It’s been a while since I last reviewed or blogged about a WordPress theme so today I thought about sharing another nice freemium (free and premium-quality) WordPress theme. The Meeta theme was designed and created by my friend Pavel Ciorici of WPZOOM.

The Meeta WordPress theme is a simple and minimalistic theme that can be used for a whole lot of different purposes and can work with different types of blogs or websites. This theme runs on the recently released WPZOOM theme framework which is only available to premium WPZOOM themes so if you’re not a member of the WPZOOM theme club and would like to try it out, then you can grab a copy of Meeta.

Theme Features:

• Responsive Layout
• Custom Header
• Archives Template
• Custom Widgets
• Shortcodes

Aside from the unique theme features listed above, the Meeta theme includes the following standard features available to all themes running on the WPZOOM theme framework:

Standard WPZOOM Features

• WPZOOM Options Panel
• Custom Menus Management
• Threaded Comments Support
• Custom Widgets & Features
• SEO Options Section
• Custom Page Templates
• Developed for WP 3.0+
• Custom Logo Input
• Automatic Image Resizing
• Internationalized & Localized
• Custom Background Support

Screenshots:
Homepage

Post w/ Slideshow

Archives

Shortcodes

Meeta is an awesome WordPress theme not only because it’s FREE but also because of its simple yet beautiful design and the built-in premium-quality features thanks to the WPZOOM theme framework. To get access to the PSD file and/or support forums, you’ll have to join the WPZOOM theme club. Thanks to Pavel and the rest of the design team at WPZOOM for creating and sharing this theme to the WordPress community.

Preview or Download the Meeta WordPress theme from WPZOOM.

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

Features:

• Built from the ground up using HTML5 and CSS3
• Portfolio custom post types
• Custom admin settings
• 2 alternative homepage image slider templates
• Admin settings for featured images in slider
• Widget-ready
• 2 columns
• Gravatar support
• Compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari

Screenshots:
Homepage

Blog

Post

Portfolio

Admin Settings

Aside from it’s clean, sleek and professional design, the Graphite WordPress theme also has very good typography. It also features a very nice image slider with cool transitions on the homepage. Graphite is widget-ready and has built-in gravatar support. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to support threaded comments. Overall, the Graphite theme is still a very beautiful WordPress theme that should fit not only creative companies and individuals but any WordPress user who likes these types of themes.

As a bonus for MediaLoot subscribers (premium members) they will also get the original Fireworks PNG and PSD source files for Home Page, Portfolio Page, About Us Page & Blog Page in the download package.

Preview or Download the Graphite WordPress theme from MediaLoot.

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The Sight WordPress theme is a widget-ready, WordPress 3.0.1-ready theme that features a modern and minimalistic design.

Here’s some insight from the theme authors/designers regarding the inspiration and motivation behind the theme design:

Sight is a powerful WordPress theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style with Golden Grid usage. It has two views to get information in the way you want — a standard blog view and a grid view. A big image slider on the top gives you extra ability to show the most important content.

The theme supports the newest WordPress versions and has 2 Custom Menu Locations. 2 pagination types are available: Default with WP-NAVI support and Ajax-fetching, like in previous Twitter interface. The Sight theme supports Social Media. It has links to share each post to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious Digg, no plugins needed. It is also Search Engine Optimized, so you don’t need to care about it, just set it up and get love from Google.

Features:

• WordPress 3.0.1 Ready
• Theme Options page
• Two Pagination types (Default + WP Page-Navi support & AJAX-fetching posts)
• Valid XHTML 1.1
• jQuery-powered Featured Post Carousel
• Custom Widgets
• 2 Custom Menu Locations
• jQuery-powered Drop-down menu
• Nested comments
• Two post view types: standard blog view and a grid view
• Google Analytics Ready
• Custom Logo Upload
• Gravatar support
• Search Engine Optimized
• Browsers compatibility (IE 7 , IE 8 , Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome)
• Built in support for Social Bookmaking on Blog Posts – tinyurl.com API support for URL shorting

Screenshots:
Standard View

Grid View

Post Page

Custom Widgets

The Sight WordPress theme is a cool theme that has lots of options and features – standard view, grid view, custom widgets, etc. which I’m sure many WordPress users would love. It. is released under the GPL license. It is available to download for FREE and can be modified or can be used for any project without any restrictions.

Preview or Download the Sight WordPress Theme.

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

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.

This free photoblogging theme for WordPress that I’m sharing with you today is called Mansion. This theme was created and released by Graphic Paper Press, the same site that gave us the Work-A-Holic portfolio style WordPress theme.

Here’s a short introduction from the theme authors:

Mansion is a free photoblogger’s theme for WordPress. It features a flexible-width thumbnail grid for both images and photo journal entries. Mansion is perfect for those who want to primarily showcase their photographs and occasionally write blog posts.

Basic Features:

• Clean grid layout
• Post thumbnails
• Menu customization
• Fully widgetized
• Compatible with IE 7 & 8, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox

Screenshots:
Homepage

Blog

Post page

IMPORTANT: Graph Paper Press requires users to sign-up with a valid email address to download their themes.

My Take:
The Mansion photoblogging theme is another beautiful freemium WordPress theme from Graphic Paper Press. It has all the features and options that most photobloggers need in a WordPress theme. I really love the design and look of the homepage with the thumbnails and I also love how it has a flexible width layout, making it compatible with any screen size/resolution. I’m in the process of creating and uploading my photoblog and will be using the Mansion theme for it.

There’s nothing much else to say about the Mansion WordPress theme because the theme speaks for itself. Kudos to the folks of Graphic Paper Press for creating this beautiful photoblogging theme and releasing it for FREE to the WordPress community.

Preview or Download the Mansion photoblogging theme for WordPress.

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