2011 was a great year for WordPress, with some excellent new updates that saw the introduction of a drag-and-drop uploader, distraction-free writing, the HTML5 Twenty Eleven theme, and movement towards a fully responsive dashboard. As well as changes to WordPress core, theme development continued to evolve, as whispers of responsive design spread like wildfire across the WordPress community.
(via WordPress Theme Design and Development Trends for 2012 | Smashing WordPress)
At Theme Trust, we’ve just released our first WordPress theme of 2012, and we’re quite proud of it. This one is called Uber, and it’s a responsive business and portfolio theme perfect for freelance designers, photographers, or design firms. The portfolio section in this theme, with its smooth filtering animations, is a great way to showcase your work. Another great feature is the animated full screen background that’s synchronized with the home page slideshow. Keep reading to learn more Uber’s features and to try out the demo.
(via Uber: A Responsive Portfolio and Business WordPress Theme | News)
Headway 3 Now Available | Headway Drag and Drop WordPress Theme
Headway’s always been about working on your design visually. Headway was the first visual drag and drop commercial theme framework for WordPress. The Visual Editor changed the game by letting you design live right on the page. No more “let’s check a bunch of options sight unseen and hope it looks good” like other themes. The Visual Editor is still there, but in Headway 3 we’re introducing a whole new way to create the page layouts: the Headway Layout Grid. The Layout Grid lets you DRAW your website, just by clicking and dragging. You draw a Block (yeah, they’re Blocks now, not “Leafs” anymore—and you’re so welcome!) and then choose what kind of Block you want it to be. If you change your mind you can change the Block type. No need to delete and redraw the Block. Blocks can be dragged around and resized. Each Block has options you can set such as content filters or to give it a custom CSS class.
Nova is a sharp, simplistic design that makes for an intuitive user experience. Nova’s biggest strength is its homepage, which allows you to organize your content into two areas. The Featured Slider is perhaps the most versatile slider we have built, and comes with multiple slider variations that breath new life into the design. (via Nova WordPress Theme | Elegant Themes)
I am glad to present to you the second part of the article Best Portfolio WordPress themes in 2011, this one is with more themes, up to 50. The list is sorted by popularity, so the most popular themes are in the top of the list, I’m sure from this huge list you will find one theme that will suit your needs. Please share this article so other people will be able to find easily and will save a lot of time searching for some great themes. If you are interested about the first part you can go here. (via 50 Best Portfolio WordPress Themes in 2011 – Part 2/3 – WPSmash)
Here is another list of different types of themes released in September 2011. A lot of fullscreen, business and portfolio themes are bundled here, a new concept theme that I didn’t saw anywhere such as The Novelist and a super theme from all known and talented web-designer Orman Clark – Studeo. (via 25 Premium WordPress Themes Released in September 2011 – WPSmash)
Das Universum – Unendliche Weiten. Wir befinden uns in einer fernen Zukunft, dies sind die Abenteuer des Raumschiff… Äh, Moment! Wir befinden uns im Jetzt und das sind auch nicht irgendwelche Abenteuer eines Raumschiffs, sondern reale Erlebnisse, die WordPress-Nutzer täglich machen können. Denn das mit den unendlichen Weiten stimmt: Das WordPress-Universum hat für jeden Anwendungsfall genau die passende Lösung parat. Sei es ein SEO-Plugin wie wpSEO, sei es ein WordPress-Lexikon in Eigenarbeit oder aber nur ein passendes WordPress-Theme: Mir ist kein Anwendungsfall bekannt, in dem WordPress-Mittel nicht ausgereicht hätten, um ein Problem nicht zu lösen. So ähnlich sieht es auch bei WordPress-Themes aus: Vorbei sind die Zeiten, in denen WordPress nur für private Blogs die richtige Lösung war. Vorbei sind die Zeiten von Einheitsbrei, langweilen Navigationen und beschränkten Startseiten. WordPress hat sich längst zu einem mächtigen und machtvollen (vollwertigen) CMS gemausert. Fleißige Designer und WordPress-Entwickler tun an dieser Entwicklung ihr übriges. Ich möchte an dieser Stelle daher mal 10 verschiedene thematische Anwendungsmöglichkeiten vorstellen, wie sich Websites mit WordPress realisieren lassen. Und damit das Ganze auch sehr lebendig wird, werde ich zu jedem Bereich auch ein WordPress exemplarisch vorstellen. Bitte beachtet hierbei: Links, die mit * gekennzeichnet sind, sind sog- Referal-Links. Ich verdiene an jedem Verkauf dann ein paar Euro, mit denen ich die laufenden Kosten hier decke. Daher bitte nicht übel nehmen. (via Unendliche Weiten… Anwendungsmöglichkeiten für WordPress » WordPress-Themes, CMS, WordPress als Immobilienseite, Online-Portfolio, Lexikon-WordPress-Theme, Magazin » wpLove.de)
This is the second part of the Best Business WordPress Themes of 2011 article with another 50 amazing themes.
The themes are sorted by popularity, so the most popular themes are on the top of the list.
These themes are made for everyone, from simple users to advanced, very easy to use and very flexible, with a lot of Post and Page options, many features and color variations.
Hope you will like this list of 50 Best Business WordPress Themes of 2011, please share this article to help others to use a professional WordPress theme.
To check the first part please go here.
(via 50 Best Business WordPress Themes of 2011 – Part 2/3 – WPSmash)
It’s interesting to look back at our previous WordPress themes round-ups. It’s almost like looking at a visual timeline not only of WordPress’ advances in theme design, but of the rapid development in functionality of the CMS itself. The themes from year to year clearly differ in style as Web design trends have evolved. As each year passes and more functionality is added to WordPress’ core, these improvements are strongly reflected in the themes developed for it. Once upon a time, all WordPress themes looked like traditional blogs, with basic functionality and not a heck of a lot more. But as you will see from the themes below, that original “blog” design style is clearly gone, perhaps never to be seen again. It makes you feel nostalgic. Nowadays, user requirements for WordPress themes are very high. Users expect all themes (including free ones) to have pages for admin options built in, where you can quickly set up your website and personalize it with a minimum of fuss. With the rise of these options pages, niche-specific theme designs (such as for portfolios, blogs or magazines) are no longer required and are, in fact, few and far between. Most of the themes below can be tailored via the options panel to be anything you want, whether a portfolio, a content-heavy magazine-style website or a basic blog. Setting one up takes only 10 minutes. This actually gave us a few problems when it came to categorizing the themes below. We spend a lot of time researching, collaborating on and writing these round-ups. In fact, it is a Smashing Magazine tradition to publish the top 100 WordPress themes from the previous 12 months (this is our fifth edition). (via Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition - Smashing Magazine)
