Smashing Community WordPress Theme: Comment and Win!
While the Smashing Community icon set is being designed and prepared for the release, we would like to ask your opinion about the WordPress theme that you would like us to design. And here’s how it works: you tell us what WordPress-theme you need, and then we design it together with PSD to WordPress and release it for free.
And to make it a bit more interesting, we’ll smash three commenters with original nerdy laptop sleeves. To participate, just suggest an idea for a great useful WordPress-theme in the comments to this post. Details are below.
This image was based upon the design by our friends from SoftFacade who are preparing the Smashing Magazine icon set. Thanks, guys!
How do I participate?
Participating is very easy: just post the WordPress theme you would like us to design in the comments to this post (and, if possible, what specific features it should have) – it can be anything, e.g. portfolio-design, blog-design, lifestream-blog, magazine-style etc. The theme should not be basic, but it also should not be too complex.
On the 25th of April, we’ll select the most popular ideas and requests and publish a poll in our magazine, inviting our readers to vote on their favorite theme. Once it’s done, the creative minds behind PSD to WordPress will carefully design the theme. You can keep track of updates on Twitter @smashingmag and @LachyG.
Awards
A total of three commenters will be awarded Laptop Sleeves (see images below). The winners will be picked randomly and announced on Twitter (@smashingmag) after the concept of the WordPress theme has been chosen. The winners will decide by themselves, what size and what pattern of the sleeve they prefer most.
Finally, we’ll release the theme as a free download, which you can freely use for personal and commercial use.
Smashing Magazine Is All About Our Readers
At Smashing Magazine, our readers have always been our highest priority. We respect our readers; we listen to them; we are always open to their suggestions; and we always appreciate constructive criticism. This is why we created a number of ways to interact with our readers:
- We created a friendly Smashing Forum to make it possible for our community to exchange ideas and help each other in problem solving.
- We are using Twitter to share useful resources and knowledge with, and get feedback from, our readers (e.g. deciding which article should appear next), and we now have almost 29,000 followers.
- We are preparing the Smashing Book, in which our readers can decide what topics will be included.
And now we would like you to decide what theme we should design and release next, especially for you. We hope to get great feedback from you, and we would like to thank “PSD to WordPress” for its cooperation in this event. Please spread the word, too; we would like the design community to decide what would be most useful and interesting for designers out there!
So, what WordPress theme is it going to be, folks?
Karel Evengoed
April 21st, 2009 5:25 amMake it an Admin -theme that is sexy as hell. I want to see leopard or zebra hide!
Shuuun
April 21st, 2009 5:25 amI want to win, but i dont like wp :D
Anyway, a smooth portfolio like site with huge gallery and upload features on pink color ( not that girly like style, jsut clean and fresh mb with some neon green also) would be nice :)
Carl Nelson
April 21st, 2009 5:28 amI’d like to see another great magazine style theme.
Jim
April 21st, 2009 5:29 amWhere did the general keep his armies? In his sleevies! And those are some mighty fine sleeves!
Jonathan Blundell
April 21st, 2009 5:31 amI’d love to see a really great WordPress as CMS site. Not necessarily magazine style but it could have some of those features.
Kim
April 21st, 2009 5:31 amI’d like to see a better portfolio theme with a gallery option and a horizontal menu.
Bobby Burdette
April 21st, 2009 5:31 amDesign a slick premium mag theme and show some of these jokers who charge for themes how to do it right!
Julien
April 21st, 2009 5:31 amHi there! I’d love to see a wordpress with featured photo articles separated from more traditional posts.
I see it more as a main homepage, with at the top, one small column with the 4 or 5 latest or featured articles, and one column with one big image linking to the post. Visitors often click more on pics then text!
John Ashley
April 21st, 2009 5:31 amI think it should be a portfolio site with a home page directing to different portfolios and a text blog piece as well. and yeah, i need the sleeve =)
Jennifer Roark
April 21st, 2009 5:32 amI would love to see a creative magazine style theme. Modern artsy.
Ezequiel Lancelotti
April 21st, 2009 5:32 amPortfolio theme!!
I want a sleeve for my new White MacBook!! Will we sent to Argentina?
Roberto
April 21st, 2009 5:32 amMake it a “personal Hub” theme – getting my Tweets, my Facebook status, my Flickr… and of course those I follow as well (RSS). Also, it could find relevant related entries across all of those and show them next to each blog post, enriching them automagically.
