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Cool. It'd be even cooler if you could identify the 3 column layouts. Nice work!
Posted by: Jon | Mar 17, 2005 7:45:27 PM
Thanks for the list. We are always looking for themes. Maybe one day I will be good enough (and take the time) to create one. :) Good day!
Posted by: Dave | Mar 17, 2005 8:17:33 PM
Great list Emily. I do notice in all your postings that there is no mention of Expression Engine. We have been planning our own weblog using Movable Type, but only today I have read that there are some serious technical issues regarding many blogs not being found at all and others where postings have disappeared from bloggers archives.
We had in any case decided already to switch and use EE, as it is a fully compliant CSS/PHP/MySQL based package, with lots of excellent features. I accept that EE only has a small share of the blog software market at present, but then the developers only released it a few months ago, having taken over from their earlier package called pMachine Pro. I think that is correct.
You ought to try out the functionality - we would be interested in your comments - before we dive in and buy their package! Sorry, that makes you sound like our guinea-pig - if you know what I mean!!
Posted by: Christopher Dickson | Mar 18, 2005 4:53:58 AM
You are very much appreciated for compiling this info and I am happy to see all my 3 themes find a place in here :)
Thanks for the good work and please keep it up ! :)
Posted by: sadish | Mar 18, 2005 9:05:39 AM
Thanks for throwing some traffic my way for my Curtains Up theme.
Posted by: Seth | Mar 18, 2005 11:27:07 AM
Thanks for linking to Rubric Emily,
Cheers,
Tom
Posted by: Tom Raftery | Mar 19, 2005 3:08:32 AM
A big 'your welcome' to everyone who has written me with thanks for this post - I really appreciate the feedback!! And I'll stay true to my promise to keep updating it as new WP 1.5 themes become available - I'm prowling the blogosphere for more as you read this.
Also, a huge thanks to all of you who have linked to this post, and to my 'How to Blog' blog in general!!! They are GREATLY appreciated!! :)
Posted by: Emily from How to Blog | Mar 19, 2005 9:36:22 AM
Hey thanks for the link. Drop me a line sometime. I have a question... :)
Posted by: Aaron | Mar 22, 2005 5:07:13 PM
Hey Emily, I know you love getting these themes right away, so here's the link to a theme I just released. :)
http://daynah.php-princess.net/?p=231
Posted by: Daynah | Mar 22, 2005 10:19:46 PM
Thanks for the links to Deep Blue, Green Trees and Mashed Spuds! I'll let you know if/when I make something new :)
You're doing a fabulous job here, it must be overwhelming at times.
Posted by: kyte | Mar 23, 2005 2:28:06 PM
You are an angel from heaven. . . thanks chica.
Posted by: Gammylt | Mar 24, 2005 9:11:12 AM
Actually, the crappymatic is the crappy script I wrote that converts generic templates into blogger, wordpress, diaryland, diary-x, movable type, and textpattern templates, so it's not technically a wordpress theme itself - although all of the linkware templates at my site are.
Posted by: francey | Mar 24, 2005 9:12:02 AM
Awesome job. Heaven for any wordpress user.
Posted by: Azeem Azeez | Mar 24, 2005 11:55:11 AM
you can add my theme
Posted by: Daniel Ryan | Mar 24, 2005 2:03:38 PM
Hey thanks for adding my theme (MTsix)!
Posted by: Oliver | Mar 24, 2005 3:52:07 PM
Umm on the one called Simplicity which I made.. it links to a page with three themes on it.
I guess you can do whatever you want but here's another I made
http://wh0cares.com/2005/03/24/simplicity0/
and http://wh0cares.com/martyr/
Posted by: Bobd314 | Mar 24, 2005 7:02:23 PM
Hi there, this topic was recently bumped at WP so I thought I'd take a look - I'm mighty impressed by your effort, and it's always good to see more resources to find more themes.
The address for my Meadow theme (in the list) is now http://wordpress.sekhu.net which includes the variation Don't Panic! theme. If I do anymore themes they'll be there.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: sekhu | Mar 25, 2005 12:55:52 AM
Hi Emily,
Thanks for Posting my "Aesthetic theme" here. Kudos for collecting the comprehensive and Best collection of Wordpress Themes.
Dilip
Posted by: Dilip | Mar 25, 2005 8:26:01 AM
Hi again Emily, I just thought you might be interested in this! :)
http://daynah.php-princess.net/?p=238
Posted by: Daynah | Mar 26, 2005 4:25:19 PM
181 Radical Image
incorrect link
122 132
same theme - Lucid
193 safety is 3 columns
Posted by: Nice | Mar 31, 2005 7:30:52 AM
To 'Nice' - Thank you so much for the heads-up on that! I've made all the corrections (and found another theme that was listed twice!)
