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10 Winning WordPress Themes for Business

November 18th, 2009

Nowadays a lot of webmasters rack their brains over business website construction being in an endless search of the most appropriate design solution. Take it easy, you don’t have to spend days developing your web pages from scratch or spending a fortune to buy the necessary web design software or hire a professional designer hoping that your online business will cover all the expenses. Fortunately, there is a lot of worthy WordPress themes which are not only easy to use and edit but also are available for free, so all you need to do today to establish a good business website is to find the template which will fit your requirements best and make it work for you! To give you a helping hand we have prepared a set of the undoubtedly winning WordPress business designs, so take a look and make your own choice.


1. Loan Theme



Loan WordPress theme is an ideal choice for those business owners who would like their website to be distinguished by clean and stylish design with 2 column layout and left sidebar. Its pleasant-to-the eye combination of white, blue and grey colors makes Loan theme look both imposing and user-friendly.

2. SW Business2 Theme


If you are in search of a high-quality business website design SW Business2 Theme will become your one-stop solution for sure. It possesses 3 column layout with fixed width and is widget ready to make your commercial website more usable.

3. Bizmaniac Theme


Bizmaniac theme is compatible with WordPress 2.7.1 and runs smoothly on all popular web browsers. Apart from beautiful and funny design it is also distinguished by the advanced facilities of editing your site content, i.e. text, images and links, according to your own preferences.

4. Elegant Business theme


Elegant Business is a valid XHTML and CSS WordPress Theme which will become a perfect basis for your commercial website. Its really elegant design and clear navigation will help your business web pages stand out against a background of others.

5. Business Conference



Business Conference theme is distinguished by creative and professional design which allows you to establish the most prestigious commercial website your clients and business partners will definitely appreciate!

6. Kind of Business 1.3



This theme possesses simple but rather stylish 2 column layout and will fit perfectly any kind of small business website you want to start up. Ease at use, clean design and high quality - these are the features of Kind of Business 1.3 theme.

7. Elegant Property Theme



If you are going to get involved in the real estate industry and need to represent your business online Elegant Property theme is exactly what you need to create your web pages. Green and grey colors evoke a pleasant calming atmosphere which makes your customers feel warm and cozy while they browse your commercial website.

8. Business Place Theme



Business Place theme will become a winning solution in case you are aimed at setting up either a commercial website or any business blog. The theme possesses stylish brown-and-blue design and maintains advanced navigation features which will be highly estimated by your every customer.

9. Structure Theme


This theme is definitely suitable for any commercial web pages you are planning to launch and will become your ideal choice due to its premium design and exclusive functionality features. Structure Theme is compatible with all major web browsers and is SEO optimized which assures you of your website success and online business prosperity.

10. SW Marketing2 Theme


SW Marketing2 is a free WordPress theme with joyful but very professional and user-friendly design which makes it a perfect fit for any marketing website. It possesses valid XHTML/CSS code, is widget ready and has a lot of advanced functions for your website to maintain not only high-grade design but unmatched usability as well.


So don’t puzzle over the way you are going to construct your commercial website pages - choose one of the professionally designed free WordPress themes for business and start up your own online business in the shortest time. We wish you every success!

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10 WordPress Themes To Showcase Your Art Works

October 21st, 2009

If you are going to establish your personal online portfolio with the help of WordPress platform there are several ways to go. First, you can make use of special gallery plugins which we told you about in the previous post. Such add-ons will help you to create a photo gallery within your WordPress site and thus to share your photo art works. But if you want your weblog to be concentrated on the photography entirely the best solution is to use one of the specially developed Portfolio WordPress Themes. Today we present you the compilation of 10 most beautiful free WordPress Themes for photographers available for immediate download.

1. Grain

This is a classic photoblog theme with fixed width and administrative backend. It is distinguished by overview page made in a mosaic style, archives, the ability to show exif data, watch photos in random mode and much more.

2. Impress Theme

Impress Theme for WordPress is a brilliant basis for any photography blog you are going to launch. It has a very stylish look and possesses all necessary facilities an online portfolio should have, including the function of displaying featured posts thumbnails.

