I get a lot of questions both on the site and in forums about WordPress themes well suited to the property rental market, and I always struggle to recommend a theme which can work ‘out of the box’ for people with only a basic knowledge of WordPress. Unless you know how to edit CSS, a lot of themes don’t fit what rental property owners need.
So, I’m releasing my first free WordPress theme called Orange Mist Random, and you can download it at the bottom of this post.
The design makes use of two key colours: orange and green. Orange because it is a warm colour that works well for most seasons (spring, summer, autumn, less so winter!) and green because it evokes nature and freshness. I’ve included a selection of images in the demo to show how versatile the colour scheme is.
I’m a great believer in the use of photography to sell your rental property to potential guests, and so I’ve coded the theme to include a ‘random header image’ function (see this post for details and code credits). In practice, this means that each time a page loads on your website / blog, a different image will load into the header, ensuring the full range of images you’ve added to the header image folder are displayed big on your website. Of course, you can also still add images to posts and pages in the usual manner.
Additional details:
- Works up to and including 2.7
- fixed width 1000px,
- right sidebar
- two columns
- valid XHTML
- random header image
- widget ready
I’m releasing the theme for free under a Creative Commons Share Alike license (details and installation instructions in the read_me.txt file in the zip folder), please ensure you leave the link to my website in the footer to comply with the license. If you want to remove the link, you can do so by paying me a small 50 Euro fee.
If you want any support with the theme, or if you need any amends such as colour changes, font changes, sidebar layout changes etc drop me a line using the contact form and I’ll give you a cost estimate for it (most minor amends will be less than 50 Euros).
Additionally, if you need hosting for the theme, I have amazing cloud based hosting available from just 10 Euros per month including a domain name and 5 email accounts. A man has to make his money somehow!
Me hopey you likey. Download Orange Mist Random here.
Go on... click it... you know you want to!
3 Comments
Great theme, suggest maybe for developments rather then landscapes.
You don’t see much orange in websites. It doesn’t look too bad
Hi
Dont really like these 2 colours together. Individually yes but i would prefer the orange with a light brown.
Thanks
Ash