Frugal Theme Review, Clean WordPress Theme
19 January 2010
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UPDATE – 22 June 2010 - What is a premium WordPress theme? The answer is simple but many people that use a free wp theme, does not know yet. It is a ready-made-template designed to help any publisher to customize their theme in a quick and fast way.
Currently, on my main site, the3dtechnologies.com, I’m using a Premium WordPress theme called “Frugal” .Take a look now. Do you like it? yes? Well, today I’m glad to announce that Frugal Theme is back with more upgrades.
Designed by Eric Hamm, Frugal Theme is a new simple and clean theme for WordPress, that now is arrived to the 3.5 version. Eric is a passionate about blogging and the web, and has developed this fantastic theme for anyone that want a fully customizable theme without need to having php or html knowledge.
Talking about simplicity, this theme uses zero images. In particular, It not includes images into navigation bars, backgrounds, headers, footers, etc.
Looks the demo here.
Also, it provides custom avatars, built-in ad widgets, and custom favicon so you no need to install a lot of plugins and simplify the work.
According to Eric, it’s all about the content.
When it comes down to it, your blog’s content is MUCH more important that the theme itself. Sure, you don’t want your site to look tacky or amateurish or misrepresent the focus of your blog, but at the end of the day, it’s WHAT your saying that creates the draw for your potential subscribers, not what color the background is when they read it (though that can have an effect).
So in designing the frugal WordPress theme I kept in mind the idea of providing the absolute best possible framework to put ALL the focus on the words and images you provide your readers…no more, no less. In it’s stock form, the frugal theme is light and clear and perfect for the next great work you are about to share.
Watch this cool video below to see just how powerful this theme is.
Frugal isn’t free, but compared to free themes out, it has a lot of options and features to justify the non-free price. You get free themes support, upgrades, and a unique theme that most people don’t use.
Here, are some astonishing features:
- A 2-column right sidebar layout
- A 2-column balanced sidebar layout
- A customizable home page
- A “thin” layout
- Image dimensions lets you to adding your own header image
- Blog categories can appear as a secondary navigation bar under the main navigation bar for pages
- A “featured” top section
- Allows you to integrate a RSS subscription link in the sidebar
- Excluding certain pages from your navigation bar without coding by entering their page IDs into a box on the options page
- A wide layout
- A box in which to paste your Google, Woopra, or other web analytics code so that it will be placed right before the closing body tag in the HTML.
- Three “top feature” boxes across the top
- Allows to adding a search box at right of the navigation bar
- Entering custom RSS feeds and RSS-to-email links
- Adding a “Follow me on Twitter” link with your Twitter ID at the right of the navigation bar
Introducing Frugal 3.5
Frugal version 3.3 is now available and takes design control to a whole new level. The following video will go into detail, but here’s a brief run through of what 3.5 brings to the table.
- Rearrangable Admin Page Option Boxes: The same flexibility and power you’ve come to expect in the options of your Frugal-based sites has been brought home to the admin interface. Each box of option sets is now draggable & sortable, collapsible & expandable. You can organize your admin pages however you want, with your essential options always visible and at the top of the page. The best part is, Frugal automatically remembers how you leave everything, and it will be there waiting for you no matter what browser or computer you log in from.
- Frugal Theme Admin Menu has moved ‘Above the Fold’: With 3.5, we’ve decided to carve some space out for ourselves between ‘Comments’ and ‘Appearance’ in the WordPress Admin Sidebar. Not only does this save users on lower-resolution screens from needing to scroll down to see the menu, but it’s a subtle way of demonstrating that, with this release of Frugal 3.5, we’re on our way to the top!
- WordPress 3.0 Compatibility: We’ve done extensive testing to ensure that Frugal is ahead of the game and ready for the upcoming release of WordPress 3.0. As WordPress evolves from a simple blogging platform to a robust Content Management System, Frugal continues to give you maximum control over your site. The most exciting new WP 3.0 feature, in our opinion, is the fully customizable Navigation Bar. Once you upgrade to WP 3.0, all you need to do to enable the new navbar on your Frugal sites is to flip a switch:
- WordPress MU / 3.0 Multi-User Enabled: Another exciting aspect of WP 3.0 is that the WP Crew has folded WP-MU into Core. Frugal has worked with WP-MU for quite some time, but we’re pleased to see that this feature is going mainstream. We’ve done some testing with Frugal and WP 3.0 Multi-User, and have been highly impressed. If you manage a multi-user site, by enabling Frugal and setting the Dynamic Styles to PHP mode you can let each and every sub-site have its own appearance with just one installation of Frugal! This is a perfect use for skins from our skin store. You can get thousands of unique looks with a single theme.
- Refined image inputs: With Frugal 3.5, we’ve removed the need to type in the names of your uploaded images into the options pages by hand, and replaced the old textfields with drop-down menus showing all available images. This should prove to be a big timesaver — no more “Did I call that file bg-header.png or header-bg.jpg?”
Frugal Theme Prices Start At Free
Frugal Theme is available in premium versions. It goes for $79 for a single user license while the developer license goes for $199. It depends on the features you need.
The best thing is that, recently, Eric started offering a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee. So, you have no risk. In additional, the theme comes with a useful 29 page user guide included.
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My name is Nicola Deiana, started blogging in August 2006, and I’m a full time Blogger making living from this new technology. I’m a honest blogger who want tell you all that you must know to be a freelance publisher writer and how I made to make money online from this job.
The theme is very clean. I tried the free version. It’s really easy to use.
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February 21st, 2010 at 1:06 am
Yeah tom, full of features and easy to use.
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