I’ve been talking a bit about the need for free theme designers to spend some time building more advertising spots into their WordPress themes.  They are really in demand right now and there is currently a lack of themes that provide them out of the box.

Recently Daniel of Daily Blog Tips released the GreenTech WordPress theme, which is available for free to any interested WordPress users.   The theme was created by a friend of mine, Mayank Gupta of ReviewSaurus, as a way to showcase his design talents.

First, here is a quick look at the theme:

GreenTech Theme

I think this theme is going to become extremely popular over the coming months in the same way that the BloggingPro theme did for much of last year.  Here are the features that Daniel lists:

  • Advertising Ready: The theme comes with six 125×125 banner spots on the sidebar. You will just need to upload the banners to the theme “Images” folder and update the ads.php file.
  • Easy Feedburner Integration: The “Theme Options” section inside the WordPress control panel enables the blogger to insert his Feedburner URL, which will be used all over the theme.
  • Widgets Ready: The theme supports widgets, so just drop the ones you use.
  • About the Author Section: The theme comes with a sidebar section dedicated to the author. You can upload your picture and a small description using the author.php page.
  • Comments Styling: Author comments have a different style.
  • Read More Tag Styling: The “Read More” tag is already styled and integrated into the design. Useful for bloggers that use post excerpts.
  • Search Engine Optimization: The meta and title tags are already optimized for search engines.

If you are interested, you can view a live demo of the theme or download the theme.

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  1. 1 Michael
    Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 6:05 am

    I thought that I had found my next WordPress theme but lately some awesome themes have been showing up in my RSS reader, that means it’s going to take me a bit longer to figure out what one I want to use.

    This one looks like a great option but I’m worried that it is getting too much exposure and will be used too much however it does look great.

    Keep it up kyle the posts are great!

  2. 2 Kyle Eslick
    Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    Michael - I have a feeling this theme will be heavily used as well, kind of like the BloggingPro theme.



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