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?
Joe Armstrong
April 21st, 2009 8:05 amA quality shopping cart would be my top priority. As far as the aesthetics, I would like to see either a 1960′s surfing theme with bleached out photos or a vintage baseball theme with black and white imagery.
Osman Fatih Cinar
April 21st, 2009 8:06 amVery simple and modern to be a theme
Jennifer
April 21st, 2009 8:06 amWould love to see an eCommerce theme!
pec
April 21st, 2009 8:15 amI would like to see a clean and elegant photo gallery witch make me think to a portfolio/book, a real one i mean. There were no annoying count or legend.
Wiljan Slofstra
April 21st, 2009 8:16 amI would like to see a magazine style layout, because they always look nice. And im thinking of making a magazine blog by myself!
eBELL
April 21st, 2009 8:19 amI would love to see a portfolio or lifestream theme that is really easily customized so that even hacks like me can download it and make it look like my own.
Aakash
April 21st, 2009 8:19 amA theme for all – > Geek, Programmer, Cookers, Graphics, News etc..
Subhadeep Gayen
April 21st, 2009 8:21 amAs this theme will be for use of as much catagories of site as possible, i’d like to suggest following things for being implemented.
I have outlines the basic layout in 2 images, one contains the main page and another the post page.
Index Image > http://i41.tinypic.com/1449tox.jpg
Post Page Image > http://i40.tinypic.com/11gkpee.jpg
Some more Suggestions :
1) TRY TO AVOID large javascript libraries like jquery it is just a waste of bandwidth, instead create your own javascript or use small scripts for small effects. I hate high load times and hope others does too.
2) The template should be W3C Transitional Passed
3) Clean interface (notably web 2.0)
4) Paginationof must in index is must
5) Good post excerpt in index with filed under catagory, tags and author and should be attractive
6) As small size as possible w/o over excessive use of javascripts
7) Browsar compatibilty
8) Good typography
9) Compatible with varieties plugins
10) U KNOW BETTER
Milan
April 21st, 2009 8:21 amA portfolio theme that is out of the ordinary. No manual scroll, smooth-scrolling by jquery, top down view of a garden (vector/vexel) as background.
@Milan_O
Benjamin M. Strozykowski
April 21st, 2009 8:25 amI’d like to see a very simple theme that is elegant. It would have blog posts, but also have easy access to portfolio pages which would house anything like web designs, digital photos or video/audio content.
Amanda
April 21st, 2009 8:30 amI don’t think anyone’s mentioned this yet…!
How about…
1) A CMS theme that doesn’t scream “modified blog”
2) Integrated SIFR text (or something similar) for custom fonts in headlines
3) A branded admin page so the client sees your logo (or theirs) when they login to update their website.
4) A time tracker in the dashboard to see how much time each user has spent on the site (with notes?)
5) Built-in option for auto updating of WP and plugins (huge time saver if you are managing multiple sites)
6) Recommended plugin list for photo galleries, e-commerce, and video integration
6) Some random graphic element functionality for fun and freshness!
These to me would all be very useful features…. :)
Jash Sayani
April 21st, 2009 8:32 amI have a completely new and innovative idea for a WordPress theme.
The blog will look like a grid of thumnails in black background (These will be images of blog posts). Once to take your cursor to the thumbnail, the post title will appear (jQuery). And when you click on it, the post opens…
E-mail me for a more detailed view. I can even help in basic design with pictures of the concept.
BZ
April 21st, 2009 8:33 amportfolio-design fo sho.
Zuri
April 21st, 2009 8:35 amA health theme would be great.
The general idea is to use mild green and blue colors.
Regards,
Zuri
zarroba
April 21st, 2009 8:38 amI would like to have a movie related theme. One that would allow me to choose from a db of movie posters which ones would appear in the header. With lots of reel feel. It should be 2 columns (main + sidebar)
That would be awesome!
myDevWares
April 21st, 2009 8:39 amportfolio theme:
- Absolutely stunning typograhy
- Moderate use of jQuery to create animated menu/category/sidebar effects
- Highly customizable layout
- 3 column
- Colour scheme: blue, white, black, grey (similar to http://www.mydevwares.com)
- unique
Jay
April 21st, 2009 8:39 amI’d like to see a personal homepage or hub type theme which would included
1) Standarad blogging pages
2) Lifestream integration, social media resume
3) Proper resume/cv options.
