I came across Martín Fernández’s website a while back, and noticed it was using a modified version of the Lightweight theme. Check out what he did with it below.

As you can see, it’s still a light theme with a slightly different color scheme. It really works great to showcase his graphics work.

I got in touch with Martín and he agreed to let me release his modified WordPress theme here on Theme Lab. I converted it to a child theme, so the only things in the file are a stylesheet and a screeenshot. Download it here. Check out the demo here.

Make sure you know how to install a child theme, so you’ll need the Lightweight theme uploaded as well as the Ligher child theme. Activate “Lighter” in your WordPress admin.

I recently came across an alternative version of the Lightweight theme over at x.whatevurr.net, which has been released for download over there. Here’s a screenshot:

It’s a bit thinner than the original, and has a very noticeable pink color scheme. Not sure if any of you like pink themes, but hopefully this comes in handy for someone.

I came across a blog the other day and was surprised to see a credit link to Theme Lab in the footer. After looking at the source, I soon realized that this blog was using the Inverted Headline theme, available for free here at Theme Lab. Anyway, I Can Also Right is a design blog authored by Tim Benzinger. It looks like it has some really interesting stuff, if you’re into design.

As you can see, you can do some pretty amazing things just by customizing existing free WP themes. If you have a blog using a highly customized version of one of our free WordPress themes, feel free to contact me and I’ll see if I can include you in an upcoming showcase post.