Make it easy to configure and perhaps to sync with stuff like iGoogle so it changes as I do.
alexn
April 21st, 2009 5:32 amclear, simple, 1 column, white, wide, flash gallery plugin included
Harry Andreou
April 21st, 2009 5:33 amI would like a photography based wordpress theme with a good solid back-end customized for easy image posting and organizing capabilities.
Steve
April 21st, 2009 5:33 amI would like to see you guys build a wordpress theme that enables the user to create a css galley like site right out of the box. This would be very beneficial for more then just a css gallery and it would allow people who could not normally display inspirational or other content easily. Thanks
Maarten Bressinck
April 21st, 2009 5:34 amHelvetica & Switzerland
Clean but original typography in combination with a nice red color…
Matt Simpson
April 21st, 2009 5:34 amThe scrapbook / messy desk type themes (scraps of paper, photos, the odd paperclip and coffee stain) are pretty popular at the moment but quite difficult to achieve effectively. Something along those lines would be good.
petterruud
April 21st, 2009 5:34 amA clean gaming template, white and blue colors, 3 columns with where the left one is for navigation, middle is for main content with a slideshow at top, right column is for videos, replays etc.
Amantealive.it
April 21st, 2009 5:34 amLike a lot of people I’d like to see an innovative magazine style with a heavy implementation of Jquery and prototype to show news like never before.
thelittlefluffycat
April 21st, 2009 5:34 amI’d love to see a blog theme that acknowledges how many different places are “normal” any more for users: not only a blog roll, but somewhere links could be easily posted and a section set aside for ads for people who put ads or other kinds of notices on their blog– and all of it intuitive.
Radeksonic
April 21st, 2009 5:35 amI’d really like a 1970′s style design!
Daan
April 21st, 2009 5:35 amA Family Magazine theme would be nice, I think many (starting) family’s want to start a blog about the day/week/weekend/vacation/… and put it in a nice clean/stylish magazine style.
Géraud.ch
April 21st, 2009 5:35 amA nice lifestream blog with a sexy photo-gallery.
With fresh design for the spring :D
Jorge
April 21st, 2009 5:35 amYo tambien quiero uno de esos!!
cudazi
April 21st, 2009 5:36 amA nice clean portfolio site with a jQuery slideshow / promo area on the main page, maybe some auto-image resizing (timthumb?) to avoid having to use custom fields, a very minimal design, natural colors with some theme adjustments through the admin panel. Places to add social networking links/icons…
PSD to WordPress
April 21st, 2009 5:36 amHi Guys,
Looks like some good comments coming in. Emerging themes are Portfolio, Magazine and gallery-esque… Would it be cool if we incorporated the two? Looking for more suggestions!!
Cheers
PSD to WordPress Theme
Montoya
April 21st, 2009 5:36 amI would like a great free magazine theme that supports images, headlines, and such on the front page while maintaining the clean look of SM. Something that would support a community like what you have built here. Thanks!
Akhtar Sheikha
April 21st, 2009 5:37 amI’d like to see a magazine style theme but in unique and different style!
Thomas Heylen
April 21st, 2009 5:37 amI wood like to see a wordpress theme with look & feel of an irish pub
Brutasse
April 21st, 2009 5:38 amA gallery theme, definitely. Pure HTML/js, no flash please ;-)
Stefaan Lesage
April 21st, 2009 5:39 amWell, there are a lot of different themes out there, but not a lot of them focus on Video, most are photo / content. What I would like to see in a theme :
* Theme oriented at podcasters (both audio and video)
* Featured content (for video maybe even a featured video in the top)
* Areas for sponsoring
* Easily include a link to a video / audio with each post
* Add support for things like displaying a Blip.TV or any other player if a video link is included.
* Make it possible to display specific content to e.g. registered users or even user groups.
* …
I’m probably asking a lot, but I would probably pay for a theme like that :-p
Regards,
Stefaan
Mihai Moscovici
April 21st, 2009 5:39 amIt would be cool to see a theme similar to a static CSS web-site (using pages in WP) with the blog function incorporated along the static pages.
Thanks for what you’re doing.
rss_ems
April 21st, 2009 5:40 amI’m in :) I would like magazin style and black!
Tony Gines
April 21st, 2009 5:41 amA VIDEO GALLERY theme would be awesome. Something to showcase vimeo and youtube embedded videos, and maybe add in an easy way to upload a preview thumbnail.
