After redesigning WPShout a couple of months ago, I decided to add some advanced features to the theme, package it up and release it into the wild. The result? Biblioteca. It’s a mix between a magazine theme, a tech blog theme, a bloggy theme and a theme framework – it looks quite nice out the box but has a solid library of advanced features including an advanced theme options page, widgets all over the place, in post SEO options, the lot. The features list is as follows:
- A practical theme framework that offers a solid starting point for any WordPress theme.
- Plug and play – works out of the box, with an extensive options page.
- Awesome SEO. Everyone talks about their theme having ‘awesome SEO’, but Biblioteca doesn’t just let you believe it, it has options for setting the post title and description.
- Featured content gallery – Biblioteca uses Chris Coyier’s jQuery slider.
- Extensive options page – pictured below, the options page lets you change a ton of options, from the width of the sidebar to the contents of the footer to the ads in the sidebar to your Analytics tracking code.
- Magazine look – you want a fancy featured content gallery? Biblioteca has one. Enable/disable it from the opions page.
- Tech blog look – you want a couple of posts featured below the main featured content gallery? Biblioteca has got one of them; it’s widgetised too.
- Bloggy look – you just want a blog? Biblioteca can do that as well. Just set the options in the options panel.
- Drop down navigation – Biblioteca has some rather nice drop down navigation.
- A ton of widgets – Biblioteca has an ever expanding number of widget ready areas in all sorts of places that allow you to easily pop text just about anywhere.
- Fancy footer – the three column footer here on WPShout is often complimented and you too can have one – Biblioteca has one which you can enable/disable from the options page.
- Auto image resizing – set an image to display on the homepage and it’ll automatically resize itself.
- Multiple layouts – through the options panel you can change the layout, having a thin main content area, a slightly larger main content area or an even bigger main content area.
- The list goes on – just download it and see for yourself!
When creating Biblioteca I wanted to make something that would allow me to rapidly develop future themes, something I’ve done. Whether that makes it a ‘framework’ or not I don’t know. What I do know is that if you’re a designer looking to create an awesome WordPress theme but you don’t want to start from scratch, you could do worse than base your theme on Biblioteca. If you’re not a developer, then by no means are you alienated from using Biblioteca; the advanced theme options and in-post SEO options make it a great choice for any blog – take a look at WPShout and you’ll see; pretty much all I’ve done is change the background on the theme.
As in accordance with WordPress itself, the theme is GPL, although offered ‘as is’ with no free support. You can see the theme live here and grab the download it here. Enjoy!
awesome tips thanks so much for the great post. 
Great list and very thorough!
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awesome article. Thanks for sharing with us. 
This looks fantastic! Thanks very much for releasing this theme to the public.
This is a really good theme for the new bloggers
By the way it is my first time @ this blog and I really enjoyed your articles, great work 
Nice theme downloading it now
wow, nice work!
thanks..
Its a perfect framework to start away your blog.
What I think about this theme is that the post area is small, the thumbnail is too big.
In conclusion, the arrangement of this theme is not very suitable.
Another great wordpress theme.
Theme looks great Alex, thanks for sharing with us. Do you have any tips for adding Adsense, or is it built in somehow?
@Cute Graphics,
If you are not familiar with coding, I would suggest using a plugin to take care of this. It really shouldn’t be that difficult.
Till then,
Jean
Thanks for sharing this template, I want to try it later to test if it’s SEO is really awesome as what you have mention.
The Theme looks Amazing Alex, many thanks for sharing with us.
looks amazing I will try it.
Hi Alex, the theme is really looking great. I liked the sidebar most as it is very much decent and can be monetize pretty well. Thanks for such nice theme will try in one of my blog very soon.
Thanks. I was looking for a good them to try I will give it a shot on my blog
Thanks Alex for sharing this beautiful theme , i am going to use it on my new blog.
thanks! I will use it!!
Very nice work! I appreciate!
this is a nice one.
I would like to personally thank you for your outstanding product. elegant themes did exactly what you said it does. Friendly and courteous people are always a pleasure doing business with.
Nice theme. Thanks for offering it free.
Well I updated to the latest wordpress 2.9.1, and I still seem to be having the issue where it just times out…. I am thinking it may have something to do with the php memory limit… not 100% positive though. Any ideas?
I think Biblioteca theme is a good framework to customize. I agree it’s doesn’t stand out with jQuery sliders and other Ajax stuff but sometimes people need something simple and clean to work with.
It is always good to see some new themes. Maybe not all of them must have unique quality or simply become used, but it is just a good thing to see some more elements, solutions or ideas.
wow excellent themes, thanks for releasing this themes.
Another fantastic theme from the wordpress.
Thanks for the free download
Link “You can see the theme live here” go to 404
Looking through some more recent theme frameworks for WordPress and stumbled upon this one.
The link for the demo seems like it is broken and giving a 404 as noted above.
14 feature in theme looks quite interesting but yet have problem on SEO with some theme of WordPress.
I’ve been researching themes and plugins for a personal WordPress project, my first one, and I came across this post. I’m going to download Biblioteca straight away, and am going to enjoy playing with it. Thanks for sharing!
INTERESTING..IT’S GOOD TO SEE THEMES LIKE THEM..THANKS FOR THESE..
Nice Theme i have downloaded for my own website….
Nice theme
Thanks for share
Why Thumbnails is not showing in HOMPAGE?
I have Custom Field: Image with value equal to the URL of the image..
Any help is appreciated…
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