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?
Julie
April 21st, 2009 6:14 amI would love to see a green/nature inspired design for an environmental blog. I imagine it would be a bright green theme with “vine”-like vector illustrations. It would be super cool if it could have an easy to use, crisp and clean photo gallery that blends into the site and doesn’t look like a 3rd party plugin. Also, a section that can be used to link to other resource type sites – but keeping with the colour theme.
Arthur Raupp
April 21st, 2009 6:15 amA portfolio theme with blog too!
Brad
April 21st, 2009 6:15 amI would be interested in a blog theme that combines great style with revenue generation. Let’s see Smashing Magazine do revenue generation right! The blog design should include many different types of revenue generation techniques built in. The design will utilize best practices to optimize yield on advertisements. The goal of this will be to create a well designed blog while not simply “placing” in ads wherever they fit, but taking the goal of revenue generation into consideration in the design process. (Far too many blog designs today are simply adapted to include advertisements and do not truly take full advantage of combining good design with advertisements.)
Jesse
April 21st, 2009 6:16 amI’d like to see a porfolio theme, clean and simple with 2 colors + gray.
Features:
1. Blog
2. A Portfolio with the ability to have different galleries on seperate pages
3. A Coda Slider Effect (jQuery) gallery on the homepage
4. Integration of Digg, twitter, etc.
5. Sidebar in the footer, (3 column)
carbo86, you are pretty much thinking what I am thinking!
Jean-Philippe Murray
April 21st, 2009 6:16 amWhat about, finally, a theme built for podcaster? There is PLENTY of theme for video casting, but none for podcasting!
- A simple something, with possibilities for displaying blog post, and podcasts;
- Embedded player?
- Twitter support;
- RSS feed for blog, RSS for podcast in mp3, rss for podcast in AAC (itunes);
- post (podcast) rating, usual social features (share on facebook and all that jazz)
- maybe support for existing podcasting plugin (not not hardcodded! I myself don’t use them as it’s not entirely reliable…)
Thanks!
George Serradinho
April 21st, 2009 6:17 amI would like to see you develop a theme whereby the admin can log in and change the following:
1. Layouts from 2 to 3 column
2. Be able to add adsense code
3. Be able to add author signatures
4. Change site headers and footers at will
5. Use gravatars
6. Be able to swith to DoFollow (on or off)
7. Change theme colors or have a few colors that the user can select from
8. Change background by uploading images
9. Create menu’s from admin with no coding at all
10. Add social bookmarking sites to posts by uploading details in admin area
11. Generate thumbnails in all sizes used by theme
That’s all I can think of as of now.
breadwinner
April 21st, 2009 6:17 amI’d love to see a theme that displays a copywriter’s portfolio. This would be a portfolio theme that isn’t so heavily designed that it takes away from the idea that the owner is a writer. There would be places to simply display work and let it speak for itself.
Oscar Martell
April 21st, 2009 6:17 amI would like the theme to have the following characteristics:
The style I like for a personal blog, with the colors used by Smashing Magazine would be perfect.
Defined lines, but the font medium, not so great. A little square.
That may include color and # F5F5F5 # E1E1E1.
Support for Gravatar.
In the Header:
A spacious place to change
Pages:
One to showcase
One to archives
– Detailing by month, year and the last 30 items, and may show the tags as well.
One to contact
– Have a contact form
In the Sidebar:
-Minipost
-Submit news
-Flick
-A nice search box
-Twitter Integration
In the footer
Three boxes to customizing
It is enough, but I also like the theme.
Thank you for taking our opinion into account
HQuadrat
April 21st, 2009 6:18 amThere is definelty a lack of good free magazine themes for wordpress, maybe similar to The Masterplan (http://themasterplan.in/tma). What I am talking about is a clean, not overloaded 3 column magazine theme smashingmagazine could become an even bigger legend with ;-)!
iancorbin
April 21st, 2009 6:20 amThose are some nice sleeves.
Massimo Nastasi
April 21st, 2009 6:20 ama Steampunk Theme
ricardo
April 21st, 2009 6:21 amSMASHING MAGAZINE RULESSSS!!!!!!!!!
Georg
April 21st, 2009 6:21 amHey, i would like to see a wp theme for an online video magazine, with:
1. easy video integration
2. big fonts
3. css framework based
have a nice day ;)
Andreas
April 21st, 2009 6:23 amI´d love to see the evolution of the Agregado Theme you published in September last year.
