Looking for a new theme to customize your WordPress powered blog or online magazine? Check out this free WordPress theme designed and created by WP Shower exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
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.
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February 2nd, 2011 at 2:44 AM
clean theme. homepage is having large blocks for post images , rest looks fine.light colors
February 1st, 2011 at 7:49 AM
beautiful theme! :)
just downloaded the Sight theme and i’ll try these on my other site.. thanks! =)
January 28th, 2011 at 8:18 PM
The combination between white and black makes the theme looks elegant and clean but still simple..
January 28th, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Not bad, though the small-sized body font makes the theme look crowded and overwhelming.
I have to squint my eyes in order to read the body of the sample posts, ironic because the theme’s name is “Sight”. ;)
White space is good in a theme but when there’s too much of it and squeezing the content, it’s not.