Martin
April 21st, 2009 5:41 amI want to see a wooden admin- design
Kevin Kirchner
April 21st, 2009 5:42 amWhite (Dry-erase) board theme – The page itself is a white board – use anything you could typically find on a white board:
- Math equations, design sketches, notes to self, diagrams, lists, smudges, quotes, etc
- Separate the white board/page with marker lines
- Have all the markers on the bottom of the page
Mmm dang – I might use this idea myself…
Johnny Krogsgaard
April 21st, 2009 5:42 amMake a theme where design is #2 and SEO is #1;
I mean a theme witch has the right h1, h2, h3 structure.
A theme witch has nofollow on the right places (to save linkjuice)
A theme witch has good internal linking structure
A theme witch has a dynamic sitemap (not xml)
ETC…
I hope you understand me, if not feel free to contact my on Twitter: @jkrogsgaard
Adrian
April 21st, 2009 5:43 amHmm. To be honest, you can never find Smashing Magazine quality e-commerce shopping cart WordPress themes. Sure, there are two or three out there that are decent, but there is nothing free (or premium for that matter) that will knock your socks off. There are way too many magazine, minimal, typographic, portfolio, and pretty much every other style themes out there already. Let’s see something really unique! What’s more is that such a theme would benefit WordPress itself also, by pushing WordPress a little further into use for e-commerce.
Features I would think beneficial to such a theme:
1. Easy Paypal integration.
2. Custom fields for product images.
3. Easy product inclusion in the WP write post.
4. Shopping cart page or have it in the sidebar. Ajaxified or jQueried.
There are plugins that do these things so it wouldn’t be hard to incorporate.
Thanks!
FäB
April 21st, 2009 5:44 amA Apple-style theme with a integrated shop system would be nice :)
Oded Sharon
April 21st, 2009 5:44 amI want a road-trip theme (like the book in Elizabethtown)
@cnmoody
April 21st, 2009 5:44 amI would love to see a portfolio / resume theme with a new twist.
There are sections on a resume, so why not have a theme that has editable sections for Professional Experience, Interests, Awards and Honors, and things like that. It could be a bit of a mash-up where it all appears to be one cohesive design, but on the backend you can edit individual sections.
Stylistically with headings and cool CSS, it would be really awesome. It would be nice if it could work for portfolio and resume folks, which means it should support image and text rich posts.
I see it in my head…
Igor
April 21st, 2009 5:45 amMagazine-style blog for photo/video blogging with automatic photo resize, Youtube and Flickr feeds.
Roshan Bhattarai
April 21st, 2009 5:45 amI would like to see a design blog theme which have sexy grunge style header with a footer having some different grunge pattern. The posts should be in the middle of the old rugged paper. that would make a terrific blog design I think
miniMAC
April 21st, 2009 5:45 amI’d like to see another great magazeen style theme!
Thomassl
April 21st, 2009 5:46 amI would like a portfolio theme that’s light – I think there’s too much dark portfolios. It should have a “play video”-script for people that wants to show their videos, but also an ability for image, made in only HTML and CSS. (probably Js for showing images and video, though)
WPThemesNews
April 21st, 2009 5:46 amI would love to see a wordpress theme dedicated to families where parents can blog about their kids and life to keep their friends updated.
The theme would need a photo gallery and a video player so parents can upload photos/videos of their kids.
nomad-one
April 21st, 2009 5:46 amGreat contest, how about a theme which allows you to setup a private or public communication platform between yourself & clients or your team. Somthing along the lines of prologue, but less of a microblogging style theme.
You could post design ideas on it and have people comment, share thoughts, repost changes etc? I think this would be really useful. Along a similar vein I have been toying with the idea of creating a wordpress based basecamp clone but so far haven’t progressed too far.
jonas
April 21st, 2009 5:46 amI would like to see a good videoblog-theme (with support for custom fields for youtube, vimeo,…) in a good grid and slick less-is-more design.
Jared Byer
April 21st, 2009 5:46 amI would like to see a portfolio/working artist theme with featured post (options for either most recent post or tagged posts), menues and footer with bread crumbs all based on the functionality of the new whitehouse.org website.
I really love the way there featured post section works and looks.
I agree with Thomassl that is should be light. In my opinion websites with black or brightly colored backgrounds do not look very professional.
Melissa
April 21st, 2009 5:46 amphotography theme or portfolio theme
Cola
April 21st, 2009 5:46 amI would like to see something big, bold, and brassy that my blog readers are going to remember.
Josh
April 21st, 2009 5:47 amHow about a social network/life stream theme with an emphasis on being clean and clutter free with plenty of room for customization?
Max
April 21st, 2009 5:47 amA web designer WP theme especially; more than a portofolio web site, more than just a blog.
