WordPress Themes for 02/04

LaunchPad WordPress Theme

The LaunchPad WordPress Theme is a unique theme for an easy and stylish way to park your site while it’s still under development. It’s a simple but effective theme perfect for what it’s supposed to do. It’s main feature is that it allows visitors to subscribe through RSS and e-mail.

Features

Theme Options Page
Integration with FeedBurner
Professional design and typesetting
GPL Licensed—it’s free and you’re free to mess with it.

Source: http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-domain-parking-theme/

Preview: http://wordpress.themeshaper.com/index.php?wptheme=LaunchPad

Author: Ian Stewart

Cost: Free

WPDesigner v8 WordPress Theme

The WPDesigner v8 WordPress Theme is one of my favorite themes Small Potato has created. It’s sleek, sexy, simple, and gets the job done.

Features

banner switcher

Custom templates:

archives
links

Integrated plugins:

Author Highlight
Comment License
WP-PageNavi
WP-PostRatings

typography / text styles:

alert
download
info
note

Source: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2008/02/02/wpdesigner8-wordpress-theme/

Preview: http://www.wpdesigner.com/demo/index.php?preview=Wpdesigner8

Author: Small Potato

Cost: You must be a member of the WPDesigner’s Theme Club to download this theme.

Structure WordPress Theme

The Structure WordPress theme is a Premium News/Magazine theme with two different layout styles to choose from. It’s got the News theme-type environment, but not too overwhelming, as most News themes I’ve come across.

Features

A custom home page to look like a news or magazine site.
There’s an optional normal blog layout for the home page.
Set on a 300px, 3-grid layout that lets you move various content blocks around the page. Switch home.php and sidebar.php elements for a custom look.
Sidebar tabbed and home page category posts navigation through the use of a custom jQuery script (jQuery is packaged with the theme).
Embed YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe videos easily with Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict.
Supports the Flickr RSS plugin.
Related Posts plugin support.
Also, plugin support for Popularity Contest by Alex King.
WordPress 2.3 tag-ready, but backwards-compatible with previous versions of WordPress with a single modification.
There are custom templates for each type of WordPress page, such as category.php, archive.php, and search.php.
Ability to change sidebar for different pages of the site.
Placeholders for ads. Good sizes for 125×125px ads.
Widget-ready sidebar, but I suggest not using widgets because this theme wasn’t designed for them.