While most theme authors would release their creations for free, there are also WordPress themes that are considered premium. It’s something that’s not exactly custom-made for a design client, but something with added value that authors think would be worth paying for.
Here on Free WordPress Themes, we’ve received a few requests for removal of posted […]

This month’s free WordPress theme from Performancing is the Simplicity theme, designed by the449.

It’s a simple theme, with a hint of Magazine style, that is easy to build upon and is easily customizable through support of widgets and super-clean code. Simplicity is engineered to be highly accessible, work beautifully with a screen reader and uses […]

These wishes—which are mostly laments—are the result of my recent coding spree with a WordPress-powered site. It is by no means comprehensive, and not exactly limited to WordPress theme design.
Fix the ugly code in sidebar widgets. By ugly I don’t really mean invalid HTML/CSS, but code that doesn’t make sense. Take for example the RSS […]

Here at Free WordPress Themes we’re having some trouble getting the theme demo to work and one of the main reasons is that the themes aren’t named consistently. But the bigger problem when theme designers do that is the inconsistency that can hurt your theme as a brand.
As most of you know, WordPress gets the […]

We love WordPress because it’s especially versatile. Strictly speaking it’s a blogging tool but we’ve seen many websites that have taken it to the next level: tumblelogs, newspapers, magazines, CSS galleries, shopping carts, even link directories!
Now most of the time those customizations are achieved with plugins, but did you know themes can do that as […]

It feels great when you have a new blog or site, and readership starts to pick up. Same if you have a new service and you get more and more clients each day. However, sometimes you have growing pains. Your server’s sometimes down. You sometimes get software bugs.
I guess that’s part of growing up. It’s […]

Christmas is a season and not just a day (Christmas starts on December 25th and lasts for two weeks, actually), so I would think that I’m not too late in posting about this just this week. The Performancing ‘Tis the Season theme for WordPress is still very much applicable for the remainder of the Christmas […]

A couple of days ago, I got my hands on a nifty new Asus Eee MyPC (got some extra funds from my ad earnings). As soon as I got home, I used the Eee to browse sites for tips, hacks and other information about the ultracompact notebook computer, and the OS that came with it–XandrOS […]

In the few months of Free WordPress Themes being online, we’ve received a few complaints from members and non-members alike. The gist: someone has uploaded their themes, but without proper attribution. Worse, these uploaded themes had sponsor links embedded somewhere (usually the footer). This means some people are making money off other people’s efforts, sometimes […]

For the past couple of days, I’ve been combating spam links on some of the blogs I manage. And these aren’t your run-of-the-mill comment and trackback links. These links had been inserted right on the theme files themselves. Some were even inserted in admin files. Some on the blog posts!
This made me think and rethink […]