The Beveled homepage.

The beauty of Beveled is it’s simplicity. It’s not overly designed, but well coded and perfect for people wanting to customise a theme through typography, custom background images, custom logos and widgets.

Beveled is a clean yet sophisticated portfolio theme, which can be used to show off your work, or even display your photos. It is compatible with the WooTumblog plugin, which when enabled gives you access to post formats and iPhone publishing, thanks to our Express App!

It’s minimal design allows the content lots of space to breath and showcase. With a responsive design the theme adapts to the media type it is being viewed on.

The Beveled blog page with the tumblog being used.

Thanks to the custom typography editor in the theme options you can really transform it’s look by simply changing some header, paragraph, post meta and navigation font families.

The blue alternate style with the custom typgrography theme options used to transform the look of this theme.

Have a look at Beveled’s complete feature set here or experience Beveled in full on the demo before letting us know what you think.

To get everyone excited for our big milestone we thought we’d tease the theme in a different way. Ryan ‘The Cannon’ Ray has been experimenting with Final Cut Pro X and Motion and this is the result. Not bad if we say so ourselves!

Swatch was designed, and submitted to us, by Oliver Long, and will definitely be our most detailed and feature packed free theme we’ve ever released.

Don’t worry our loyal community of paying customers, you are not being forgotten, you’ll be smiling from ear to ear with our next few releases.

With the recent launch of Canvas 4 a couple months back we are now hugely confident in Canvas’s codebase. Matty has spent countless hours refining the structure into a more modular design, flexible enough for child theming, and custom hooks, filters and functions to be added.

The Canvas portfolio page template.

As seen in our popular business themes, Canvas now boasts a full portfolio component for keeping track of all the awesome work you do and showcasing it to prospective clients and collaborators.

Canvas portfolio features

The Canvas portfolio component includes options to display a single image, image gallery, or video on a per-item basis, as well as testimonials from your clients (where they can tell everyone how happy they are with your work) regarding the project you’re showcasing and a link back to the finished product. This allows you to choose the best method possible to showcase the work in your portfolio.

The portfolio settings of the new Canvas module.

Along with being able to showcase your work, it’s also possible to group similar items together, where viewers can see, for example, all your design work in a single place and get straight to the work they’re looking for. This is done by means of a portfolio galleries manager and a neat gallery switcher on the newly-added “Portfolio” page template. Each gallery has it’s own page with a unique URL, making it easy to share your content online.

A single portfolio item page. You can use the 'layout' custom setting to move the sidebar, or disable it.

A lightbox pop-up can display all the images/videos within a portfolio item.

Existing Canvas users, and club members, Canvas 4.4 is now available for download. Look forward to seeing some implementations of the portfolio module soon! 3 cheers for Matty!

Mr Ryan O'Rourke

Then we have just the theme for you!

A few months ago we were introduced to Ryan O’Rourke, via our “Submit a Design” page. He sent us a beautifully polished theme design catering for real estate agents listing their properties in a pixel perfect featured slider with sub-featured listings, and what looked like lots of widgetized goodness. Needless to say we loved the design, but felt it could cater for more than just real estate agents by applying some more generic modules to the home page. We purchased “Empire” from Ryan and Tiago, Jeff and Magnus got to work on it.

Empire is now a business theme with a flexible portfolio module making it perfect for just about any type of business. With custom post types for the slides on the home page and the portfolio items on the portfolio page you can feature whatever content you like, whilst keeping your pages and blog posts entirely seperate.

The Empire home page with it's featured slider and 3 homepage specific widgetized regions.

With Empire we’ve also introduced a new page template that we hope to make more use of in future themes. A team page lists all the WordPress users of your site (or you can exclude specific users), and with some slight modifications to the WP user page we’ve make it possible to now attribute Twitter, Facebook and Flickr links to a user. If you set up all employees of your company as WP users of the site you’d have a neat about page, and they can all blog under specific usernames.

The Empire team page listing the WP users of the site. Red alternate style selected.

The Empire portfolio page with the chrome alternate style selected.

With a whole 8 widgetized areas, with 3 specific homepage regions, you can really add what you want to your homepage. We’ve created a powerful testimonials widget, using it’s own custom post type to pull customer feedback quotes from, and “contact us” & “get in touch” widgets give you the control to display all the information you need to for potential customers to get hold of you.

A slide with a caption positioned at the bottom. You have complete control as to where, and if it appears in the custom settings panel.

Have a look at all the theme’s features on it’s listing page. Browse the demo for the full experience and to test the alternate styles. As always we value your constructive feedback.

Grab our innovative new theme with an 11% discount! Use the coupon code “EMPIRE11″. Valid until 19 July.

Cameron is a seasoned speaker, a graphic designer with proficiency in website interface, a letterpress & videography enthusiast, as well as the owner of Authentic Jobs – which only yesterday launched it’s new Authentic Jobs UK division. Quite a creative talent.

With the “Briefed“ theme that Cameron designed for us, it caters for creatives like himself – one’s that don’t fit into a box. The comment Cameron provided with the initial concept of Briefed sums up the design well:

I’d like this design to appeal to more than just the web designer crowd. If a graphic designer selling letterpress prints were to use this template—in addition to the guy posting icons and UI screens on Dribbble—I would be elated.

