I have wanted to create a free, minimal, WordPress theme for quite a while now and it has taken me much longer to create then I would have guessed – I had to take 2 or 3 passes at it.

I think that I have kept it clean, I tried to balanced aesthetics and functionality as best I could while keeping in minimal. It loads very quickly and has a number of subtle features.

The Free Copacetix WordPress Theme

I Got an email a few years ago from a young lady named Holly that asked me if I could create a free theme that was more geared to girl-type bloggers. Since I often respond favorably to nicely written emails by ladies of all ages and since I was still building up my WordPress chops I whipped us this here 4theGirlz freeWordPress theme.

Then, during the great transition I didn’t set the 4theGirlz free WordPress theme back up figuring that it wasn’t my best work and wasn’t every very popular. But then I got this email just the other day from Cate:

Message: Hi! You had a girls free web blog posted called 4 the girlz. I wasn’t able to connect to the link. Do you still have it available? If so, can you send it to my email address. It’s really cute for my blog I am starting.

So I decided that if a theme is twice requested that it needs to available….

Hey Now – I am pleased to announce a new version of the themeorrhea free wordpress theme. While many things have changed I tried to focus on typography with this new release.

It also now features a widget to control the home page only blurb, and a simpler internal header, a cleaned up style sheet and a few modern feature additions. Follow me on twitter to keep up with when this and all of my free themes are updated.

The Was: JTk Free WordPress Theme has been updated to 2.0. This updates fixes a few minor bugs, adds supports for nested comments, tags, and widgets. I also tightened up the code a little and cleaned up this css. A simple archives and category template was added as well.

You can see it in action here and keep up with the updates for this and all of the free themes by following me on twitter.

You can get version 2.2 here.

It seems that one of the great internet pranks is using an ( old ) version on my independence day theme. So now I am forever linked with Sarah Palin – how awesome is that

Hey Now, I am very happy to announce that I have revised the old Independence Day WordPress Theme and that while it now looks the same, it has been completely re-worked and is now a modern and functional free WordPress theme.

The good people that are using this new WordPress theme ( and no I am not even releasing the name yet although it seems to have leaked… ) at this point are basically beta testers helping to ensure that when I do release it to the community at large most of the bugs have been worked out.

Yes, I know – this isn’t how I normally do things but this new theme is special, it is the theme that I have been wanting to create for a few years now and just haven’t had the time. But it is almost done and I think that it is going to be worth the wait.

Keep checking back in – and for everyone that has emailed about it I will send you out an email when it is ready for release.

I am very happy to announce the completion of the all-new Ginseng Coffee WordPress Theme. This is a complete re-do of the very first free WordPress theme that I ever created.

This version features multiple layouts, totally revamped xhtml, support for widgets, tags, and gravatars, re-cut images, etc.

Cameron has taken has one of my free themes as modded it to suit his needs and he did the right thing – he credited me for the original design and he released his version to the public

Was: JTk – Right Sidebar Mod is a modified version of the Was: JTk theme by JTk and Doc5. The theme has been modified to have the sidebar on the right instead of the left. It is my first publicly available theme modification.

You can get the the original here – and if you are interested there will be a 1.5 version of this theme release later this month.