Just Tadlock (community member greenshady) has released a new child theme based on his theme framework ‘ThemeHybrid‘. You should be drinking if we are playing a drinking game, which is acceptable since this is a pub. The Hybrid News theme has a lot of the same elements you’d expect from a newsy theme, with Justin’s magic added.
Hybrid News Theme In Action
- Featured post block which is animated
- Post thumbnails for articles on the front page
- Four widget areas in the footer
- Two right handed skinny sidebars
- Featured video block
- Four-level drop-down menu
- A Tabber that features Hot Tags, Random Posts, and your Archives
- Fully compliant with WordPress 2.7
Giving the theme a good look over from the demo which is located here, looks like Hybrid News could easily fit the bill for many of you still looking for a free, news layout type of theme. One thing that I found really interesting is that the featured posts thumbnails and the featured post blocks use the first image that appears in the post content to create the thumbnail. This is a great time-saver, especially considering the current way I have to add an image URL to a custom field in WPTavern.