Unfortunately, the site where I found the link for the Radical Image theme (Organic Shadows) also points to the incorrect URL - and I haven't been able to turn up any other references to that theme just yet, so for now I've removed it from the list.
I greatly appreciate the help with editing! Thanks for taking the time to drop me the note!
Posted by: Emily from How to Blog | Mar 31, 2005 12:17:08 PM
Again, to the WP theme authors, you're all welcome (in response to the thanks you've expressed for having listed your themes here), but remember the real thanks goes out to YOU for having created the themes and making them freely available to the WP community. Thanks so much for sending your themes my way! Keep 'em coming :)
Posted by: Emily from How to Blog | Mar 31, 2005 12:19:56 PM
Hi,
Can you add my new theme "FALL-IN-LOVE to the list. The screen shots of the theme is availabale in http://www.dilpu.net/wordpress.html . The theme is with Three columns. The current colour scheme is 'Royal Blue'
Regards,
Dilip
Posted by: Dilip | Apr 1, 2005 12:12:37 AM
Another theme. I got bored and decided to make this
Posted by: Bobd | Apr 3, 2005 8:31:19 PM
Emily: Just leting you know that my three themes (Deep Blue, Greentrees and Mashed Spuds) are no longer available for download. They may be resurrected at some time in the future but right now that seems doubtful... Thanks for the link-time :)
Posted by: kyte | Apr 8, 2005 5:16:32 PM
Hi,
I downloaded the Blue Radiant theme and was wondering if you could help me.
I want to widen the columns a little and no matter what I seem to enter into the CSS style sheet it distorts the template?
I like how you have this nice and wide 3 column and want the same! Any suggestions?
Carl Sorensen
Posted by: Carl Sorensen | Apr 9, 2005 4:30:14 PM
Actually, Emily, please ignore my last comment. I have spent the weekend redesigning the site and updating those themes.
http://www.hamarana.com for the main site and downloads
http://themedev.hamarana.com for demos of my three themes.
Thanks :)
Posted by: kyte | Apr 9, 2005 8:35:34 PM
Made this new theme and thought it would be nice if it would be listed here.
So, it's "just another retro-ish pink theme", and you can find it @ http://www.aamukaste.org/wpthemes
Thanks (:
Posted by: Topi Peltonen | Apr 14, 2005 1:12:54 PM
Made my first own Theme called Relaxation. Would be great, if you can list it here. =)
http://www.jowra.de/wp/2005/04/wordpress-theme-relaxation/
Thanks.
John
Posted by: Jowra | Apr 17, 2005 7:12:11 AM
Hi, I'm currently running around promoting my three-column theme Treacle (http://not-that-ugly.co.uk/?page_id=42) so if you could list it that'd be lovely. (There are a couple more three-cols in the works, but they're not done yet.)
Posted by: the absent student | Apr 21, 2005 8:10:15 AM
My ninja theme
http://wh0cares.com/ninja/
Posted by: Bob | Apr 25, 2005 7:13:37 PM
Hi,
just to tell I've released a theme with a set of 8 flavours at http://www.eretzvaju.org/identification-bands with 4, 3 and 2 columns each.
Regards
Posted by: neuro | May 6, 2005 1:30:29 PM
incorrect link?
215 Sassy N Slim
Posted by: Nice | May 9, 2005 1:07:44 PM
Here's another one for you: http://www.thex.com/rd/?page_id=104
Posted by: richard | May 10, 2005 9:29:07 AM
My Beeblebrox theme: http://beeblebrox.net/2005/05/14/wordpress-theme-beeblebrox-version-01/
Posted by: thom | May 14, 2005 7:29:18 AM
Hi Emily,
I just released my first theme for WP and will be releasing more soon. Here's the link to it - http://lfmdesigns.com/2005/05/16/dash-of-cinnamon/
Thanks
Posted by: Lena | May 17, 2005 1:33:58 PM
Just released a new theme: Bluecubes. It's a simple two-column theme named for the masthead image.
Posted by: richard | May 22, 2005 7:36:09 AM
Hello!
Wanted to add a new theme up here, called "Sunset", you can find it here: http://www.thex.com/rd/?page_id=126 You can also find it in action here: http://www.thex.com/blogtest?ts_theme=Sunset
The English Guy
Posted by: richard | May 26, 2005 6:28:11 AM
Hi Emily, I just released another theme for WP. It's a photoblog theme called Shutterbug. You can find it here: http://www.lfmdesigns.com/2005/06/01/shutterbug/ and you can see it in action here: http://themes.lfmdesigns.com/photoblog/
Thanks again,
Lena
Posted by: Lena | Jun 2, 2005 9:30:10 AM
Hello!