Give it a bit cleaner structure and nicer typography. In order to have a nicer integration and have no need to tweak around with the lifestream integration just make it neatly working with friendfeed (wo all the friendfeed recognition.
Would love this.
By the way, I don´t care about the notebook sleave but want to get the theme. I would donate the sleave if you only pick my suggestion :).
Gilbert
April 21st, 2009 6:23 amA good CMS could be nice allowing custom page layouts and themes on a page by page bases.
Possibility to have a liquid or fixe layout for the central part.
John Fouse
April 21st, 2009 6:24 amSleeve Candy! I would love to see a Rich CMS based site – not so much Magazine – but more Newspaper based. Clean, Functional and SMASHING!
Love the site keep it up!
Alexander Friesen
April 21st, 2009 6:25 amI would love to see a great Theme that is perfekt for Groups not only one Blogger. Not really like the Prologue or P2 Theme which is to twitter like. It should be awesome to use for multiple users in order to discuss and interact with each other. Like a Konference Theme which helps to realize Projekts within a Group. Horizontal Navigation please ;)
Dave
April 21st, 2009 6:26 amIts a great offer and a whole new good concept. I would love to have a Template custom designed by SM with my own needs
I need a template for Webmaster’s website for tutorials. news etc
Features would like to have are :
1) 2 Column Template ( White with Brigh Colors or Dark )
2) One of the sidebar element should have left and right as two sub sections
3) Eye catching Post title with date on left and comments count on right and post title in middle
4) Web 2.0 Template.
5) Some icon set to add laterand for Social bookmarking sites to use too.
These features completes a good template design.
Waiting for the Results :D
dennis
April 21st, 2009 6:27 amI would like to see a modular portofolio design. A pre-designed portofolio design is pretty lame, hence it needs to be modular – i.e. easy integration of 3rd party modules and probably not too much huge graphics (e.g. a big paint splatter all over the page) which make it hard to integrate other stuff.
Portofolio design is really nice and especially if it is NOT wordpress style blog-format, but more a full fledged content-format. Meaning several possible sections with main content areas and not just a boring list of blog entries – people read blogs via RSS readers anyways so the site needs to invite to do more than just scan over blog entries.
Monique
April 21st, 2009 6:28 ami’d like a better portfolio theme
Alex
April 21st, 2009 6:29 amI think the perfect theme would be a mix between old and new. I would love to see a theme & layout as if the user could see into a vault. Such as, a Mahogany wood vault (or a shelf, that would work too) with old english letters that displays open the contents of the site. Some of the sections I would like to see are podcasts, videos, editorial, news and even a twitter & Flickr feeds(non-intrusive on the side of bottom of the page.)
André Nitz Webdesigner aus Leipzig
April 21st, 2009 6:29 amId like to see a price comparison or a shop theme for WordPress.
Greetz from Germany, André
cjoy
April 21st, 2009 6:31 amVisual Concept:
The idea of a telephone pole or the side of an old barn. The place where people tack up their posters, ads, photos, whatever.
Function:
Flash galleries, video galleries, horizontal navigation, customizable background images, all that flow into the visual theme.
Michael W
April 21st, 2009 6:32 amSomeone needs to make the ultimate designer/illustrator/photographer portfolio theme!
I’m thinking:
- Gallery format with multiple category streams
- Minimal white default style with hooks to an admin page with type/colors/custom logo or header.
- separated out “news” posts stream
- support for video for motion
- made with RSS in mind
- footer widgets
Dream add-on: matching e-commerce for T-shirts, prints, etc…
I think everyone in the design community could use on of these!
Cheers!
Jess
April 21st, 2009 6:34 amWhat WordPress really seems to be lacking in is a great e-commerce theme. It would be awesome to see you guys come up with one of those!
James G
April 21st, 2009 6:34 amIf you need someone to develop a portfolio theme for you then there is something wrong. If you have a web design portfolio to show off then you should be able to develop your own theme from scratch in my opinion.
Congratulations to SM on 100k subscribers. Good going.
Johan
April 21st, 2009 6:35 amI would like to see a true CMS in a nice Premium Magazine style format.