Richard Cloutier
April 21st, 2009 5:48 amA one-page portfolio theme would be really nice !
We all know these are trendy but there are not much available on the market yet.
gigi
April 21st, 2009 5:49 amI would a newspaper theme with a simple single page style and an original homepage.
Milan
April 21st, 2009 5:50 amClean and minimal theme
shureiman
April 21st, 2009 5:51 amWhat about portfolio-blog-lifestream-magazine WP theme, ha? Give me all-in-one!
Martin Sullivan
April 21st, 2009 5:51 amA good CMS would be nice. One that allows custom page layouts and themes on a page by page bases. To many CMS WordPress themes are just a restructured blog. Truly utilize the CMS potential of WP.
Erik Kruse
April 21st, 2009 5:51 amI´d love an incorporation of the tumblog-feel and functionality in wordpress – to gather video, pictures, quotes, links and more in one feed – but with extended features compared to Tumblr. And in a nice, minimalistic style with white space and beautiful typography as only you guys could do it. That´d make my evening.
Chris
April 21st, 2009 5:51 amDo a comic book lovers theme!
@cbachelder
Lee Graham
April 21st, 2009 5:52 amA site designed around heavy media usage. Example: Qik and/or Vimeo integration for easy media integration.
Ainhoa Vega
April 21st, 2009 5:53 amI like the idea of a social hub someone mentioned. Most people don’t just blog, they also use twitter, facebook, flickr, and whatnot. With such a theme, WP could more than just a blog – it could help bring every social platform together easily for those who want it.
On another note, how about a theme that allows for multilanguage blogs? Ideally, I’d like to blog in English, Spanish and Basque. So I’d like to have a theme that shows, for example, in the top right corner the other languages available so the user is able to switch to the language he or she prefers.
carbo86
April 21st, 2009 5:53 amI’d like to see a porfolio theme…..clean, wide, white, simple in comination with a lifestream blog…
Features:
1.Lifestream blog
2. Portfolio
3. jquery Photo Gallery
4. Integration of Digg, del.icio.us, mister wong
Alexey Kasaev
April 21st, 2009 5:54 amI would like to suggest a theme I didn’t have time to build myself.
The is for reading, so it’s focused on
* Plain text, no sidebar (there are separate pages with tag clouds, categories etc available from a small graphic sidebar menu, floating possibly)
* Big typography, lets say 1-2 em (georgia, Times new roman).
* Header inline with first paragraph, unless it’s code or blockquote (looks quite nice, followed by an arrow or »). Italic possibly for it to stand out.
That’s it really… Going to make it myself soon in anyway, available for public as well… with plugin, highligthing tags in the text.
Cheers, SM. You really smashing!
* Author and date comes after the text, as if it’s a letter (“— Alexey, 21st of April, 1:00 PM)
* !Important. Tags and category names are highlighted in text linking to required pages with list of posts. Tags that are not found in text are listed after the post (as usual), same for categories.
Listoric
April 21st, 2009 5:54 amI’d love to see a design that looks like liquid. With drops and dots, a watery liqiud looking style, like for a nice whiskey brand or a new kind of energy drink. Crazy colours, natural looking drops of water, a “fresh” and colourful design. :)
And keep up the good work, Smashingmagazine is #1 :)
jm
April 21st, 2009 5:55 amI’d like to see a theme that can work like an intranet for a small design studio. Include people’s tweets, facebook updates, catalog links that normally get emailed around, and link up to basecamp or google docs for project management. Make it fun, maybe even add points / score.
Nico
April 21st, 2009 5:56 amI like the “portfolio-blog-lifestream-magazine” Idea..
This would be very nice :D
Rommel Miraflores
April 21st, 2009 5:56 amI would love to see a multi-user, multi-media gallery theme. Build a community of groups that users create and invite others to join, and share photos and videos of similar interests (Designers can share their work, Photographers can showcase their captures, Videoheads can share their shorts (short films, that is…) and that PayPal idea sounds good, if you like what you see, buy it on the spot…
2 columns would be nice, to keep the content area big. Hmm.. how about a background changer (either by choice of group owner or individual users)? Not too complicated, is it?
Good luck. This sounds like it’s going to be an interesting project. I’m going to keep checking in to read everyone’s suggestions.
Robert
April 21st, 2009 5:56 amA Video-blog theme would be nice. Apart from standard features (comments, rss etc.) it could have the option to share/embed the video to your you tube/own blog. So in general – blog that would be your private tv channel.