4).Photo Gallery
all with Mootools/jquery sexiness
Alan Brusky
April 21st, 2009 8:41 amI would love to see a minimalist portfolio theme. Clean and easy tp showcase work, rather than the theme
The Kraken
April 21st, 2009 8:43 amSuper clean grid based setup – don’t soften those rightangles, embrace them (ow, spikey). white space, black columns, grey dividers very subtle – make it about the content, not the container.
Ahmet Orhan
April 21st, 2009 8:43 amI hope i can win. I need new wordpress theme:D
Larson
April 21st, 2009 8:44 amI’d like to see something designed for multi media, using audio, video, and the social networking widgets ie twitter, flutter etc incorperated into the design, that resembles more of a magazine style with simple tabbed nav and the simple 3 column design frame. Possible use of a typography from the early 50′s or late 40′s as the primary h1 fonts and a more traditional/contemporary font for the content.
Raj
April 21st, 2009 8:46 amI’d like a them that gives equal space to blog posts and lifestream. I am using a theme that tries to do that but I think the wp community needs more of such themes.
Pam Westbrook
April 21st, 2009 8:48 amA three column using crisp and clear lines defining posts. Wiget ready. A header that I can add my custom header onto. Overall view, organic gardening and recipe blog.
That would be so cool.
Diego Potapczuk
April 21st, 2009 8:48 amI really would like a theme that i could use to do a CMS with wordpress, wich i think will be a great use of it in the near future.
cardeo
April 21st, 2009 8:51 amI’d like to see a minimal life-stream style theme.
Francois
April 21st, 2009 8:52 amCool contest.
What I would like is a celebrity design.
Depending on the category, there should be different pages.
1 Category for the celebrities (Page with informations + links to pictures/videos with tags)
1 Category for the pictures ( Page style the gallery)
1 Category for the videos ( Page for a video)
Thanks.
David (Marketing Integrity)
April 21st, 2009 8:55 amA portfolio CMS theme – not just your ordinary one though – one that would allow for more than one portfolio section or subsection – so you could showcase portfolios for different market/customer segments. CMS so it is a web site and also had blog capabilities.
Todd
April 21st, 2009 9:03 amI’d love to see a portfolio theme that separates portfolio posts from news posts by category or even sub-categories within the portfolio. I’d also like to see what’s possible with creating a look that isn’t so minimal. What if the whole screen was just chock full of headlines and images? A little controlled chaos. Maybe use sIFR to break it up a bit.
Dimitar Tsonev
April 21st, 2009 9:03 amSmashing magazine magazine theme. :)
Dylan Blanchard
April 21st, 2009 9:06 amAmanda’s comment’s at 210 are pretty solid – if you could use a couple of them with a portfolio / life-stream centered theme…. Prime. prime prime!
Thanks!
Dylan B.
Thomas
April 21st, 2009 9:07 ameither a magazine or a really slick cms theme, they’re really nice. support autogeneration of drop down menus, different sidebars on every page
Jason
April 21st, 2009 9:08 amit would be great to see a good e-commerce theme. it should include a great shopping cart plugin as well as the ability to feature products and such. there should be a blog component, but it would be nice to have a theme that wasn’t so blogcentric.
annso
April 21st, 2009 9:09 amWe don’t see enough blog theme. Everything is about magazine theme now.
I would love a nice blog theme, where I can tell about my (fascinating) life, and post some photos too.
marco
April 21st, 2009 9:13 amHello! a blog that can fascinate technical degree students! thanks!!
Marco
skrat
April 21st, 2009 9:13 amHorizontal scrolling theme would be awesome. :D just kidding. I love random numbers, pick me! pick me!
suki soo
April 21st, 2009 9:18 amI would love to see a magazine style theme or nice typography theme.
Thanks in advance if I do win~ LOL
Kenneth
April 21st, 2009 9:20 amA good liftestreaming theme would be awesome. Support for Flickr, Twitter, and other small social apps would need to be built it or included as plugins. Then you have WordPress already there for the blogging part.
Colette
April 21st, 2009 9:25 amI would like a holiday themed site that allows users to leave feedback on their trips, vote on top destinations, idea’s for holidays and Travel Guides.
Plus a users photo gallery which allows other users to make comments, give ratings which can be used to create lists i.e. top ten photos etc. Photos could also be used to accompany feedback on hotels etc.
Kaahne
April 21st, 2009 9:26 amGreatings from france !
I don’t know if it has ever been made, but it would be nice if we (visitors) could add a (like / did not like) to the comments. E. G. : i liked the article : my comment will appear with a green border. if I disliked it, it could be red. Blogger should be able to summarize opinion over a post (a kind of diagramm, maybe, or just percentage with coloring)
DKumar M.
