Theme Description: Mayones a new magazine theme from NattyWp incorporating a user friendly interface, functionality and elegance. These qualities describe the professional news theme. The theme can be fully configured through the Theme Options panel, it is also supplied with 6 unique styles and all popular NattyWp widgets, developed specially for news themes.
Mayones Overview
This theme has been designed using transparent .png images, which allows changing the color of theme elements without any changes of the code. A specially developed block for managing colors will help you to configure the background, links, headlines and menu color etc. Be creative and design the color scheme suitable for your site.
* Transparent design
* Built-in color chooser
* Advanced categories module
* Latest news widget
* Latest Video Widget
* A completely widgetized sidebars with special widgets, developed by NattyWP
* 6 different styles to choose from
* Built in Theme Options panel, available through Wordpress Admin, for the detailed set up of your theme. See screenshot
* Image Resizer, authomatically creating thumbnails for blog posts.
* Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
* Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments. Threaded comments support.
* Comfortable and simple managing of banners and Adsense in the blog using special NattyWP widgets.
Live Demo | Download |
One of the great things about using WordPress as a content management system is the huge community of users and all of the resources that are available. While all plugins could be used by theme developers, the ones featured in this post have features that can be especially helpful for various aspects of theme development.
If you design and develop themes for you own use, custom themes for clients, premium themes for sale, or free themes to distribute, I think some of these plugins will be very useful to you.
Theme Switch
When you’re designing and developing a WordPress theme, you obviously won’t want the public to see your theme until it is ready. However, it’s helpful to also be able to test the theme in a live environment in attempt to find any flaws before officially changing over to the new theme. The Theme Switch plugin will allow you to control what theme is seen by logged in users with specific access privilege, and what theme is shown to regular visitors. This is a great way to test your theme before going live. It’s especially useful when you’re designing a new theme for an existing site or blog.
Theme Test Drive
Theme Test Drive is another plugin that was created for testing a theme without showing it to everyone. It works in a similar fashion to Theme Switch, so you can look at the details of each, test them and see which one you like best.
WordPress Theme Demo Plugin
WordPress Theme Demo was developed to help web designers who want to showcase demos of their themes. If you visit sites of premium themes sellers, or those who give away free themes, there is usually an option to view the theme on a demo blog. This plugin allows you to showcase demos of multiple themes on one WordPress installation.
Maintenance Mode Plugin
Although theme development will be done in a way that doesn’t impact an existing site, there may be some times when you need to make changes that would be better to not be visible to everyone. The Maintenance Mode is a good plugin to have handy for times when you would like to temporarily prevent visitors from seeing the site or theme in it’s current state. With this plugin visitors will get a customizable message until you are ready for the site to be viewed.
User Switching
If you’ve developed themes in a test environment you may have found that you tend to login and logout a lot, or login as different users. The User Switching plugin was created to make this a quicker, less painful process. With one click you can swicth from one user to another.
Raw HTML
This is a plugin that I just came across and have not used yet, but it looks promising. Raw HTML allows you to use raw HTML or any other code in your posts or pages. This may be especially useful if you are converting an existing static site to WordPress. There have been times when I worked on a project like this and had extra work because of the way WordPress dealt with code that was pasted from an existing page.
Advanced Category Excluder
If you’ve developed a number of different WordPress-based sites you know that each site tends to have it’s own unique needs and challenges, especially when focusing on using WordPress as a CMS more so than just a blogging platform. Advanced Category Excluder allows you to easily have control over what content is available in specific places. You can exclude certain categories from the front page and/or RSS feeds. You can control what content will be included or excluded from search results.
Simply Exclude
Simply Exclude offers similar functionality to Advanced Category Excluder. If you’re interested in this type of plugin, take a look at both and see which one looks like it will meet your needs.
WP sIFR
Looking to use sIFR with WordPress? This plugin makes it easy. You can handle pretty much everything from within the WordPress dashboard and take advantage of sIFR’s ability to have more control and wider choices with fonts.