Oliver
April 21st, 2009 6:35 amA nice portfolio theme would be pretty usefull!
Cheers from bonn, Oliver
Matthew
April 21st, 2009 6:35 amPlease make a quality photography theme, there are none.
Thanks
Ahmed
April 21st, 2009 6:36 amI’d like to see a portfolio theme
Sarah Gooding
April 21st, 2009 6:36 amI would love to see an e-commerce shopping cart theme – for more than just sidebar products. Fully styled cart pages with categories, etc. Also, I’d like to see featured sections on the landing page with dynamic abilities to change out new or featured products in those sections. Excellent e-commerce themes for WordPress are few and far between!
9uid0
April 21st, 2009 6:37 amLove to see a band/music theme! It’s very difficult to find one, or you have to code one yourself.
Joe
April 21st, 2009 6:37 amI’d love to see something CMS-ish that could be set up for someone new to wordpress or blogging in general. A cool theme design is one thing, but fancy features (or not-so-fancy ones that do what they’re supposed to!) are what really stick out in my mind!
Also let me take this opportunity to say how much I enjoy reading the articles here, your freebies are also extremely awesome, and.. oh, are those laptop bags? I hadn’t noticed ;)
Jonas Hellström
April 21st, 2009 6:40 amI would like a theme that could suit for a tutorial site. There should be page templates for both text tutorials as well as video tutorials.
Yasir
April 21st, 2009 6:41 ami would love to see a wordpress theme that incorporates a portfolio type showcase at the top (above the fold) while keeping a blog listed below the fold. so it would be a hybrid portfolio / blog. this is what i am trying to achieve with my site, and would be ideal!
an added bonus would be if it can switch from dark to light with a css tricks via a link!
Dixi
April 21st, 2009 6:42 amI heart Apple style :)
aiddoru
April 21st, 2009 6:42 ammy favorite kind of blog interface i hope in green variation :-) :
The Unstandard WordPress theme
Because:
The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text.
The beloved futures:
1) Sidebar – Main: Column displayed on any page but a single post.
2) Sidebar – Single: Column rendered on a single post page.
3) Footer – Shared: Always visible widgets towards the bottom of the page.
4) Threaded / nested comments
5) Gravatar support and site admin comment author highlighting
Ryan
April 21st, 2009 6:42 amA resume / CV / portfolio theme that works for everyone.
One that makes it real easy to boil down to the key skills and talents.
One that is organic / wiki.
Tom Webber
April 21st, 2009 6:42 amI think you should do the first ever podcast focused theme, Displaying the latest episode on the front page and also past episodes. It should work well with PodPress :)
Tom
Jan Kovařík
April 21st, 2009 6:42 amI imagine photoblog simply combined with a personal blog —> the place where i can show my photos to others or just write about my life a and about all smashing things on the world :)
I know that the wordpress blog system is initially, but I would like a personal blog combined with a something like “photopost”, maybe via nextgen gallery or …. ?
Jessica Grace
April 21st, 2009 6:43 amI definitely think that many folks use WordPress to combine a blog and portfolio. It’d be neat to see a theme that’s pre-built with that in mind. I’m thinking it would function more as a theme framework. I could see that being immensely useful.
Jeroen
April 21st, 2009 6:43 amPortfolio would be great
Francesco Rizzi
April 21st, 2009 6:45 amA ‘magazine-style’ template (a-la DePo Masthead, but there are others) with 3 main columns… here’s the kicker: each column should be reserved for one (or more) of the blog authors. So, if we have 5 authors posting on the blog (A, B, C, D, and E), we would get the posts from author A always in the left-most column, those from author B and E always in the middle column, and those from author C and D always in the right-most column.
sean65
April 21st, 2009 6:46 amI’m interested in a sports league, CMS style theme. A theme that can be used as a website for an entire league, a subset of a league, or a single team. The theme should not be specific to any one sport, but allow for sport identification via a header image.
* a home page which would show intro paragraph follwed by the latest news items
* sub pages which, if used as a team’s “home page” would make use of a child theme to allow for individual team colors
* widget control per page and/or category, not just site wide.
* a site wide navigational structure which allows for drop down sub menus
* a header image which can be rotated on the home page or general pages (jquery inner fade), and then specified via the child theme on a team page.
