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If you like the Boston Globe’s Big Picture photography blog then you’ll love the Zack 990 WordPress theme.
The theme is designed exclusively for photo and video bloggers with a one-column design that’s wide enough to showcase images 990 pixels wide, allowing for the creation of stunning photo blogs.
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Magazeen is a stunning free magazine-style WordPress theme that has a contemporary look and feel, and wouldn’t look out of place as a premium theme.
The theme features an interactive showcase of recent posts at the top of each page, using a horizontal panel of thumbnail images. When you scroll over the image the title appears – encouraging your visitors to explore and enjoy your posts.
It also includes drop-down navigation with a difference – with the drop-down menus under the category headings revealing some posts from each category.
Magazeen also has some custom widgets that you can control from the WordPress admin panel to easily change the settings for the latest and featured posts in the sidebar. These panels are among the best-looking available in any WordPress theme – free or premium.
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The Morning After is a brilliant free WordPress theme designed for magazine-style websites. It’s one of the best, if not the single best, free magazine templates available. It should meet the desires of many site owners, given it was created based on a survey of what people wanted in a unique magazine-style theme.
The template is grid-based, has a three-column homepage, highlighted featured posts and a customisable header image.
It also allows editors to associate images and thumbnails with posts, to appear on the homepage.
The coding allows for easy CSS classes to add captions and wrap text around images in posts.
Asides are built-in, as is Widget compatibility. Readers can also email stories to friends or choose a print-friendly version of stories.
The theme creator has written extensive commentary about installing, customising and using the theme on the download page.
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Curvy, fresh and flexible, Fervens is a high-quality three-column weblog theme with a choice between three layouts.
Fervens users can choose whether they’d like two sidebars on the left, two on the right or one each side of the main content column.
Other features include widget integration and a couple of built-in plugins, including for displaying your Flickr photostream.
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Carrington is a complex, multi-layered WordPress theme that looks good out of the box and offers a multitude of advanced customisations for anyone who wants to dig a little deeper.
The theme is focused on creating a quality structure for your website and offers easy custom development.
Carrington won’t be for everyone, because it has something of a learning curve to figure out how to make customisations. However, once you make the leap you can use this theme to create very flexible, powerful websites.
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Handgloves is one of the best free WordPress theme releases for some time, offering a striking two-column design that emphasizes content and uses typography and white space to create a professional tone, with good integration options for photos in posts.
The two-column design packs a huge punch, featuring a sidebar dedicated to recent posts, Twitter and Flickr.
Handgloves includes a noticeable but unobtrusive search box. The download includes key plugins you will need to operate the site as shown on the demo.
This theme features easy to read text, straightforward horizontal navigation, and awesome support for plugins.
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The name says it all. When it comes to WordPress themes, it really doesn’t get much simpler than Simplr, one of a number of excellent themes designed by Scott Allan Wallick of Plaintxt.org.
The front page of this WordPress template is elegant in its simplicity: it displays just a single post
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Satorii is a single-column WordPress theme with a minimalist, elegant and clean style.
The theme is built on the back of the well-known Sandbox theme, the Yahoo User Interface CSS and jQuery javascript, which makes it easy to customise or add new features — some of them are automatic zebra tables and automatic FancyBox added to image links, plus a useful reply to comments effect.
Plus, it has everything that a complete WordPress should have: support for tags, galleries and captions, Gravatar, localization (so you can create your own translation editing just one file), an image template, and, of course, widgets.
Satorii has beautiful typography and an extremely well styled comments area. The theme is very flexible and would suit multiple purposes.
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Manifest is a beautifully minimalist one-column weblog theme with elegant typography and nothing to distract from the main content, be that text, photos or video.
The theme has a simple horizontal navigation and absolutely no clutter or cruft to distract the eye. If you want your visitors to read your words, this is a theme that will help achieve that goal.
The main body text is justified, and the footer features elegant links to the site owner’s social media identities.
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