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30 Of The Best Premium WordPress Themes - July 2011 If you want to start your own blog or give your WordPress design a refresh for the summer, take a look at this collection of 30 of the best premium WordPress themes I collected over July. Some of the featured WordPress themes are specifically for blogs, other themes are designed for portfolio use by photographers or designers and some are made for WordPress online stores. All these WordPress themes have a few things in common, they all have pixel perfect design, many use the latest HTML5/CSS3 techniques and all work perfectly with the latest version of WordPress. You may also like: Best Of: Premium WordPress Themes From January 2011 Best Of: Premium WordPress Themes From February 2011 Premium Hand-Picked WordPress Themes From March 2011 Must Have Premium WordPress Themes From April 2011 Adaptive Art Blog Parallax Portfolio Showcase Stack Clarity Solo Suco Elemin Folo Boutique Feather Garnish Gridlocked Amoveo Itis Pixeloph Creole Bunch Fundamental Past Theme Collections

How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial Update: We’ve created a second edition of this popular tutorial! It contains updated code samples, coverage of the latest theme development techniques, and more. Check it out at The ThemeShaper WordPress Theme Tutorial: 2nd Edition. In only 11 individual lessons this WordPress Theme Tutorial is going to show you how to build a powerful, up-to-date, WordPress Theme from scratch. As we go along I’ll explain what’s happening including (for better or worse) my thinking on certain techniques and why I’m choosing one path over another. Essentially, I’ll be teaching you everything you need to know about WordPress Theme development. Skip to the Table of Contents. Here’s the list of features your finished theme will be able to boast of: I think that’s kind of impressive—for any WordPress Theme. At the end of this tutorial, with code in hand, you’ll be able to do almost anything you want. I’ve already used it to start another project of my own, The Shape Theme. Like this: Like Loading...

Bootstrap Designer - Generate Bootstrap Templates at the speed of light! 40 Beautiful and Elegant Wordpress Themes of May 2011 - OurTuts.com If you`re asking me which is the easiest way to build a website, I`ll tell you WordPress. WordPress is known as the most powerful and advanced CMS platform among all and the themes are so easy to use. The hard work of developers made possible the implementation of advanced functionality like Options Panel, Shortcodes, custom Page Templates and even Localization for easy translation. Combining these features with beautiful design, the result is astonishing. Take a look at these wordpress themes below and get ready to be amazed! Aggregate Aggregates comes packed with tons of content and widget-ready areas, and manages to display everything in a clear and readable manner. Gridlocked Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. The Cotton The Cotton is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme designed in a minimalistic style. Village Brick+Mason Brick + Mason is ideal for photographers and/or design studios. Gallerise Eptonic UpScale Chameleon

How to Sync A Local And Remote WordPress Blog Ever wondered how you might use Version Control with WordPress? If you prefer to work on your WordPress projects locally but have to get them to sync remotely, this tutorial is for you. You have probably tried to synchronize between the two setups by manually uploading the changed files and using PHPmyAdmin to export and import your database once changed, and (very likely) broke something in the process. The Problem We usually start WordPress development on our local machines. The mess starts because you may need to release a new version, and since you work locally, changes that you made remotely need to be brought off-line. In the process, you may break something or forget a modification. Step 1 Setting Up The Foundation Explaining The Plan First, let me explain what we are going to do. WordPress stores information about your blog in both static files and your database. The information is unluckily split into two parts: Integrating Version Control I use Mercurial for version control.

Top 20 Plugins To Extend WordPress CMS Capabilities WordPress 3.0 greatly expands the basic CMS capabilities of WordPress with custom post types and better navigation menus. However, there are a great deal of new plugins available to address the many other aspects of WordPress that can make it confusing for clients and new users. We’ve examined a number of excellent plugins and listed the best here so that you don’t have to spend hours hunting through the WordPress repository. With a few added tweaks you can bend WordPress into a fully customized CMS for your site. 1. Simple Fields acts as a replacement to custom fields and adds textboxes, text areas, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, and a file browser to the post admin area to make it easier to use. Download Plugin 2. This plugin from WPMU Dev makes it easy to make multiple post types, each with their own custom taxonomies, and unique custom fields. Download Plugin 3. Download Plugin 4. Alas, too many complaints about this plugin so we had to remove it from the list Download Plugin 6.

How to Enable Custom Header Images Panel in WordPress 3.0 If you guys haven’t had a chance to test out WordPress 3.0, then you are missing out. We have created numerous posts about WordPress 3.0 features and have shown WordPress 3.0 screenshots as well. One of the note-worthy upgrade in this version is a new default theme called Twenty Ten. This theme has a lot of great features enabled, but one of the features that a lot of users want is the Custom Headers Panel. In this article, we will share with you how you can enable custom headers with a back-end admin panel in WordPress 3.0. What exactly will this feature do? It will create a tab in your admin panel which will allow you to change header images. How to Add this? We took the code straight from Twenty Ten’s functions.php file. That is jibbrish to me. Ofcourse, this might look jibrish to some of you. Note: We are using /images/headers/ as the directory where you will store your default header images. That is all what you are doing for the theme’s functions.php file. Code to add in your Theme

