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Thank you smashing magazine for releasing these!!!
http://www.dellustrations.com/blog

Awesome thank you!

that’s one freaking heavy background image

Wow another wonderful share… I liked the Vintage theme verymuch. !

i love the vintage theme a lot – but there’s a nasty horizontal scroll on a 1024 screen. it did seem to take a long time to load fully, 388kb for the bkgd image does seem kind of excessive. too bad – it’s a beautiful theme.

A wordpress theme for a cms website for small businesses would be great. A lot of themes look too much like a blog and I think that as wordpress is so easy to use that small business would be really helped with suitable themes.

Thank you guys! Much appreciate it!

It looks pretty boring. And the background images are too huge, why did you do them so big? Is the theme complete? It looks incomplete to me.

Woooooooooooo :O Really, Reallly Smashing !

Vintage looks awesome.. =)

Will do. It’s in the queue.
Thank you for the input.

W.

Will be designing those in the following weeks.

Both look ridiculous AMAZING, a great piece of artwork put together with wordpress and best of all it’s free so I think we have the right to give the creators a big “Thank You” for the amount of time and creativity put together in this themes.

Keep up the good work guys!

I’d love to see a well-done, minimalist newspaper / magazine theme, an iphone-formatted accordian-style 1-column layout and/or a Timeline theme, with horizontal scrolling and clickable date points/posts.

I find a lot of the themes are a little too specific to modify easily.

Looking nice.

I’ve got a suggestion; have been looking for inspiration to make a sports-club (basketball) website based on wordpress. With a lot of different content, and a lot of experience. Am really interested in what you’d make out of that since i don’t have the wordpress-theme building capabilities.

Good chance a nice design would be really used for our site.

@Jonathan – Would love to create those themes for you! Send an email… we’ll chat about it.

a wordpress theme, easy to modify, which look like a website and not a blog, would be great.

Thanks for all your work. smashingmag is really ma favorite.
laurence from france

Absolutely love these free wordpress themes. Please keep them coming.

@Kevin,
I cannot find one single place online that has “amazing” free css based templates for download.

have a look at http://www.freewpthemes.net/
the themes are free, CSS – based and quite interesting! Better than many others…
and very good to learn from for beginners!

I’m Italian and I’m very proud to look Vespa’s style.

Great themes. Very nicely done. Love the color palette and the functionality. It is a little bit of a bummer it is too big for the 1024 px format. But for free, it is awesome. But edit the CSS and there should be no problem.
Thanks.

thnx very much sm! :D

It’s great as a free theme but it seems to be missing the proper search function, clickable RSS feed, and a working carousel. Also, the background could be optimized for faster loading time. Like I said great visuals but it seems rushed and unfinished. In the end the most important features aren’t usable.

- Talking about Vintage theme.

I’d love to see some themes that allow you to use WP as both a shop (showcase product images) and a blog. Lots of crafters and artists out there looking for something that’s more about images than posts.

The word is WOW! cant stop adoring this themes.
THnx SM and Dellustrations

great themes,anybody know how controll the banner image sliding?

Now that is smashing!

I’m impressed by all the little details that made theses themes stand out! :-D

The search field on both themes are horrible. The text in the field isn’t cut off properly before the graphical element.

Also; the newspaper with rss icon should be a link to the rss-feed, otherwise it isn’t a good graphical element to be placed next to the search field… Think about usability people!

Love these thanks so much
Love to see more like this style

Larson

Awsome! and free! … , …… !!!!!!!! Wait!!!! Am I dreaming? |- 0.o -|

Great themes !!

fantastic theme.

I’m willing to bet that themes like these, heavy in graphics, are going to be phased out just like the bulky graphical navigational bars of the late 90’s. Remember the ones where the nav bar took up a third of the screen and looked like some ridiculous futuristic robot? The principle is the same, but somehow better graphics make it look “cleaner”. I think the clean feel will rub off after a few years and you’ll see a return to a more simple look.

Cheers

its amazing how Dellustrations turns concept and ideas to masterpiece

opps forgot the “s”
capomasters.com

nice theme .. great ideas ..

Beautiful, thanks!

Great theme, I will try this, thanks

Great themes, think i will use one of them on one of my sites. Great work :) (Although one point, they are a little slow when loading)

Hi Smashing Mag and Wendel! I’m converting the Vintage Theme for Blogger. Conversion is almost done and the template will be available very soon for Blogger platform. Your comments would be appreciable in the meantime, thanks.

Check it out:

http://vintage-blogger-template.blogspot.com/

Hi there – I love (love!) your themes.
You asked for an idea’s for new themes, I’ll give you two ideas of blogs I have, which could use some revamp. in the hope you’d find one of them to be interesting to work on:
1) Dance.
I have an aggregator for dance blogs on:
http://www.dancebloggers.com –
for which I would love to have a nice magazine like theme.

