This is more than just a WordPress theme: Thematic is a highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins and more. The coding, functionality and support rivals the best in “premium” themes. With one, important, difference—Thematic is completely free and open source.
All told, it’s pretty darn cool. Check out the demo below and see for yourself.
Hey there! If you’re interested in Thematic, check out Travailler, A Professional WordPress Theme. Or Acamas, A WordPress Theme You Can Take Seriously. Each of these Themelets spins Thematic around and into a whole new direction. Check ‘em out.
What Others Are Saying About Thematic
I’m not the only one that thinks Thematic is kinda cool. Other people think it’s kinda cool too.
The Thematic WordPress Theme is an amazing theme, back-end and design wise. I fell in love at first sight. Even among all those “premium” news and magazine style WordPress themes, I’ve never seen such a complex and also organized back-end. WPCandy
Thematic is an open-source theme designed as a starting point for simple customisation, which also happens to look pretty darn good out of the box. Best WordPress Themes
Thematic is a great quality theme that’s relatively easy to use for beginners. The separate widgetized areas for different sections of the theme are also a plus, giving the theme user lots of customization options right out of the box.ThemeLab
Thematic is a new WordPress theme framework that allows you to build additional themes around the framework and create stunning visual themes. There are very few caveats to using this theme, as it can be continually built and extended upon.Blog Themes Plus
Thematic Features
- Continually advancing Search Engine optimization
- Ready for Subscribe to Comments, WP-PageNavi and Comment License
- Fully widget-ized with widget areas above and below the content—and even in-between
- A grid-based starting point based on the 960 Grid System
- CSS Reset and Typography based on Blueprint and Tripoli
- 3 Bulletproof sample Stylesheets; 2 column samples, left and right, and a 3 column stylesheet with both columns on the left
- The sample stylesheets are aligned to a strict 18px vertical grid featuring refreshing and sophisticated typography
- Built from the rock solid Sandbox, making it perfect for customization
- Editable footer text; take out the theme credits from a theme options page without harming the theme
- Options for Multi-Author blogs
- and more coming …
View a Live Demo or Download Thematic
If you want an example of what you can do with Thematic—of how it can be customized—ThemeShaper’s current theme is built on top of Thematic. So is my theme for small to medium-sized businesses, Travailler and my blogging theme, Acamas.
If you have any questions, problems, comments or requests please post them to the ThemeShaper Forums.
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