Another Design by Matt Sweeny

One of the design purposes here is to showcase funky CMS themes which are my favorites from the WordPress.org > Extend Free Themes Directory. My website (at least this one) has many fat features, one of which is using a sidebar Theme Switcher.  I have installed the Theme Switcher Reloaded WordPress plugin which lets you flip between all the installed WP themes on this website. The theme switcher is a sidebar widget which displays multiple theme designs and for this website needs to be active in “sidebar 1″ – always.

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

Halloween Pumpkins 1.1 by Mel Pedley

Airmail – par Avion 0.5 by John Nye

Bito 1.0.1 by Tommy Wang

JS03 Lite

Greenxi 1.0 by Colixiodesign

Vigilance 1.44 by Drew Strojny

Watercolor 2.01 by Tim Sainburg

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.