2) Food. I have a blog on hummus (yes, the chikpees thing) on:
http://www.humus101.com/EN
I would love for a better theme for it.

Thanks again for your wonderful content,
Tal

So…… Who’s scooter is that?

Is 2swell.com aware of the texture rip from their website? The texture in the header is just a mirrored image of the front page graphic on “2swell.com”.

I don’t want to call steal without knowing the sources and the designers behind this…but, I’m skeptical of the usage on that one.

@jeogonz I have the exact same problem also.

nice themes!

sizler harikasınız,çok teşekkür…thank you

Vintage theme looks fantastic, but unfortunately it’s wasn’t completed and there are many elements which aren’t working:
- page archive list (Page 1 of 38 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5….. END). That’s just hard-coded via html, not dynamic in Php.
- same deal with the RSS icon
- same deal with the slideshow screen at the top.

There really is no point in releasing incomplete / buggy themes, no matter how good looking they are. All you are doing is wasting people’s time trying to get them to work.

Own goal, Smashing Magazine.

Nice, gotta save this for my other site. Thanks for the freebies! :)

lutz

nice works !

This theme is working nicely for me (on a brand new wordpress 2.7.1 install), but I d have a couple of small bugs that I’m wondering if anybody has any insight to (I’m kinda posting this all over town now).

1) When people post comments, they are attributed to my name on the page, rather than the poster’s name, even though the poster’s name is clearly listed in my admin pages.

2) At the bottom it claims that my one and only page is 1 of 38!

Thanks for any help you can provide, and for offering a great theme for free!

Same thing here…I am working on getting everything out of the hard html and into some dynamic php, I will hit you guys back when I am done and hopefully everyone can use the unofficial finished* version. Sidebar and footer needs to be widgetized, slideshow at top needs to be working and a lot more…

Actually, both themes are NOT widget ready at all. The sidebar code was added, but the proper code isn’t in the functions.php file for the theme.

You have to manually add the 4 lines to functions.php for widgets to work from the official WP Widgitizing Themes page in the Codex.

As stated earlier in MULTIPLE comments – both of these themes (despite being visually stunning) are VERY buggy – you will have to hack the HELL out of them to get them to work properly. I can also attest to the fact that the Vintage them PSD file isn’t even the final version that produced the theme – you’ll have to make some manual changes to make it all line up if you need to change the graphics.

Great themes visually – POOR themes coding wise!

Shame there appears to be so many problems with the vintage theme :(

Have any of the commenters who have said they have been working on the theme been able to get something which could be “released”? I really like the theme, but making some of the changes above are a bit beyond me…

Sleek , adaptable theme

I would love to see an adaptable 1 column theme without any side bars that allows the user to easily add their own header image.

In an ideal world the columns background would be white and the surrounding background a nuetral darkish grey so as to compliment any image I might like to use in the header. Now ,I know I’m getting ‘greedy’, but I also dream of having a theme without any page menu or search function beneath the header image…..afterall, when it comes to SEO I want to rank for the Keywords in my post’s title and not the words on a menu ‘button’…such as “About” or “Contact”……

In short,,,,just something that I can adapt and use on multiple projects and which is designed with SEO in mind………

That is my ‘dream’…….the ideal template !!

Someone ‘pinch’ me……I think I’m dreaming !!

Kindly ,,,,Dillion Fox

A great list of themes, although I would also try looking at the site: newwpthemes.net (NewWPThemes. There is a color tag selection to easily search through themes.

hey, guys…if anyone with errors on the backend(login page, etc) is still reading this post, i think i solved the problem…..

the errors referred to functions.php…so, i deleted everything in that file and saved it to see what happened……..

the errors were gone, but then the site wasn’t ‘widget ready’ and under ‘widgets’ it said, ‘no sidebars defined’…..realizing that the problem was definitely in that php file, i undid the delete so it returned to the original code, found blank lines before and after the php code, deleted the blank lines, and saved…….all the errors were still gone and the site was widget ready…

such a trivial issue, but it was almost enough to make me scrap the theme…..but, now i’m back in business….

let me know if this helps you….

not sure if the php code will go through in the post, but here’s what i have(copy just the characters, and no spaces above or below

”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”,
));
?>

The above code is not correct – the submission didn’t go through…

@ graphic bob: thanks for your help! the theme just runs perfectly now I’ve done the changes you recommended on functions.php. FYI, the submission worked perfectly. I’ve indeed noticed that the first line of the code which begins with

please post correct function.php :-(

what is the complete list of corrections to this theme? It’s all a bit piecemeal right now :-/