With minimal styling creating a very clean theme Cameron didn’t want a theme boasting all sorts of bells and whistles, rather a theme that could cater for all, with the emphasis on the content within the theme.

Modular design allows for extreme flexibility

With home page modules that includes an about section, featured slider, blog/tumblog with widgetized sidebar, and a custom post powered portfolio with optional Dribbble feed the combinations are limitless to create your ideal home page display.

The Briefed home page with a featured slider and about module enabled.

A portfolio-based home page, with the 4 top posts being pulled from a Dribbble account.

You don't have to be a designer, or have a portfolio to use Briefed.

Theme option’s also allow for complete customization of the background colors/imagery, and typography with a vast selection of fonts available thanks to Google Web Fonts.

Browse the demo or view all of Briefed’s details here.

Unique Features

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  Featured Slider

  A custom home page featured slider to showcase your work or products with style, all powered by jQuery. Optional slider pagination gives your visitors easy overview.

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  Custom Homepage

  Custom home page layout with mini-features, portfolio and testimonial modules.

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  Portfolio Page Template

  An optional integrated portfolio section driven by custom post types, which utilizies jQuery prettyPhoto script to display your work in a lightbox.

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  Custom Post Types

  The theme takes full advantage of the new custom post types functionality than came with WordPress 3.0, so adding slides, mini-features, testimonials and portfolio posts is dead easy!

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  Custom Typography

  You can customize the typography in the theme to suit, and there is full support for Google Fonts in the font selector.

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  Custom Widgets

  The theme has a widgetized 1 sidebar (that you can even include on the home page) and 4 footer, and as always comes with 8 custom Woo Widgets (Ad Space, Blog Author, WooTabs, Subscribe, Feedback, Search, Flickr and Twitter).

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  Alternative Styles

  The theme includes 9 alternative color styles which you can preview in the demo, and also has styling options for background color/image and setting link and button color.

Chris Rowe – who also designed Spectrum this year – is back with another absolute beauty in Elefolio, which is designed to be both a blog and a portfolio. In the past though, our portfolio themes would’ve just included your traditional blog, but since we’ve been making such a splash on microblogging of late, Elefolio has been enhanced to function like that instead.

Elefolio thus adds a bit of uniqueness to our portfolio themes collection, which is perfectly suited to the designer that wants to showcase his / her content & portfolio in the most trendiest of ways.

A Thing of Beauty

What’s Different?

We mentioned it above, but it’s important to mention it again… Elefolio has built-in integration of our WooTumblog plugin, which means it supports a whole bunch of related goodies: publishing of different post / media types, publishing from our awesome Dashboard widget and finally publishing on the go with our iPhone app, Express.

In addition to this, we’ve also included a few other things that makes Elefolio a pretty awesome theme:

• The homepage’s welcome area (in the header) is totally customizable and will allow you to add any of those social icons which you can see on our demo;
• Portfolio items are all custom post types and can be intermixed with your Dribbble shots (via this cool plugin which Elefolio supports out-of-box); and
• And for those of you that love to play with the typography of your designs, we’ve included a whole bunch of typography options to tweak.

Sounds pretty awesome, right? Well, the demo is even more awesome and we bet that once you buy the theme and modify it to your needs, it’ll be an even greater Microblogging Portfolio.

A digital designer is rarely caught without a coffee, coca cola, or red bull on their desk. Largely due to the late night rushes before a client deadline, but according to Dr. Downie it also fuels creativity.

After teasing it only yesterday, we’ve cruised through the tweaks and fixes (few of course!) reported by our beta testers and are happy to release the Caffeinated theme today, less than 24 hours later.

Designed by our Lancaster-based friend Ryan Downie, originally for his personal portfolio site, and fueled by his passion for coffee, Caffeinated oozes Ryan’s signature design style – clean, long, sans-serif fonts, lots of texture and unique, grungy color palettes.

The home page showcases some introductory information about you, your latest portfolio item, your blog posts in a 4 column layout, and a widgetized footer space for you to customize.

An overview of the Caffeinated Home Page

The theme also comes with a custom template for the dedicated blog page of your site.

Read the comprehensive theme listing, view the demo, and as always feel free to leave constructive feedback below in the comments.

Inspire continues where Optimize left off, adding a dynamic custom homepage that uses custom built jQuery in the featured area.

jQuery driven Featured Area

The custom homepage is similar to our other business themes, as it has a mini-features area and a custom widgetized area on right and in the footer. You can easily add more content above or below the mini-features area from the options panel.

Mini-features area

I’d also like to mention that we included the new Google Font replacement javascript in this theme for the first time, using the Droid Sans and Droid Serif fonts. It really makes the theme look unique compared to those standard web-safe fonts. If you don’t like it you can simply turn it off in the theme options.

Other features include a jQuery driven portfolio page template, easily change background image and color and lots of custom Woo widgets to put in your sidebars or footer.

