As I promised you earlier that I will release my current WP theme (I call it ‘resurrection’ and you can call it whatever you like) to public download. Well… here it is.

I have removed some of my personal stuff such as my cellphone, PSP, Yankee hat etc from background image instead of something else, you can change it in anyway by doing a little photoshop work.

Basic features:

• 3 columns
• Twitter tweets section
• Tag cloud
• Custom icons

Screenshot:

My Take:
Resurrection is definitely an eye candy. I’ve always admired the author’s blog design and layout and was surprised to find out that he was offering the theme for free. I love this theme! I love that it has 3 columns and its sidebars are designed to accommodate all the necessary stuff including advertisements. I also love the custom icons.

Although this theme is beautiful and well designed, IMO it does have a few “flaws”. First is, Resurrection is not a widget-ready theme “yet”. I believe it won’t be long before the author or someone else will make it widget-ready. Second, the background image’s file size is very big, at least 110 KB each compared to a normal background image which is less than 10 KB in size. This can be an issue and make page loads slower for visitors who have slow Internet connections. Lastly, the Resurrection theme doesn’t work out of the box and requires the following plugins to be installed:

• Ultimate Tag Warrior
• WP-PageNavi
• Twitter Tools
• Feed Count

Although the author does include these plugins in the theme’s download package, the thing about it is that not all bloggers use Twitter or UTW. The theme won’t work if you don’t install these plugins. So if you don’t use the required plugins but still want to use the theme, you’ll have to do some code editing before you can use it.

Oh, one more thing. When I installed this theme in my sandbox, the Twitter Tools was messed up in Firefox but not in IE.

Btw, the package also includes 3 extra background images aside from the default background image. Overall, it’s still a very nice theme and I give the Resurrection a rating of 4 out of 5. Thank you Yichi for sharing this theme with us!

Preview or download the Resurrection theme for WordPress.

For those who don’t know what it is, WordPress Theme Generator is an online site that generates custom WordPress themes. It doesn’t require any HTML, PHP or CSS knowledge. All you have to do is visit the site, choose from the different layout options available to customize the theme design and layout. The theme you create is automatically displayed on the right side so you can preview the theme while you’re creating it. When you’ve come up with a design that you like, just click on “Save” and you’ll be able to download all the necessary files as one zip file.

Personally, I haven’t tried it but I believe it’s a good alternative for those who don’t have any background knowledge in HTML, PHP or CSS and would like to have a unique, customized WordPress theme of their own.