FLIR for WordPress
Much like the previous plugin, FLIR for WordPress will give you more control over the fonts used, but obviously it uses FLIR (Facelift Image Replacement) instead of sIFR. Again, with this plugin almost everything can be controlled from within the WP dashboard.
TDO Mini Forms
With TDO Mini Forms you can set up forms for visitors to fill out that are used to create posts. Non-registered users can enter data into highly customizable forms, this information is then stored in drafts until an administrator approves it for publishing. Many sites that include a community news section are using TDO Mini Forms.
Sample WordPress Content
This isn’t technically a plugin, but I wanted to include it because it can be so helpful for theme designers and developers. WPCandy has put together a set of posts that will help you by providing sample content that can easily be imported into your WordPress blog (importing is very easy in the WP dashboard). If you’re working on a theme on a WordPress installation that has no content, this will save you some time as opposed to entering your own dummy content.
Source: vandelaydesign.com
WP-Smooth is another advanced premium WordPress theme developed by Solostream. In it, we’ve integrated the latest and greatest functionality available in WordPress version 2.7. We’ve also implemented a rather expansive control panel that makes it easy to change and tweak the many available options and colors (nearly identical to the WP-Vybe and WP-Jazz control panels). Some of the features include:
- Theme settings page in your WordPress control panel
- 10 different color options with control panel setting for further customization (see screenshots on demo site)
- 2-column or 3-column layouts with bottom right sidebar divided columns
- Optional Magazine layout for home page with category blocks (up to 4) of recent posts
- Threaded and Styled Comments
- Optional featured article glider for home page
- Gravatar integration
- Optional banner ad integration
- Optional built-in post thumbnails
- Optional logo/header image integration via control panel
- Built-in site search
- Built-in drop-down navigation for sub-categories and sub-pages
- Built-in author page and author profile with Gravatar support
- Widgetized sidebars
- Basic SEO techniques integrated
- Original Photoshop files (PSDs) available for download via control panel
- And much more …
Demo This Theme
这是一款很适合做新闻资讯类站点的博客主题。
预览：
Features:
# Featured posts box (front page + archives)
# Video Widget
# Popular Posts Widget
# Footer Widget Spot
# RSS feeds for all blog areas
# Popular Posts for Browsing Category
下载：IsoTherm News Magazine，不过该地址我这里测试好像已经撞墙了，反正我是用在线代理才上去的。在box.net备了一个v1.0的下载地址，想直接下载或许可以选择这里。
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Yesterday, Justin Shattuck sent out his first e-mail newsletter in a very long time, to let everyone know that an updated version of his popular Comment Relish plugin was out. The plugin allows you to set up an automated e-mail that gets sent out to first time commenters on your blog, enticing them to come back or subscribe to your RSS.
The newest release includes some obvious improvements over the previously neglected version uno and some major upgrades courtesy of Chris Bavota from tinkerpriestmedia.com. If you are currently using comment-relish and have not upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 because of its hectic and horrible reaction to the new code, have no worries - you can now! However, if you are running Wordpress 2.7 and you are upset that it was sending duplicate comments, endless comments to every commentor, or just flat-out broken - we fixed that too!
I am a huge fan of this plugin, and am going to be trying out version 2.0 as soon as I can.
Theme features:
- Magazine Style Layout
- Compatible with Wordpress version 2.7+
- Twitter Account Integration
- Featured Post
- Option Page for Easy Customization
- Feedburner Email Subscriber
- Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
- Advertisement Blocks Ready
- Gravatar Enabled
Live Demo | Download
PhilNa 是一个两栏浅蓝色的主题，该主题能够让你后台灵活设置选项，没有插件要求，并且相对简单的做了SEO的优化。该主题只适应 WordPress 2.7 及以上版本。该主题的详细功能有：
- 后台设置首页主要描述和关键字
- 头部显示欢迎词
- 页底可以显示当前网站在线人数
- Javascript 重写标题
- 后台设置首页显示通知，和边侧栏显示通告
- 边侧栏显示评论最多文章
- 支持单篇文章分页
- jQuery 实现页内链接平滑移动
- jQuery 实现 AJAX 提交评论
- 已评论过的作者隐藏其个人信息并显示他的头像，无需重复输入
- 评论回复 @someone。鼠标悬浮显示其评论内容
- 设置显示热情评论员
- 创建了链接模板
- 创建了简单的邮件表单模板
下载 PhilNa
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原文链接：WordPress 主题推荐：PhilNa
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Download: get it here.
