Sizlopedia » Themes http://www.sizlopedia.com Web Apps, Gadgets, Software and Tips & Tricks. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:40:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en Top Free Wordpress CMS Themes http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/07/27/free-wordpress-cms-themes/ http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/07/27/free-wordpress-cms-themes/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:53:37 +0000 Keshav http://www.sizlopedia.com/?p=2219 Wordpress is currently the best blogging platform available on the internet today. It is a state-of-the-art platform that can stand as a blog, as a tumblelog, as photo gallery and also as a CMS. You may ask how as a CMS?

Well, it is a platform you are familiar with, it is extensible, extendable and very much customizable. There are tons of themes available for Wordpress. With a couple of tweaks and plugins, Wordpress can function as a full fledged CMS. On top of that, most of the new start-ups these days select Wordpress as their CMS setup.

Some days back, I read this post on StudioWorpress and got the idea of gathering the best wordpress themes available, which are best suited for a CMS and present them here on Sizlopedia. So here we are, with the best of Wordpress themes for a CMS!

The Unstandard

A WordPress theme comprised of a - grid aligned - images for forward facing pages, and clean textual presentation on the inner pages. Two column theme, with a neat a organized front page. Pictures add to the beauty of the theme. The search bar and the nav-bar and nicely designed

Download/Demo

Wordpress Grid Focus

Another great choice for a CMS. It is a 3 column theme, quite minimalistic and elegant to look at. The extreme left column can carry the news on your site, the middle one can show links and reference material for your visitors and the right column can show advertisements or popular content.

Download/Demo

Mimbo Magazine

Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking. Best suited for news sites.

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Linoluna

Linoluno is a gorgeous looking theme where the content is presented in a very pleasing way. You have a featured post column in the front and other posts below it, carrying a description and a picture alongwith. It is a simple and neat theme for a magazine-styled site. The theme use the Wordpress’ template tags quite extensively but still, it is very easy to use.

Download/Demo

The Morning After

Quite a popular theme is The Morning After and one of the best crafted with the professional look you will need for your website. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme. It supports widgets and provides all the features you expect from a kickass theme ;)

Download/Demo

Arthemia

You have to see it to believe it. Arthemia is a true wordpress CMS theme! It carries a featured article space, a beautiful navbar and good placements for advertisements. In the middle of the front page, Arthemia has a nice blue-and-black category bar which will help your readers exploring you site. At the bottom, Arthemia is outfitted with a must-have section, a three-list of favorite posts.

Download/Demo

WP Magazine Theme

Another Magazine Styled theme with the Popular, Latest and Sponsors’ columns at the first glance. A feature rich theme which will power your CMS setup. Carries a dropdown navigation, is widget capable, can easily be monetized and also has a place for putting up a video!

Download/Demo

I hope you enjoyed the post :D

This is a guest post by Keshav. He is an enthusiastic young freelance writer who likes blogs and web apps.

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]]> http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/07/27/free-wordpress-cms-themes/feed/ Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 (Standard) is Finally Here! http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/08/30/tigopedia-reloaded-20-standard-is-finally-here/ http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/08/30/tigopedia-reloaded-20-standard-is-finally-here/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:30:52 +0000 Dj Flush http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/08/30/tigopedia-reloaded-20-standard-is-finally-here/ tigopedia-reloaded-theme.png

Finally! after a hard work of almost 5 months Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 is ready to go Live. This is one of my dream projects in which I have put my heart and soul. I have worked day and night to give it the most unique features that a Wordpress theme should have and I must say I am satisfied with my work.

Wordpress Theme: Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0

Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 is a wordpress theme that has been designed in accordance to Web 2.0 looks and standards and it also helps you increase your blog revenue. Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 is the new version of Tigopedia Reloaded 1.0 which was previously based on the architecture of Tiga theme however Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 is based on a new stand alone architecture designed by me in a period of 5 months that uses widgets as the base.

Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0

Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 brings whole new set of features and accessories. The theme has been tested for about 2 months by more than 50 bloggers and the current release turns out to be the most stable one. The current release of Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 has a million bug fixes, new features and a new glossy web 2.0 layout. Here are some of the salient features of the theme:

  • Web 2.0 Looks: Tigopedia Reloaded 1.0 was indeed sleek but Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 is more Web 2.0ish and has more bright and good looking color combinations
  • Web 2.0 Logo: The theme comes packed with a Web 2.0 logo that will match every blog and can be easily replaced with a custom one
  • Social Bookmarks Integration: The theme comes integrated to the most famous social networks like Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon etc so your users can easily bookmark your posts instantly
  • Widget Compatibility: This theme is fully compatible with default Wordpress widgets and can easily customized for compatibility with custom widgets
  • Rounded Corners: The theme has rounded corners and curvy element edges which gives it a very sleek and sexy design look
  • Better Navigation: The theme now has a horizontal menu which provides better page navigation for your users and makes your blog more organized
  • Database Free: The theme does not use a cent of your Wordpress Database which makes it fast and keeps your database clean from over stuffed theme settings
  • SEO Optimized: The theme has been designed according to advanced SEO rules. The headings, title tags, and links have been embedded in such a way that makes it easy for search engine spiders to crawl your blog and give it a higher ranking
  • High Content Visibility: The new version gives your readers more clarity and high content visibility. The content is well organized and the fonts/colors make your blog easy to read and understand.
  • Bug Fixes: Million bugs and glitches have been fixed in the new version. This version is the most light, fast loading and stable yet
  • Comments System: The new comments system in this new release is much more stable, not over-stuffed with useless colors and graphics and is compatible with plugins like MyAvatars etc
  • Vaidated Markup: The theme has validated XHTML and CSS code

lol thats all :P I guess to see the real magic of this theme you will have to actually test it out for yourself. This release is compatible with Wordpress 2.2+ and ends all support for older theme versions i.e. Tigopedia 1.0 and Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0.

Support for Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0

If you want support for this theme you can ask your questions here. I will not be entertaining mails/personal messages concerning questions regarding the theme. If you want to ask anything related to the theme then this is your one and only platform.

Soon you will see a Faq section on the Official Tigopedia Homepage which will have answers to all your questions. Tigopedia Orkut and Tigopedia Live are the two upcoming themes by Sizlopedia and trust me they will rock you out.

Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 Download and Preview

Download Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 and also take a Live Preview. I will update this post with weekly builds so don’t forget to subscribe.

Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 (Adsense-Optimized)

Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 (Standard) currently has no default adsense optimization but in some days I will release the Adsense Optimized version of Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 which will help you increase your earnings so do check back soon.

Bugs Log

#Children category display problem (Fixed)
#Problem with swapped comment colors (Fixed)
#Background rendering Issue in Safari (Fixed)
#Errors in CSS code (Fixed)
#Children pages display problem (Fixed)

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]]> http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/08/30/tigopedia-reloaded-20-standard-is-finally-here/feed/ Wordpress Theme: Tigopedia Reloaded 1.0 http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/02/26/wordpress-theme-tigopedia-reloaded-10/ http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/02/26/wordpress-theme-tigopedia-reloaded-10/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:37:36 +0000 Dj Flush http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/02/26/wordpress-theme-tigopedia-reloaded-10/ Well well well :D Dj Flush is back ;) after a long 5 day-break and not empty handed :) I have come up with something thats going to make everyone Sizzle and its my new theme called Tigopedia Reloaded.

Tigopedia Reloaded

The Theme which I call ‘Tigopedia Reloaded‘ is basically a highly modified Replica of my former theme Tigopedia which has indeed been appreciated a lot by bloggers.

But this theme marks a whole new generation of sleek Web 2.0 Theme designs.

Support for for both of my wordpress themes Tigopedia and Tigopedia Reloaded will be available all the time.

A million bugs were fixed in Tigopedia Reloaded which shall indeed be rectified in Tigopedia too in its upcoming next release soon :D

Some of the prime features of the Tigopedia Reloaded theme are:

  • Sleek Web 2.0 Design: The design is cool its sleek and it fulfils Web 2.0 Standards with a gloss and sleek look.
  • No Database Usage: This theme does not use database except for only two small tables used for the Adsense PUB ID and Recent Posts unlike Tigopedia which uses over 30+ Database Tables.
  • Adsense Ready: The theme is Adsense Ready :D with some cool blends and an option in the Presentation Menu to add your Adsense PUB ID and get started making Money.
  • Adsense Optimized: The theme is Pre Adsense Optimized and is in accordance to the Google Adsense TOS with 3 Code Bars and 1 Link unit on each page.
  • SEO Ready Code: The theme has been designed specially for a better SEO providing you with functionalities like the Seo Title Tag Plugin without having installed the plugin itself.
  • Curvy Look: The theme uses Curvy borders specially to give it a blended sleek look and a better eye-catching design.
  • Swapped Comments: Check out the new Swapped Comments Design and you will notice that now Each comment box has a look similar to alternate comment box and different to the comment box following it.
  • Bug Free: The theme is totally bug free as it does not use any functions and simple style.css to access the template sheet.
  • Widget Ready: lol This one took me a century to fix but the good thing is that now the theme is fully compatible with Wordpress Widgets for 2.0 and 2.1 series.
  • Vaidated XHTML 1.0: The theme is fully XHTML 1.0 compatible with no errors and passes validation.
  • Validated CSS: Theme has been Validated by the CSS Validated service by Jigsaw ;) If you do not trust me have a look at the Footer.