3. Typebased

Typebased theme is distinguished by non-standard customization options, sidebar widgets which allow you to carry out full control of your sidebar, and implies five color schemes among which you can choose the one that fits you best. So you are free to make your photoblog look according to your own particular preferences!

4. Cellar Heat

This WordPress theme possesses several advanced features which you will definitely appreciate. It has enabled gravatars, posts excerpts and recent comments options which add to your photoblog usability. Cellar Heat theme is widgetized and doesn’t require any plugins to start using it.

5. Irresistible

Irresistible is a brilliant photo theme with popular backend and non-average modification options. Its main distinctive features are integrated video player and 9 color schemes for you to choose the way you want your photoblog to look.

6. Outdoorsy

If you want to establish a photo weblog which will stand out against a background of others Outdoorsy theme is the best choice for you. This theme possesses exclusive design and impressive graphics which will provide your website with innovative and attractive appearance.

7. Coffee Desk

Coffee Desk theme will be undoubtedly to your taste due to its creative background design and functional features. The theme is W3C XHTML and CSS compliant, contains enabled gravatars and is compatible with all popular web browsers.

8. Vector Flower

This theme has rather pleasant-to-the-eye design which will help you to establish the most user-friendly WordPress photoblog. It is compatible with WordPress 2.7.1, has integrated PageNavi function for enhanced usability and is distinguished by social bookmarkings toolbar which you can see in the bottom of every post.

9. Fotofolio

Fotofolio theme is a great solution for any photoblog built on the WordPress basis. It maintains nice design and is very easy to use due to the advanced functionality features it provides. Fotofolio theme allows you to resize images for previews and thumbnails, has Jquery for featured posts, and possesses slideshow options and much more.

10. Auto Focus

This WordPress theme allows you to post images into the posts automatically without using Custom Fields, and moreover protects them from direct download (as on Flickr). Auto Focus theme also possesses 2 layouts (Photo and Blog ones) and works with WordPress for iPhone.

So as you see you can create a professional photoblog with a few clicks - just downloading and installing one of the Portfolio WordPress Themes!

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WordPress Latest News

September 8th, 2009



I’m pretty sure most of you are tracking the news on WordPress. I’d like to turn your attention to the WordPress RSSCloud news and the latest worm attack on WordPress powered blogs.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, it is the way your readers subscribe to updates of your blog using clients like Google Reader or Bloglines. I’m pretty sure most of you know what RSS is. And I’m pretty sure most of you know that it takes from minutes to hours for a new post to reach your subscriber through RSS. Well, now it won’t any more. WordPress has announced that those users subscribed to RSS Readers which are using a new feature called RSSCloud (only River2 and LazyFeed for now) will get instant updates. Thus, WordPress becomes a little bit more real time now.


I’m very curios what will come out of this new technology. Will Twitter lose its popularity now? Will there appear new promotional technologies and marketing mixes? Will WordPress gain even bigger popularity now, even with more security breaches and worms threatening your blog?


By the way, have you already updated to the latest WordPress security release? Please do it immediately. And check if you’ve done everything to protect your WordPress blog.
So, what are your thoughts on the latest WordPress news? Do share in the comments below.

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Amaze Spammers with the Power of Your Anti Spam Plugin

August 12th, 2009



There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins out there. Hundreds of them are aimed to deal with spam comments on your blog entries. Still, the most popular plugin recommended by the majority of bloggers is Akismet. This popularity of Akismet is though not quite understandable as I keep on coming across the complains about it, its reliability and performance.


Well, I’ve found a great anti spam plugin for those who are unsatisfied with the Akismet plugin. Please welcome - AntiSpam Bee.
This is not a captcha or math queries plug-in, your visitors won’t suffer. :) It doesn’t require a database installation and template modification.
The operation principle of the AntiSpam Bee plugin is quite simple and actually ingenious - it hides your comment box and replaces it with a fake one, thus fulling the evil bots that spam your comments.


There is a great option - you can tell the plugin to mark the spam plugins without deleting it, thus you are able to monitor the work of the plugin.
Another pleasant thing about AntiSpam Bee is the ease of adding and maintenance. Everything you need to do is to download and activate it.
AntiSpam Bee can be used in tandem with Akismet or other anti spam plugin you use.