April 21st, 2009 9:27 amThere is no good wordpress E-Commerce theme available over web (Not even paid one). It’s good to have a E-Commerce theme with lots of functionality like what you can see in Nick’s e-Commerce site icondock.com.
Also there is no market place theme available for wordpress like iStockPhoto or ThemeForest.
DKumar M.
@instantShift
ELCODIGODEBARRAS
April 21st, 2009 9:30 amActually I´m working about a blog for kids; there are many things and resouces about internet the kids can enjoy in a safe way and I´m trying to show them in this blog, http://gominolasdigitales.com . I really miss a good design for kids; not ridiculous but full colored, with a small gallery or silder and a video window, with pretty cartoon icon to show the kids different sections and categories in esscence a blog well structured and clean but easy to understand for children.
All the sites we find usually are the type…print and paint…bored and ugly, don´t you think so ?
mercutiom
April 21st, 2009 9:35 amI’d love a magazine style theme that’s:
Adsense ready
Simple portfolio management
Better comment management
Easily replaceable background image for simple customization
Thanks!! @mercutiom
Lee
April 21st, 2009 9:35 amI would like to see a store theme.
SmileY
April 21st, 2009 9:39 amIt would be nice to have theme for educational sites. It should have big drop down menu (like samsung’s :D), two and three column pages, and standard one column pages for contact info etc…
Philip P.
April 21st, 2009 9:44 amI’d love to see a nice traditional African theme. Not something cheesy (no leopard print, k? :P), and not something based on vectors of teal sky, and silhouette trees and giraffes. Just clean, simple, traditional African.
Thanks! ^^
Miguel
April 21st, 2009 9:51 amI would like to see one which implemented all your valuables advices fo design you give us. For example a simple “go top” link would be nice.
Personally i like the actual. It make me feel confortable.
Alex Vorn
April 21st, 2009 9:52 amhmmm.. I know what is the scope of this contest..
you just want to gain a lot of powerful ideas from the people! Very bad man!
Tephlon
April 21st, 2009 9:53 amI’d like to see a Portfolio Theme with categories. (For example: Web, Print, Illustrations) Integration of Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook Status would be cool too.
Something simple that is easy to customise later, as this would be geared towards the artistic type.
Jan Jelínek
April 21st, 2009 9:54 amHaha, it has to be easy, it has to be simple, it has to be elegant, it has to be funny…
Easy to say… harder to do…
I prefer something cool with less colors and graphical items, but with great idea…
Thx
Apurv
April 21st, 2009 9:55 amI would like to see a Travel theme.
manu
April 21st, 2009 9:56 am… un tema al estilo de James Bond en una misión, con muchas funciones pero que no las exhiba, sino que hago uso discreto de ellas con elegancia. Un tema fino, atrevido, seductor, con acceso a recursos e innovaciones geeks para su asignación. Si un blog constituye una misión frente al mundo, nos gustaría tener de nuestra parte a un agente con el estilo, audacia y estado de alerta de James Bond.
Josh
April 21st, 2009 9:57 amSomething ripe to support the new Jason Santa Maria-inspired blog art direction revolution.
KiT
April 21st, 2009 9:58 amI am currently a developer (coder) and recently interested in UI/UX. I would like to learn from an excellent work.
Juan
April 21st, 2009 10:02 amAn edgy magazine-ish/clean/image/designer/classy style (large smooth fading, rotating header…with on-image “icons/#s” to toggle between the rotating headers).
Appropriate JQuery plugins are a must.
Image support for blog (with ability for twitter input) and a decent gallery (versatile: personal gallery (flickr…etc) or portfolio) . Slightly customizable interface would be nice (color of text and comment boxes).
Stylish “callout” comments (not just boxes).
Tag cloud and good organization/categorization of posts.
Tobi
April 21st, 2009 10:17 ama portfolio based theme will be very useful!
Rogier
April 21st, 2009 10:18 amI like see a professional and financial clean (blue and green) template :D
Martha
April 21st, 2009 10:22 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
Link [www.PSDtoWordPress.com]
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GREAT idea to incorporate the two! I’ve been trying and trying to find a creative, great looking portfolio theme that has a separate “blog” to it, more like a CMS look I guess than a blog but implementing WP. A combo of a portfolio site, with huge image areas, ie; Graph Paper Press themes, and a mag or blog theme with optional homepages, is perfect! Would love something UNIQUE..minimalistic. Thanks!!
hardbee
April 21st, 2009 10:23 amshop template
Erik
April 21st, 2009 10:29 amI add my voice to the Magazine/Newspaper group
dams
April 21st, 2009 10:31 amsimple clean slate magazine wp theme
Justin Pearce
April 21st, 2009 10:35 amWhat would be awesome is a theme for downtown/urban community websites. It would have a big city/ skyscraper feel, a fully adjustable width/ text size and features focusing on community tools (like Google Calendar integration, Forum skinning, etc.). Probably would also be to have built-in open id support.
