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Here’s a short introduction/insight from the theme authors:

Releasing a theme on Smashing Magazine is always a challenge for us at DesignDisease. A challenge we look forward to. ‘Splendio’ is a theme where we try to solve the empty space that exists around most themes with a joyful rhythm of lines and squares, complimented with a light color palette. The specialized header images complete the package, as it can be used both in a static or randomized manner.

Designed by Vlad and Elena Scanteie and developed exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers, the Splendio theme is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that’s based on the Twenty Ten WordPress theme.

Basic Features:

• 3 columns (homepage)
• 2 columns (post/page)
• Widget-ready (6 widgetized areas)
• Built-in gravatar support
• Built-in threaded comments support
• Homepage post/image slider (Featured Article)
• RSS/Social bookmarking buttons
• Flickr gallery

Screenshots:
Homepage

Blog Post

Page

My Take:
Splendio is an awesome freemium WordPress theme. Aside from the basic features – widget-ready, threaded comments support, gravatar support, etc. it has a premium quality design and other elements that you don’t normally see/get in a free WordPress theme. I like the post and image slider on the homepage (Featured Article), RSS/social bookmarking buttons on the left side of the header and the Flickr gallery. Another thing I love about the Splendio theme is the style/layout and custom icons/buttons on the comment form.

Another cool thing about this free WordPress theme is that the PSD sources are available for FREE. This means if you have some Adobe Photoshop skills, you can completely change or customize the look and feel of the Splendio theme.

Although the theme can run without them, a few WordPress plugins are required to implement 100% functionality of the Splendio theme – Flickr RSS, WP Featured Content Slider and WP PageNavi which by the way are all included in a separate download package.

Because Splendio is based on the the Twenty Ten WordPress theme, users can choose to display random header images. The theme package includes several custom images but if you want to use your own custom header, you can upload it via the Appearance > Header section.

Preview the Splendio WordPress Theme
Download the Splendio WordPress Theme (Theme + Plugins)
Download the Splendio WordPress Theme (Theme + Plugins + PSD Sources)

NOTE: This theme requires WordPress 3.0+

How do you like the Splendio WordPress theme? What specific feature/s do you like most? What other features/options would like to be added to this theme? Please share your thoughts.

Short introduction from Smashing Magazine:

..we release a yet another freebie: JournalCrunch WordPress 3.0+ theme, a theme for magazines or portfolios with an integrated journal. The theme was designed by Site5 and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Features:

• Widget ready (footer and sidebar)
• Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
• Custom Homepage with 2 different views (featured posts or slider)
• WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled
• WordPress 3.0+ Menu Management Support
• Latest Tweets Built-in Widget
• Built-in Pagination
• 9 shortcodes
• Grid and standard posts listing
• Ninvo Slider, easy to setup from Admin panel
• JQuery Drop-down menu
• JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
• JQuery Forms
• Ajax based contact form
• Live form email validation

Screenshots:
Featured Posts View

Grid View

Slider View

Options Page

Aside from the beautiful design and layout, the numerous options and features usually found on premium WordPress themes, the Journal Crunch theme also has a very nice typography. If I had an extra blog, this theme would definitely be my first choice/option. Another cool feature I like in this theme is the built-in shortcodes that enable the user to customize the content style and how it should be displayed. With its flexibility (multiple layout styles), the Journal Crunch can be used not only for online portfolios or magazines but also for different types of blogs or websites.

The Journal Crunch theme is available to download for FREE and is released under a GPL license. The theme can be used and modified for any type of project without any restrictions. For the installation guide and complete documentation, click here.

Kudos once again to the folks of Smashing Magazine and Site5 for creating and sharing this beautiful theme to the WordPress community!

Preview or Download the Journal Crunch WordPress Theme for Portfolios and Magazines.

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

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.

Although I don’t do much web developing these days, I still go on the lookout for various web development resources and one of them are icons. Actually I like collecting different icons or icon sets. This icon set I’m sharing with you today, is very beautiful and well designed. Thomas McGee of WinePress of Words has created a new icon set exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The Coded icon set was created with web developers in mind and features 25 high-quality icons in different sizes – 512x512px to 32x32px.

“Coders and developers have unique responsibilities throughout each work week. From implementing client ideas, to expanding and coding personal endeavors, there’s much work to do at any walk of a web developer’s career. With this, there are tools a developer uses and trusts through these daily challenges. Inspired by such tools and the tasks they help tackle, this set has been crafted to fit the commonly used files, formats, and resources coders of any kind have come to rely. Whether used on your next client’s site, or for accenting your own coding ventures, we’re confident this free icon set will make an excellent addition to your library. Enjoy!”

Here’s a preview of the complete icon set:

The Coded icon set is FREE to download and use. You can use it for any of your projects without any restrictions for both private and commercial projects. However, the icon set may not be resold, sub-licensed, or rented.

Download the Coded Icon Set from Smashing Magazine.

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