As I continue book week here at (Anti) Social Development, I gift you with 6 WordPress themes related to books and notebooks.
Again, some of these are contenders for my next installment of ugly WordPress themes and I’m not quite sure that they are appropriate for book related blogs but they have something about them related to books or a notebook style design.
Notepad chaos is the only one I’ve seen in the wild and is probably my favorite of all of them.
What do you think? Do you like any of these? Would you use them on a bookish site?
photo credit: Joel Mann
These are really great! I wish they’d been around when we started out! I especially like Notebook Chaos and Traveling Notebook. We looked in vain for something that would give the impression of a spiral binding.
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Another really cool post, Kim. I like book week. :-) I love Notepad Chaos. Which is really odd for me. I normally tend to like plainer themes.
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Yes, I like notepad chaos as well… Although, I might mute the colors a bit. :-) Nice picks.
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I like The Book and Notepad Chaos the best. Education is probably the third favorite, although I’m not sure how I feel about the ruler header background that makes the sidebar titles harder to read.
~ Kristi
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I love “The Book”. I may use that on my new personal blog at some point.
I didn’t like any. But its a heads up to designers out there on what they should be designing next ;)
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Hi Kim – Great finds. I’m in the process of wanting to change my theme. I’m going to check these out. I’m thinking some could be perfect for my “classroom”
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Kim great themes indeed. One of them is on my micro blog so these are exactly my taste! Keep those theme lists coming ;)
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I like Notepad Chaos a lot. Just like Evan’s other WordPress themes, it’s very well built.
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WP College Education is not bad actually…
@Betsy – Maybe you can use one if you decide to redesign. Search on notebook or education WordPress themes and you might find some more. Notebook Chaos is a favorite.
@Jim – That is surprising – I wouldn’t have guessed you would like that one. I was thinking I would like that one with a plain background – I like the notebook aspect of it.
@Shirley – Yeah – or change the background to something more simple.
@Kristi – I think the rulers would have to go – they do make the heading hard to read.
@Carla – Great! If you use it, let me know :-)
@Raju – LOL
@Barbara – You can also try searching on WordPress Education Themes. You will probably find quite a few that are suitable for “school” type settings.
@Stratos – I recognized it from your microblog ;-) That’s the only one of the 6 that I’ve seen used on sites.
@Dave – Who is Evan? What else has he designed?
@Vered – It’s pretty simple. I’m not a huge fan of orange so I might want a different header but otherwise it’s a nice layout.
Evan Eckard: http://www.evaneckard.com/ Take a look at his free WordPress themes, which are great. And his own site’s theme is even better. Definitely a designer to watch.
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@Dave – Thanks!
Sounds like a wrong week here for me… :lol:
Books (hard copies) and me are like enemies…
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@Ajith – LOL – Maybe next week will be better.
Nice find Kim. Might use one of them for my personal blog
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@Madhur – Great! I think a notebook type of theme would be really good for a personal site.
The themes look good. Thanks for the list.
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@Nihar – Thank you!
It seems that we are commenting and responding to comments at the same time ;-)
I am ALWAYS changing my theme! I spend more time on themes than writing. bad sign or sign of something else??
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@Dee – I do the same thing too. I’ve forced myself to stick with this one. But I have a testing area where I do all sorts of things to it.
I tried using Notebook Chaos with my blog but there’s not that many theme options – as a matter of fact, maybe you can just change the logo and the background and that’s it. I was horrified that my ads were going over the border and my programmer cannot do anything about it! But I have to admit, it is beautiful. But usability should also be one factor before a writer changes her blog theme. I hope they improve it. :)
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Hi Issa – Some themes have a number of options built in and others have none. It would seem that if the ads weren’t displaying properly that CSS could have been added to correct the problem.
I have never used that theme but I like the way it looks.
I’m using notebook chaos. I don’t like how widgets show up… it’s clunky. I also don’t like being able to choose what shows up in the sidebar. Looking for a replacement.
Hi – I hope you find a theme that you like better. It’s frustrating when you really like a theme but one part of it bothers you.
I love “The Book”. I may use that on my new personal blog at some point.
Hi, thanks for the theme info.. do you know any notebook / diary theme recommendation. I just started my own blog and searching for themes.
thanks.
Hi Kenny – I don’t have any other than the ones listed. Searching on wordpress notebook theme or wordpress back to school theme should locate more.
hey,
i really liked the notepad chaos theme, and i’d really love to integrate the theme into my wordpress blog. is it possible? how can i do it?
Hi Manu – The WordPress codex has information on installing themes.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes