museum themes

One of the coolest new features of WordPress 3.0 is the ability to customize the site header image and background color or image. The custom header actually goes one step further and lets you set a unique header for each of your pages. This means that you can create unique headers that tie into the… (read more) You might also be interested in these: How I fixed the “cannot redeclare _checkactive_widgets()” error in WordPress child themes How to upgrade your Museum Theme to the most current version after you’ve made changes to the files 12 Free WordPress Themes I Like (and you should, too)

Color Garden is a free theme released on Museum Themes under the GPLv3.  This theme is jam-packed with features, from WordPress 3.0 functionality to Twitter integration.  Color Garden uses WP3.0′s custom header option, and comes with 4 unique headers that accent the 4 color palette options available on the theme options page.  We’ve also built… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Simple Gray erin’s sketchbook Baby SweetTooth

Yesterday we released our fifth Museum Theme, Ex Libris.  If you’re reading this today (August 4, 2010), there’s still time to get $10 of the purchase price with the coupon code ‘exlibris’ (no quotes). Ex Libris was designed for typophiles and writers, putting the focus on type and content rather than graphics and bells and whistles.  Everything about the theme was done with readability in mind, from the background color to the font size, but we also added some of our own creative flair to give it a bit of minimalist edginess.  We used fonts from the reputable exljbris font foundry, which also inspired the name of the WordPress theme.  We’re excited about the powerful type controls we’ve added to the options page, allowing users to have full control over […]

Ex Libris was designed for writers and typophiles.  Lacking fancy graphical bells and whistles, we focussed our attention, instead, on making your content readable with full typographic control.  Ex Libris features a unique approach to choosing the typography for your site.  Rather than relying on the tired basic web fonts, we’ve embedded the gorgeous free… (read more) You might also be interested in these: AP Museum zine

We spent the day today hammering out some ideas for a new Museum Theme.  We wanted to do something for those typophiles and writers out there; something minimalist with an emphasis on typography and a unique design.  The result is Ex Libris, which will be coming very soon. Design options Ex Libris will have 3… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Gee, there’s a thought… What’s coming from Museum Themes

This Blogger template, Striking Resemblance, uses real cloth textures and objects to create a lovely backdrop to your blog. It’s a little bit antique, a little bit modern and completely full of charm. Striking Resemblance uses a rich palette of turqoise and fuschias to lend invitation to the luxurious knit and woven textures and uses… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Last Bit of Summer Stars n’ Stripes dear Audrey

Update 7/22/2010: Thesis adopts the GPL! Over the last few days, the WordPress community has exploded into debate over one thing: Thesis and it’s restrictive, non-GPL-compliant license.  If you’re already familiar with the particulars of what Thesis is and what the debate is, you can skip the summary (to be honest, I’m sick of reading… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Gee, there’s a thought… How to upgrade your Museum Theme to the most current version after you’ve made changes to the files 12 Free WordPress Themes I Like (and you should, too)

Middle Name: Danger is the brother to Baby SweetTooth.  It’s got the same magazine-style layout and multiple widgetized sidebars with optional video embed and FeedBurner integration.  In fact, everything cool about Baby SweetTooth is there in Middle Name: Danger, the only difference is the boy colors vs. the pink and brown in SweetTooth.  Whereas Baby… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Baby SweetTooth erin’s sketchbook Color Garden

Just because we built free WordPress themes and Museum Themes doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the good work of others.  In fact, it’s through watching what’s going on in the greater WordPress theme community that gives us ideas, keeps us on our toes, and informs us of trends and what people are interested in.  Here… (read more)

Baby SweetTooth is a magazine-style theme styled for your baby girl.  It takes inspiration from premium WordPress themes, scrapbooking, and baby girl’s clothing and decor.  It’s built to share all of your thoughts and memories, pictures and videos in an easy-to-access page.  If you use FeedBurner, you can add your FeedBurner ID in the theme… (read more)

One of the things that’s frustrated me about a lot of premium WordPress themes I’ve had experience with is that they leave the user hanging.  You see the demo and it looks awesome.  Configurable category displays, a featured content gallery, room for adsense, customizable navigation, even a video embed in the sidebar.  Maybe you even… (read more)

This was going to be a post on building a WordPress shortcode that you’d use like [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=url[/youtube] inside your posts to take care of the embedding.  My experience has been that when you flip over to HTML view to paste your code and then flip back to the Visual editor to finish your post, a… (read more)