Archive for the ‘WordPress Themes’ Category
You should never underestimate the importance of pagination as the part of your blog’s usability. Semantically proper blog would give way better results comparing with poorly thought-out semantics. Of course it is a well-known fact that WordPress platform holds leading position in the blog sphere so we’ve decided to offer you some popular pagination solutions that will help you improve your web blog.
I’ve seen few free WordPress themes that were pretty good but their layouts – that were built without pagination – limit your access to the content because some older posts cannot be displayed due the absence of pagination. You can argue that one-page layout is more user-friendly and originally appealing, but sometimes two minutes of scrolling can kill you with tedium and won’t let the users appraise neither original layout nor its user-friendliness.
So, even if your WordPress theme doesn’t originally have any reference on pagination the plugins we’re featuring today would save your project for sure. Among its noble features we must mark out that they’re light-weight, simple and of course insanely efficient. So you can easily install them on your WordPress blog and set some custom options that your future visitors will love. Don’t forget that pageviews are important ranking parameter and effective and eye-catching pagination will help you to increase pageviews number.
1. WP-PageNavi
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2. WP-Paginate
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WordPress platform is becoming more and more flexible every day, and it is no longer just a blogging solution. Due to tons of plugins it may become virtually anything you want it to be. There are even plugins available now which enable bloggers to incorporate eCommerce applications to their WordPress-powered websites. Today we are going to look into those plugins that offer maximum flexibility, allowing WordPress site owners to easily build their own eCommerce website solution. They comprise a whole new lot of features which are capable of turning a standard WordPress site into a fully fledged eCommerce store complete with powerful backend product administration.
So here’s a short list of plugins that WordPress site owners might want to use to conduct online sales. Let’s look into these WordPress eCommerce solutions that go beyond styling to deliver a fully functional storefront to be plugged right into WordPress powered site. All of them are very flexible, easily managed, and make adding new products easy as a breeze.
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Shopp is a premium WordPress shopping cart plugin, it will cost you $55 for a single-site license (you’re getting a single license for the software, and then you can buy extra plugins such as payment gateways, shipping modules and priority for support) or $299 for a developer’s license. The plugin includes a lot of features, including a streamlined installation system, shortcodes, widgets, drag and drop shopping, a slew of payment options, flexible shipping calculators, and search engine optimization.
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PHPurchase is a paid plugin, $49 for the Standard edition and $99 for the Pro version. It helps to develop a blog into a complete online sales facility managing everything from sales to shipping and integrating it all with WordPress. Aside from its ability to create an entire catalogue of products with custom variables (size, color, etc.), PHPurchase has a powerful dashboard-based order management system, and a bevy of other features. This plugin offers the ability to create multiple stores and to add greater customization than most e-commerce software for WordPress, plus it accepts a few more payment gateways.
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If you are going to start your own blog, you are definitely looking for the solution more creative than anything else out there. It should help you to get a profit out of your blog and make it really successful. If you want to get the project to make money without extra efforts, download and use our today’s freebie – Free WordPress Theme for Coffee Blog!
A well-done and thought-out design of the blog certainly turns on its visitors as much as you think it does. It means that a good start is half a battle and a professional template is the first important step that leads to the desired goal – the noticeable blog. In the sphere of online business the properly done and appealing blogs are considered to be undoubtedly successful. So don’t hesitate and find the easy way to interact with other people and our Free WordPress Theme for Coffee Blog will help you.
Free WordPress Theme for Coffee Blog:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Just click on the image above and download HTML source files from this post. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free WordPress Theme for Coffee Blog download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template. Start your project with Free Coffee Blog Website Template!
Download Free WordPress Theme for Coffee Blog with PSD files (12.9Mb)
Download Free WordPress Theme for Coffee Blog without PSD (1.99Mb)
Since recently, jQuery plugins have become extremely popular on the web, but it turns out much harder now to trace all the new releases and updates of the former versions. What’s obvious here is that the internet has made apparent that jQuery is a very convenient and truly efficient money-saving technology. There’s simply flood of useful jQuery tools, though the best ones should be certainly sorted out to fit each particular online project. For web developers and regular bloggers the options of time and resources are not the least of the factors to consider, so it is better not to underrate the importance of such plugins, but see them in proper perspective.
