These days, WordPress themes are flowing left and right, non-stop. I see at least a couple of new WordPress themes every single day. I wouldn’t even hesitate to say dozens of WordPress themes are created and released daily.
Here at WPCandy we try to bring you the best of WordPress. We do the hard work for you. We dig through all sorts of WordPress themes, select the ones that stand out to us, and bring them to your door step.
In this post, I’ll be writing about two WordPress themes that stood out to me while surfing around.
PocketT WordPress Theme
The PocketT WordPress theme is a pretty interesting theme. Developed and released by Nyssa J. Brown, PocketT is a great theme for any personal blogger.
One thing about PocketT that stood out to me, was the custom styles. PocketT uses custom styles to help divide up different parts of the post.
Custom Styles-
- Notes
- Code Samples
- Downloads
- Word Highlighting
Pros-
- Free
- Simple Design
- Different Header Images
- Good Typography
- RSS Enabled
- Search Enabled
Cons-
- Too Narrow (for some people)
- No Right Sidebar
- No Archives
Not-So-Pretty Permalinks
Overall, I’d give PocketT an 8/10 for it’s great design and decent functionality. Oh and did I mention? It’s free!
GrungePress WordPress Theme
The GrungePress WordPress Theme, created by Magnus Jepson, is another theme that caught my eye. When I was just starting out in web design, the whole grunge style was my favorite. Since then I’ve moved onto liking other styles, but GrungePress reminds me how much I still love the grunge style.
Pros-
- Great-looking Grunge Style
- Search Enabled
- Fully-layered PSD ($99 package)
- Good Typography
- RSS Enabled
- Flickr Roll
- Widget-ready
- Tag Cloud
- Free Updates
Cons-
- Some Photoshop skills necessary to edit header image
- Costs $49-$99
Overall, I’m going to give GrungePress a 8/10 as well. It has a great decent, some standard, but cool features.
Post Revisions:
- 5 August, 2010 @ 5:52 [Current Revision] by michael castilla
- 26 November, 2007 @ 18:51 by Ryan Imel
THanks for mentioning PocketT, Michael. And wow, I forgot the Archives page! lol I’ll have to add that in the next update, so thanks for the heads up.
By the way, the not-so-nice permalinks aren’t to do with the theme but the user setup
PocketT isn’t dependent on not-so-nice permalinks. 
Hey Nyssa! No problem
Haha let me know when the next update is out and I’ll make sure to post about it.
Oh, I’ll have to fix that permalink comment then! My bad
Hey thanks for the writeup. I have already taken one of my two cons and fixed it:
I will gladly edit the header image when anybody buys the theme. I realize that not everybody has or knows how to use Photoshop, so I’m including this service in the $49 package.
And for those with Photoshop skills; I’m including the full Photoshop file to the first 3 buyers!
Hi Michael, If you have a minute, take a look to my own theme database gallery on http://www.freeminders.org. Thanks in advance. Raul aka LordMaX
RSS enabled and Search enabled are Pros? These are standard wordpress functions, every theme should be able to do this.
@David: I agree. I think he means the RSS and Search are integrated in the design and not just text link/search form in sidebar or footer.
Well I actually meant a bit of both. You’ll be surprised that some themes aren’t Search and RSS enabled. So I consider those pros.