Overkast
April 21st, 2009 10:38 amTheme Type: portfolio-blog-lifestream-magazine
Name:
If this is not possible just hack my idea into pieces and incorporate different elements.
Features:
SEO Ready
Auto Resize Image
Custom fields
Life Stream integration
Widget Ready
Custom Category Templates:
Video: Like The Red Carpet theme by Gabfire with better design for widescreen videos. I like this implementation because while you can change the video that is being played, each video is in its own page. So people can comment on it. Better implementation then the Video Gallery plugins out there.
Photo: Much like all the CSS gallery themes you seen out there.
Life stream: Like popurls
Blog: Like the Brightness Theme by dailywp, or like the Convergence theme by Theme Forest.
The homepage can be the blog, where the latest item in each section will be posted. Or you can choose whatever template you want has the index page, this way people can choose what kind of site they want. The footer can be widgetize to show the latest from each section as well. This way if someone choose a template other than the blog, visitors still see what’s going on elsewhere.
The main point is different category templates that can be used as the index page.
And oh yeah… me want Laptop Sleeve.
tschai
April 21st, 2009 10:40 amA fan-tas-tic gallery theme…but, wait I’m already working on that!
Sandra Nowlin
April 21st, 2009 10:41 amI am looking forward to see what theme is decided on. I’m not creative enough for my own theme and all the ones I come across are so great. The unfortunate thing with great ones is that they get replicated all over the ‘net.
Mariella
April 21st, 2009 10:43 amI’d like to see a magazine-style theme, but one that does not demand too much content so one person could manage it — just one or two featured posts, plus a column of regular posts. And a sideblog. Good category & tags implementation with a prominent search box. Gravatars & threaded comments. Prominent RSS feed link for content and comments — e-mail updates too.
I’d like it to be customizable, so the admin could change from 2 to 3 columns, or reposition the columns and change the graphics used everywhere: background, divs, header, etc.
Something creative and artistic — not too corporate or soulless.
luuk
April 21st, 2009 10:49 amPlease, not again a magazine theme.
Make a minimalistic theme, stylish, with great typography. Back to basics, guys!
LindaS
April 21st, 2009 10:58 amI’d like a portfolio / CV type theme. =)
NuclearMoose
April 21st, 2009 11:00 amI would really like to see a theme aimed at sports – specifically, a theme that could be used for a kids’ soccer league or baseball league.
Every town has a bunch of kids involved in something like that — and a theme built to serve the needs of teams or organizations would be great.
Tossing out ideas, the theme would have:
A blog portion for the team / league managers
Schedule of Events
Rules
About our team/league
Contact our managers
Photo gallery
News
The possibilities are limitless, and it would go a long way to serving the needs of a LOT of people.
Ehab
April 21st, 2009 11:02 amHere is what I want to see :)
Colors – Good use of colors throughout the theme. Using one of the top themes from Kuler.adobe.com would be cool. Would be even more awesome if a color switcher is available for non-savvy users (we can easily change via CSS)
Basic Feature & Structure – Many of the themes that have been released through SM before lacked a thing or two. Please make sure to include all the new features of 2.7 / 2.8 and support for headings, forms and additional markup.
Styling – Remember – just spending an extra hour behind styling the headings properly can change the whole theme and give a lot of depth to the design. The comment area should also be styled with care.
Updates – A good theme is one which remains under development for a long time :) Would be great if someone continues to upgrade the theme when WP’s code changes.
- Ehab – Bangladesh
Liz
April 21st, 2009 11:06 amI’d like to see a WP-Theme for video bloggers &/or Podcasters.
Something that nicely accomodates 640 video, highlights options for rss and itunes subscription and has a sleek commenting system w/ special styling for the admins responses. Also this would work best ad something clean & grid based that can easily be modified with a custom header image.
+ I’d <3 to get my hands on a sleeve for my netbook!