I just finished a new theme called "horizontal", and its not like ones that have come before. You'll see what I mean. You can find it on my blog: http://rd.thex.com/ and use the theme switcher to switch to "Horizontal" (or here in action: http://www.thex.com/blogtest?ts_theme=horizontal) There are downloads links from my blog post on it.
The English Guy
Posted by: the english guy | Jun 6, 2005 8:21:50 AM
Hiya, new theme release, two columns called "Mint_Julep", find it here: http://rd.thex.com/rd/?page_id=159 (download here too); you can use the theme switcher there too to see it or go here: http://www.thex.com/blogtest?ts_theme=Mint_Julep ; Downloads links available from my blog.
The English Guy
Posted by: the english guy | Jun 9, 2005 11:02:12 AM
Thanks for putting together this list.
I wanted to point out that about half of these are not wordpress themes as such; many are simply stylesheets, which don't currently download properly (at least the ones from AlexKing.org, which constitutes a good chunk of them).
I'm currently looking for a list of themes that has direct links to the .zip files (rather than the info pages), so I can use a Firefox plugin (downThemAll!) to download them lazily. Anyone know of one?
Posted by: Justin | Jun 10, 2005 11:35:39 PM
@Emily: the Semiologic theme now has two skins, and is localized in no less than 5 languages. :)
Posted by: Denis de Bernardy | Jul 13, 2005 7:51:06 AM
best
Posted by: torbjon | Jul 17, 2005 2:52:33 AM
wow, exactly what i was looking for. great list
Posted by: bob | Jul 25, 2005 11:00:42 PM
Emily, you go girl! Thanks for putting this massive list together and linking directly to the author's sites.
Posted by: Cycling Man | Aug 2, 2005 6:47:21 PM
i've made my first wp-theme downloadable as zip (165kb) on this download and demo page.
http://www.contact-sheet.de/blog/index.php/iroybots-stained-theme/
would be nice to see it added to the list! thanx :-)
Posted by: erik | Aug 7, 2005 3:53:52 PM
When I click on the links to go to the web pages showing the styles on Alex King's site, it just sends me to the default style. Does this happen to anyone else? Using Firefox on Windows xp here.
Posted by: web-content-king | Aug 11, 2005 6:46:55 PM
cool list!
i took the Fall In Love theme from dilip and Modified it to death!..lol
Posted by: adalante | Aug 17, 2005 2:34:41 AM
It would be great if any of your themes could be downloaded. Any of theme (except the first one) charges. Wonderful, you have made a great web completely useless!!
Posted by: Undo | Aug 24, 2005 1:46:20 AM
Ummm..."Undo," you obviously have no idea what you are looking at. All themes are free and simply by clicking on the theme link, you'll be taken to the author's site where a download link can be found.
Maybe you should do a little research before being so ignorant. This is a great list and a wonderful contribution to the WP community.
Posted by: Christopher | Aug 27, 2005 9:09:50 PM
The TNO Theme info is wrong, it's a 3 column theme, but maybe you listed the TNO-K2 theme, which has 2 columns??
Posted by: OMEITOR | Sep 2, 2005 3:19:03 PM
Wow! This list is very useful! Thanks Emily! If any of you guys want to have a theme like my site http://www.kahsoon.com , you can contact me at my contact page.
Posted by: kahsoon | Sep 2, 2005 7:53:08 PM
Impressive. Thank you very much for your hard work.
Posted by: Ken Savage | Sep 3, 2005 8:50:34 PM
Hey there,
Just released http://raven.za.net/index.php/renovatio-wordpress-theme/ Renovatio... dont know if you want to add it to the list
Thanks
Dave
Posted by: fx | Sep 4, 2005 6:27:38 AM
I have a revamped version of Connections released.
URL: http://www.ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/wpthemes/connections-reloaded/
Posted by: Ajay | Sep 5, 2005 2:17:58 AM
the equix theme is not longer there, it can be found here http://marcosmedia.com.ar/show.me/equix/
Posted by: luca | Sep 5, 2005 11:44:07 AM
This list is awesome but I think it would look better with thumbnails.
I came up with 240 screenshots of the URLs given, they're made automatically, as best as I could, so maybe someone can fill in the gaps by hand. I made them with a healty mixture of shell scripting, PHP, Python, my trusty MiniMac and it's wonderful WebKit. The software used to take the actual "screenshots" was Webkit2PNG (http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/)
I hope Emily has the time to dress the list with the corresponding screenshots, I think it's better they stay here, than replicating the list at my own blog.
So Emily; here's the 12M zipball of the screnshots: http://www2.lingo.com.mx/ruben/uploads/wp_skins.zip
Posted by: Ruben | Sep 5, 2005 10:07:22 PM
every thought about viewing a screenshot while the mouseover? It would save me two or three clicks per Theme ;)
Posted by: Markus | Sep 7, 2005 5:59:31 AM
Hi,
Your efforts are great.
