Pixel Wordpress Theme Review
Black always was a beautiful color and if integrated well it can make a great design. Pixel is another one of the themes from Wordpress.org that are currently featured and are receiving some attention from the wordpress community. It’s special thing is the transparency of the background content that’s perfectly integrated with the content and the background image that just blends colors in like they where born there. Visual hierarchy is good and the rest of the elements that make the theme a good theme are set in place doing their job very well. Sidebar, menu, top menu header and footer elements are very well integrated to be basic but have a little bit of a sparkle at the same time.
Don’t want to say that this is a marvelous theme. It’s good! but it’s still looking like a free theme (nothing premium about it, especially the admin panel, as you will see later in the post)
Theme Design
Because it’s transparent(and yes, it actually is transparent, as you can change the background image to something else and the content part will see trough it) it makes it a little bit more than ordinary but not enough to be extraordinary. The edges light up, the header is very well delimited and gives the impression of glass that leaves a shadow as it goes down. The content part is glassy too but a little more darker so the text is readable just at the top where the background picture is a little more light in color. The sidebar has a little less transparency to it and it is just like a little layer above the glass.
The menu is black and white but with a light blue hover effect on the text and no selected effect on the buttons. Menu also has a rss button at the right part of it taking just a little bit of space (in case your menus don’t fit because they are many). The Rss link can be changed from the default feed (blank) in the admin panel to a feedburner url.
Sidebar
Situated on the right part (only), it has a custom part where you can write a short description of what your blog/website is/does. Sadly, there is no option in the admin panel to remove this.
The title of this special content box is a little bigger than the average widget title so it stands out to the rest of the content. I don’t consider it’s doing a good enough job. Maybe this size with a different color? or a different colored background? At least a option would have been nice, but we shall have to wait for that… and hope.
The rest of the sidebar is sliced into more widget columns. A better example of how many they are and how many options you have can be seen in the widgets section of the admin panel:
Yes, there are six of them and you even have a “sidebar” at the footer where everything is just perfectly designed and blended making the theme look nice even when it ends.
The only problem i found with the footer sidebar is that it does not expand well in height. Maybe something easy to fix…
Admin Panel
The admin panel is one of the most simplest I’ve seen so far (besides the ones that where missing this particular page) and has only 3 options(that’s right! 3).
So you can change the title and the content of the custom box in the top of the left sidebar and you can assign the feedburner name. That’s it! I really don’t see how a theme like this could have gotten so far. Maybe it’s the design, maybe it’s been very very advertised, but I think there are a lot of options missing from the admin panel(change of backgrounds, sidebar left? 2 sidebars?-left or right, different slightly changed designs? etc). It’s simple success makes you want to make those options and sell it as a premium theme.. – I’m talking here with the original developer, of course 
Other Features
Well, as the tags say: sticky posts is one of the features, but one of the most biggest things that interest a lot of people is if the theme has threaded comments. Well, Pixel theme HAS! and it looks like this:
Tags: theme-options, threaded-comments, blue, black, sticky-post
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