Creative Examples of WordPress Themes Modifications
Posted in Design, Inspiration by Pavel CioriciWe 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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My name is Pavel Ciorici and I am very glad to see you on this blog. I am 20 years old and my home is somewhere in Europe. I`m from Moldova and I am blogging about Tips & Hacks for bloggers, about blogs design and Themes for WordPress.
On this blog I will publish the latest WordPress themes and Plugins, WordPress developement, blogging tips, articles, anything WordPress related, interviews and more.
Sander
3 Jun 2008
Thanks for putting this list together. Great inspiration.
525
3 Jun 2008
before:
after:
boogiesbc
3 Jun 2008
nice collection and thanks for including my site in it.
Cory from Dental Heroes
3 Jun 2008
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.
Samsara
3 Jun 2008
These are nice.
Rajita - Font Design
4 Jun 2008
These blog themes are very crisp and neat in styles.Modification is impressive.
Samsara
4 Jun 2008
Yes. It’s amazing what a new background, changing the typography and slight spacing, as well as color scheme can do.
Penalette
4 Jun 2008
Original Theme: Dilectio Theme
Modified Themes:
1. http://www.muslim.or.id
2. http://www.muslimah.or.id
3. http://www.indoroyal.com
liam
5 Jun 2008
Amazing collection, great examples of how a great theme can go a long way & It’s good to see so much variety.
Andres
6 Jun 2008
Original theme: http://5thirtyone.com/grid-focus
Themes Modified: http://www.wpelements.com/
http://www.massivepress.com/
http://blog.geektheplanet.net/
PJ
6 Jun 2008
This is a great post, and I’m glad that my site helped with your research.
galih
9 Jun 2008
graph paperpress, for me,that’s the nicest modification :)
Hoodgrown Online
9 Jun 2008
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…..
wangjel
9 Jun 2008
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
Hoodgrown Online
9 Jun 2008
@ 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.
Marcel
9 Jun 2008
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 ;)
Mehmet
10 Jun 2008
Pawel,
Awesome list, great work Pawel. I also took my NewsPro premium theme as base to design a new layout for gabfire
Christina
10 Jun 2008
It really is amazing what simple changes can do for a bland backdrop.
Thanks for using us an example, we appreciate it!
JHS
10 Jun 2008
Check out my modification of the Blogging Experiment theme: http://www.jhsiess.com
:-)
Al-Kanz
15 Jun 2008
Original Theme: Mimbo Theme
Modified Themes: http://al-kanz.org
Michael Nowak
23 Jun 2008
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Benny Greenberg
24 Jun 2008
These are great - I am really impressed a how many ideas can be born of the original theme!
Eric
2 Jul 2008
Original: http://www.wp-magazine.se/free-wordpress-theme-wp-newsmag/
Modified: http://jericosystems.com/
Dennis
13 Jul 2008
Thanks for the post.
Original theme:
Premium Theme Fresh News
Modified Theme:
http://www.greatparkoc.com/
narendra.s.v
14 Jul 2008
wow thats really awesome changes :D
Christopher Anderton
5 Aug 2008
Woa! Thanks for adding matblogg.se!
Francisco Espinoza
17 Aug 2008
Swordfishcode.com use a very wonderful mod of The Morning After …
Cheers!!!
jackie Obrian
18 Aug 2008
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)
Adriano
21 Aug 2008
Hey,
check:
BEFORE http://quommunication.com/demo/news/
AFTER http://www.restartblog.com/