Monochrome is a free WordPress theme designed for bloggers and writers. The theme is fairly clean and simple.

Additional Features:

• Page navigation and drop-down menus.
• Theme options.
• Translation support.
• Widget-ready.
• Threaded comments.

The main page of the theme includes drop-down menus for your pages and categories, plus there are a number of areas integrated for displaying banner ads.

A featured video slider has eben included, which scrolls through your selected videos. Beneath this, recent videos from your categories are displayed, and like much of this theme, this area can also be customized to suit your needs.

The sidebar is able to display popular videos, featured videos, or any other content. Meanwhile, the footer is also widget-ready, making it easy to add additional information and links.

On single video posts, you can provide additional information about each video, plus provide readers/visitors with sharing links. All standard elements you’d expect from a theme are included, plus many great extras. Read on to discover all the other great features of this theme.

Additional Features:

• Fully customizable frontpage.
• Custom control panel to configure all aspects of your website without touching the code.
• Localization support provided.
• Video listing page to show videos from a particular category.
• Video detail page to help your visitors share your videos.
• Blog listing page.
• Custom taxonomy options.
• Blog details page, with support for image galleries and related posts.
• Three detailed color schemes included.
• One click automatic installation.
• Customizable header region.
• Theme guide and tutorials included.
• Drop-down and breadcrumb navigation.
• Gravatar support plus threaded comments.
• Built-in advertisement monetization.
• Search engine optimized coding.
• Widget-ready with custom widgets.
• Valid, cross-browser compatible coding.

License Breakdown:

• This theme is free, although you will need to purchase a theme or join the themes club (described below) in order to receive support.

Themes Club:

The Themes Club ($299.00) offers several benefits to purchasing themes individually. For one, you get access to all their themes and any released during your membership period, plus community support forum, and more advanced customization techniques. You may use their themes on an unlimited number of sites plus you get access to the design PSD files.

The main page includes a fairly standard layout, with a display of your articles along the left side of the page and a widget-ready area along the right side. You can include nearly any type of content on the theme, as you can customize it to your liking.

Because the theme has been released for free, it is most ideal for personal blogs and sites.

Support: No support will be provided since this is not a premium theme.

Additional Features:

• Threaded comments supported.
• Custom menus.
• Multi-level drop-down menus.
• Header widget to add social media buttons.
• One sidebar and three footer widget areas.
• Custom footer text.
• Child theme support.
• Backwards compatible with older WordPress versions.

License Breakdown and Themes Club:

Although this theme is free, I encourage you to check out their themes club and other packages.

• Standard Club ($100 + $10/month) – This membership includes access to all current and future themes. Theme updates and forum access will be provided while you are a member. No PSD design files have been included.

• Developer Club ($150 + $20/month) – This membership includes everything the Standard Club package includes, but also includes PSD design files for designers and developers.

About Themify:

Themify is a new theme designer founded by Darcy Clarke and Nick La, who each have years of experience in the web design community, either designing WordPress themes or building upon other platforms.

Check out the listing of features below for more details.

Additional Features:

• Modern design and set of features.
• Integrated thumbnails for posts.
• Search box included.
• Subscription links included.
• Standard menu system.

Additional Features:

• Support for WordPress 2.9.2 and higher.
• Featured post support.
• Automatic post thumbnail generation.
• Automatic post excerpts.
• RSS buttons included.
• Twitter feed integration.
• Popular social bookmarking sites integrated into posts.
• Built-in page navigation features.
• Widget-ready.
• Gravatar support.
• Threaded comments support.

Starting off, this theme is ideal for for photographers who want to showcase their work. It includes strong markup, good browser support, plus a number of elements which make it stand out from other themes in its niche.

The main page of the theme includes an area for your logo (customizable in the Pro version), plus integrated drop-down menus. It is easy for your visitors to navigate through your site, since keyboard shortcuts have been enabled by default.

On single post pages, you’ll find lots of area to write information about your photography or provide updates to your readers. The theme maintains a clean and simple look throughout.

The footer is also widget-ready, ideal for placing additional information about yourself or your photography/business. My only complaint about the footer is that (whether in the free or pro versions) there isn’t more specific styling. For example, the search form and many of the other widgets don’t exactly blend into the theme.

