The folks over at iThemes have created a game-changing WordPress theme that is so flexible, it can be almost anything you want it to be, and because of its flexibility, it’s been named Flexx. There are literally over a thousand possible design layouts that can be accomplished simply by clicking your mouse button a few times in the layout options screen. Flexx is easily the coolest WordPress premium theme I’ve seen. I’ll show you all the reasons below, but keep in mind that the screenshots make this a graphic-intensive page, so you might need to be a little patient to load them all. Most of the images are scaled down to fit the blog post width, so just click any of the scaled-down images to open a new window/tab to see a larger version.

The most impressive part of Flexx is the layout options screen, so let’s start there. As you can see below, the layout options are almost limitless. You decide where to place various elements.

• Want a list of pages above the header?
• Want categories below the header?
• Both above?
• Both below?
• Want Featured widget blocks at the top?
• How many? 1? 2? 3?
• Where do you want your sidebars?
• How many do you want?
• Want widget blocks in the footer?

I could go on and on, but you get the point. By simply clicking on the choices in the layout options, you can create the layout YOU want – and see the results REAL TIME in the Layout Preview at the bottom. Don’t like what you see in the Layout Preview? Just click on different options and make new layouts. Check out the screenshots below to see what I mean. The first one shows a preview from options I chose at first, and the next one shows a preview from options I changed. Keep in mind that there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of possible layout configurations, not just the two I’m showing below.

First options I chose for my Flexx layout:

Options I changed to make a new Flexx layout:

Ok, now let’s look at some of the other options available.

First, there’s the Custom Header options screen. This makes it very easy to use your own header graphic. Here’s what that option screen looks like:

Oh, and at the last minute, they added the ability to have flash-like rotating header images!

Next, let’s take a look at the settings you can customize. This is pretty cool.

• First, you can choose which pages and categories get shown in the menu. This gives you flexibility to include/exclude certain ones.
• Next, you can paste your stats tracking code (such as Google Analytics code) into the Tracking Code box, and it will be inserted properly into the theme.
• Finally, it gives a couple of SEO-related options you can customize to make the theme even more search-friendly.

Finally, let’s take a look at the Contacts Page options screen. Here you can give a Subject for your Contacts Form email and the email address to send the contact us email to.

The Flexx premium theme comes in two color options, however, you can easily upload new background images (setting every different combo with it) and set the color through a Photoshop-like color picker. Here is an example of one of the color options.

Obviously, with so many layout choices, this is only one of many possible looks. Yours would likely look much different.

To get a bit of a better birdseye view, you can watch a couple of really quick screencasts to see how it all works.

First, the Flexx Layout Options Screencast:

Then, the Flexx Contact Page tutorial:

I am crazy about this new premium theme. Flexx is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. Brilliant! Simply brilliant.

Flexx WordPress theme

*** March 9, 2010 Update: Ithemes has come out with an awesome new entity called PluginBuddy, creating new premium wordpress plugins. Be sure to read about these wordpress plugins here!

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