We have designed and coded hundreds of WordPress themes over the years. This page covers just a few of the WordPress themes we have designed recently. If you’re interested in having a custom theme designed why not jump to the Request a WordPress Theme form.
PSD-to-WP-Theme with Theme Options and Dynamic Content
James provided a sleek PSD for www.iifunds.com.au which we turned into a custom WP theme with several options for easily updating the special content areas of the site. This project is also a good example of using plugins to expand upon the already flexible capabilities of WordPress.
For example, the NAVT Lists plugin is an awesome tool for creating custom navigation areas so that clients are not limited to even certain pages or custom meta keys, but can create menus from any WP item (post,page,category,archive) or external link. For this theme, we’re using NAVT widgets for the top navigation as well as the left sidebar navigation.
The main video is displayed with a video widget. The admin can now easily change the video by changing the video ID#, or switch to random mode and add video ID#s.
The random quote area is another widget area, populated with the widget generated by the Stray Random Quotes plugin. The three excerpted articles along the bottom are set as a feed URL via theme option, as well as the category ID# which the 2nd column (below vid) should use to generate the content (cat description, title and excerpt of latest post in that cat). Additionally, we used the CForms plugin to collect information from those who are interested in downloading a file. The protected download file can be set on the theme options page.
Overall this was a very fun project with several opportunities to take advantage of some great WP functionality and expand upon it with plugins. I’ll definitely be using the NAVT plugin on more projects in the future. James was very accommodating, allowing me to try out these solutions on his sites, in addition to providing such clear specs and communication. -we’ve worked on a few projects now and I look forward to working on more.
Testimonial
I worked with Erin to develop a WordPress blog from a PSD that had already been designed. She provided an excellent scope of work, a reasonable fixed price quotation which she stuck to.
She completed the work very quickly and helped us in a number of other ways in the meantime with issues that we were having with our other WordPress blogs. She also provided a full readme document about how to use the website. I highly recommend her and we’ll certainly be using her again in the future.
She was a pleasure to work with.
http://iifunds.com.au
Theme Customization
For this project, the client wanted to go with the Irresistible theme by Woo Themes, but wanted to customize it to stand out from other sites using the same theme. The Irresistible theme already comes with many layout and style options, so the design changes were minimal.
We created some new theme skins, such as the rising moon skin shown here. We added some theme options so that the skin and butterfly image can easily be changed from the admin panel.
Additionally, we added some Google Adsense blocks and connected these with the client’s Analytics account, customized an installation of the Simple Press forum plugin to match the new theme, and set up some additional functionality like mass mailing and member subscriptions.
Melnyk’s Golden Theme
Serge has a popular Chinese Lessons site run on WordPress and aMember. He wanted to update his WP theme and aMember templates with a more modern style. He also wanted to incorporate an aMember login area into the header of his theme so that members can easily login. When logged in, the login area provides links for members to access their account area.
Here’s what his site looked like before. To the right you can see the theme we designed, or check out his site and pick up some Chinese by listening to Serge’s podcasts while you’re at it.
Erin at Interstice Solutions is a rare professional in Wordpress technology, she knows it inside and out. The job of designing a new theme for my Website was done very well and Erin quickly responded to my emails and questions. I, without any hesitation, recommend Interstice Solutions to anyone who is looking for a custom Wordpress theme or need to fix their current Wordpress based Website. I will definitely work with Erin on any upcoming projects.
Mandarin Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk http://melnyks.com
Moxy Digital
Candise already had a site design she liked, but wanted to add a matching blog section. I explained that converting her whole site to WordPress would be worth the relatively small amount of work/cost, so we converted her static HTML to PHP in a WordPress theme and added a blog page template where all her posts appear.
We did some graphic design work to add header graphics on her main static pages and reworked some of the original web graphics to accommodate longer WordPress blog pages and added some sidebar and list styling. We also did some blog setup of additional plugins. For example, Candise also wanted her contact form switched to a WordPress plugin so she could easily change the form fields and other settings, and she wanted to show her latest Twitter Tweets on her sidebar.
Interstice Solutions has been a fantastic partner to work with. They are knowledgeable, deadline oriented and give stellar customer service. I will recommend Interstice to all my colleagues in need of fast, accurate and professional web design services.
Grayscale Journal
This theme has a different approach to color. The main color scheme is grays with one highlight color for links and such. Varying levels of transparency make the ‘highlight color’ appear in various shades for different page elements. In the theme options page you can input a HEX code (such as #FF0000) or a color word like ‘red’ and all the highlighted areas change to that color family. This theme is also setup for displaying thumbnails (post icons) on index pages.
I Hate Clowns
Another person wanting to switch their HTML site to WordPress, Rodney already had a popular site (http://ihateclowns.com) and a nice site design, but in addition to adding WordPress CMS functionality, he wanted to add additional widget-ready sidebars to highlight items from his store, and add a sliding corner banner image. He also wanted to have random quotes in the header, so we set up his ihateclowns theme with some plugin tags.
Brownscale: an All-CSS theme
This one started as a request from Chad at http://allthewrongtopics.com who wanted a minimalistic CSS (no images) theme for his bizarro fiction site. He also wanted to be able to change the colors, fonts and some other theme elements from his wp-admin panel. We came up with Brownscale: a fluid-width theme in browns and grays. The basic idea was a theme styled entirely by CSS so that nearly every aspect is editable in terms of color. It comes with a theme options page where background colors, font colors, font family (and other aspects too) can be changed.
Ultimate Pinot
Here’s another WP theme we converted from a static HTML design. It was already a great design, we just improved upon some details and added some new layout areas. We reworked some of the web graphics to better accommodate a sidebar and other WordPress elements like including a widget-ready sidebar, and some additional web graphics were added to the original design for enhanced depth to the styling.