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by @arpitshah on 08/05/2010 in
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WordPress 3.0 was released a little over a month ago, ushering in a bevy of new features for designers and developers. Just last week, WordPress 3.0.1 was released, fixing a few minor bugs and making some other less visible tweaks. 
Lots of the biggest changes to WordPress 3.0 took place under the hood — the merging of the WordPress MU codebase with WordPress proper, custom post and taxonomy types, and support for easy custom menus in themes that support that feature. It’s really easy to add support for some of these features to your existing WordPress theme, but if you’re looking for a theme that works great with WordPress 3.0 out of the box, including support for custom menus, post types and taxonomies, check out these top 5 free themes with superb WordPress 3.0 support.
1) Mystique
Feature-packed theme with a solid design, built-in widgets and a intuitive theme settings interface… Designed by digitalnature.
2) TwentyTen
The 2010 theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable — make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor, special styles for posts in the “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional one-column page template that removes the sidebar.
3) Voidy
If you write good content, Voidy may not be the theme for you. But, if you think your content is great, if you think your content should capture the hearts of people, you may just want to take a look at this theme.
Features:
- Supports gravatars
- Supports threaded comments
- Supports custom menu feature in WordPress 3.0
4) Magazine Basic
Magazine Basic offers many different layout possibilities. Two custom widgets, Featured Posts and User Login help you create a fully functioning magazine/newspaper style Web site. Customize every aspect of Magazine Basic through an easy-to-use admin interface to create a unique layout that will make your site stand out from the rest. Dynamic SEO functionality will get your site the rank it deserves.
5) Boldly
Features:
- Widget ready ( footer and sidebar )
- Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
- WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled
- WordPress 3.0 Menu Management Support
- Latest Tweets Build-in Widget
- Build-in Pagination
- Homepage Ninvo Slider (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/ )
- JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox ( http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/)
- JQuery Forms
- Ajax based contact form
- Live form email validation
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