We all know Matt Brett for his works on Daren Rowse’s Digital-photography-school.com as well as many others. We often wished we could get a wordpress theme made by a guru like Matt, but hey — not everyone can afford it, right? Thanks to Theme forest, now many people can finally afford a premium design. For symbolical sums like $25 or $30, you can purchase professionally laid out, high quality, original and truly amazing WordPress themes by the leading authors. This gives amazing opportunity to run a premium-quality CMS blog theme without having to pay thousands for custom design or hundreds for premium wordpress theme at other places.
Matt Brett currently has 2 themes up on themeforest.net, first is called Spectre and costs only $30.
Main Features:
- 3 beautiful color schemes to choose from (all for the price of 1).
- Gorgeous featured posts showcase requires minimal effort to take advantage of. Can be used for portfolio items and/or blog posts.
- Dynamic image resizing for various thumbnails used through-out the theme. Upload once, and see the image used all over in different sizes and aspect ratios. Ability to disable image resizing by merely selecting a checkbox included in the admin.
- Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates. Choose one of the 3 colour schemes, add your own logo, manage ads, and plenty more.
- Flexible logo space allows images up to 650px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.
- Created for individuals and businesses. A checkbox in the admin changes self references from “me” to “us”.
- Widgetized sidebar.
- Custom widgets for ad spots, along with a recent blog posts list.
- Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
- Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
- Support for Subscribe to Comments and Twitter Tools plugins out of the box.
- PSDs for each of the 3 colour schemes, custom logo, and image templates included.
And, the second theme is called Black Aperture and it’s slightly cheaper, only $25.
Main Features:
- Unique featured posts showcase requires minimal effort to take advantage of.
- Dynamic image resizing for various thumbnails used through-out the theme. Upload once, and see the image used all over in different sizes and aspect ratios.
- Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates. Change the accent colour used in the nav and headings using a colour picker, switch from 3 columns to 2 by selecting a checkbox, construct the main navigation bar, and even manage ads.
- Default 3 column layout can be changed to 2 (removes left sidebar) from WP-Admin.
- Both sidebars are widgetized.
- Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots, along with a recent posts list.
- Change the logo to plain text (which makes use of the Blog Title and Tagline settings) or replace it with your own image without touching any code.
- Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
- Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
- Support for WP-PageNavi and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box!