May I suggest (is it too late) to list them by chronological order) grouped by month? It would make it easier than having to re-scroll the list each time searching for new names, cuz I usually forget previously viewed theme names in that growing list.
...dare I suggest workable thumbnails?
I applaud your efforts!
Posted by: don kasprzak | Sep 7, 2005 8:32:19 AM
Hi everyone -
Thanks for all of the suggestions - I agree that the list would be much more beneficial with screenshots and/or thumbnails. I'm going to implement that as soon as time permits. Please keep in mind though that it will take me quite some time -- in fact, just maintaining this list has taken MANY hours worth of work.
@Ruben -- thanks much for the thumbnails - I look forward to having the time to upload them all to the site!
@all the theme authors -- thanks again for all of your hard work and your contributions to the WP community. Your efforts are greatly appreciated! Keep up the fantastic work!
Posted by: Emily from How to Blog | Sep 7, 2005 9:25:55 AM
This is my first free Wordpress theme, base on Photanical theme by Theron Parlin. This was tested on 1.5.2.
Themes name : 15n41n1
Author: isnaini dot com
Themes URL: http://www.isnaini.com/2005/09/08/wordpress-themes-15n41n1/
Download URL : http://www.isnaini.com/upload/15n41n1.zip
Screenshot : http://www.isnaini.com/upload/15n41n1_big.jpg
thanks and please add it on your list
isnaini dot com
Posted by: isnaini | Sep 7, 2005 2:59:54 PM
This is a new 2-column Wordpress theme, tested on 1.5.2.
Themes name: Clean Slate
Author: Richard Dows
Themes URL: http://www.thex.com/rd/clean-slate-theme/
Download URL: http://www.thex.com/downloads/CleanSlate.zip
See it in action here: http://www.thex.com/rd/?ts_theme=Clean Slate
Posted by: the english guy | Sep 8, 2005 9:41:28 AM
My second wordpres Themes :
Name: Dragonfly
Author : Isnaini Dot Com
URL : http://www.isnaini.com/2005/09/11/wordpress-themes-dragonfly/
Screenshot: http://www.isnaini.com/upload/dragon_fly_big.jpg
Download URL : http://www.isnaini.com/upload/dragonfly.zip
Posted by: isnaini dot com | Sep 11, 2005 1:37:23 AM
The link I submitted is to ALL the Kickass Wordpress Themes, both three and four column, which are all available on the themeswitcher. I'll be adding to the page periodically. Enjoy!
Posted by: bj | Sep 11, 2005 7:13:46 AM
Greetings,
Great resources you have here. It's bookmarked on my end. Passing on three 404's to you that I ran across:
Shutterbug
Thingamablog
WpInside
FYI.
Sam
Posted by: Sam | Sep 17, 2005 7:41:27 AM
Just released Contempt - http://raven.za.net/index.php/contempt-wordpress-theme/
nice job with all your work
Posted by: fx | Sep 26, 2005 8:26:29 AM
Thanks for great listing. I hope listing will grow!
Posted by: SilverMaster | Sep 28, 2005 3:49:27 AM
Hi I'm currently developing a new theme and I wonder if it belong amongst the big guys.
Posted by: Fredrik Fahlstad | Sep 28, 2005 5:34:06 AM
Hello Emily,
Thank you for a wonderful list of resources. I've been surprised how simple things can make a big difference... so thank you for making that difference.
Posted by: Stuart Tan | Oct 3, 2005 12:01:20 AM
I ported Tommy Juhnke's GPLed Banana Smoothie to WP 1.5:
http://www.feedtheclown.com/banana-smoothie.zip
demo at http://www.feedtheclown.com/
Posted by: Brenton Simpson | Oct 7, 2005 12:47:36 PM
This is a very impressive list of themes. Great effort.
Here is another one to add to the list. It is a theme based on the popular Firefox browser.
View screenshots and download here http://www.hot-screensaver.com/2005/10/09/firefox-theme-for-your-blogs/
Posted by: Jacky | Oct 10, 2005 2:01:13 AM
404's fixed, new themes added
sorry for the delay in updating - been dealing with some personal issues
keep the great themes coming!
Posted by: Emily from How to Blog | Oct 10, 2005 12:04:06 PM
Thanks for putting this up, I've used one of the themes on my site.
Thank you
Posted by: AJAX | Oct 19, 2005 4:49:26 PM
I release my first theme today named Blue Horizon.
