I have found a really good looking WordPress theme, provided by WP Theme Designer, called Drenched. The best part with this theme is that it’s free to use, if you leave the link back to the WP Theme Designer, intact.
Drenched has a very stylish design, with a color scheme of black gray and white. One of the coolest features with the theme is that you can have an image, assigned to your post, through WP’s custom fields. That adds some life to your blog, I think.
It’s also Adsense ready, so all you need to do is to switch the Adsense code to your own. However, there is only one Adsense spot. I would have wanted to have at least one more, at the bottom of the theme. Of course, that is something that you could easily implant yourself.
Drenched displays your features news or post, at the top of every page, with it’s image. That is the one thing that I didn’t like with the theme. It would have been nice if the featured news only showed up on the main and category pages, and not in the single post. Sure it looks nice, but after a while it gets rather tiresome to see the feature news, over and over again. However, that is also something that can be done with some tweaking of your own.
The theme also comes with a page number navigation, through the plugin wp-page-numbers plugin, which you must download and install. That is not a big deal and instructions is provided inside the read me file, that comes with the theme.
Moreover the theme is SEO optimized, uses gravatar on the comments and has a featured video section in the sidebar.
Overall I think Drenched is classy WP theme, that will work right out of the box, without any hassles. Also, as always WP Theme Designer gives you support through the themes post page, if you would need that.
You can read more about the theme, see it live and download it from WP Theme Designer,
http://www.wpthemedesigner.com/2008/11/08/drenched-theme/
