A7F04PBCAAANpls. The Top 25 WordPress Themes Of 2011. Jan 06 2012 One could argue that every year the WordPress platform gets better and better, and 2011 was no different with the release of three major updates: WordPress 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3.
We have seen the addition of post formats, advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries, an improved import and export system, the introduction of an admin bar, distraction-free writing mode, revised dashboard interface, drag and drop uploader and much more. As always, it’s theme developers who are taking advantage of these new features and pushing WordPress to do things that no one expected it to do. Today we would like to share with you 25 more of our favourite WordPress themes from the last 12 months. Included in the list are themes for personal blogs, photography websites, businesses and communities. 2011′s Top 25 Themes 1. A simple yet beautiful free design from WPLook that was created for personal blogs. Info & Download | Demo 2. Info & Download | Demo 3. Info & Download | Demo 4. Info & Download | Demo. 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools.
Twitter has a wealth of data - it's a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable.
But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise? Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we've picked out five great tools to get you started. For more in-depth information about trend tracking on Twitter, take a look at last month's article, 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends. 1. Trying to figure out how often you're actually tweeting? Ideal for: researching individual behavior on Twitter 2.
Trendrr is a new favorite among analysts looking to keep track of trends and compare information. Ideal for: tracking Twitter search, comparing information 3. If you're looking to do research on retweeting and link-sharing on Twitter, Tweetmeme provides retweeting stats for articles on Twitter. 10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009. Rachel Cunliffe runs blog design company cre8d design and is co-founder of TV community network Throng.
In 2008, Twitter really started to hit the mainstream and bloggers began adding widgets to their sidebars to display their latest tweets. In 2009, Twitter will become much more tightly integrated with the rest of the blog in a variety of ways - watch out for tweetbacks and tweetstats to make their debut, and tweet comments to TwitterRolls to start appearing on blogs. Here are 10 ways Twitter will impact blogs this year. Have your own predictions? Add them to the comments. 1. Bloggers will start to add "Tweetbacks" to their blog posts. Options will include: Showing what tweeters are saying about the postReplies to those tweets from othersShowing who is tweeting the postShowing the tweeters' avatarsOrdering tweeters by Twitter influenceMixing tweets in with comments, rather than displaying them separately.