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WP Theme Review: Agregado

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Agregado is a one-of-a-kind, feature-rich theme which could easily be one of the best-designed and best-looking free WordPress themes around. It was designed for Smashing Magazine by popular WordPress theme designer Darren Hoyt who created the Mimbo and Mimbo Pro themes and Matt Dawson of Category4.Basic Features:2 columns Right sidebar Built-in lifestream module Built-in gravatar support Built-in contact form w/ custom control panel options Animated dropdown menus Custom archives page Numerical pagination on archive and search pages Author-highlighting for comments User profile module Widget-ready Works with Firefox, IE, Safari and Opera XHTML and CSS standards compliantScreenshot:More details, screenshots and my review of this theme after the jump.

Mimbo Pro Magazine Theme

Thursday, March 20, 2008

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Last year I did a review of Mimbo, a free magazine style theme for WordPress. Since then, Mimbo has become one of the most popular and most downloaded themes not only because of the popularity of magazine themes but also because it's feature-rich, user-friendly and easy to customize. As proof, you can see customized versions of Mimbo used in many websites and blogs.After the huge success of Mimbo, the author Darren Hoyt finally released his first and much anticipated premium theme, the Mimbo Pro Magazine Theme last week. For this project, he collaborated with Ben Gillbanks.Here's a short introduction from Darren himself:Mimbo Pro is a powerful and feature-rich theme for Wordpress, developed by Darren Hoyt and Ben Gillbanks and released through Ben’s Pro Theme Design marketplace.Already familiar with the original Mimbo? Imagine no more manual template editing, no more Photoshop, no more image-cropping or FTP’ing... Enjoy using Wordpress like a CMS, now more than ever.Screenshot:

WP Theme Review: Mimbo 2.0

Monday, November 12, 2007

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Magazine styled WordPress themes like the Revolution are getting pretty popular these days so I decided to review another one. The theme I’m reviewing today was created by Darren Hoyt, an experienced web designer and developer and is called the Mimbo 2.0.Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system [...]