A great free WordPress theme, called Chocolate, has been released by Pancak.es. I made another video, similar to my last video review of a theme by the same author, Nick. Here are a few of the features present in the theme.

• Able to view and add comments from the main index with Ajax
• A live search which grabs results without loading a new page
• Fallback support for those with no Javascript enabled
• Alternative “White Chocolate” color scheme
• Comments with Gravatar support

Read on to watch the video…

Feel free to download the Chocolate theme and try it out for yourself.

It was recently announced by Ryan Boren, that WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 has been released. Here are some things you should know:

• They are targeting a mid-July release.
• It will have post revisions.
• Theme previewing, which I guess will make this plugin obsolete.
• Improved SSL support for the administration panel
• Ability to relocate content directory
• Ability to relocate config file (with database and other sensitive configuration information)
• You can bulk delete, activate, and deactivate plugins
• Customizable default avatars

Complete list is here, along with a download link if you want to test it out. Remember, this is not the final release – and is not recommended to be used on production blogs.

It was recently announced by Ryan Boren, that WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 has been released. Here are some things you should know:

• They are targeting a mid-July release.
• It will have post revisions.
• Theme previewing, which I guess will make this plugin obsolete.
• Improved SSL support for the administration panel
• Ability to relocate content directory
• Ability to relocate config file (with database and other sensitive configuration information)
• You can bulk delete, activate, and deactivate plugins
• Customizable default avatars

Complete list is here, along with a download link if you want to test it out. Remember, this is not the final release – and is not recommended to be used on production blogs.

Thanks to the great feedback I received on the previous WordPress theme, I decided to go out and look for another “non standard” WordPress layout. I came across some great templates from Six Shooter Media. One in particular, called Motion, caught my eye – and I decided to port it into WordPress.

This WordPress theme has no comments, no pages, no single posts, no sidebar, no widgets, no Gravatars – nothing but a one column main index template. In fact, the only theme files included are index.php and style.css.

Live Demo | Download

As you can see from the demo, it has some pretty cool Javascript features. I hope you like it. Let me know what you think in the comments section, and if you’d like to see any more of Six Shooter Media’s templates ported into WordPress.

A great free WordPress theme, called Chocolate, has been released by Pancak.es. I made another video, similar to my last video review of a theme by the same author, Nick. Here are a few of the features present in the theme.

• Able to view and add comments from the main index with Ajax
• A live search which grabs results without loading a new page
• Fallback support for those with no Javascript enabled
• Alternative “White Chocolate” color scheme
• Comments with Gravatar support

Read on to watch the video…

Feel free to download the Chocolate theme and try it out for yourself.