Thanks! :)
Jennifer
April 21st, 2009 11:15 amDefinitely something for both the amateur or professional photographer. Everyone wants to show off their amazing snapshots from the family get together or the most recent maternity photo shoot. Something with a sleek design with a modern, almost steel look to it. Maybe the design looks like a camera itself. It should have a way to easily categorize photos possibly with the ability to map where the photo was taken. And it should definitely have a popout to see the larger image when clicked possibly with thumbnails of photos with similar categories/tags. Yup….that’s all I got.
Thomas Clausen
April 21st, 2009 11:19 amI would love to see a childtheme to one of the pioneers of themedevelopers of the community. I would love to see a poll as to who it should be. I would prefer a child theme of Justin Tadlocks Hybrid. But it could also be a guy like Ian Stewart, Bryan Gardner or somebody like that.
I don’t really care of what the theme would focus on. It could be anything that uses these developers great framework. Maybe a real-estate site with full google maps integration…
National J.
April 21st, 2009 11:22 amMUSICIAN / BAND THEME
Desperately needed, very underserved…
HOMEPAGE:
* Huge top area for photo/branding — maybe where the branding is static, but huge photo behind has the option of rotating/fading between a few
* Area to display upcoming concerts/appearances
* Area to display blog tease
* Social networking tease
* Featured/latest release area with audio sample(s)
NAV/MAIN SECTIONS:
* History/About
* Blog
* Discography
* Photo Gallery
* Show archive (could fold into History)
* Merch (with e-commerce option)
Jeannie
April 21st, 2009 11:23 amWould love to see a sharply designed E-commerce wordpress theme. There are some nice ones out there now, but they are limited and often too “cute” for many publishers. Just a nice option that is clean and customizable with color choice.
Jeremy McQuigge
April 21st, 2009 11:25 amHey! What a great idea. As someone who works in student transition; blogs, flickr, twittering, rss, sms, social communities, portals, video etc. etc. are huge components of the modern learner. Yet, there are really not great templates that suite the education arena. Website development is not something the aveage educator is skilled to do and it’s these folks who build and maintain thousands of educational sites… some still designed in Corel Composer – can you believe it!
Any ways, I am not expecting to win, but thought I’d raise some awarness for all those who are struggling in their schools to develop something more engaging then blue hyper links and blinking gifs.
cyxob
April 21st, 2009 11:25 amI would like to see 3-column, typography style, with color chooser theme.
pry
April 21st, 2009 11:30 amI would like to see a nice design :P
Jay
April 21st, 2009 11:34 amhey guys,
make it a developer’s theme. there are some coders out there that need your help for great wp designs!
Tim Poindexter
April 21st, 2009 11:37 amlisten, one of the most popular themes in the WordPress universe is “Thesis.” The next theme Smashing Magazine releases should be a free alternative to “Thesis.” It should have good hooks (for ads or features), lots of widgetized areas, the ability to be two or three columns (and choose what side they go on), great SEO built right in, and it shouldn’t be too graphics heavy. Also, no gimmicky fonts. The typography needs to be sturdy and enduring.
And, unlike some of the previous themes you’ve released, none of the special “configurable” features should be hard coded. Releasing a theme with the theme-author’s twitter stream hard coded into the page is unprofessional and, frankly, should be unacceptable.
I’m looking forward to whatever you choose!
rodion kovenkin
April 21st, 2009 11:44 amhello!
there are a lot of photobloggers but no one brilliant photoblog theme, only te ugly ones. What about photoblog/portfolio theme with horizontal croling.
OR
clear minimal theme with great typography for writers
Nicole Foster
April 21st, 2009 11:49 amI say a sleek magazine style theme or a clean theme with amazing typography/
Webfreelancers
April 21st, 2009 11:51 amNice one! I have the following idea for a WP theme:
For my local soccer team we would like to have a website at wich we can communicate with each other and were we can update the team with news, keep up with player statistics and integration with social platform accounts from our players for example. About the colors and the styling: professional, uefa, champions leauge, nike, speed, contrast…
Cheers and good luck!
Kyra
April 21st, 2009 11:54 amCMS with nice flickr plug-in, photo gallery, easy-to-customize contact form with validation.
@kyradk
Christof Schirra
April 21st, 2009 11:55 amA theme that can be used as a photographer to present his portfolio.
Gerd Wippich
April 21st, 2009 11:55 amWordPress as a CMS. With optional eCommerce functionality. A theme easy to customize.
Deanna
April 21st, 2009 12:00 pmI would like to see a book-style theme different from any other out there. Book 2.0 style!
