I'm looking for a new WordPress theme to use on wikinewsie.org. Although the theme used on the site ticks most of the boxes in-terms of the look for the site, it is now unmaintained and hasn't been touched for a few years.

There's two main criteria I'm looking for in any theme (apart from being free). Those are that: (a) it supports floating/variable width. (b) It supports a highly-customisable left sidebar.

I've the basics of edu.wikinewsie.org installed into a local virtual machine at the moment. The point of this is to enable me to properly tweak security, configuration, look-n-feel, and so prior to making it public.

It is a 'multisite' install, so will happily support foo.edu.wikinewsie.org. That will allow any educational institute using Wikinews in the classroom to blog about their experiences. Or - perhaps of more-import with the push for more of a focus on original reporting - the issuing of email addresses to students.

We know that firstname.lastname@wikinewsie.org increases responses from people we'd like to question for Original Reporting. By the same logic, the likes of firstname.lastname@foo.edu.wikinewsie.org (albeit long) should help students try their hand at getting people to give them input for original reports.

Similarly, one of the issues spotted with one round of UoW students was mixing up editorialising with reporting. Having a WordPress instance for each educational institution working with Wikinews would allow them to do that.

Multilingual comes under 'nice to have' for any suggested WordPress themes; but, please let me know of any you're aware of that fit the above criteria.

Brian McNeil.