From the theme author:

This is a WordPress 3.0 + compatible theme with a professional slideshow that you can use to display or highlight any of your categories’ posts. This theme also comes with a social sharing bar in the single post view that will help your users easily bookmark the useful articles from your blog. The widgetized sidebar comes with ready to configure feedburner, twitter and facebook icons that can be setup in the theme’s admin options. The thumbnails are auto-generated and use the default thumbnail size that wordpress generates when you upload an image with a post.

Features:

• 2-column
• Widget-ready
• Gravatar-ready
• Threaded comments support
• Built-in social sharing bar
• Auto-generated thumbnails
• Compatible with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome

Screenshots:

SLIDESHOW USAGE/INSTALLATION
1. Activate Dictum theme
2. Go to Appearance > Dictum Options
3. Configure slideshow category
4. Set custom field for each post.
5. Set custom field to “label” (without the quotation marks)

My Take:
The Dictum theme is a simple, clean and professional looking WordPress theme. It has the basic functions/features that most users will need in a theme – widget-ready, gravatar-ready and threaded comments support. Then aside from those basic functions, it also has some extra features like the professional slideshow with auto-generated thumbnails so users won’t have to manually resize photos and the social sharing bar which enables blog readers to easily and quickly bookmark or share content. It also has a very easy to use and configure built-in buttons for RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook.

With it’s simple design and layout, the Dictum theme can be used for different types of blogs – personal blogs, sports blogs, non-profit organization blogs, company blog, small business blog and other special niche blogs.

Dictum is 100% FREE and can be used any way the user pleases as long as the footer credits are kept intact.

Preview or Download the Dictum WordPress theme.

NOTE: This theme was scanned using the Theme Authenticity Checker and doesn’t contain any hidden or encrypted code.

Here’s a short intro from the theme author:

A clean Portfolio Theme ideal for photographers, artists and designers to showcase their portfolios. This is our first attempt at creating a WordPress theme and then offering it on a public domain. The theme does need intermediate level of familiarity with WordPress. There is an online help document available to get you started. You may download this theme for free and use it on your site; however you may NOT remove the Dizeno Co link in the footer.

Basic Features:

• 2 column (blog section)
• Fixed Width
• Widget-ready
• jQuery slider (homepage)
• Twitter-ready
• 3 category templates – full posts, excerpts & thumbnails only
• Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari
• CSS and XTHML standards compliant

Screenshots:
Homepage

Post page

My Take:
The Brave Zeenat WordPress theme is a simple, clean and beautiful portfolio style theme that you can use for your online portfolio. It’s widget-ready, has several category and page templates, has a nice jQuery-powered slider on the homepage. Another cool thing about this theme is that the theme download includes the sources file or PSDs for the templates, page headers, portfolio titles, logo and buttons so the user can basically edit and customize the look and feel of the entire theme. Aside from that, it also includes a Help Document that can help you with the installation, configuration and customization of the Brave Zeenat theme.

Brave Zeenat requires the use of third-party WordPress plugins – WP PageNavi and Limit Post, both are included in the theme download.

Overall, the Brave Zeenat is a clean, simple, lightweight portfolio style WordPress theme that’s highly customizable. Kudos to the folks of Dizeno Co for creating and releasing the Brave Zeenat WordPress theme for FREE to the community!

IMPORTANT: The Brave Zeenat WordPress theme is FREE to download in the condition that the Dizeno Co footer link remains intact. If you want to remove the footer link, you can purchase the Pro version for $37.

Preview or Download the Brave Zeenat WordPress Theme.

NOTE: This theme was scanned using the Theme Authenticity Checker and doesn’t contain any hidden or encrypted code.

Last month, I shared with you two of the latest themes from StudioPress. This time around, I’ll be sharing with you two of the latest themes from Elegant Themes. Whether you’re a fan of Nick Roach’s creations at Elegant Themes, or just a regular WordPress user in search for a nice premium WordPress theme, I’m pretty sure you’re gonna love these two new themes called PersonalPress and TheSource.

First stop is the PersonalPress theme, a 2 column, widget-ready, traditional blog-style theme with a personal touch. Nick designed this theme for those who want a fun and light hearted feel on their blogs.

Screenshot:

Features:

• Firefox, Opera, Netscape and Safari compatible
• WordPress 2.9 compatible
• Five Color Schemes
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design

Next stop is a theme called TheSource, a 3-column, grid styled layout, widget-ready, magazine style theme designed to display lots of content in an organized and visually pleasing manner.