Psuken
April 21st, 2009 12:01 pmone word : KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid)
Webdesign these days are full of nice vectors, images and features but don’t forget the basics :)
Kate
April 21st, 2009 12:18 pmI’d love a photoblog/magazine style theme! With colour options as a feature. Also, with the world going twitter crazy I’ve got twitter integrated into my blog which is using your Magazeen theme. The one downfall is that because the post comes from twitter, it doesn’t have a picture to top the post. It would be awesome to have a feature where I could choose a default picture for posts that haven’t had a specific picture chosen
Aurelian Anghelescu
April 21st, 2009 12:25 pmI’m interested, as many are, i’m sure, in a perfect newspaper wordpress theme. The problem is that it has to be as more automated as possible. Most of the time there is only one person taking care of a whole daily newspaper which is really hard to do.
I think there should be a way of picking the pictures automatically by a custom field using a phpthumb script for frontpage/category and post and than make use of a lightview script for seeing full picture.
Also there should be widgets already in theme with latest news, most commented, latest comments and usual features like that.
It has to have multiple colors with different CSSs, because usually a newspaper has a dominant color.
Frontpage should be easy to admin because most webmasters don’t know programming. It should be something like a sortable jquery script.
There has to be a newsticker horizontal or vertical.
There has to be a featured articles space with articles rolling using a jquery/mootools/prototype script.
SEO and semantic code is a must. Good typography as well.
And so on….
ed
April 21st, 2009 12:39 pmI would like to see a theme that is more like a eVid theme, for those who like to publish articles about music related stuff. And integrating video publishing feature in it will makes it much better. Also having default plugins in it to enhance the sit’s design and features. and some extra features like, having a poll, ad-support, request page, and just the basic features.
thanks
Mohamed Azazy
April 21st, 2009 12:51 pmI suggest a Tutorials and Podcasting theme, using Ajax and JQ, Web 2.0 look, Users Login Area !, make it easy for Visitors to make comment mean make WYSIWYG not just tags .. i guess it’s a new idea too, sidebar some like SM, the index.php put a topics photos slider but by a new effects like fade out/in by JQ i guess that’s all to now…
Greetings, Best Wishes
balachandar
April 21st, 2009 12:52 pmI haven’t come across any interesting merge of Portfolio + Life stream’fied theme. Blog is just another type of content entry in a designers social web. Tweets, Bookmarks, Photos, his day to day work(illustrations, desings, icons) …all of these comes more frequent from a designer, rather than a blog post. Though wordpress as a CMS is powerful enough to handle all of this, i haven’t seen theme which weds all of this seamlessly.
Simply, a theme which weds the best of Sweetcron + DailyWP Portfolio theme + Viewport Theme, and of course smashed!
Karen
April 21st, 2009 12:53 pmI’d like to see a wp theme that incorporates a blog and a photo blog with defined separate areas but that still focuses on both (with the photo blog as the main interest area) on the home page.
I’d like the style to be clean and concise with a bit of whimsy but not so much that it overpowers the content with beautifully crafted code and a sharp contact form.
Blair C.
April 21st, 2009 12:54 pmWe’ve seen clean and crisp. We’ve seen grunge WP themes. I’d like to see a happy median between the two.
A WP theme geared towards reviews. Perhaps technical reviews such as a CNET-like site (as far as information, not design).
Overall, I’d just like to see a WP theme that doesn’t “look like a WP theme”. Something we couldn’t put in to a list like “65 Crisp and Clean WP Themes”.
bealseClasmag
February 5th, 2010 2:20 amlovely, i just brought a lot of different emo backgrounds to my blog
Peter Lau
April 21st, 2009 1:01 pmPortfolio theme please! Redesigning my own portfolio and would like to see some cool designs to inspire me.
Spaksu
April 21st, 2009 1:02 pmJust simple one coloum wp theme. with colorfull.
malinky
April 21st, 2009 1:02 pmI’d be keen to see a successful e-comm theme using wp. Something with a professional design, great usability, no fricking flash, intelligent IA, and a short, painless, check-out process.
Nic Brownlee
April 21st, 2009 1:07 pmI’d love to see a Travel Blog site that would allow me to post events, photos and video from my laptop as I travel South Africa ( and try a do a bit of freelance design as I go !!!)
Michele
April 21st, 2009 1:07 pmHi there,
I would really appreciate a template for flash games where people can register and submit their score after playing.A 3 columns template with spaces for some advertising and a page where guest can buy merchandise with the site logo.
P.s. Sorry for my bad bad bad english.
Samantha
April 21st, 2009 1:13 pmI would like to see more retro stuff!