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Snapshot is a showcase-style theme, suitable for portfolio websites or photo galleries. It’s a rare free theme release from the WooThemes team, who usually produce paid WordPress themes exclusively. I’ll be going over this free WordPress theme in a review post.

Snapshot WordPress Theme

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By: Leland on Oct. 21

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I recently came across this awesome looking magazine theme and I thought I would share it with all of you in a review. It’s called Guzel Magazine, created by Custom Theme Design. I’ll be going over how to set it up and other features.

Guzel Magazine

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By: Leland on Oct. 9

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Agregado is yet another amazing WordPress theme release by Smashing Magazine, this time in collaboration with designer Darren Hoyt. This theme is known as a “lifestream” theme, designed to preserve the personal website. I’ll be giving this theme a complete review, along with information on how to use it, and an overview of features.

Agregado WordPress Theme

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By: Leland on Sep. 30

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I receive e-mails all the time with compliments on Theme Lab’s design. People frequently ask if they could get a copy of the theme I use here, but I’ve always politely declined.

I feel that this design is part of the “brand” here at Theme Lab, and I wouldn’t want to dilute that brand by giving away my theme.

To any of you who don’t know, this design was custom designed, specifically tailored for my site. I’ve had it up for a little over 4 months.

It recently came to my attention that an uncreative individual has released a theme that has an eerily similar resemblance (to say the least) of Theme Lab. At first I thought I wasn’t going to post about this. I mean, why would I want to give a theme like this free publicity? I figured giving it a completely “honest” review would be a better option.

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By: Leland on Sep. 18

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Elegant WordPress ThemesThere have been a number of WordPress theme clubs launched relatively recently, and I usually don’t blog about them (with one exception).

Well there’s more good news for those of you looking for another affordable source for paid WordPress themes. It’s called Elegant WordPress Themes. At the time of writing this post, there are 12 WordPress themes, all for one low price of $19.95 per year. By signing up, you get access to not only those 12 themes, but also any future themes the club produces.

In this post I’ll be reviewing just one of those 12 themes, their latest theme called Influx. The rest of the review will be after the jump.

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By: Leland on Sep. 17

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The Arthemia WordPress theme, designed by Michael Jubel, is probably one of the cleanest and feature-packed free themes I’ve seen in a long time. I thought I share my experience with this theme in a review post.

Arthemia WordPress Theme

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By: Leland on Aug. 26

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Smashing Magazine has quite the reputation for releasing very high quality free WordPress themes. They have recently released an absolutely gorgeous free theme called Infinity. I finally had the chance to give this theme a test drive and thought I would share my findings in a review post.

Infinity Theme Screenshot

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By: Leland on Aug. 21

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I came across the Thematic theme about a week ago and decided to do a quick video review on it. It is described as a WordPress theme framework. Here are just a few of the features:

  • Options for multi-author blogs
  • Several widgetized areas
  • Quick link to the admin panel for logged in users

And here’s the video…

Overall I’d say Thematic is a great quality theme that’s relatively easy to use for beginners. The separate widgetized areas for different sections of the theme are also a plus, giving the theme user lots of customization options right out of the box.

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By: Leland on Jul. 12

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A great free WordPress theme, called Chocolate, has been released by Pancak.es. I made another video, similar to my last video review of a theme by the same author, Nick. Here are a few of the features present in the theme.

  • Able to view and add comments from the main index with Ajax
  • A live search which grabs results without loading a new page
  • Fallback support for those with no Javascript enabled
  • Alternative “White Chocolate” color scheme
  • Comments with Gravatar support

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By: Leland on Jun. 24

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My friend Nick of Pancak.es recently released a very cool free WordPress theme called Syrup and I thought I’d go over all of the features of it in a video. I’ll list a few here…

  • Control the color scheme manually or with built-in presets
  • Choose where your sidebar goes (left, right, footer)
  • Choose which page links appear in the header

All controlled through a convenient theme options page in your WordPress admin panel. Watch my video review below…

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By: Leland on Jun. 3

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