Aug
20
2009

Octofirst – WP Theme

An article by designer

Octofirst theme is an attractive template designed for the WordPress theme. It is a CMS template with blog functionality. This theme would be suitable for business or corporate or portfolio websites.

The theme looks cool with white and blue colored stuffs! The letters in dark look bright with light colored background. The header and the tag line stand distinct and bright! In the content part, the recent projects are added with cool sample images too. The major links are set at the top of the page. There is a also a brief explanation about the website in the index page. You will find the theme very easy to use and customize too!

Main theme features:

* easy to customize
* theme options panel included
* drop down menus
* 4 sidebar-enabled areas for widgets
* regular pages (not homepage) can have a fully extended header menu
* portfolio lightbox gallery; images inserted via custom widget
* unlimited homepage slides, inserted via posts & custom fields
* clean & valid code, lightweight, optimized for speed
* functional Ajax contact form
* dark/light/rounded/square versions, as well as a bonus super-optimized theme version (which you are demo-ing now), designed to further reduce page load times. uses combined javascript files and CSS image sprites
* automatically rounded corners with jQuery in the rounded theme version
* Cufon font replacement which can be easily turned off/on. text can be read by search engines and will not hurt your rankings
* free fonts used & included
* all PSD source files included
* Twitter plugin with xml file-based caching that displays your latest twitter
* by disabling the Twitter plugin, a sidebar will automatically be activated in it’s place.You can use it for regular text or other widgets
* tested on the 2.8 WordPress branch and the current release 2.8.4
* styling for up to 5 levels deep threaded comments
* Gravatar ready
* Scissors plugin for easy image resizing
* RSS feeds ready
* jQuery improved, degrades gracefully when Javascript is turned off
* comes with a bonus full-width page, just check the pages in the dropdown menu
* the theme options panel is compatible with PHP6