URL:http://kaushalsheth.com/themes
Screenshot :http://www.kaushalsheth.com/bluehorizon.png
Download Link : http://www.kaushalsheth.com/bluehorizon.zip
Posted by: Kaushal Sheth | Oct 20, 2005 3:49:07 AM
ok im new to this, all I want to do is change my sidebar and add google ad's to the sidebar not in the post
Posted by: James | Oct 21, 2005 3:52:42 PM
This is the very best list of themes anywhere.
Thanks
j
Posted by: Samurai Sword Guy | Oct 21, 2005 10:47:46 PM
Something I would love to see is someone actually have a list of these themes categorized by type (ie 2 column-Left, 2 column-Right, 3 column, and then have thumbnails of each theme... :-)
This could take some time, but certainly easier than using the Theme Viewer to wade thru each one at a time...
Just my 2 cents...
Dennis
Posted by: Dennis Gerik | Oct 26, 2005 10:05:22 AM
I just released my own theme today called Old School. This is a pretty simple 3-column theme. Unlike any other themes I have tried, Old School uses tables, and relies less on CSS stuff. And for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes, I have added some logic in the header module to include description and keywords meta tags. These are made up from the page title, and or the blog name and description. The left column is left empty so a 160x600 skyscraper type banner may be included. There is also a sport in the header for a 468x60 type banner to be placed. I have Google Adsense banners in these places on my ZeroToRich.com page. It can be downloaded at http://www.zerotorich.com/themes/.
Posted by: RJ | Oct 28, 2005 3:40:54 PM
Nice list, but are all or any of these compatible with 1.5.2? (Sorry, I tried to read through the comments but got lost!)
Posted by: Alek | Oct 29, 2005 5:46:17 PM
I appreciate the effort, but without thumbnails this is like an index without page numbers.
Posted by: jtnt | Nov 2, 2005 7:15:51 PM
I have made my first WP 1.5.2 Theme, you can see it live in action on my blog : http://blog.gigadesign.be.
To download it go to the -BE Nice- link in the top.
Posted by: Mark C. | Nov 3, 2005 1:43:57 PM
On auspicious occasion of Diwali ( Indian Festival ) I release two more themes for wordpress.
1> Maple Leaf
Preview: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/mapleleaf.png
Download Link: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/mapleleaf.zip
2> Anthosia
Preview: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/anthosia.png
Download Link: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/anthosia.zip
Please do check my Themes page for more themes and future updates
On personal note Emily you are doing great job. I always land up here to find new themes for my blogs. Thank a lot for this list.
Posted by: Kaushal Sheth | Nov 3, 2005 8:28:25 PM
This is a new 2-column Wordpress theme, tested on 1.5.2.
Theme's name: Istrania Autumn
Author: David Arias (Davilac)
Theme's URL: http://www.davilac.net/istrania
Download URL (with this URL yu will always download the latest release): http://www.encalia.com/istrania/Istrania-autumn/istrania-autumn.zip
See it in action here: http://www.davilac.net/istrania
Support: http://www.davilac.net/istrania/forum
Posted by: Davilac | Nov 5, 2005 11:20:55 AM
I created another theme named Cnnesque inspired by the layout of a popular news site. There are spots for a 728x90 leaerboard banner such as Google Adsense, and a 300x250 box type banner (such as Google Adsense). The code contains comments marking the appropriate places to add the code. It can be downloaded at http://www.zerotorich.com/themes/.
Posted by: RJ | Nov 7, 2005 3:46:31 AM
Nice work!
But unfortunately not all of the templates are actually avaliable.
Posted by: Vlad Zima | Nov 7, 2005 1:53:15 PM
Hi Emily-
Awesome list- and a lot of hardwork-
what the WP community needs is a single space for posting themes- with a theme browser - like Alex's- and some kind of eval of each theme-
I've been frustrated by downloading themes that:
Have embedded ads and links back to the theme developer- without a read me explaingin them.
And- it would be nice to know what WP features they include- ideally - the feature list would be in a db- and we could check off which features we're looking for- and only see the themes that apply-
I for one - have no use for a calendar of post dates-
I think it a waste of space.
Others love it-
Some themes don't allow categorizing links-
others do- etc.
I'm hoping the dev team realizes that this is too important of a resource not to put a team to work on it.
thanks
www.blogosopher.com
Posted by: David Esrati | Nov 13, 2005 6:01:08 PM
useless post IMO cause there is too many themes an there is no selection nor screenshots.
(mostly) crappy themes.
That's my opinion.
Posted by: Matthieu | Nov 25, 2005 6:24:43 AM
how can I submit a theme :-?
Posted by: Sreejith R Krishnan | Nov 26, 2005 7:54:20 AM
A list is copyright ?
Just the list ?
I think not. And don't forget where you got this in the first place......
