It’s now available! Bloody Mary is an innovative three-column and ad friendly Wordpress theme that is so atypical of the usual blogs’s look and function. It is perfect for certain kinds of content, in this example, a movie reviews blog, that shows a new way of presenting individual posts.

Instead of a top-down, content loaded index page, you are presented with a clean, grid like layout that essentially shows what the posts are via thumbnails without giving out too much information. The widest column is reserved for the content while the middle column, a different color from the rest, acts as a divider and is intended for, say categories. The rightmost column are for other uses like tag clouds, recent comments, etc.

The number of posts you want to show can easily be configured and if one uses ads, popular sizes like 468×60, 125×125 and 300×250 can be accommodated.

This theme works with Wordpress 2.x.x including 2.7.1. It is widget ready and doesn’t require any specific plugins to function. However, as this uses custom fields, you need to configure some aspects for it to properly work.

The main feature is the gallery-like index or front page. The clickable thumbnail images (130×192px –> this is fixed) are generated automatically but the path of the image must be input at the specific custom field. However, GD Library must be installed in your host’s server for this to work. For cleaner look, trackbacks and comments are separated.

Bloody Mary Wordpress theme is available for $32 via Paypal. Check it out in action at The View Room. Additional info also at Rough Groove.

Interested or want to place your order? Send me an email via the contact form.

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