I encourage you to check out all the other features of the AutoFocus Plus Theme below or on the release page.

Free/Pro Version Features:

The following features are available in both the free and pro versions of the theme.

• A strict grid-based design mixed with clean typography and a baseline grid.
• Theme options page for easy customization of colors, post formatting, and more.
• Optional Featured Posts section which pulls “sticky” posts and displays them front and center.
• Five widget-ready sidebar areas.
• Support for Video and Gallery embedding.
• Complete WordPress 3.0+ support.
• Optional EXIF data display.
• Left and right arrow keyboard shortcuts.
• Valid XHTML Markup.
• Compatible with all modern browsers.
• Periodic error and bug fix updates.

Pro Version Features ($15.00):

For just $15, you can upgrade the theme to get these additional features.

• Feature improvements – additional templates, custom post types, more modern code enhancements.
• An optional portfolio-style layout with squared images.
• A custom blog-style page template.
• Custom shortcodes included for additional styling formats.
• Two additional and optional ad spaces for banners and widgets.
• Add a custom logo.
• A per-post styling gallery of attachments option.

You’ll find an integrated search box, navigation bar, Twitter widgets, RSS/social networking links, space for advertisements, and Gravatars in the comments.

License: Theme is available for free, ideal for personal blogs.

Support: Support can be found by contacting the designer.

Photo posts display a large photo, with the date, number of views, permalink, number of favorites, and a Twitter/Facebook sharing link. Tags and comments can be displayed at the botton portion of the post.

For more information, please see the features and licensing details below.

Additional Features:

• Clean, structured layout.
• Ideal for bloggers.
• Supports all common Posterous features.

License Breakdown:

• Free Theme – You can download this theme at no cost.

About Obox Design:

Obox Design offers themes at extremely affordable prices, ideal for bloggers and designers who want to use their themes to launch powerful websites. Check out all their themes using the provided link.

This theme is ideal for bloggers who want a well-desinged theme but don’t necessarily want to customize and design their own theme from scratch. Check out the other features of the theme below.

Additional Features:

• Compatible with the latest version of WordPress.
• 100% valid XHTML and CSS coding.
• Simple Panel 2.0 Options Panel.
• Logo customization options – image or text.
• Style customization options – background, content colors, fonts, and more.
• Custom menu options – use default or completely customized menus.
• Simple post thumbnails – upload and go.
• FancyBox integration for linked images.
• Google Analytics integration options.
• Widget-ready sidebars.
• Exclusive Press 75 widgets.

License Breakdown:

While this theme is free, you have a number of options for receiving support with this theme and others from Press75.

• Single Theme Package ($75.00) – Everything you need to use the theme has been included in this package, including support. You can use the theme on an unlimited number of domains.

• Essentials Package ($100.00) – Get access to all current and future themes for a period of 2 months. Theme updates, up to one new additional theme, detailed documentation, and unlimited theme usage has been included.

• Plus Package ($125.00) – Get access to all current and future themes for a period of 3 months. Theme updates, up to two new additional theme, detailed documentation, and unlimited theme usage has been included.

• Extended Package ($150.00) – Get access to all current and future themes for a period of 6 months. Theme updates, up to four new additional theme, detailed documentation, and unlimited theme usage has been included.

• Lifetime Unlimited Package ($400.00) – Get access to all current and future themes for unlimited period. Theme updates, up to one new theme each month, detailed documentation, and unlimited theme usage has been included. 20% of all proceeds will be donated to charity.

About Press75:

Press75 has released a number of great themes at rather affordable prices. You can use the themes on your small business site, for displaying photography, or for your personal portfolio site. Many great features have been built into each theme.

Taking a look at the theme, it has been inspired by a traditional magazine/newspaper layout and the typography and grid structures they typically used. You’ll find this theme ideal if you are a blogger or a designer.

Check out all the features of the theme below or in the screenshots above.

Additional Features:

• WordPress thumbnail support.
• Widget support.
• CSS3 column structure.
• jQuery functionality and animations.
• Helvetica font used for all its greatness.
• Custom fields for images.
• Custom meta fileds.
• Featured latest posts.
• Automatic latest posts for each category.