WordPress theme author Anders Norén is back to releasing themes after a brief hiatus over the winder holidays. Lovecraft, is his 10th theme to be approved on WordPress.org. The Lovecraft design was inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft, an American horror fiction author known for his “weird realism” – the idea that reality is…
Warriors Of Code is a new WordPress theme development shop in Australia. An employee who goes by the name Genesisfan on Reddit, published a post explaining how the company recently had its first theme accepted on ThemeForest and was willing to answer questions others had about the experience. According to the post, he spent the…
Last week Jason Schuller launched his Pickle WordPress theme on Pickle.pub and the product is now available on Creative Market. Pickle is a restaurant theme that is packaged with a custom admin design to provide a seamless content-editing experience. Schuller’s decision to re-enter the WordPress theme market following the sale of Press75 came after several…
The new design of the WordPress Theme Directory is a welcome change on WordPress.org. Faster browsing and filtering means users can more easily sort through the thousands of available options. While the directory includes many beautiful, high quality themes, it often requires sifting through hundreds to find that diamond in the rough. One of the…
The new design for the official WordPress Theme Directory is live today. Contributors on the WordPress Meta team released a preview of the design in early January and worked quickly over the past month to resolve any outstanding issues related to the new plugin that powers the directory. In addition to an updated design, the…
The Roots starter theme for WordPress has rebranded as “Sage” with its 8.0.0 release today. Roots project creator Ben Word announced last year that he planned to change the theme to be framework agnostic in 2015. This release is the first step towards that goal. Fans of the starter theme appreciate its cleaner HTML, cleaner…
Last year, WordPress saw a renaissance in personal blogging themes. The official WordPress.org directory received a deluge of high quality themes that served to raise the bar for commercial developers when it comes to design and simplicity. In particular, the trend of flat, minimalist blogging themes is still running strong. Last month, theme design and…
Tom McFarlin released his Mayer WordPress theme on GitHub today. The theme was designed with writers, bloggers, and authors in mind and was previously only available to WordPress.com users for $79. Mayer is unique in that it was created to get users writing immediately, without having a bunch settings pages or additional widgets to configure.…
Devin Price, who owns and operates the WordPress commercial theme shop DevPress, announced that he is retiring his best selling theme, Zenith. I asked Price why he’s retiring his best product. “Retirement may not be the best term. It’s more like introducing the new year’s model and stopping production on the previous one. The designs…
Custom CSS boxes in themes are a common feature that allow users to easily add their own styles without having to edit any theme files. The inclusion of this feature in themes, as opposed to plugins, has long been a hotly contested issue among theme developers. WordPress.org Theme Review team admin Justin Tadlock announced today…
If you like designs that feature stunning, fullscreen background images, then Automattic’s latest free theme release is a prime candidate for your next blog redesign. Harmonic recently landed on WordPress.org and is rapidly closing in on 3,000 downloads. This theme puts the spotlight on your images and content. Harmonic’s striking homepage is accompanied by a…
Those who are new to WordPress theming are often confused by the mixture of PHP and HTML markup in templates. It’s easy to accidentally break theme functionality when everything is placed in the same file. For that reason, there’s a strong contingency of developers who prefer to integrate the Twig PHP templating engine with WordPress,…
Restaurant themes don’t often land in the WordPress Themes Directory. In fact, there are barely a dozen listed among the 3,000+ themes on WordPress.org. One problem with many commercial restaurant themes is that they are usually marketed as a complete package with everything built into the theme, including menu management. The lack of separation of…
Earlier this week, WP Theming‘s Devin Price announced a partnership with French translation specialist Fx Benard on a new theme shop aimed at the French-speaking WordPress community. Hexagone is now open for business with four products available – two commercial themes and two free themes. The duo plan to expand to offer more “products, support,…
In just one week since its release, the new Modern theme was downloaded nearly 2,700 times from WordPress.org. It was created by WebMan Design, a Slovakia-based company founded by Oliver Juhas. WebMan Design has been selling WordPress themes across multiple marketplaces since 2012 and recently began focusing on producing future-proof themes that meet WordPress.org standards.…