WordPress as the most popular blog service and CMS platform is one of the foremost software to have such plugins implemented. It is currently inconceivable to imagine any modern WordPress blog without such excellent jQuery plugins as accordions, slide and toggle stuff, various jQuery image viewers, tabs and menus that you might be already familiar with. Apart from the all that, jQuery plugins are highly essential for the embedding of social networks, contact forms, moreover they allow the moderating and validating of comments for submit and also offer the access to heaps of web resources. With jQuery plugins it has virtually become possible to provide the top blog functionality as well as spectacular media content presentation, which are in fact the main objectives for each self-respecting blogger. Right now we’ll list down the best jQuery plugins found out there. They will guide you to obtain the results that you have always wanted online!
1. Showtime
While talking about presentating your content in a spectacular way we must never forget about good old slideshows. This is not new but still an effective method of representing your images using this simple plugin. Showtime offers several useful options that will make your gallery more user- and media-friendly.
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2. Easing Slider
Display your media content easily with comfortable jQuery plugin for more user-friendly navigation.
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The new post in this category signifies the new template– Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II – that is presented as our tribute to the launch of the widely popular StarCraft II. This template provides a striking layout that features the most vivid characteristics of the game such as you would hope to receive for such kind of a site.
You can start StarCraft fansite and make a strong and prominent step to the world of StarCraft and all its fans. While creating a website with this template you’ll be able to cover most of the StarCraft II topics that would be considered central and you’ll get a nice place to talk about your favorite game and follow its latest news. We hope that our interest in this game and yours coincide and this theme will become of a great use for you.
We are delighted to present this new Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II!
Note that there are 3 variants of header in this theme, so you can you can switch them from the WordPress 3.0 admin when it is needed.
The template is based on Twenty Ten theme made by WordPress team, you will notice that class names and structure are similar. It comes with 2 plugins: Cufon, the plugin to show titles and menu with StarCraft font and NextGEN, gallery plugin for screenshots page. You may see this free theme in action on our WordPress 3.0 live demo page.
To get this free website template with PSD source files visit the Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to. Feel free to use this template for your business, but not for commercial purposes (this means you cannot resell it – either before of after customization). Deep yourself in the fascinating world of StarCraft, get this theme just now!
Download Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II with PSD files (30 MB)
Yes, the 13th version of the world famous blogging software is finally avaliable for download. New WordPress 3.0 has a bunch of new neat features that will make many lives of many bloggers easier. It might be interesting for you to refresh some of the WordPress 3.0 features we’ve reviewed earlier this year in addition to today’s WordPress 3.0 tutorials.
Anyways, despite the fact that WordPress has always been a very user-friendly platform it is obvious to us that the new release will still cause some questions and issues from unexperienced users. And considering some new revolutionary options that have been implemented in this new release (like WP MultiUser for example) we’ve decided to gather WordPress 3.0 tutorials that will help you to know more about the 13th release of this wonderful software. We sincerely hope that you’ll find all these tutorials helpful for you and that you’ll be able apply this information in your projects.
How to Upgrade Your Blog to WordPress 3.0
By Nick
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WordPress 3.0 Installation Tutorial
By Blog web6
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Great news, people! Looks like bloggers will have another urgent thing to do these charming April days; and this wonderful thing is testing the dearest WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 (feel free to download the ZIP archive to install from official WordPress website). According the official blog of the world’s best blogging software platform - the Beta version was officially released on April 3rd 2010 meaning that the final launch of WordPress 3.0 is also not far away. Presumably the sooner we all as a part of WordPress community finish the testing process, the sooner we’ll see final release – so everybody start testing right after you finish reading this post and hurry up to give your feedback to WordPress (again, right after you let us know your opinion). In order to know what exactly to be testing as new features you may want to consider our previous post - WordPress 3.0 – pros and cons in which we’ve marked the alleged new WordPress features.
