There are a number of themes which I have tested out which would work awesome for a CMS website. I am not saying the themes listed below suck but, they do not allow this website to show the theme switcher in sidebar 1 by default. Because of this, these themes did not work for me on this website, here at Another Design by Matt Sweeny.

WordPress CMS Themes I Deactivated

Other themes I removed

• Nautica
• Reclamation
• iStudio
• Glowing Amber
• Suffusion
• MT white 2.6.2 by Tomasz Mazur
• Ink and wash 1.1.5 by Arne: page navigation bar at top not Widgetized!
• Under the Influence 1.02 by Spaceperson: not CMS friendly. WordPress “Pages” have some weird spacing problems.
• Constructor 1.0.4 by Anton Shevchuk – This theme gave me permission errors after I installed it and tried to access the theme setting options page.
• Traction 1.0 by The Theme Foundry – this theme was removed as it did not work with sidebar 1 right out of the installation box. I also found that when I tried to activate another font (in order to delete this Traction WP theme, I was not able to activate a different theme and had to manually delete the Traction theme directory from the FTP web server.
• Emptiness 1.8 by Cliffano Subagio – this theme was removed as it did not work with sidebar 1 right out of the installation box.
• Nature_wdl 1.3 by Webdesignlessons.com – this excellent looking theme might work for you but, the title of our website “Another Design by Matt Sweeny” is super long and this long title broke the theme’s header graphics not-so-flexible CSS layout.

Themes I killed today

I didn’t kill these free wordpress themes because they suck. They don’t suck at all, most of these are really good themes with dynamic menus and beautiful designs which function just fine as CMS themes for WordPress version 3. These are killed because I have 66 themes installed for the theme switcher and it just takes super long to load mattsweeny.com because of too many themes installed here.

Part of the problem is that I use Godaddy for hosting my WordPress websites and apparently their shared hosting accounts suck balls! In an effort to reduce the size of the WP installation on mattsweeny.com here are more themes I killed.

• Adventure
• Arras
• flashy
• Furry Family
• Tandil
• Tree House
• Vibe
• Arclite
• Blend
• BlueCloud
• Bold Life
• Cleanr
• diary-k
• vigilance
• smells-like-facebook
• LivingOS_UPSILON_wp_3
• inanis-glass
• regal
• luxury-press
• p2
• webbdesign
• underwater
• the-scenery
• starocean
• comment-central
• crafty-cart
• dynamic-dream
• whitehouse
• viala
• mondo-zen-theme

• Breathe 2.1 by Paul Cracknell

• Daßlog Screen 1.09 by Jonk

• diary-cute 1.8.1 by page

• EasyCity 1.3 by GFCC

• Elegant Grunge 1.0.3 by Michael Tyson

• Gravel 1.6 by Melle Wynia

• jarrah 1.7 by marsian

• Mystique 1.20 by digitalnature

• Panorama 2.1 by Themocracy

• Patagonia 1.7.0 by WpThemesPlanet

• Precious 4.0.1 by Kristin K. Wangen

• Retromania 1.5 by Jay Hafling

• Rusty Grunge 1.2 by Christopher Wallace

• Urban View 1.05 by cssmayo.com

These awesome themes are all available for download on the WordPress.org free theme directory.