The chances are that if you are setting up a WordPress blog about Apple, OS X, Macs or anything else that originates in Cupertino that you will have at some stage Googled “free mac wordpress themes” or something similar.

There are many Mac and Apple themed themes although many sites seem to use the same one or two themes.

To save you the effort of trawling through the duplicates and hopefully help you to find theme better suited to your site here is a collection of the better examples that you can find.

iTheme

This has to be the grandaddy of Mac WordPress themes. Lots Mac related sites use this theme.

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i3Theme

A slight variation on iTheme with left and right sidebars.

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Librio

A nice clean theme in the style of the Finder.

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iNove

A glossy Mac style theme with nice header menu and clean clutter free design.

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Leopress

Leopress is another Finder style theme modelled on the enhanced finder in OS X Leopard with left hand side bar and integrated search.

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Coffee Desk

Not strictly a Mac styled theme but the theme includes an iPhone and an aluminum Mac keyboard so maybe suitable for some Mac sites.

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Retro Mac

Style based on the original Macs monochrome GUI, famously used as the theme for Robert Llewlyns Car Pool Site

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Leopard Mac

The Leopard wallpaper and aqua buttons set off this theme which aims to look like a Mac desktop complete with menu bar and disk icons.

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Tigerpress

Another theme inspired by the Finder, this time includes desktop wallpaper from OS X Tiger.

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Mad For Mac

A Macbook banner head gives this style a slightly Mac inspired feel though otherwise it is a fairly typical 2-column WordPress theme.

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Mimbo is one of the latest hot magazine-style themes for WordPress that is getting a lot of coverage. Like the Morning After style used on this site Mimbo has configurable article images and sections and has a clean stylish look.

I have taken the opportunity to evaluate Mimbo over on my other site, Muxton.com, which has been languishing in a state of disrepair for some months now and I have to say I am very keen to re-launch it now and begin actively updating again.

What I have constantly struggled with when trying to tailor and customise any new WordPress theme is my general lack of CSS skills. This has always frustrated me and the amount of time that even simple changes have taken in the past have really put me off any real personalisation. In the last week however my ability to do this has increased dramatically thanks to my discovery of a fantastic application for OS X called CSSEdit.

CSSEdit is a WYSIWYG CSS editor that allows even a novice to easily change and add styles to a style sheet and to instantly see the effect of those changes. Over the last couple of nights I have been experimenting with it and am greatly impressed. Hopefully when I am more familiar with it I will post some hints and tips but for now if you haven’t tried this application and you want to add a bit of individuality to your web site or blog I would strongly recommend that you download an evaluation and give it a whirl.

Todays Entrecard ad is for an Apple blog from a guy called Shane Crawford who lives in Austin Texas. Shanecrawford.org is a nicely put together WordPress blog which combines a mixture of Shanes photography with some nicely written tutorials on getting the most out of development in OS X and is well worth a visit.

Keep up the good work Shane !

Its always nice to get comments on your blog posts, it shows that people felt strongly enough about what you wrote to take the effort to type a response to it ( good or bad ! ).

The CommentLuv plugin for WordPress allows you to give something back to your readers, a link to their most recent blog posting in your post. The plugin uses the name of the readers blog if they enter one, and attempts to retrieve a link to their most recent blog posting, which it then places in their comment.

Nice plugin, try it out below !

If you are reading this then UKmac.net is now running on Plus.net and I have successfully transferred from my old Netfirms hosting account. One thing that is already very clear is just how slow Netfirms hosting was. Modifying this WordPress site now is vastly quicker and to be honest I can’t really believe I didn’t notice just how slow it was before.

Of course part of the speed up could be down to the fact that I took the opportunity to upgrade from WordPress 2.0.4 to WordPress 2.2.2 ?