Jelleke
April 21st, 2009 5:57 amI’d like to see a personal theme with nifty jQuery plugins, good support for pictures and the use of Simplepie to have a customizable Lifestream. As a plus there could be special focus towards typography (I just can’t seem to get sifR3 to work with WordPress) and choices of colours variants on the theme.
Darren Taylor
April 21st, 2009 5:59 amI’d like to see a Hand drawing theme, using styles featured on posts such as http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/101-examples-of-text-treatments-on-the-web/ and http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/46-sites-to-get-inspired-and-familiar-with-hand-drawing-style/
Adrian A.
April 21st, 2009 5:59 amThe best pick would be a clean and good looking general CMS theme which can be used (tweaked according requirements of course) as theme for eCommerce websites, simple brochure websites and so on.
Finally regarding the features … a “trendy” jQuery content slider (for latest post or news or products) and maybe a great and good-looking tooltip script.
Sebastian O.
April 21st, 2009 5:59 amYou could make the menu a bit more moveabler.
Like allow the user the make his own menu (Drag and drop).
i could put the googlebar on the menu or change the menuitems (to Home, How-to, etc)
=)
mfg
Joram Oudenaarde
April 21st, 2009 6:00 amA WP-design that houses both a blog ánd a portfolio page would be most ideal for most people I think. :)
A lot of people who use WP have both a blog and portfolio, and adjusting the design into 2 different pages (one design, different style) complements both those things.
As for the design:
A simple design with eye for typography (no 300 characters per line for example), with a nice playfull background like the current trend (rainbow-coloured grungy backgrounds or something). Perhaps a nice reasonably large footer for some additional information?
Thanks in advance for making it a public theme! :D
Magnus
April 21st, 2009 6:01 amI would like to see a never-seen, amazing designed media wp theme, where you can easily upload pictures and videos.
Sarah - TweetMeme
April 21st, 2009 6:02 amI’m not sure whether you realise this or not but on your twitter re-tweet button at the end of each post you include @tweetmeme presumably so that your posts are included on TweetMeme.com, however all you need to do is have someone re-tweet your post including the url and it will get picked up by the site. You don’t need the @tweetmeme at all so I’ve just saved you 10 of your precious twitter characters.
Please do update the site with the above that way we can see when people @ us to ask a question over @tweetmeme if you have any other questions then do drop me a line @talktweetmeme on twitter or send a quick e-mail
ps I’m not sure if that counts as one for your competition but I do hope it’s helpful!
Chris M
April 21st, 2009 6:02 amI would really love to see us moving away from magazine layouts and moving back to conventional top to bottom layouts, with the focus around category seperation. There are so few themes, which manage categories more than their simple purpose of seperation between posts. Most sites make use of several categories, so why not style up a theme according to categories, so for example, when someone clicks through to the “CSS” category, it has certain design elements or colours relative to that category only?
I think a lot of people would be interested in this sort of theme, based on the ability to run a rather large blog, without it all looking exactly the same.
Well, those are my thoughts :)
Brian
April 21st, 2009 6:02 amA magazine style theme that is clean and professional looking, for use within an enterprise environment. Highly intuitive for users who aren’t used to contributing/commenting/engaging online. Emphasis on sharing of content with others.
Tommy Day
April 21st, 2009 6:02 amDon’t worry so much about the design or theme, but instead make it a theme meant to be customized and used for a large number of uses.
kiziel
April 21st, 2009 6:03 amI would like to see a fresh, green-colored magazine template for bulding social tuts-like sites. With a nice background like webdesignerwall.com, and clean typography.
peter
April 21st, 2009 6:03 amoh im very interested in new themes. i build themes in my dreams, then wake up and i am the champion
Noirfatom
April 21st, 2009 6:05 amHi, the WP Theme I’d love to see would have:
1. Microblogging tools integration
2. a 960 centered fixed grid-based template
3. big sans serif fonts for titles / Georgia/Verdana or text
4. fully valid of course
5. very clean / lot of white space
6. an easy video integration
7. a built-in Flickr integration
8. built for a truly CMS not only a simple blog
9. very light files (no background img stuffs like that)
10. Emphasis on comment area design as in general those are really ugly
That’s it. Best of luck.
MANESY
April 21st, 2009 6:05 amI’d like to see a great portfolio style theme.
Jeremy
April 21st, 2009 6:05 amHow about an e-commerce theme with an ajax shopping cart like http://icondock.com?
Something minimalist that allows us to customize our own design…
Thanks!
