you want to get a RSS feed and echo it to a WordPress page or sidebar – you’ve already got the RSS sidebar widget feature, but what if you want a little more control over what’s coming out?
New in WordPress 2.8 is the fetch_feed() function – as the name suggests, a means of retrieving [...]

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WordPress Database Functions

If you’re going to be a WordPress plugin author, pretty soon you’ll have to get into the area of database operations, manipulating existing data or even adding your own tables – assuming you have a basic knowledge of PHP/MySQL, here’s how the fundamentals work
WordPress uses the ezSQL database wrapper – not a high-tech solution (WordPress [...]

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