* a photo gallery page
* a video gallery page
* comments should support avatars
hd-J
April 21st, 2009 6:46 amIn my opinion we have seen lots of great magazine themes being released, some of them Premium and some of them for free, and I don’t think a new one released here would be the best idea (even if you always release great themes!)
What would really be a benefit for people using WordPress would be a theme foccussed around photography. I know there were some already, but none of them was advanced and smooth enough to have people leaving their flickr account (for example) to start a personal blog.
I would consequently see a new style of photoblog, created to publish albums and sets of pictures rather than daily pictures.
- A nice homepage would display galleries with small thumbnails leading to articles displaying a set or gallery or a single picture with some text.
- Of course this WordPress theme would take benefit of custom fields of WordPress and extract one of the pictures of a gallery to display it as cover of the gallery.
- Javascript can allow to add some nice features to the display.
- Including support for a rating plugin or a flickr plugin would be a big bonus, maybe even included in a nice javascript pop up box for every picture.
- I would imagine a dark theme with a strong texture background, with maybe a drop down navigation at the top of the homepage.
Ok, I know I am asking very precise things. As a matter of fact I have been working on such a theme for a bit of time, so I’d be happy to give you even more details later on! I really that would be an original theme, that would be successful among the readers!
That’s all for me! :)
Cesia
April 21st, 2009 6:47 amSomething different from what’s already out there. It should be highly customizable … but not the typical magazine layout. Something that doesn’t look bloggy, but more website-y. (That is a technical term.)
Cyrus
April 21st, 2009 6:47 amIt doesn’t matter what theme you guys put together – I know I’ll like it. But, sometimes a simple theme is better than any feature-rich, complicated, complex theme. I believe it tests a designers skills to create a truly magnificent but SIMPLE theme.
CantY
April 21st, 2009 6:51 ami like it with magazine style and it will be nice with another fresh color composition :)
will be waiting for new style and new fresh color :)
Anthony
April 21st, 2009 6:51 amI would like to see a clean, professional, and modern(design as well as coding, javascipt, ajax, jquery, etc) template for resume’s and portfolio’s. I believe this would be very helpful for a lot of people because people with blogs try to have some sort of portfolio combined and I haven’t found a good tool to do so.
Twitter: @anthonygarand
Fouad Masoud
April 21st, 2009 6:51 amA CMS implementation of wordpress.
with contact forms enabled for both a contact page and inner pages. and a full tat on that.
thank you.
Neeraj Kumar
April 21st, 2009 6:52 amI would like to see a theme that could be used by everyday blogger. Everyday bloggers are in maximum numbers and this theme could reach a greater mass and serve the community.
* It should contain customizable things, like background color etc.
* or you can provide a set of css sheets which could be configured via admin section.
Marin Todorov
April 21st, 2009 6:53 amMake a really sleek and usable theme which is also very beautiful and features plugins to payment gateways. Very few good e-shop themes out there for wp :(
Alexandra Jau
April 21st, 2009 6:53 amI would like to see a 4-in-1 sport inspirated theme. With just a click in the settings you change it from soccer to hockey, to basket, to baseball. Maybe soccer can be green for exmple.
Rizal
April 21st, 2009 6:54 ammy school is on a development for its website, so i think that would be a great idea to create a web template for school or education based WordPress :)
Patrick
April 21st, 2009 6:54 amA social hub theme would be awesome, with the flexibility to pull in content from a wide range of sources.
Alex
April 21st, 2009 6:54 amA photography theme or a portfolio theme. Pure HTML/js, no flash please ;-)
Michelle
April 21st, 2009 6:55 amI’m up for anything you guys design! But I’d love to see a theme that comes with an alternate mobile stylesheet or is built to work flawlessly on both big screens and tiny ones. Something built using fluid grids perhaps? And with fluid images – even better!
I can’t wait! Thanks so much!!
Gaston
April 21st, 2009 6:55 amA blog-portfolio combo would be useful.
Palici Ciprian
April 21st, 2009 6:57 amA simple-light portofolio theme for designers and web-developers would be nice!
Michael
April 21st, 2009 6:57 amI would love to see a personal blog with:
• a built in homepage feature for reviewing favorite items: software, books, music CDs, toys, whatever; the latest reviewed item has a picture, with links to more.