Posted by: Podz | Nov 27, 2005 3:08:32 PM
@Podz: My list contains 370 themes and counting, and I've spent over 40 hours on creating and maintaining it. And yes, my list is copyright protected in the sense that someone cannot just copy and paste my entire list as is on their site without my permission. That doesn't mean that someone could not utilize my list to create a derivative work of their own - but they would need to modify it enough to be seen as it's own work - significantly distinct from mine, or add enough additional content of their own - even if that were to be providing their own theme descriptions or even by adding thumbnails -- something that differentiates the work from what I have done here. I do not have a problem with someone using my resource as a launching point for creating their own distinct resource, but just copying and pasting my list as is only to republish it on their own website/blog is unacceptable.
I certainly haven't forgotten where I've gotten all of the themes from, and my list is a derivative work based upon numerous other sites as well as an intense amount of foraging the internet on my own and correspondence with individual theme authors. For future reference, here is a link to guidelines for "Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials":
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm
As you can see from previous comments, visitors such as David, jtnt, Dennis, Matthieu all have pointed out usability issues where my list could be improved. Should someone care to implement those suggestions on their site, I'd applaud the effort -- it is, in fact something I've been meaning to do on my wordpress.com blog but as I've been sick for so long, I haven't had the time and now I'm so backloaded with work that I'm barely able to pay my mortgage, so again, while I have high aspirations for transforming my theme list into something that's more than just a list I honestly don't know when I'll have the time to do it. As mentioned, just maintaining this list is far more time consuming than I'd ever anticipated it to be.
Posted by: Emily from How to Blog | Nov 28, 2005 2:00:52 PM
Copyright is always a challenge when compiling other works to create a unique work of your own. You might want to consider adding a "Creative Commons" license to your blog. There is a link on my blog for the license (see "Links", Blogroll, Choosing a License, Creative Commons). You'll also find a link at the bottom of my website: www.eoecho.com.
Hope this helps.
Posted by: Greg | Dec 1, 2005 12:51:20 PM
Oops...forgot to thank you for compiling the list. Thanks!
I used a version of "A blog beyond" and modified it a lot (moved the columns around). I'm still working on it, but I've rec'd several positive comments from friends and colleagues. I'm still trying to figure out how to post my URI for trackbacks? Anyone have any suggestions?
Posted by: Greg | Dec 1, 2005 12:56:37 PM
Thank you, it is very enjoyable to find a helpful blog.Keep up the good work
Posted by: Robert | Dec 10, 2005 9:19:40 AM
Nice, you missed my themes though :P http://winnopeg.com/themes
Posted by: Winnopeg | Dec 12, 2005 4:30:29 PM
Wow..thanks a lot..this is just superb list ..just what i was looking for...
Can I link your post ?
Posted by: Rk | Dec 13, 2005 10:10:26 AM
Just a small update , 3 more themes added to my section.
Exquisite Demo :
http://www.wpdemo.kaushalsheth.com/index.php?wptheme=Exquisite
East View Demo: http://www.wpdemo.kaushalsheth.com/index.php?wptheme=Eastview
Greetz Demo:
http://www.wpdemo.kaushalsheth.com/index.php?wptheme=Greetz
All themes can be download from my themes section
http://www.kaushalsheth.com/themes/
Thank you.
Posted by: Kaushal Sheth | Dec 18, 2005 1:38:56 AM
Thanks for compiling the list!
Posted by: Lemony Snicket | Dec 21, 2005 1:31:16 AM
New CMS-style business website theme, 100% CSS, SEO'd etc. etc.,
http://upmarketmerchant.com/#merchant-credit-card
Posted by: UpMarket Merchant | Dec 23, 2005 10:42:30 PM
Awesome list. I thought you might like to know I've updated my RC2005 theme recently, which is a three-column, 1024x768 theme with the center first in the HTML (no easy feat). It has a unique post- and comment-time conversion script that converts timestamps into the reader's timezone.
Posted by: Justin Baeder | Dec 23, 2005 11:44:25 PM
Thanks for collecting the links . It would be super help if we can see a screenshot for each theme .
Posted by: GiftPeople | Jan 4, 2006 1:37:43 AM
I was very pleased when I found a link to this site showing a very large list of Wordpress themes but sadly after spending a couple hours clicking through many of the links that I must inform you that at least 30% or so of the links in just the first 50, 100, and 150 links listed do not work!
They are broken links leading to "page not found" errors or "no input field specified" error or they lead to a website that describes a theme but doesn't show screenshots or links to view what the theme looks like.
I lost count of the exact number of links that were broken or of no use but I started noticing many of them, 30% is just a guestimate for the first 50-150 links I tried. Test it yourself, start at the top of your list and proceed by clicking each of the links to see what I mean.
Links that would be good are links that take you to where you can see the actual theme in use, or a screenshot of the theme with a link to download from. Some of the links you provide do this, but many do not.