Petit_Nuage
April 21st, 2009 6:05 amI need a clean and clear wp theme with an horizontal way (like this web site)
I’m thinking of something dealing with natural elements (sky, clouds, birds, trees, leaf…)
I think that’s a smart idea…
cheers
Dan
April 21st, 2009 6:06 amI write a lot about movies and 80s nostaglia. I’d love to see a theme that reflected that kind of feel. Casette tapes, NES controllers, retro movie posters.
As for functions, I’d like to have a quite strong lifestreaming focus and, a pre-defined set of CSS classes with logical names that allow for easy positioning of media within posts.
Ben Overmyer
April 21st, 2009 6:06 amSomething that hasn’t been done particularly often with WordPress themes is an online game resource/blog website, a bit like WoWInsider in concept.
As an information-heavy theme, it would likely need to have very strong compositional and typographical elements to keep from giving users the Wall-o’-Text effect. It would also need to be thematically linked to the “online game” mythos in some way… without being tied to any specific game.
Social Media – major concept, since it’s a community site theme
Strong Indexing – categories and tags play a major role in guiding users to content they’re interested in
Gallery – who doesn’t love “screenshot of the moment” features?
Game Data – though there are few games that do this, pulling information directly from an official game resource (e.g. WoWArmory) for processing and display on the site would be useful
It’s certainly something different from Smashing’s usual fare, if nothing else.
jmpena
April 21st, 2009 6:06 amMagazine Theme
Dusan Vlahovic
April 21st, 2009 6:07 amA portfolio based theme would be lovely
Valentin Varadi
April 21st, 2009 6:07 amA magazine-style theme about music would be awesome :)
Keep it up!
Snoop
April 21st, 2009 6:08 amI’d love to see a minimalistic portfolio theme.
Unfortunately, there are no such to find.
Example: http://www.timhale.com
sahil khan
April 21st, 2009 6:08 ama admin theme with a tut shud do a gud job for all of us i think…sometimes when an organization is using wp for thr site/blog…they need a diff luk on the backend too…
Tami
April 21st, 2009 6:08 amI’ve got a couple of ideas.
1) Webcomics
I know that ComicPress exists, but I’d like something with an easily customizable header graphic, header page navigation, heavy footer navigation with ad space (no side navigation, except the “First” “Previous” “Next” and “Last” buttons. Something that could be used by webcomic artists.
2) Book-lover
There are a lot of “messy desk” themes out there – some good, some not quite so good, but there’s nothing that I’ve found which appeals to the book-lover in me. There could even be options for genres – a “fantasy” book lover, with dragon bookmarks, a mug of tea or coffee, leather-bound volumes and rich colors. A “romance” book lover, with reds and pinks (without being tacky), hearts and again, the books. A “mystery” book lover, with a smoking gun, a rose, lots of blacks and contrasting reds. This kind of theme would be used by regular bloggers, by book-review sites, by author sites, by book podcasters…
3) Website
Sort of an odd request, but some people just want a website, not necessarily a blog. WordPress can handle this easily with the page functionality and the widgety sidebars – but having a theme that was geared less towards the “blog” aspect of wordpress and more towards the “website” aspect might be good for small business owners who simply want an easy-to-set-up web presence.
3) Gaming.
World of Warcraft gaming blogs in particular are HUGE. Finding themes that look professional? Nearly impossible.
4) Fitness
Working out moreso than just eating right – this isn’t a skinnychick website, this is weightlifting and cardio and sweat. Towels and protein shakes and muscle – from a woman’s perspective. Too many muscle mags and themes are male-oriented, when every single one of the fitness blogs I follow are run by females. I don’t want yet another dieting theme, I want blood, sweat, and tears!
Shawn
April 21st, 2009 6:08 amI’d like to see a portfolio theme
Martin
April 21st, 2009 6:11 amI’d love to see a nice handcrafted portfolio WordPress theme…
jameson
April 21st, 2009 6:11 amI’d like to see a nice, simple and modern e-commerce theme.
kadir
April 21st, 2009 6:11 amClean and white 2 column, design showcase theme
chiakaivalya
April 21st, 2009 6:13 amWordPress for CMS! Not everyone has the time or passion to update every day or week, so blog and magazine themes won’t fit the bill. I’d love to see a professional-looking website that can host solid (static) information (e.g. for my field: science!).
Samantha Armacost
April 21st, 2009 6:13 amI think it is time for something completely different. I’m sure what fits that bill, but I’d like to see more innovation in the implementation of WordPress.
Davide
April 21st, 2009 6:13 amI’d like to see a photoblog theme