MiniCard

The MiniCard theme for WordPress is a personal vCard/social network/business card style theme that supports the hCard microformat, contains support for a plethora of social networks, and allows and optional display of portfolio items – all controllable from its own Theme Config page.

The MiniCard theme is free and licensed under GPL – there is also a premium pack available with several theme variations and built-in RSS feed parsing functionality.

Give it a try, MiniCard can be downloaded from WordPress.org!

Want more MiniCard goodness? Purchase the premium pack to gain access to the in-built AJAX RSS feed module, several new sub-themes, priority support, and a warm fuzzy feeling for supporting the author! The premium pack costs £25 GBP.

More about MiniCard

MiniCard was inspired by Tim Van Damme’s excellent website. The theme lets you add links to all the social networking sites you may be a member of, and post useful information such as bio’s and contact details. It also has built in hCard support and (optionally) lets you offer a vCard for visitors to download your contact information.

Another useful feature, for those with portfolios, is the ability to set up a portfolio category in which you can set up items to feature below your card. These items are shown as thumbnails/galleries and pop up in a lightbox when clicked.

Some of MiniCard's options

To control all of the features of MiniCard the theme comes with a useful admin panel for setting up your networks, theme options, and contact details for your hCard.

Since this is only a lightweight mini theme, widgets are only supported below the card, in the footer. You can however run a mini blog and make posts – these are all styled and fully supported. Set this up using the ‘reading’ options in WordPress.

To summarise:

  • MiniCard is free to download and licensed under GPL
  • Loads of social networks supported
  • (Optional) Ajax Loading of main navigation links
  • Portfolio functionality with lightboxes
  • Theme Config section and instructions in WordPress admin
  • Built in hCard/vCard support
  • Comes with the default theme
  • Each theme contains several variations – burst, diagonal stripe, horizontal stripe, vertical stripe, tartan.