I hope you get a chance to go through them when time permits.
Regards,
~~MAK
Posted by: MAK | Jan 8, 2006 1:15:29 PM
Amazing Collection!
Thanks a ton for taking time to maintain this voluminous list and sharing with us all.
Keep up the good work.
Warm regards,
Rishu
Posted by: Web Designer | Jan 10, 2006 6:14:55 AM
Hi,
I have published a fully wp2.0 compatible theme named Binary Blue some days ago. It is fully localizable through WP's .po/.mo mechanism and contains nearly the full K2 functionality minus several bugs K2 still is flawed with.
You can find the theme at
http://www.4null4.de/71/wp-theme-blue-binary/
Kind regards
CountZero
Posted by: CountZero | Jan 18, 2006 3:39:02 PM
How cab you lay claim to copyright of the definative list of wordpress blog titles? If it IS the definative list you can't copyright it!
I mean if it is the total list whats to say I copied yours
or compliled my own? As it happens I am about to compile my own and refuse to be prevented from doing so by your claim to copyright.
This is against the spirit of open source! i want my own list because I do not want live links to the site in case any of them have content not suitable for an education audience i.e. young children.
Your claim to copytight made me mad it is unfair!
Posted by: ST | Jan 19, 2006 9:19:25 AM
@ST: You misunderstand my claim to copyright -- the copyright is for my list, as is. And it is not the definitave list -- it is simply the largest list currently out there, but every few days I look for and find that there are themes which I've missed on my list and then I add them. There IS no definative list, which is why I created my list.
My copywrite is to MY LIST. One cannot simply copy and paste it onto their own website and claim it as their own (which a couple of people have tried to do, and their ISP's got them to take it down because it IS protected by copywrite laws). I spent a lot of time on this list, and it isn't fair for others to just copy it and repost it on their site.
My list is copyright protected in the sense that you cannot just copy and paste my entire list as is on their site without my permission. That doesn't mean that you could not utilize my list to create a derivative work of your own - but you would need to modify it enough to be seen as it's own work - significantly distinct from mine, or add enough additional content of your own - even if that were to be providing their own theme descriptions or even by adding thumbnails -- something that differentiates the work from what I have done here. I do not have a problem with someone using my resource as a launching point for creating their own distinct resource, but just copying and pasting my list as is only to republish it on their own website/blog is unacceptable. If you had read through the comments, you'd have seen that I've already said as much.
My list is a derivative work based upon couple of other sites' partial lists (which have been referenced in my post) as well as an intense amount of foraging the internet on my own and correspondence with individual theme authors. For future reference, here is a link to guidelines for "Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials":
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm
And just as a heads-up, putting direct links to the downloads of themes themselves, as it seems like you're suggesting you'd do, then you'll be violating some of the rights of the theme authors - many of them do not allow their theme to be redistributed by others, even if they do allow people to use their themes for free (and some of those still have restrictions of being free only for non-commercial sites, although that's rare). By removing the links to their sites, you are removing any traffic they might derive as a result of having created their theme and that is inherantly unfair as they would not be receiving the full benefit of all of their efforts in creating the themes. The themes still belong to the theme owners. They are free to use on your own blog, but not free to redistribute as your own.
There are numerous comments on my post where people have suggested ways in which the list could be improved. If you are set on creating your own list (and good luck with that, it truly takes an enormous amount of work and time -- far more than I had ever anticipated when I started this project), you might consider incorporating some of those enhancement suggestions into your list.
And just because WordPress itself is open source, doesn't mean that everything pertaining to WP is open source. There are people who charge fees for creating custom themes for WordPress. There are people who charge fees for videos on how to use WordPress. I don't charge for all of the WordPress resources that I provide on this website, but that does not mean that they are not protected by copyright laws.
Posted by: Emily from How to Blog | Jan 19, 2006 10:08:44 AM
Update: WordPress Theme 'Be Nice' is now also WP 2.0 compatible.
Posted by: Mark C | Jan 19, 2006 1:32:56 PM
Awesome list. I thought you might like to know I've updated my RC2005 theme recently, which is a three-column, 1024x768 theme with the center first in the HTML (no easy feat). It has a unique post- and comment-time conversion script that converts timestamps into the reader's timezone.
Posted by: Kate | Jan 19, 2006 11:20:31 PM
I'm using Borderline Chaos on WordPress 2.0 over at http://www.firesnake.net - so far no issues.
