Free Wordpress Theme (The Dark Hut)

This theme has been a change for me, I went for a darker look. I kept to my usual style of using a minimal amount of images, in this case images for the logo and RSS buttons only, and relied upon css styling, maintaining my philosophy of keeping it simple. Like all my themes these were designed with the web designer in mind, something simple to edit and change.

The theme has a white content area making legibilty easy and keeping the focus on content, the sidebar is darker and slightly larger than the norm, hopefully making easy navigation, and for those who love big footers there are four columns in the footer.

As with all my themes, if your looking to learn about Wordpress Theme Design, this would be another perfect design to start with.

Screenshot and Details

This theme has two columns and four footer columns, the header contains only the logo and RSS buttons, the sidebar is as always (and should be) widget friendly.

The social bookmarks within the post-info area are no longer hard coded into the theme, I have used a plugin called Social Bookmark Creator. Easy to config, with a minmal style.

It has been tested on Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Opera, and displays great.

Tested on WP 1.5 upto WP 2.3.

Within in the download package there are .psd files for the logo.

Download

Download: The Dark Hut Zip.
Plugin: Social Bookmark Creator.

How to Install

1. Download the Zip.
2. Unpack, and upload to the wp-content/themes/ directory on your server.
3. Login to your admin area and set The Dark Hut as the current theme.

Please comment below.

21 Comments so far

1. daustralala on January 22, 2008 8:34 pm

   elegant. thanks!

2. markbarbon on January 23, 2008 4:06 pm

   Wow! real nice, really love it. keep up the good work bro.

3. One Winged Angel on January 25, 2008 5:02 am

   Really nice theme. I’ve downloaded it. :)

4. Gigi on January 26, 2008 1:14 am

   Wonderful theme !
   Simply and well done with code !

   It would be possible to display categories horizontally, under the logo, in a tabbed way ?

5. momo on January 28, 2008 1:44 pm

   thanks!

6. toshas on February 7, 2008 8:09 pm

   sweet dude :) i’ve downloaded and i’m using it! +fav
   u r doing an awesome job, keep up!

7. admin on February 8, 2008 12:13 am

   Thanks for that toshas. Speckyboy.

8. roger on February 21, 2008 4:34 pm

   :( do you have support somewhere? my latest post’s are not showing up…

   Thanks for the theme!

   Speckyboy: If you go to the contact page and send me a message. Please give as much details as you can. Thanks.

9. AmeyJah on March 6, 2008 6:19 am

   Really simple theme and loads fast. Kinda web2 style … I am really glad to know about this theme.Thanks for mentioning such simple theme.
   Keep this good work

10. Net ve Web on March 26, 2008 12:04 pm

    Thankx! Good Theme :)

11. Charles on May 2, 2008 6:32 am

    Great job, congrats…

12. Matt on May 27, 2008 1:54 am

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13. photoshop on June 18, 2008 5:41 am

    nice theme wp

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