25+ Beautiful Wordpress Portfolio Themes Written by Jacques van Heerden On Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 with 9 Comments so far in Themes, Wordpress Every day hundreds of new websites go live, each with either a custom designed theme/template or some with premium themes that they bought from a theme service. Today I will showcase 26 beautiful premium wordpress portfolio themes that you could use for yourself or your business. These themes are all wordpress based and have a very high standard in design. The themes aren’t only cheap, but very easy to setup too. Which one will you be choosing for your business or for yourself? Anolox | $35 Classica | $35 deShadow | $35 Sideways | $35 Kreatif Web Designer | $30 Paradigm | $35 Gridnik | $30 Sofa Disordery | $35 Wall Street | $35 ExcelsiorWP | $30 Looseleaf | $35 WordPress Wave | $35 Shine | $35 Sidewinder | $35 Through the Lens | $30 Photolist | $30 Sophis | $35 Style and Fashion | $35 FreshStart | $35 Factory | $35 Foundation | $35 Galleria | $35 Visual HTML5 | $35 Redux | $35

Designing Headers Designing Headers Languages: English • 中文(简体) • Русский • 한국어 • (Add your language) They say you can not judge a book by its cover, and yet every day people do. They pick up a book, look at the cover, and then are moved to either put it down, turn it over, or open it up just because of how the cover looks. Websites are also judged by their covers and the first impression often comes from the header. The header of your site is typically the first thing people see. We are going to take you inside the architecture of a WordPress header and offer tips on how to customize it to become your own book cover, enticing people into your site with a good first impression. The WordPress Header By default, the WordPress header is a simple piece of code. In its simplest form, the WordPress Classic Theme features the header code like this in the wp-content/themes/classic/header.php template file: <h1 id="header"><a href="<? <div id="header"><div id="headerimg"><h1><a href="<? Styling the Header Header Art

Beauty and Clean: a free minimal WordPress theme Oh well, it’s too late now, it passed: Your Inspiration Web celebrated two years of life and nobody gave us their best wishes. Of course, it’s our fault, we didn’t say anything, we didn’t organize anything, not even a small party this year therefore our second anniversary passed quietly. In reality in the past weeks we have been working behind the scenes to release a free resource just for this occasion, but unfortunately for one reason or another, the date was always postponed and we completed this project only in these days. It was tough, as they say, but we did it: we present Beauty & Clean, a free WordPress theme in minimal style, elegant completely controllable by the panel. Our small gift to celebrate with you our first two years of activity. Beauty is a clean and elegant theme that can be used for your company website: it offers in fact the possibility to visualize in Home an introductory page and the latest news, a feature common to many corporate sites. What can I say?

How to Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with Bootstrap In this tutorial, we will learn how to make our own responsive WordPress theme using Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a responsive framework for building web sites and applications, and it’s a great starting point for building a responsive WordPress theme. Check out Zac’s other WordPress courses and enjoy a free, two-week trial of Treehouse. You don’t have to have built a theme from scratch before to successfully follow along. However, we do assume that you are comfortable doing things like adding and editing posts in the admin area or installing plugins. The theme we will build is based on the Basic marketing site example you can find over on the Bootstrap examples page. Custom homepage designAbout pageContact pageNews section with commentsA widgetized sidebar Getting Started Before we get started there are a few things you will need to do: Install WordPressDownload and Unzip BootstrapInstall the Theme Test Drive plugin* Once you navigate to that folder create a new folder called “wpbootstrap.” <? <!

Three Must-Have WordPress Security Plugins WordPress is widely recognized as the most powerful and most popular blogging platform available, and today there are millions of WordPress blogs inhabiting the massive Internet community. Unfortunately, WordPress’ ubiquity makes it a prime target for hackers. If you maintain a WordPress blog, here are three must-have security plugins that can help keep your blog safe, secure and online: 1 – Login Lockdown If you install just one WordPress security plugin on your blog, it should be Login Lockdown. 2 – WP Security Scan There are a number of ways that hackers can gain entry to your WordPress blog’s admin area, and once inside they can wreak all kinds of havoc on your blog installation. 3 – Remove My Version Every time a visitor loads a page from your WordPress blog, WordPress puts a line of text in the header showing which version of WordPress your blog is running. Here are a few other tactics you can use to “harden” your WordPress installation: 0share

Create a nice looking wordpress theme. HTML/CSS and Wordpress theme available for download | Graphstock In this tutorial i will show you step by step how to design a WordPress Theme from scratch. If you don’t know already we have a membership here on Graphstock.com which allows you to download all our existing resources, plus the one we will release in the next year. Register for a Premium account, and you will be able to download the PSD layout, and also the WordPress Theme. You can see the wordpress theme in action WordPress theme features jQuery Featured Showcase Slider with 28 animations effectsDropdown for CategoriesThreaded Comments, 2 deep! Download our PSD Framework For start we will need to create a new document in Photoshop. After you open the graphstock.psd layout please select your Paint Bucket Tool, and with the following color #f0f0f0 fill the background layer. Step 1 – Create the background of the WordPress theme Now we will start to add a nice shape on the background. i will select Rectangle Tool, and i will place the shape like in the following image Final Result

30 Gorgeous Wordpress and Tumblr Themes To establish a unique identity in the online publishing universe, you need to have a great content & a great blog design as well. It is hard to keep people stick around your blog if you are running the WordPress Kubrick theme. Hence, we at Web.AppStorm always insist on great content packaged in a fabulous wrapper. To help you select an fitting identity to your blog, we have rounded up thirty beautiful themes for two of the greatest blogging platforms – WordPress & Tumblr. WordPress Themes Locus One Page Locus One Page In the recent times, Locus One Page is one of the best designed WP themes I have come across. Premium Magazine Premium Magazine Premium Magazine is a clean, two column magazine theme with built in advertisement blocks. iWorld iWorld iWorld is a WordPress theme excluively designed to support mobile browsing, especially iPod Touch and iPhone. Mactastic Mactastic Mactastic is a portfolio theme that is as simple and clean as a Mac. Oxide Oxide Podium Podium Aurora Aurora GamePress 3 GamePress 3

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