• great photo CSS styling for posts
• integration with Twitter, flickr
• not over-stylized; easy to customize and make it look “mine”
hegearon
April 21st, 2009 6:59 amHi,
I think the best would be a cross-browser (but not for IE 5.5 or IE 6) theme without flash or silverlight (or something like this). It could be suitable for any purpose. Although it would be nice if it’s source could be validated without any warnings, some HTML5 and CSS3 features could be handy. And (of course) some jQuery or just javascript in it also can make it better.
Clinton Ausmus
April 21st, 2009 7:01 amI think it should be a hybrid of a portfolio and a blog. I like themes that have the nice footer, but also allow you to have side bars.
Massimo Bastianon
April 21st, 2009 7:02 amNature-Photograpy blog with gallery (next-gen) and maps (google or yahoo maps) to locate the images..
Someting like http://www.darwinner.it plus maps..
Cesar B
April 21st, 2009 7:04 amWhy not create the “first” GOOD WordPress theme but for the Admin area, that users can tweak around very ez, and Clients which uses the CMS find it very pleaseant to work in… the admin now is good but i think it can be alot better, and that would be a first :D.
This would be mainly for people who gives clients solutions via wordpress (which turns out nowadays it’s getting bigger and bigger).
cheers
Bouke Regnerus
April 21st, 2009 7:05 amplease, make a nice, simple, minimalistic and clean lifestream blog design.
andy
April 21st, 2009 7:08 amClean web 2.0 style that can translate well on the iphone/ipod touch
two columns
twitter integration on side column
search on side column with google adsense integration
spots for text ads on side column
allow spots for banner ads inbetween posts
allow facebook users and twitter users to comment
posts should have social bookmarking links to every site imaginable
Jonathan Barnhoorn
April 21st, 2009 7:11 amI suggested a basketball wordpress theme for my basketballclub, I’ve been looking for one for a long time now. Grasshoppers is one of the largest clubs in our countries, the site would be thankfully used!
Very interested in what you guys would make of a yellow-and-black design, those are our clubs colors.
Greetings and, please pick us!
mWalk
April 21st, 2009 7:12 amIt would be cool to have a theme that focuses on personal portfolios but not like the lame-ish ones that are out today. Making it highly adaptable, with a cool gallery for images, area for your resume/CV that you can download in .pdf format, built in twitter feed.
Design it for today and tomorrow. What does today’s wordpress theme need if you’re a creative person? What will tomorrows wordpress need? I personally like the magazine kind of layouts. I thought the last magazine wordpress theme released was AMAZING. If you can top that I’ll be impressed.
Zack
April 21st, 2009 7:13 amA multiple portfolio/critique centered theme. A theme to house multiple portfolios (different people) and a space for a critique forum.
To that end, the style could be whatever you wanted really, minimal yet bold, a background made with different layers, muted tones with splashes of vivid colors, etc. — but the ‘meat’ of the theme would be good functionality and incorporation of a forum plugin for the critique side of things. My experience so far, which is admittedly limited, is that the forum plugins do not mesh well with the theme. They look like plugins, not like part of the theme.
TJ
April 21st, 2009 7:16 amI’d love a wordpress theme for a clothing company. Must have a blog, and a community utilizing wordpress users (with functional uploadable avatars, defaulting on a default image with company branding).
Custom fields using images should be pulled in correctly through the RSS feeds (i have had so much trouble with this in the past, I’d love to see how experts handle it).
On top of it all, just to have professionals build me a custom theme would take away all my worries and I’d be honored. Good luck every one and awesome contest!
Brett
April 21st, 2009 7:17 amA personal sports blog for teams or individuals. I would envision this as a blog for the coaches and team-moms out there that want to publish practice & game updates, rosters, game summaries, player profiles, coaching tips, game MVPs, schedules, awards and photos.
The header/footer and sidebar could hold personalized photos and/or random photos from a particular folder.
The background would either be a green grass field with a white line or two, a hardwood court with a black line or two, a ice theme, and finally a water based picture background (I think covers all sports).
Each post would have a small piece of equipment that the sports theme would offer: basketball, cricket ball, curling stone, baseball bat…etc. all based on the sports picked.
Rodrigo Seoane
April 21st, 2009 7:18 amHi ,
I would like to see a really great 70′s retro style portfolio , where the background colors changes following the daylight . ( one for sunrise , mid day , sunset , night … ) i believe that will be a nice effect .
