MeadowLand - a fixed-width 2-column, free WordPress theme, with a right hand-sidebar, enabled for widgets. It’s also got gravatars, and post comments are separated from pingback/trackbacks.

The theme has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.

Demonstration: MeadowLand Demo

Download: MeadowLand WordPress Theme 1.2 - meadowland.zip

Release Notes:
Released under the terms of the GPL.
This theme is not sponsored.

8some is a 2 column fixed-width WordPress theme, with lefthand sidebar, enabled for widgets…

The theme is compatible with WordPress v2.2 upwards and has been tested on Firefox 2,3, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.

User comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks, enabled for gravatars - and will work whether you’re using WP2.6, 2.5 or lower - you won’t need the WordPress gravatar plugin.
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Highlands is a 3 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets

The theme is compatible with WordPress v2.2 upwards and has been tested on Firefox 2,3, Internet Explorer 6, and Opera 9.

User comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks, enabled for gravatars - and will work whether you’re using WP2.6, 2.5 or lower - you won’t need the WordPress gravatar plugin.
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Fedburned is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets in the style of a well-known feed aggregator/distributor.

The theme is compatible with WordPress v2.3 upwards and has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.

Demonstration: Fedburned Demo

Download: Fedburned WordPress Theme 1.2 - fedburned.zip

Release Notes:
Released under the terms of the GPL.
This theme is not sponsored.

A certain monstrous theme/template sales concern doesn’t get any better.

Had a client last week, who’d installed one of these things, on top of a WordPress 2.5, and it turned they’d sold him a WordPress version 2.2, which seriously wrecked the db - which hadn’t backed up - of course… It used to be that these templates could be a reasonable starting-point for a theme - if the client wanted a certain sort of lush graphics… but not now…

It’s all just gone a bit too pear-shaped….