So, have you faced problems with your anti spam plugin performance?

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Top5 Free WordPress Themes of July 2009

August 6th, 2009

Holding up the tradition I continue to showcase the best free wp themes from our collection submitted during the last month. Well, here is my personal top5 of the wordpress skins submitted in July 2009:


#5 Wonderful Nature
best wp themes
This cute and plain widget ready, 4 column theme is designed by Themes Junction is created to suit any personal blog. I think this magazine style theme designed with the use of pink, white and yellow colors will be a great choice for a girl’s personal page.
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WordPress Security Update

August 4th, 2009



As you know WordPress is an open source, this means that it’s constantly developed and innovated. The thing that makes WordPress stand out from other open source blogging platforms is a strong and devoted community. Even when developers miss some bugs the community is always there to point them out, thus helping to make WordPress better and more secure. This is the story behind the new WordPress 2.8.3 security release. Two weeks ago when WordPress security update version 2.8.2 has been released it appeared that some holes were uncovered the WordPress community quickly found the missed places, thus the new improved version is here now. You may have already seen it in your WordPress admin area.
This is the security release thus I strongly recommend you to update your WordPress to protect data and web server better.
You can download WordPress 2.8.3 and upgrade manually or do it automatically from your admin area.


Have you ever faced any problems with your WordPress security? Do share your experience in the comments below.

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Ultimate List of Tools for Your WordPress Part 1

July 23rd, 2009



WordPress is the hugely popular blogging platform, no wonder there is such immense number of tools developed for WordPress powered blogs. To simplify your life I’ve made a selection of the most useful plugins and extensions to give you the ultimate list of WordPress tools.
Much has been said about such essential plugins as Akismet and All in One SEO Pack, thus I won’t touch upon them here. And don’t expect to see here tools for SEO, security, audio and image sharing as I already covered these subjects at this blog.


Tools for Posts:
* Auto Link
Automatically links keywords within your blog posts to any location you specify
* Category Posts Widget
You can specify how many posts you want to be shown within the specified category
* Code Markup
This plugin allows you to put snippets of code (HTML included) into the posts without affecting your page.
* Easy Post-To-Post Links
Use a shortcut to link to another posts on your blog.
* WP-PostRatings
Let your visitors vote for your posts. Plugin also allows to display the most or least ranked posts on your sidebar.
* WP-Footnotes
This plugin allows, well… to put footnotes at your posts.
* Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Gives a list of old posts on your blog related to the current one
* WP-PostViews
Displays the number of times a post has been viewed.


RSS Feed Tools:
* Feed Control
Among many features this plugin gives you are the ability to exclude posts from your feed and add pages.
* Feed Footer
Adds copyright and ads to your RSS posts.
* DeCat
Gives you an opportunity to select categories that won’t be included in your feeds.
* Feed Styler
Style your feed as you want it to be.
* FeedStats
Gives you every statistics on your feeds
* Subscribe-Remind
This nice plugin allows you to remind your readers to subscribe to your feed at the end of each post.


Video Tools:
* Easy Inline SWF
Allows you to easily insert Flash files in .swf format into your blog entries.
* Extreme Video
Allows you to play any .flv file on your blog. Supports YouTube, Quicktime, Google Video and more.
* YouTube Brackets
With this plugin you do not need to copy and paste embed code to insert a YouTube video into your post, all you need is to enter an URL
* SeeTheFace
This tool allows you to record video and post it at your blog.


Comments Tools:
* Bannage
With this plugin you can ban any annoying user by name, email, or IP.
* Admin Panel Comment Reply
This plugin will add a “reply to comment” option in the comments section of your WordPress admin area.
* WP-Most Commented Posts
Displays the most commented posts at your blog sidebar
* Live Comment Preview
With this plugin you will allow your users to preview their comments before posting them.
* Edit Comments XT
Your users will be able to edit their comments.
* DoFollow
Removes the “nofollow” attributes from links in comments.
* DoFollow Trackbacks
Removes “nofollow” attributes from the trackbacks.
* Show Top Commentators
List your most devoted commentators with links to their websites.