Posted by: fs | Jan 20, 2006 6:30:33 PM
You may want to consider adding this theme to your list:
RevvedUp: http://rudd-o.com/projects/revvedup/
Posted by: Rudd-O | Jan 30, 2006 4:45:27 PM
Emily Thanks for a great list. In following links for 3 column themes I found a bunch more at bloggingpro.com which don't seem to appear to be on your list. Also Pumpkin on your list is a 3 column theme
Posted by: craig | Feb 3, 2006 11:05:56 PM
Hi Emily,
Thank you for such great information! I am researching blogging to add to our site mainly for my husband b/c he likes to write articles for the local paper here and have his opinions be known. I didn't see any information on Life Type or what used to be called pLog here. Did you ever experiment with that? I spent several hours yesterday reading through your blogs and it seems that WordPress it definitely the way to go! NOW MY QUESTION: I understand generally how the Internet, hosting, domains, some html basics (from dreamweaver)works but I do not have any extensive programming knowledge with php, xhtml, etc. Do I need to know these, or will I be able to figure it out by using WordPress and getting a hosting service for a blog site? Thanks for your help on How to Blog! Kwanza
Posted by: Kwanza Clay Bowe | Feb 5, 2006 8:10:44 AM
Hey, just thought I'd give you a heads up. I have a brand new theme out called Nine Shades of Green (http://stevish.com/archives/184), and has been tested in WP 1.5 and 2.0. Stevish.com is currently using the theme as is, with no extra tweaks or fixes.
Posted by: Steve | Feb 5, 2006 11:30:59 AM
Nice list. Except that it's missing my two themes:
veryplaintxt (http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/veryplaintxt/) Simple, clean design for blogs without pretentiousness. Fluid, hack-free 2-column layout. Valid CSS and lovely XHTML 1.0 Strict.
plaintxtCMS (http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/plaintxtcms/) Simple content management, the "plaintxt" way. Valid CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict.
Posted by: Scott | Feb 10, 2006 5:42:38 AM
Apologies. The links are incorrect. For the plaintxt themes, visit
http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/
Posted by: Scott | Feb 10, 2006 11:33:52 PM
Just thought I'd let you know that the link above to my theme includes the ")," and therefore is broken. the link is simply http://stevish.com/archives/184
Posted by: Steve | Feb 11, 2006 11:25:15 PM
Hello,
I have modified the black-letterhead theme for a three column layout, named it 3c-black-letterhead, and published it here:
http://aydin.net/blog/2006/02/13/wordpress-theme-three-column-black-letterhead/
Thanks and let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.
Hakan Aydin - http://www.aydin.net/blog
Posted by: Hakan Aydin | Feb 13, 2006 9:23:34 AM
I have two wordpress themes I have released so far, I am posting them all on my wordpress.com site. If you care to take a look at them, thank you, and maybe add them to your list? I don't mind at all. Thanks a bunch for reading this comment. Awesome list and resource.
http://becka.wordpress.com/
Posted by: Becka | Feb 14, 2006 8:32:31 AM
Hi, I have recently released a new Word Press theme called Ginseng Coffee. You can check it out here:
http://www.jtkconsulting.com/GinsengCoffee/
Posted by: JTk | Feb 18, 2006 8:45:58 PM
I love these themes although I have many wordpress themes. :-)
Posted by: wper | Feb 20, 2006 11:12:31 PM
My theme: http://www.reversial.com/blog/2006/02/21/presenting-rc10/
Posted by: Reversial | Feb 21, 2006 11:12:52 AM
My theme: www.microsano.org/theme/
Posted by: Philippe | Feb 24, 2006 3:00:59 AM
You may want to consider adding this theme to your list:
Burnin' R: http://rudd-o.com/projects/burninr/
(I'll submit you the theme privately if you want to test it by yourself, no questions asked, despite what the Web site says.)
Posted by: Rudd-O | Feb 24, 2006 1:57:24 PM
The URL for the Binary Blue theme suite has changed a couple of weeks ago. The new URL is
http://www.4null4.de/wordpress-binary-blue-theme/
Posted by: CountZero | Feb 24, 2006 1:59:18 PM
Thanks for the list. Nice work. If you'd like, feel free to add my theme to it.
http://www.bos89.nl/1060/
Regards,
Martijn
Posted by: Martijn | Feb 26, 2006 1:40:41 PM
Now my themes page has been updated with more than 15 free themes. One can look at it at http://www.kaushalsheth.com/themes/
and see demo at my demo blog
http://wpdemo.kaushalsheth.com
Posted by: Kaushal | Feb 26, 2006 8:16:43 PM
Hi, I have released a new WordPress theme (Dimension2k - green theme)!
You can download it here :
http://www.dimension2k.de/index.php/2006/02/26/dimension2k-green-theme/
Posted by: Basti | Feb 28, 2006 12:52:50 AM
This is my first theme. It's designed for version 2.0+ of WordPress. You can find it at this address:
http://blog.mihalev.info/wordpress-themes/#Rusty_1
Posted by: Martin | Mar 3, 2006 2:56:12 AM
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