
WordPress Themes

About Sideways
I’m fascinated by the whole horizontal-scrolling idea, especially for portfolios, but don’t feel it meets my own desires for this site. Nonetheless, I just had to dig in and create a working horizontally-scrolling Wordpress theme. So I present to you Sideways Portfolio. Here are some brief points… Read more details about this project »

Ministry Free is a little bit similar to the premium theme, Ministry Theme. I designed this site to be the front end web site where I will feature the Ministry Theme. I wanted it to be clean and free of clutter. Here are some features…
- Valid CSS & XHTML
- Widget-ready sidebars
- Support for tags, gravatars, comments, etc.
- Nice search feature and clean menu style
- FREE!
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Download the Theme
If you’d like customizations made, a logo designed, or if you download this and use it, feel free to contact me.
Note: to replace the header’s text with a logo, take out the following from header.php:
<p class=”site-title”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></p>
<p class=”description”><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></p>
and add this:
<a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/yourlogo.jpg” alt=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>: ,<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>”></a>
Your image file can be .jpg, .gif, or whatever, but store it in /wp-content/themes/ministry-free/images/.
This will show your logo and will have an alt= text of your site’s name and tagline. Right now, the logo’s area is 300 pixels wide by 108 pixels high. You would need to tweak the stylesheet.css file to change this.

Update: The Ministry Theme was initially intended to be a theme for purchase, but because of the swirling debate surrounding commercially licensed WordPress themes, I’m attempting to remain above reproach. You may donate below, but the theme and all code is now licensed as GPL.
The Ministry Theme has been a LONG time in the making. It’s a premium WordPress theme designed with churches and ministries in mind. The support site, www.ministrytheme.com, will be launched very soon, but you can go ahead and pick up a copy now! The theme features…
- A clean, but easily skinnable, light design.
- Custom home, archives, and links pages.
- Tabbed sidebars (that degrade in IE6).
- A DHTML menu that follows your page structure.
- Front page post thumbnails.
- A widgetized sidebar.
- WordPress 2.6 ready with image and caption styling.
- Gravatar/avatar support in the comments section.
I’ll soon be opening up a forum for support, but for now you can contact me with questions or support requests. Please note that I’m available for support and will offer tutorials publicly soon, but customizations will be handled on a quote-per-hour basis.
Check out the DEMO!
Visit www.ministrytheme.com to Download the Theme. (Downloading of the Ministry Theme has been temporarily disabled while I enhance and improve it for its next release, due in late February 2009.

Bible Scholar is basically the theme I use for my blog (currently) at www.brandonacox.com, enhanced so that it can be applied to any WordPress blog. It can be 2 or 3 columns, depending on how the owner wants to style the site. It has room for ads, a nice search function, and the built-in ability to use the blogroll without using it site-wide. The preview page includes instructions. Note that I’ve updated it as of April 24 to include threaded comments and to reflect some changes suggested by WordPress. The theme provides gravatar/avatar support.
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Download the Theme
If you’d like customizations made, a logo designed, or if you download this and use it, feel free to contact me.

I’ve completed work on a custom WordPress theme I’m calling Balance of Blue. I designed it with business applications in mind. I’m an advocate for using WordPress as an entire site solution and content management system, so this theme was created to highlight the potential for that kind of usage.
Please note: I’ve updated this theme and have based it on better code, so it now supports gravatars, tags, and other important features.
View the Demo
Download the Theme
If you’d like customizations made, a logo designed, or if you download this and use it, feel free to contact me.