This was the first part of the list of the most essential WordPress tools. What type of tools would you like to see in the next part?

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How to Add WordPress Plugin. Simple Guide

July 16th, 2009



Almost every post at this blog is giving you useful and sometimes not that useful but curious plugins. It never occurred to me that someone of you may not know how to actually add those plugins to your WordPress powered blogs. Thus I’m going to fill in the missed point and give you a simple guide on how to add a plugin to your blog.


There are WordPress plugins that require editing your WordPress Theme template files and ones that do not require such modifications. Both types are installed the same way, just follow these simple steps:


* Download the desired plugin.
* Log-in to your WordPress admin panel.
* Click on Plug-ins on the left side of your panel.
* Click on Add New and then on the Upload Tab.
* Browse the downloaded plug-in file at your computer and click on Install Now.
* After your WordPress finishes the installation process click on Activate Plug-in.


That’s it, your WordPress plugin is added and active.
Generally this is everything you’ll need to do when adding a plugin, if there are other requirements the developer will for sure specify them, so read the text files that come with your plugin carefully. Besides, some plugins may require configuration, most WordPress Plugin authors give clear step-by-step instructions of the required configuration, so read these carefully as well.

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Is Your Blog SEO Friendly?

July 14th, 2009



We’ve discussed the importance of search engine optimization here more than once. But I think one more time won’t be a waste.
So, let’s revise what exactly SEO means and how it works.


SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is a process of improving the volume and quality of your traffic received from search engines. To understand SEO better you should know how search engines work. This is pretty easy - such search engines as Google and Yahoo use a program called a “web spider”. These spiders crawl the web and collect info about the web pages (content, links etc.) and deposit this info to the search engine’s database. When you want to find something on the web and type your query in the search box the search engine has to do one simple thing - to find the most relevant info in it’s database. To make your blog more relevant to probable queries you should make it rank for the factors that form the search engine algorithm higher. This is where SEO will help you.
Here are things you should check and plugins you should add to make your blog SEO friendly:


* All in One SEO Pack
I already told you about this extremely useful plugin. It allows you to add meta tags, titles, descriptions and keywords to your blog posts.


* Google XML Sitemaps
If you want google spiders to crawl your weblog better you should help them - create a sitemap. This nice plugin will help you do the task easily and fast.


* Sociable
This is a great plugin I’ve already mentioned at this blog, it allows your visitors to bookmark your posts at 99 social bookmarking sites. Find more WordPress plugins meant to help you increase traffic. http://www.wpdaddy.com/blog/2009/03/increase-traffic-with-wordpress-plugins/


Things to check:


* Add Titles and ALT tags to the images you use in your blog entries


* Make sure your meta descriptions are unique and do not repeat your content


* Make sure your theme uses header tags correctly:
- Your blog title (your main keyword) should be placed in an h1 tag.
- Your post titles should be placed in h2 tags.


These are very basic SEO tips for beginners, if you have more simple tips feel free to share them in the comments below.

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Top 10 Video Tutorials for WordPress Beginners

July 7th, 2009



When you are new to something you for sure prefer to have an expert who will show you the basics, don’t you? Well, I decided to make a selection of the most useful video tutorials recorded by real experts. Now you can say you’ve been taught by the best WordPress professionals ;)


Well, what do you want to know first of all? Of course how to install your WordPress, I can recommend these tutorials:
* How to install WordPress from siteground.com
* Installing Wordpress from killersites.com


Now you may be interested in changing your WP theme:
* How to Change/Activate Themes from ithemes.com
* How to change the theme from siteground.com
* How to Modify WordPress Theme from web2whizzing.com


Good tutorials on widgets:
* How widgets work from ithemes.com
* Create your first widget
* How To Make Your Own WordPress Widget from wpinformer.com


How to install and create your own plugins:
* How to install WordPress plugins from siteground.com
* How to make a wordpress plugin from weblogtoolsvideos.com


Well, this was my top 10 WordPress video tutorials. Would you like to see more of them?

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