We should remind that this release is BETA which means that it allows to test some of the new functions and there are many things that WordPress team hasn’t finished yet. Despite the Beta status you can try such awesome stuff as the new default theme, the Custom Post Types and WordPress MU features. Also you should know that some features are not quite ready (for example custom menus system is not quite finished and Super Admin for MU needs some improvements). Anyways, we hope that you will be glad to help the WordPress community in making web a better place to be and making WordPress an even better platform for blogging.
And be sure to let your old fella TemplateMonster know what you think of this new release (even though it’s still in beta) and your experience in case you have already started testing WordPress 3.0 – we’re very excited about this process and will be happy to take part in the discussion! So everybody off to the comments section!
With increasing popularity of jQuery plugins choosing these great tools is more than a smart decision. We believe in the power of JavaScript and our today’s collection is another proof of the amazing flexibility and mightiness of the amazing jQuery plugins. Even if you are not a blogger or never ever use WordPress (though that would be quite weird given the fact that this very blog is powered by WordPress) we think that you’ll be able to find some useful web tools in our collection of jQuery Plugins for WordPress Blogs. These tools are all about efficient simple and spectacular methods of enhancing the functionality of your blog.
GD Star Rating
GD Star Rating plugin is a perfect tool to set up rating system for your blog entries. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating.
Download from developer’s website
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Apple-Flashy WordPress Sidebar
This jQuery plugin allows to implement originally displayed sidebar to your blog. By installing this great plug-in you’ll receive the stunning accordion effect similar to the sidebar on the Apple Startpage.
Download from developer’s website
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Insights
Insights plug-in allows to insert Flickr Images, Youtube videos, search Google and insert Google Maps. You can do all these things due to the dynamic AJAX interface which loads the relevant information to your post in just a few seconds.
Download from developer’s website
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Alright bloggers, web surfers and simple web enthusiasts, we’ve got some fascinating news for you all. Yes, Internet community can’t stop buzzing about the forthcoming release of the new version of #1 blogging software – WordPress 3.0.
TemplateMonster being the biggest provider of WordPress themes just couldn’t miss the chance to express its own vision of this great event – after all we love WordPress just as much as you do. The official release is scheduled for May 2010 but now we have opportunity to mark the major advantages that this release will bring.
So, WordPress 3.0 will include the following features:
- MU or Multi-User option now will be available to all WordPress 3.0 users. In case you still have no idea what it’s all about we can tell that this is one of the best features that will allow you to manage multiple blogs with different permissions – from a single admin panel. Alright, admit it – we all have at least a couple of blogs to work with, right? So MU is a very good – and anticipated – feature.
- Another great innovation is the improvement of support for custom post types. These are great news for bloggers because it simplifies their work in creating and managing content, but it doesn’t mean that categories will disappear.
- Menu management is one of the best improvements in 3.0 release because of the Custom Navigation menu system that will be included into the core – with drag and drop and other usability features brought to various types of menus. This menu enlightens widget management, submenus system and much more.
- WordPress 3.0 will have a new default design theme that will be called 2010 – you can see the live demo of this design on official WordPress website. As you understand according to the new name of default theme every year WordPress will hopefully get a new default theme.
This allegedly will be the WordPress 3.0 2010 default design theme
Christmas is a time for good news only, so don’t get upset of all those phishing guys trying to vilify TemplateMonster.com reputation. Our Monster is unstoppable like Santa Claus! So we won’t stop (do you here us web Grinches?) rejoicing all of our customers or simply our friends with fresh premium quality designs! Ok, now let’s get straight to the point!
Today we’re happy for WordPress team and community. And TemplateMonster.com would like to congratulate WordPress key developers on their fresh release of WordPress version 2.9! The new version had over half a million downloads already! Want to know what’s so special about WP 2.9? A few of the headline features to be mentioned are global undo/trash, built-in image editor, batch upgrades, plugin compatibility checker, easier embeds and much more! You can read all about it and watch a handy intro video at a WordPress 2.9 Video Presentation!
What’s more, TemplateMonster.com is utterly excited to announce that we tried hard to do our best to make our WordPress themes compatible with new WP 2.9 version and yes! We did it! Now you can enjoy all the convenience of WordPress 2.9 with our high quality spectacular WordPress templates! Enough talking, for we guess you are in fever to try it out! Feel free to check out our amazing WordPress themes collection!
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