I will like a great space for the last updates on twitter too.
cheers , and i’m waiting my sleeve !! ;)
Rodrigo , RJ – Brazil
Josh
April 21st, 2009 7:18 amI’ve yet to see a great theme that makes it attractive to post photos, videos, music, and/or just regular text all in the same site with the homepage focusing on all aspects—not just one or the other.
Joel
April 21st, 2009 7:24 amI would like an old looking theme. Something that looks like a 20′s or 30′s newspaper. Great Depression with a little grunge. Black and white or sepia.
Kayjey
April 21st, 2009 7:26 amA professional looking theme using WordPress as CMS, allowing mass uploads of images in a zip to compile a (flash?) picture gallery (with lightboxes?), easy to insert the content of news (with lightboxes) categories / downloads list / picture and video galleries across pages (selectable), automatic navigation and subnavigation.
And it should be easy to change the graphics, so it would come with a nice PSD wireframe file.
Apart from that I would include a ‘config’ theme page to be able to disable a whole lot of the redundant WordPress bagage.
R Buckley
April 21st, 2009 7:28 amSomething for a really cool kindergarten teacher who wants to showcase her students’ work; links to books she loves, crafts, links to enrichment sites for parents to click on. Maybe a softer version of primary colors. Very happy, upbeat.
Ryan Kirk
April 21st, 2009 7:28 amLots of stuff for graphic designers and photographers, but what about something for a musician that’s not cheesy? A player isn’t necessary since we have wp-audio, but I’m thinking something that pulls in a Twitter Feed as well as blog posts, and keeps categories very clear so that the music posts are very prominent.
David
April 21st, 2009 7:30 amI like a classic blog theme or another magazine style. 3 column style in a retro look or something. Features: A easy hack to make a gallery in WordPress and css classes for float images. Recent Comments in Sidebar, twitter feeds, post it to delicious button ( i know i can do it with a plugin ) drop down navigation is nice or something with ajax, loginform onclick with ajax or javascript
PeterMQ
April 21st, 2009 7:31 amI would like a fully CMS based template, with a clean layout.
asmodiel
April 21st, 2009 7:31 amWell, April 25th is my birthday, would be really cool to win something then!
And for the design:
I would like something between a clean and crisp (like tha mac OSX design) and something grungy. Best case would be a floating design with nice typography! :D
–
asmodiel
RSweet
April 21st, 2009 7:31 amGreat contest.
“Freelancer” theme with “Client Management”
In my dream, the theme would be a nice portfolio but with the addition of password protected “client zone” for each current customer (unique for each customer of course). We could use this area to post comps, sketches, docs, etc. all in an effort to keep good communication and transparency with the client. This area would also have a place for the customer to leave comments on the designs, formally approve the work and heck, even pay for your services with PayPal.
Pedro Valentim
April 21st, 2009 7:32 amI would love to a see a really simple, modern blog-design..
Will Castillo
April 21st, 2009 7:33 amOk, Here I go. Hold on:
My ideal features:
1.- I love magazine style themes.
2.- Given your great tips… I would like it to be highly customizable via an admin interface.
3.- Strong marketing capabilities: Hight CTR positions/sizes… that avoid ad blindness. Oh! And those ad spots should not be tied to hard-coded ads… instead, it should allow the admin to use third-party plugins like MaxBanner Ads.
3.1.- A great, unique, feature would be to include a customizable page peel ad pseudo-engine to handle it… perhaps via custom-fields.
4.- If the admin is allowed to dinamically create content blocks inside the main index file… it would definitely a unique feature… never seen in any WP theme.
My Nice-to-have features.
5.- If it use jQuery, it should be compatible with popular plugins that also use it: Wp-Cumulus, Wp-Invoice, etc.
6.- Top Category is a great plugin to implement category silos for SEO (amonth with s-categories plugin)… However, when you are paging categories, it cause many problems in many themes… If this theme can avoid these problems WOULD BE FABULOUS! However, absolutelly optional.
Many many thanks in advance,
Will
Caitlin
April 21st, 2009 7:36 amI need a theme for student blogs. It should be fun and colorful (reds & blues if you wanted to go with our school colors), but not so busy that the kids get distracted by design. The chronological order of the posts is important (as opposed to category), since most of the projects involve students journaling from the perspective of a historical figure or book character.
