Full Feature List of my Free Wordpress Themes

2009-06-21 posted in About My Themes
This post will be constantly updated to reflect the recency of my free themes’ features.
Wooden FencePaper CraftRed LightExotic VacationWatercolorCoffee Desk

My themes have some of the features that you can’t find in most of the free themes out there. And I make sure they contain those features that I outlined.

Theme Features Summary

I will describe the features of my free themes in 3 parts. The theme features in the first part applies to ALL my themes. The features in the second part applies to some of my themes. The third part outlines the recognition I got from big websites.

Part 1: All my Free Themes Contain These Features

Free Forum Support
One of the big reasons people like my themes is the FREE support. Previously, the support was done in the comment section. When I figure that the comment section can no longer address your issues in the most efficient way, I decided to move the support section to the forum. Whether you have issues with my themes or just want to say hi, you are most welcomed to my forum!

One-Click Easy Setup
Once you have uploaded the theme file to the correct folder in your server, the next thing is to activate the theme in the Wordpress admin. After activation, you blog will be up and running without further configuration.

6 Major Browsers Supported
Most of the themes(free or paid) I found on the internet claim to be compatible with major browsers but didn’t specify exactly which browsers they did the test. Is theme compatibility with Firefox and IE browsers enough? Yes if you are targeting 90% of the internet users who use the two browsers.

For every theme that I release, I will test them against 6 major browsers that include Firefox, IE7, IE8, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Click here for more details.

Optimized for Search Engines
One of the most important factor for a SEOed theme is W3C compliant. No doubt about it, my themes are compliant with W3C.

Besides that, a logically use of heading tag such as H1, H2 etc. are important in the search engine ranking. My themes’ blog title, post title, page title defined using H1 to H4 so search engines give more weight to those title keywords.

Free Access to Theme Upgrade
I will constantly update my themes to fix issues and make them compatible with the latest Wordpress version. A revision will be released whenever there is an update and the version will be shown in the "Change log" section of the theme page.

W3C XHTML/CSS Compliant
It is not easy for a theme to pass the W3C validation. Because of that, not many themes are compliant with W3C.

I will go all out to fix all the errors when I test my themes against the XHTML validator and CSS validator and make sure I pass both the tests before I release the themes.

For the benefit of being W3C compliant, click here

Latest Official Wordpress Version Supported
When Wordpress releases a new version, I’ll retest all my themes individually using the latest Wordpress version. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about Wordpress compatibility issues if you use my themes.

It is definitely not easy to retest so many themes in a short time whenever Wordpress releases new version but I’ll do my best to make it work!

More info about Wordpress version compatibility

User Friendly CSS Structure
The theme’s CSS file(style.css) contains a lot of items because of the rich theme features. However, I grouped them in an organized way so you’ll be able to find the right item to edit.

For the details of how I layout the CSS structure, click here

Browser Display Resolution
Base on the data on W3schools, 93% of all internet users are using a display with 1024×768 pixels or more. Because of that, I design my themes to display well on a resolution with 1024px and above. Click here for more info

Award Winning Themes
Most of my themes have been reviewed and graded by ThemeGrade, a site offering the most complete review of free and premium Wordpress themes. All of my themes listed in ThemeGrade have got at least Bronze status, beating majority of the Wordpress themes in the market.
Other Common Features

  • Sticky Posts
  • Widgetized Sidebars
  • Gravatar Enabled
  • Threaded and nested comments
  • Childpage menu
  • Auto-resizing & cropping for Images
  • Search Ready
  • RSS Ready
  • Trackback and Pingback Enabled
  • Part 2: Some of my Themes contain These Features
    Rotating Custom Header Image

    You can upload your own photos to a designated folder and they will be displayed on the designated area of the theme header.

    The photos you upload will be rotated when the visitors to your blogs refresh the page.

    More details about rotating images

    Affected themes:

    Special Font for the Header Title
    You can customize the font style of the header title of most of my themes using one of the following methods:

  • Edit the font in Photoshop
  • You can download and modify the PSD file that contains the font and the header image. Then save the file as “bg_header.jpg” and upload it to the server and you’ll have your own style for the header title.

    The instruction can be found in the theme page.

    Affected themes:
    All my themes starting from Watercolor onwards.
  • Use of GD library
  • Your server needs to support GD library in order to use this method. The setup is not as easy as the first method.

    You can find the instruction here.

    Affected themes:

    Gradient Font Effect

    With the use of a CSS trick, you can have the gradient effect of the header title’s font.

    Click here to read more info about this effect.

    Affected themes:

    Part 3: Theme Recognition from Big Sites/Blogs
  • Catswhocode.com
    Releasing Bulletin Board
  • Speckyboy.com
    Releasing Worn Wall
  • Taragana Blog
    Featuring and reviewing Red Light
  • WPtavern.com
    Featuring and reviewing Wooden Fence
  • ThemesPreview.com
    Featuring and reviewing most of my themes.
  • Themelib.com
    Featuring Coffee Desk, Watercolor, Photographic Film
  • Like this post? Please help share it via the following social sites. Your share keep us creating more useful posts.

    You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
    One Response
    1. deconlabel says:

      Thank .. great features of wordpress themes, and thanks for shares your wordpress themes ..

      regards

    Support Forum

    I no longer offer theme support in the comment section. If you are having any Wordpress theme related issues, please go to the Forum for support.
    All support related questions posted here will be deleted without notice.

    Leave a Reply


    * If you are having any Wordpress theme related issues, please go to the Forum for support.