Category: Design
Creative Examples of WordPress Themes Modifications
We know well that everyone wish to have a WordPress Theme more personalized and unique . But what to do in case we can’t create new themes? Very simply: modify an already existing theme. Even I have gone to this method on my personal blog, transforming Dilectio theme created by Design Disease, which I liked very much and I changed a little header and background.
Below you will find some less unusual examples of creative modifications of the standard Themes for WordPress.
Thanks to WeLoveWP, WP Cube and WP-Premiums, which made me write this article easier :)
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1. News Theme
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2. Blogging Experiment Theme
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3. CSS Gallery Theme
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4. Fresh News Theme
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5. The Original Premium News
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6. Dilectio Theme
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7. News Theme
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8. Dilectio Theme
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9. Graph Paper Press Deadwood
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10. CSS Gallery
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11. MagNews Theme
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12. Revolution Magazine Theme
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13. Smashing Theme
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Creative Examples of WordPress Themes Modifications
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Thanks for putting this list together. Great inspiration.
before:
after:
nice collection and thanks for including my site in it.
Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for featuring my modification of the fantastic Fresh News theme by Adii and Magnus Jepson. This is a great collection of inspired designs, and a great site for bloggers in general. I’ll be back.
These are nice.
These blog themes are very crisp and neat in styles.Modification is impressive.
Yes. It’s amazing what a new background, changing the typography and slight spacing, as well as color scheme can do.
Original Theme: Dilectio Theme
Modified Themes:
1. http://www.muslim.or.id
2. http://www.muslimah.or.id
3. http://www.indoroyal.com
Amazing collection, great examples of how a great theme can go a long way & It’s good to see so much variety.
Original theme: http://5thirtyone.com/grid-focus
Themes Modified: http://www.wpelements.com/
http://www.massivepress.com/
http://blog.geektheplanet.net/
This is a great post, and I’m glad that my site helped with your research.
graph paperpress, for me,that’s the nicest modification :)
I love articles like this. Very inspirational. I’m about to take the customization of my Mimbo themed blog even farther than I currently have…..
yes it is very inspirational to explore the possibilities in wordpress,
we have been doing also some and we would be happy to share it with you
wa made an aperio mod and it is avaliable as free download
@ wangjel,
I had never even heard of this theme before this article but I checked out your mod. Very cool… I can definitely see myself using this for a future product.
very nice designs and a great inspiration.
good to know how easy it is to personalized a
theme with these given “free” themes…!
Very nice and thank you for the list ;)
Pawel,
Awesome list, great work Pawel. I also took my NewsPro premium theme as base to design a new layout for gabfire
It really is amazing what simple changes can do for a bland backdrop.
Thanks for using us an example, we appreciate it!
Check out my modification of the Blogging Experiment theme: http://www.jhsiess.com
:-)
Original Theme: Mimbo Theme
Modified Themes: http://al-kanz.org
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These are great – I am really impressed a how many ideas can be born of the original theme!
Original: http://www.wp-magazine.se/free-wordpress-theme-wp-newsmag/
Modified: http://jericosystems.com/
Thanks for the post.
Original theme:
Premium Theme Fresh News
Modified Theme:
http://www.greatparkoc.com/
wow thats really awesome changes :D
Woa! Thanks for adding matblogg.se!
Swordfishcode.com use a very wonderful mod of The Morning After …
Cheers!!!
Here are a few wordpress themes I designed alot better than whats out there for wordpress now, and I want to share them with you guys. please enjoy these
http://rapidshare.com/files/136749398/WordpressPreThemesFeb08.rar.html
Preview my themes
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greentec
(IMG:http://flicr.us/files/bek3it5mvl16sgd8pwbt.jpg)
freshnews
(IMG:http://flicr.us/files/lquxun2yyidsy8i13b8x.png)
Hey,
check:
BEFORE http://quommunication.com/demo/news/
AFTER http://www.restartblog.com/
Before – After
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Great post I really enjoyed browsing the mods… a lot of cool ideas for upgrades..and I love your icons!~ Thanks for sharing this
The way that these themes are shown is quite graphic and serves the purpose very well. Anyone wanting to view how they will come out, or if they have a certain feature, can readily see those facts. The modifications make quite a difference.
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I double-bookmarked this post!! “Creative Examples of WordPress Themes Modifications” – here’s another example: http://wierdwebsites.blogspot.com. This is a Wordpress template turned into a Blogger template, complete with page navigation; you need multiple Blogger accounts for the page nav.
Don’t get me wrong; I also have a Wordpress blog. But I just loaded this template a couple days ago & am tickled pink!
BTW: not all pages lead to the same style yet, soon though.
Great! incredible modifications.
Hi, great idea!
Your post inspire me to make some modifications. Thanks.
Great!! Examples
This is a great list of examples of wordpress customization. Thanks so much for putting it together. What great inspiration there is here!
Great Work Everyone
great and inspiring modification,
i also modified my blog’s from Explosive Reloaded themes, but not extreme modification……
Great list.
But you forgot one, mine. :)
great themes. You number one WPZOOM =)
Thanks.
These are nice.
that was the best work I have never come across
It’s the first time I commented here and I must say you share us genuine, and quality information for bloggers! Good job.
p.s. You have a very good template for your blog. Where did you find it?
Hi, Webdesign Is Art have now a new design !
Always based on Osdesigner template but with many more modifications.
Enjoy :)
Ps : thanks for the link !
Be sure to make another post like this one and include my blog in the next round!! hehehe.. great site you have in here! congratulations, and hope to hear from you soon! ;)