Screenshot:

Features:

• Firefox, Opera, Netscape and Safari compatible
• WordPress 2.9 compatible
• Four Color Schemes
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design

Both themes are available from the Elegant Themes theme club for only $19.99/year. Each theme comes with the WordPress theme files, required plugins and fully layered PSD files. Club membership gives you access to all themes and access to the support forum.

For more information regarding these themes or if you want to view a live demo of the PersonalPress WordPress theme or TheSource WordPress theme, or would want to check out other premium WordPress themes, head on over to Elegant Themes.

DISCLAIMER: JaypeeOnline is an affiliate of Elegant Themes

Fearless Flyer is a web design blog ran by web designer Michael Soriano that provides design related articles, tutorials, cool freebies and some of his web creations. I came across his blog late last year when I was browsing the Internet for cool WordPress themes. At that time, his most recent release was the Clam Shell WordPress theme. I was planning on reviewing that theme but due to some circumstances, I wasn’t able to write the review and eventually forgot about it.

I came across his blog again a few weeks back and saw that since my last visit, he’s released a few more cool WordPress themes. So I decided to feature and share with you the last 2 free WordPress theme releases from Fearless Flyer – the Pork & Beans and Aparatus WordPress themes.

Porl and Beans WordPress Theme

Features:

• 2 columns
• Widget-ready
• Built-in gravatar support
• Built-in threaded comments support
• jQuery tabs
• Custom comment form
• Auto resizable images
• flickr box

Required Plugins:

• flickrRSS plugin
• Similar Posts plugin

Preview or Download the Pork and Beans WordPress theme.

[You can also download the PSD file]

Aparatus WordPress Theme

Features:

• Magazine style
• 2 column
• Widget-ready
• Built-in gravatar support
• Built-in threaded comments support
• Cufonized fonts
• Homepage slideshow
• 4 custom stylesheets/color schemes
• Author info section
• Social bookmarking section
• Theme options page

Preview or Download the Aparatus WordPress theme.

Both these themes are really well designed and are premium quality not only design-wise but also feature-wise, especially the Aparatus theme. Aside from the premium-quality design and the features/options, what makes the Pork & Beans and the Aparatus WordPress themes awesome is that they’re both FREE!

Kudos to Fearless Flyer and Michael Soriano for releasing beautiful, premium-quality WordPress themes like the Pork & Beans and Aparatus themes to the WordPress community for free. You can follow Fearless Flyer on Twitter if you want to receive updates on the next free WordPress theme releases or other freebies.

Looking for a clean, simple and unique looking WordPress theme with a little character, then you might like this theme I’m reviewing today. The Zexee WordPress theme is a 2 column, widget-ready, colorful and unique theme released especially for the readers of Six Revisions. The Zexee theme was created by Aravind Ajith and is based on the previous design of his blog – The Design Superhero. It has a widgetized sidebar, supports threaded comments and built-in gravatar support.

Basic Features:

• 2 column
• Left sidebar
• Widget-ready
• Built-in gravatar support
• Built-in threaded comments support
• Custom date and comments graphics

Screenshots:
Homepage

Post Headline

Sidebar

Threaded Comments

My Take:
The Zexee WordPress theme is a unique theme because unlike most themes, it has the sidebar on its left. Aside from that, it also has custom background image and custom graphics that displays the date the post was published, the number of comments and a customized comment form. Aside from its unique looks, this theme has very good typography as well.

It has the basic functions that most WordPress users need like widgetized sidebar, built-in gravatar support and threaded comments support. The Zexee theme is a simple theme and doesn’t have some of the features that other free WordPress themes have but I’m sure other users who prefer simplistic themes won’t mind at all.

Some of the issues with this theme are: There is no documentation. The theme page doesn’t provide any instructions on how to use/configure the theme and the download file doesn’t have any readme.txt file. It doesn’t inform users that the theme requires one plugin – WP Page Navi, to be installed and the plugin itself isn’t included in the theme download. This can be a hassle for some users and I believe that if the theme requires any third party plugins or scripts, the theme author should inform users about it before hand.

Another issue that some users might have with this theme is that there is little room in the header section. This can be a problem if your blog has a long blog name/title and if you have many pages to display.

Other than those issues, the Zexee theme is a well designed theme with the basic features and functionalities most users look for and need in a WordPress theme. Many thanks to Aravind Ajith of The Design Superhero and the folks of Six Revisions for releasing this theme for free and sharing it to the WordPress community!

Preview or Download the Zexee WordPress theme

NOTE: This theme was scanned using the Theme Authenticity Checker and doesn’t contain any hidden or encrypted code.