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PadPressed update and another iPad theme

A few days ago we covered PadPressed now known as “OnSwipe” raised $1 million. Now they have some competion from WPTouch Pro. We asked them why their theme didn’t work so well in protrait mode. Maybe they’re busy celebrating their round of funding, because we never heard back from them.

Well there’s new competition from WPtouchPro 2.1 by Brave New Code, adds iPad support. We’ll take a look at it in the next few days and do a mini review. Meanwhile you can download the 1.9 version for iPhone/iPod touch for free.

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Theme of the Week: Spectacular from Smashing Magazine

Looking for a WordPress theme that’s slightly retro and sepia or paper bag brown color ready to go out of the box? Check out Smashing Magazine’s new and best of all, free theme called “Spectacular.” There’s a large site name area above to proudly brand your site. The home page layout is interesting with a large main feature area that shockingly doesn’t have the trendy Jquery slider. Check out their live demo.

Get it: Spectacular Theme

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Innovative uses for WordPress

While most of us love using WordPress as general purpose content management tool or blog, others have adapted for internal communication or as a knowledge base. Let’s take a quick look at three free WP themes that transform it into something a little different.

P2 – “Twitter-lite”
Want something like a private Twitter system for your company or group without the rest of the world seeing your messages? Check out P2, made by the WordPress peeps (Automattic) themselves. You can use this theme to quickly communicate with people on your team about your status or ask questions.

Quality Control – Case Management
The QC theme turns your WP install into a simple ticketing system to create tickets, assign status, and milestones. Use categories and tags to filter tickets. You can use this as a customer facing system for customer service or an internal bug tracking system. The theme seems to be well supported and maintained.

WikiWP
How about a WordPress theme that lets you create a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia? WikiWP has a very similar look to a real Wiki application with a left thin navigation column and main content area. And yes, there’s a commercial WP theme called WordPressWiki, but why not give WikiWP a try first?

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Theme of the Week: DeStyle

destyleHere’s a simple but clean looking and best of all, free, WP Theme called deStyle. It’s a 2 column design with a main body and right hand side column for widgets. I think it would be perfect for a simple blog and should be easily customizable. It also has an easy to change navigation bar background color switcher. It’s from a new WordPress theme company called ThemeShift.

Get it: deStyle

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Theme of the Week: zBench

zBench WordPress theme

This week’s WordPress is zBench. On the surface it looks like quite a few other WordPress themes with footer widget area, custom drop down menus, but when digging deeper you’ll see something you won’t see often, different layout options.

Get it: zBench

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Free WordPress Help

Speaking of needing help with WordPress, do you need help customizing a theme, speeding up your site, or finding a good plugin? Ask me for free by clicking on the vertical red “Live Help” button on the left side. If I am online and available, I’ll try to answer your WordPress related question.

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Theme of the Week: Meta- Morphosis

This week’s WordPress theme is Meta-Morphosis by WooThemes . It’s a great theme for building a content rich blog or magazine. It’s a 2 column design with a customizable footer widget area. I love the home page which shows on the left column, a main feature content area with other highlights below it and on the right column are blog/news posts. When you drill down to post or page, the main content area appears on the left and comments area is on the right column. I am using Metamorphis for my client: FitnessByMaggie.com

It has WooThemes’ very easy to use and customizable admin control panel. I would rate customization ease-of-use for this theme as fairly straightforward either through the WooTheme control panel or editing the style sheet. Best of all this theme is free!.