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Three Great Free WordPress Themes

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

WordPress is the most popular software for blogs today and it’s for a reason. Or perhaps I should say that there are many reasons for this but one of the main causes surely is that it’s a simple way to maintain a professional appearance on the web. With the help of free WordPress themes anyone can set up a sleek looking website in no time at all. There are a couple themes that stand out a little extra and here are three of them.

Autofocus

Autofocus

Autofocus is a very clean and modern looking theme that is especially designed with photographers in mind. Use this theme if you want to showcase your work in a stylish environment. You won’t have that much freedom when it come the settings but it’s very easy to work with so it shouldn’t cause you any trouble anyways.

Snapshot

Snapshot

This is yet another great theme if you want to showcase your pictures, design or any other kind of portfolio. With Snapshot comes a free voting system which allows your visitors to rate your work. Very cool indeed.

Crafty Cart

Crafty Cart

If you want to sell products directly from your blog, then Crafty Cart is a great free theme to choose. It has somewhat of a retro style and it’s simply an easy manageable eCommerce WP theme. Good stuff!

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Show off your Inner Geek with a WordPress Plugin

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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A couple months ago we launched a WordPress plugin that would allow you to displaying server statistics on your website. It’s awesome, it’s dorky, and it’s what makes geeks, super geeks. Of course, our road to plugin land had some bumps but now it’s ready to rock and roll. This past week, we launched a new version of the plugin and fixed all the bugs. The plugin also works great with Windows, Mac, or Linux platforms, no worries there.

What is this great WordPress plugin you ask? It shows statistics of what your hosting server is doing. You can find out if your host is really as great as it should be. This WordPress plugin is light and versatile and can be fitted to a sidebar on the homepage only or just on one page you choose. The Server Info Plugin, or as I call it Great Geek Plugin, is also user friendly because it fits in nicely with well built themes and is not bulky. Features can be adjusted in your WordPress control panel, under Settings.

Oh, we should mention that after you upload the plugin, you will have to activate BOTH plugin types on the control panel of WordPress. It is weird, but do that and everything will work fine.

Here is some of the information you can find out about your server:
System Vital Information:
Kernel Version
Distribution name
Uptime

Hardware Information:
Processors
CPU speed
BUS speed

Memory usage:
Physical Memory
Free
Used
Total

You can pick and choose what fields you want to show to visitors and where you want to place it on your blog or website. Check out the Server Info Plugin out and if you have comments or questions, post a comment here.

More info on System Information Plugin and you can download it there.

WordPress Page info and also where you can download the plugin: here

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Irresistible – A Free Wordpress Theme by Woothemes

Friday, March 20th, 2009

irresisteble Irresistible is made for the personal blogger. This theme is free for download and usage and a real treat from the dudes over at Woothemes. With sections such as MyWritings, MyLifestream, MyVideo and MyPhotos, this theme gives your site or blog that personal touch that will make the site feel like home.

Woothemes are known for their high-quality theme productions, free and premium, and Irresistble is no exception. Handling this theme in the admin is no problem at all. And regarding the design, I like it so much I might even use for my own online cave.

Screenshots

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Imprezz – a new free hi-quality Wordpress theme

Friday, March 13th, 2009

imprezzI have made it a routine to crawl the web at least once every week to find a new Wordpress theme worthy to tell you guys about. Let me tell you, as I dugg deeper into the web design community, I found Imprezz. A theme  made for any good old fashioned blogging in a modern package.

Imprezz is a free hi-quality theme that has been created by Gopal Raju and promoted by Smashing Magazine. This 3-column theme contains all design elements to be called a modern Wordpress theme.

If you entered this site looking for web hosting and want your site to look like Imprezz, take these steps:

  1. Go to our Wordpress Hosting toplist to find a cheap hosting plan that supports Wordpress (MySQL, PhP). Set up an account.
  2. Return to this blog post and download Imprezz.
  3. Extract it on your local computer and upload the files to this directory on your hosting account: wp-content/themes/
  4. Log in to the Wordpress admin and activate the theme

Full screenshot

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Magazeen – My Favorite Free Wordpress Theme of All Time

Friday, February 27th, 2009

magazeen-thumbI am not exaggerating. Of all the free themes I’ve been crawling lately, Magazeen is the absolute sh*t. Front end and back end are well crafted to ensure a secure user experience. The web design is off the hook including jQuery and trend-setting design elements. The fact that this theme is free blows my mind. WeFunction Design Agency could easily have charged $70 for this theme and still have a large number of downloads.In an earlier post I recommended 4 hi-quality free Wordpress themes but in all honestly none of them can measure with Magazeen.

Big up’s to Smashing Magazine for releasing this theme to the public for free. Whether you are just starting out as a wp blogger or have numerous sites on the CMS, Magazeen simply needs to cover at least one of them. See below for screenshot and theme download.

A clean design with large headers and soft typography are few of the things that make Magazeen my absolute favorite free Wordpress theme of all time. The horizontal jQuery slider on top and Feature News-widget to the right are also pure brilliance. This theme is also easily tweaked in the admin.

Take some time and live demo this theme and you’ll find hidden surprises. WeFunction has spared no expenses in creating this theme and have made sure it holds perfection in every last detail.

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