Features that would be nice to have:
-Blogroll to connect all class blogs together
-Author profile page
-Nested comments
Dave Roberts
April 21st, 2009 7:37 amI love the wordpress themes you have shown and designed so far, but in the true community spirit..
I would love to see a WPMU (WordPress MU) theme, that has a main theme homepage, magazine style that imports all the sub blogs as content (based on recent posts, or most read etc)… and the sub blogs theme is the same as the main one, but can have individual elements, such as colors, background image, just to give it a little bit of independence.
If there is an choice of how the design looks i would go for a classic newspapaer layout with a digital twist. i loved the layout of some of the designs in a previous post. -> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/11/award-winning-newspaper-designs/
dmoghi
April 21st, 2009 7:38 amI would like a simple theme, not overcrowded with a friendly layout. Something similar to http://daily.creattica.com/
James Woodrow Lane III
April 21st, 2009 7:38 amA great theme for the community would be a family tree theme for for members of the family can post family events, pictures, talking about uncles and cousins. So all the members of the family would have a central hub to go to for they can learn and keep up to date with the tree. And it would be great to help keep families together and informed.
Kyle
April 21st, 2009 7:38 ami would like to see another maganize theme, without the use of a slideshow; something more unique. slideshows are getting old.
sleek, sophisticated
Kate
April 21st, 2009 7:39 amI’d like to see a clean minimal theme, but not one that is so minimal that it looks like it was just thrown together in minutes. You know, the kind of design that looks simple, but that actually took some planning and forethought. One column with horizontal navigation at the top and a calendar on the right side. Blues and peachy colors would be nice.
Thanks SM!
Sketchy
April 21st, 2009 7:39 amHow about a Comic Book style theme? Word balloons, comic book fonts (not comic sans, of course), comic character sketches, sound bubbles, voice-over-style blocks, primary colors, nice paper texture, even a comic-style gallery? Also, a static-page-based theme would be good, for those of us who don’t want WP to look like a blog.
kenderendre
April 21st, 2009 7:39 amA sport themed blog-design would be great
Jon Hartmann
April 21st, 2009 7:40 amI’d like to see a wordpress theme that is simple and clean, and uses images controlled by via the interface to allow customization. Too many wordpress themes are locked into single uses because they are too dark, or too focused on one concept. For example, w simple theme in whites and silver-grays that lets you choose images to rotate behind the title in the header area… something like that could be used for a church, a business, a personal site… just about anything.
Julie
April 21st, 2009 7:48 amI would like to see a portfolio style, maybe in a red theme or with red accents.
BK
April 21st, 2009 7:52 amWidget style theme, similar to Google homepage.
Ronnie
April 21st, 2009 7:53 amI’d like to see a portfolio theme with an entry page with a single image that changes with each load, a news page, bio page and gallery page with flexible lightbox gallery. Ideally, all of it would be understated (clean and simple) so that the artists works are the focus. And if it could look more like a website than a blog… it’d be a popular theme.
Nour
April 21st, 2009 7:58 amI would love to see an easy-to-implement lifestream theme, especially if it had the option for a “front page” of sorts that was maybe set up like a newspaper. With sweet typography of course (but I shouldn’t have to mention that with the Smashing folks!)
surreal
April 21st, 2009 7:58 amMagazine themes are all over the place at the moment while there is few high quality free portfolio themes.
You can probably Google a great free magazine theme in a few minutes but try doing the same with a portfolio one.
I think Smashing Magazine should aim for a unique theme or at least a theme that stands out of the usual offer.
Not another magazine or “simple” blog theme please. The market is already saturated.
trendez
April 21st, 2009 8:00 amI’d love to see blog in retro theme in magazine layout.
Geemee
April 21st, 2009 8:01 amI would like to see a simple and modern e-commerce theme.
Jan Ole Peek
April 21st, 2009 8:03 amI would really like to see a good theme for BuddyPress. I know it’s in beta and only based on WordPress (MU at that), but I think it would be really sweet. If not that, then I’ve always wanted a nice theme for a video podcast site. Obviously the videos need to be front and center. Something a little more creative than just the black background with a bunch of thumbnail themes that are out there now.