Theme of the day: Spexel

Wordpress themes are currently talk of town, and 100’s of free themes coming every day from every corner of the globe. While browsing the web, we all find collection of themes freely available for Wordpress, but selecting the right theme from such a crowd is not easy.

So i decided to start this new series called “Theme of the day” . In this series, i will post one top quality theme for either wordpress or blogger platform everyday. Why i am posting only one theme per day, because i do not want my reader to be confused with a collection of 100+ themes in a single post.

Everyday one theme will be selected examined. So let’s start with today’s theme called SPEXEL. This is certainly one of most outstanding free wordpress theme released for the wordpress. With array of configuration options in admin panel and integration of almost every desired feature makes this theme a real premium quality.

SPEXEL

Features

Premium, Flexible, Neutral design that can be used by any niche centred site.
jQuery featured.
Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 3.0
Options Page.
Compliant with WordPress version 2.7, 2.8, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5, and 2.8.6.
MultiLayout Magazine or Blog.
MultiPostStyling named as recent and mini posts.
MultiColumn Sidebar 1 or 2 column (2 or 3 column).
Collapsible Sidebar and Footer
Columnized Footer 3 column.
Widgetized Sidebars (as three Top, left, and right) and Footer (all three) columns.
MultiLevel dropdown (vertical) navigation menu.
Tested on major browsers like FireFox, IE, Chrome, Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey and a few more, on different resolutions.
SEO Optimized.
Image Gallery Two Styles | Title Option | Fetch post from specified category.
Featured Content Two styles | 5 slide effects | Pager | 3 Text block effects. Fetch post from specified category.
Featured Video, fetch the video from either options page or specified category.
Auto fetch image from post, or custom value can also be used.
Image/Text logo (.PSD is packed) with fade inout effect.
Up to Eight 125x125 ad blocks, two 480x60 ad block, one 768x90 and 180x90, and two post advert and shortcode. Each option can either be replaced by own html, for example AdSense.
Post Advert shortcode user can specify a shortcode that can be used inside any post to call the specified post advert. Default is [ad].
Paginated.
Paginated Categories in post style.
Slide tabs.
Post voting inbuilt (check single page for preview)
Animated sidebar list
Proper threaded/nested comments.
Auto ImageResizer.
Text Resizer.
Breadcrumbs.
"About Me" on sidebar.
Author page, useful for multiauthor sites.
"About author" on posts' pages.
Announcement System.
Related Posts with small thumbnails.
Most Commented.
Recently Updated lists the most recent modified posts.
Recent posts.
Recent comments with Gravatars.
Popular posts.
Global Translation.
Gravatars ready.
FeedBurner Email Subscription, automatically installs as widget [Spexel (FeedBurner)]. Three styles.
Twitter ready, also, automatically installs as widget . Two styles.
FlickR ready, and is in fade inout slide or simple 4 block thumbnails.
Inbuilt Social bookmarking
Inbuilt Social Networking Profiles
Flash Tag Cloud.