Al might think he “invented the internet“, but he sure failed to upgrade his WordPress inatall, which resulted in negative publicity for the best open CMS out there. His site was powered by version 2.0.4, which as Matt points out was released a good 16 months ago, and even beats the version I was running on my other site just a few weeks ago (with my own patch nonetheless). My excuse, I did not invent the …

Lately, there is a growing trend in the WordPress theme design community to produce high-end, premium, magazine (or webzine) style work. This was to happen sooner or later, it was only a matter of time before users discovered the full potential of WordPress to power sites outside of their blogs and when that happened, the quest for better themes followed. The obvious progression for designers was towards themes that looked and worked like anything but Kubrick, the result is this new trend. So in recognizing some of the fine work out there, I wish to list in chronological order a few of my personal favorite magazine styled WordPress themes. …