Best Themes of 2015
Here’s a nice rundown of wplift’s best themes of the year. They’re organized by category, so you can better match them to your type of blog. Let us know if there are any you’d like to try out!
The Divi Builder Plugin
Elegant Themes has just released a plugin that gives you all the functionality of the page builder built into the Divi theme, allowing you to use its advanced page-builder features in most any theme you choose. As in the full theme package, the Builder comes with a set of ready-made layout options, and many content modules that you place with a drag-and-drop interface.
Responsive Design and Your Blog
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New Themes from WPMU
WPMUDEV is going into “builder” themes in a big way. These are themes that have drag-and-drop interfaces that let you create pages in layouts that go beyond the usual header/body/sidebar/footer model that you’re used to. Each page can have its own individual collection of modules and blocks than contain images, menus, slideshows, videos, in whatever arrangement you like. The (current) home page of TLTC Blogs is built using one of these types of themes, “Divi” from Elegant Themes.
Your Image Thumbnails — You Can Control the Cropping
A new plugin, “my eyes are up here,” lets you control how your images are cropped for thumbnails. The built-in system isn’t very smart; it essentially takes the central part of your image, squares it off, and crops off the top/bottom or left/right....
Making Your Blog Mobile-Ready
Everyone’s going mobile — are you ready?
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