Thats all for now :)

Lovers of Tigopedia worry not :D because soon there is coming the next release of Tigopedia which shall be a blast ;) so watch out

To Download and view some Known Issues please visit the Tigopedia Theme Page.

Note for Tigopedia Users: Till I upgrade Tigopedia and fix some known issues and bugs you can easily switch to Tigopedia Reloaded for some time and tell me if you like this theme :D

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]]> http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/02/26/wordpress-theme-tigopedia-reloaded-10/feed/ Wordpress Theme: Tigopedia 1.0 http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/02/03/wordpress-theme-tigopedia-10-by-sizlopedia/ http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/02/03/wordpress-theme-tigopedia-10-by-sizlopedia/#comments Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:42:49 +0000 Dj Flush http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/02/03/wordpress-theme-tigopedia-10-by-sizlopedia/ Finally, I m back :D after a long time break lol. Well not that quite long but long enough for a computer geek like me :P. Yes from past 2 days i have been busy in making something special :) and it was my first ever Wordpress Theme. Now that took me quite a while because this is no ordinary theme :) and i guarantee you it has got some mind blowing features.

Tigopedia

I named it Tigopedia (Wordpress Theme That Makes You Sizzle) based on its mother theme Tiga by ShamsulAzhar.

But Tigopedia is not at all like Tiga, it has got some new built-in features and some cool stuff for Google Adsense freaks and of course a very eye catching sleek design that follows Web 2.0 standards ;)

Below i will discuss some features of Tigopedia:

  • Tigarator: Tigarator is the new capability of controlling your theme dynamically through a theme admin interface. It is a unique feature in Tiga as well as Tigopedia and can be found under Presentation Tab in Admin Panel
  • Cleaner code: Though Tiga also had a clean code but Tigopedia’s style code is more cleaner and precise.
  • Adsense Ready: The theme is fully Adsense ready, providing you the availability to no longer edit Theme files to insert Google Ad blocks. All you have to do is go to theme options (The Tigarator) and enter your Adsense pub-ID.
  • Link Unit Bar: The Tigarator has a 1-click feature through which you can enable/disable the horizontal 4 ad link unit bar under the header in case you want to put link units in your sidebar.
  • Gravatar Ready: The theme is gravatar ready. All you need to do is install the Gravatar Plugin and Actiavte it and the function will automatically be parsed by the theme.
  • Dynamic CSS: The best feature of this theme is that it is not run by style.css instead style.php which is dynamic and lets you change theme color,positioning etc on the flye using Tigarator.
  • Widget Ready: The theme suuports Wordpress Widgets and itself has cool Widgets that you can add/edit using the Sidebar.
  • 3 Column Flexibility: The theme is a 3 column theme with a left sidebar and right bar which are both controlled by sidebar.php (A flexible and easy approach).
  • Fluid Width: The theme width is fluid all the way down. You can change the size of left sidebar or right sidebar or even can shrink the middle bar content on the fly using Tigarator.
  • Web 2.0 Standard Design: The design is eye catching following the Web 2.0 Traditions with more white space, light colors, sans-sarif fonts and big headings.
  • Cross Browser Compatibility: The theme is designed for maximum stability against all known browsers specially Firefox and Idiot Explorer Internet Explorer :)
  • Fast Loading Theme: Despite being a 3 column complex theme the theme loads very fast across all connections.
  • No Style Coding Required: Indeed, the specialty of this theme is that the whole css and color scheme can be changed without the need to edit any theme files. Its all done through your Tigarator.

For a preview of this theme, You can see this blog ;)

To Download and view some Known Issues please visit the Tigopedia Theme Page.

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