下载：点击这里
- Version 2.7:
+ Fixed: The functions of smilies button when you are using non WYSIWYG editor.
+ Added: Compatible with TinyMCEComments.
Manifest, 一款非常简洁美观的 WordPress 主题, 出自 Jim Barraud 之手.
主要特点有:
- Valid XHTML
- Microformat support
- 404 页面, 内置”Recent Articles”
- 存档页面,支持月, 分类, 标签
- Links 页面
- 支持 Google AD
- 不支持 IE6
看上去很舒服的一款主题, 推荐一下, 另外, 搜索框是在最下面, 在 footer 部分还支持添加一些社会化网络(其它的也可)的链接, 可以自行添加.
如果你对作者比较感兴趣的话, 你也可以 follow 他的 twitter, 当然也欢迎你 follow 我的 twitter .
名称：GoogleCode
特性：
- 拥有Hybrid主题所有的内在美
- 两栏
- 主页（Primary）、帖子页（Secondary）、归档页（Archive）、页面页（Page）有不同的侧边栏，括号里是边栏名字
- 标签式页面菜单
- 其他Hybrid主题框架所拥有的一些功能
版本：0.1beta
截图：
下载：点击这里
注意事项：
- 这是Hybrid的子主题，对应的Hybrid版本是0.5（不装Hybrid是无法使用的）
- 不要对这款主题的外在美有什么过多的期待，如你所见
- 0.1而且还beta，代表很多潜在不稳定性，未必好用
- 这款子主题的作者，不是专业的
作者笔记：
就像各位看到的那样，我非常喜欢Google Code的样式，我的站点换过数次主题，但是外观都定格在Google Code的样式上，最早的verygoogle，然后是yui-theme，然后是现在GoogleCode for Hybrid。外观基本雷同。不要嘲笑我，我对复杂的结构没有驾驭能力，只好选择简洁，设计非我所长。
这款主题的发布，我不指望有什么用户真正去用，如果有人真的要采用，希望你三思，因为我很忙，不会提供必要的支持。
我发布这款主题的真正目的，是为了有始有终，我前面发表了一系列的介绍Hybrid的文章。很遗憾，我也没说明白个啥，这是因为真的很难说明白。不过呢，我还是要完成我的计划，就是给大家展示一个实例教程。这款主题于是来到了你的面前。这款子主题的原身为Hybrid子主题Skeleton，那是一个没有任何样式和功能，只包含一个Hello World的子主题，其本来用意也就是为了成为子主题开发的基础。我通过简单的开发，寥寥数行的代码，做出了这个GoogleCode，里面的代码，包含了一些简要的注释，希望看代码的同学能够有个线索。
通过对Hybrid的使用，我发现，这款主题很好用，很容易二次开发，作为一个IT民工，使用Hybrid是非常愉快的，就像你使用任何其他的开源框架一样，这个主题框架同样可以极大地提高您的工作效率。但是，如果您只是一个普通的用户，您大概需要什么样的基础才有能力定制Hybrid呢，仅仅从我的观点，您需要基本的编程素养，您可能需要一点PHP的语法知识，要明白callback是怎么回事，能够查阅文档，然后，您可能需要对WordPress插件的基本工作原理有所了解，分得清楚什么是Action和Filter。在以上的基础上，您可能需要很多的实践才能游刃有余地定制Hybrid，开发子主题。
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