To give you a little history… Mark first launched this version of (his) Digital Farm on his own website about 3 years ago and if you’ve been following him since then, you’d know that this was the design that got him massive acclaim in international CSS design galleries (and pretty much kick started his career as an extremely talented designer). The great thing about this design is that it was still awesome & trendy enough to be featured on Mark’s site as late as a couple of months ago, when he redesigned and relaunched the next version.

So since we’re not the kind of company that enjoys wasting great design, we figured that Digital Farm could be repackaged and released on here. This is how we’ve transformed it…

Personal Blog + Design Portfolio

Yes, yes – we have a lot of portfolio themes in our collection already, but when they’re as awesome as Digital Farm; we just have to make a little place for it.

The coolest thing about Digital Farm is however the fact that it can completely double as a simple business / CMS theme. In addition to the default, colourful style that Mark used on his own site, he also included some cleaner, corporate styles that are much more flexible & extendable than the default design. All of this of course to create themes that are easily adapted and scalable. It gets better though…

The corporate white style with a custom header & logo

Flexibility

This is a first for us at WooThemes, but Digital Farm is coded to accept both a custom header and / or a custom logo. This gives you immense power in terms of mixing & matching some awesomeness together to give your brand / company / website some extra spunk.

Along with that, we’ve included an extremely sexy (yet, optional) slider widget for your portfolio items, as well as a slew of other custom options, widgets & page templates to give you even more choices when setting up the theme. But then again – that’s what you expect from us by now, right?

Anyway… I probably need to stop gushing about Digital Farm, as Mark will probably start to think that I’ve got a crush on him or something (weird)… So read more about the detailed features of Digital Farm and check out the demo for some design awesomeness.

Corporate Black style with custom header & logo

These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme:

• A completely customizable header region with theme options to upload your own background header graphic and logo image.
• A tag based, optional sidebar slider to showcase your portfolio or any collection of posts/imagery
• A page template dedicated to showcasing all your older, archived posts for the sidebar slider above
• Complete control over excerpt vs content being displayed in the home pages blog posts, and archived posts
• 4 custom woo widgets and two widgetized sidebar regions for full control over your sidebar display
• 7 delicious alternate colour schemes to choose from, with two minimal, corporate designs for a completely different look and feel.
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Geometric is a blog + portfolio hybrid that enables you to showcase both your written and visual content within one template and one WordPress installation. I spent a lot of time to make sure that there was a seamless integration between the two different types of content on the site, which wasn’t really the case with our previous portfolio themes. For example, on a date-based archive page or search results page, the template automatically picks up what type of content it should display (written vs visual) and then makes it look easy and stylish at the same time.

The design itself is slightly more minimalistic and is defintely heavily inspired by my recent fascination with shapes and how they interact with each other (thus the name: geometric). You can also see a similar line of thinking when you visit my own blog.

The feature that I am however most excited about is the completely customized homepage of Geometric. If you’re used to widgetized sidebars or widgetized spaces in sections of the theme (we’ve implemented both these in previous themes) – you can prepare to be amazed, because your whole homepage on Geometric is widgetized! So basically we’ve developed a bunch of custom widgets (12 in total!), which you can move around on the homepage (and in the sidebar) – so you have total control over how you utilize Geometric to best serve your needs & ideas.

I trust that you will find value in these release, since I really enjoyed developing it. Also – this is my first release in a very long time – so go easy on me… But right now, you should head on over to the demo and have a play around the theme. After that, I’d really appreciate some compliments or just general feedback ya’know…

Notice: Geometric has already been upgraded to version 1.1.0 to accomodate 5 more colour schemes and an option to switch between a left- & right-hand sidebar [12-01-2009].

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DESIGN



As mentioned, the basic design style was based on the Fresh News theme, whilst we’ve added some of our more popular styles on our other themes to Fresh Folio as well to increase your options.

The homepage is designed to both showcase your featured portfolio work (albeit web design, graphic design or photography), along with posts from your blog. The dual nature of the theme – and especially the homepage – allows you to take an integrated approach of publishing both your portfolio & blog in one, clean environment. Beyond the combo homepage, the rest of the theme is perfect for publishing a thought-provoking blog, as the portfolio sections doesn’t interfere there.

You’ll also find our base (default) theme styles very easy to customize (to suit your style and branding), since this theme is geared to being a framework theme for digital professionals that needs a portfolio & blog, but don’t have the time to take care of all the WordPress coding. In addition, you’ll also find our more arty / complex styles of value if you wish to go with a more out-of-the-box approach.

FUNCTIONALITY

Fresh Folio doesn’t function much differently from a standard blog theme, except that we use a “Portfolio Category” to basically highlight your portfolio items. As with all of our themes, we’ve included our standard basket of premium goodies to make your usage of the theme even more pleasurable.

We also think it’s worthy to mention that the theme only uses one optional plugin – Slimbox – to display the larger preview images for portfolio items. So the idea is that you can add a portfolio to your current WP blog in a few minutes, without having to adapt your current installation. Quick. Easy. And it works out of the box!

SO GET IT ALREADY!

What is keeping you? View the demo and if you like the theme, either buy the theme or – even better – join our awesome WooThemes Club and get all of our shiny new themes to play with!

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