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20+ Free Premium WordPress Themes

cosmos — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:50:10 +0000

There are so many Premium WordPress Themes out there, at such a low price that you’re just forbidden to have an ugly website anymore. More and more online companies start selling awesome wordpress themes, and, along with this raise in premium theme services, as a way to get more customers (or just for generating traffic and then selling advertising), some of these companies are offering free premium themes, and I must admit: gorgeous themes these are!

You could take a look at free premium themes since 2007 and you will observe how much things have evolved. We have now awesome designs and the choice to use them free of charge! Of course, chances are that more people will use a free theme than a paid premium one, but you still can customize it a little bit to express your own online personality.

Do you want to impress with a nice premium and free WordPress theme? Here are 21 choices you can make.

Foliogrid

~~Demo~~ | Download

Sight

Demo | Download

Paragrams

Demo | Download

Obscorp v2

Demo | Download

Newspress

Demo | Download

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10+ Useful Twitter WordPress Plugins

cosmos — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:06:46 +0000

Nowadays successful blogging definitely depends on effective social media usage. Twitter is one of the most popular social networks and you must consider its benefits if you want to be a successful blogger. Since WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms for its possibility to extend it functions with tons of plugins, I would like to show you some useful plugins related to Twitter. In this post you will find 15 useful Twitter plugins for your WordPress blog.

Twitter Fans

Twitter Fans lets you display your twitter followers in the sidebar as a widget just like Facebook’s fan widget in appearance.

Simple Twitter Connect

Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you’d like.

Twitter Comments – Twitoaster

Twitter Comments system. Automatically retrieve Twitter Replies and/or Twitter Retweets to your Blog’s Posts using WP built-in comment system.

TweetMeme Button

Easily allows your blog post or page to be retweeted. It provides a live count of how many times your post/page has been retweeted throughout Twitter.

Twitter Avatars In Comments WordPress Plugin

Twittar WordPress plugin main objective is to create a plug-in that uses Twitter to show avatars in comments in WordPress blogs.

Tweet Old Post

Tweet Old Posts randomly picks your older post based on the interval specified by you. The primary function of this plugin is to promote older blog posts by tweeting about them and getting more traffic.

TwitPic

Displays your latest pictures from TwitPic in the sidebar of your blog. The plugin is widget ready and comes with many configuration options such as customizable css file.

WP to Twitter

The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your WordPress blog using your selected URL shortening service to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.

TwitterCounter

Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter

TwitterLink Comments

This plugin will add an extra field to your comment form so a user can add their Twitter username. A user configured ‘follow me’ link is then displayed along with their details on all their comments.

Twitter Feed for WordPres

The WordPress Twitter Feed Plugin lets you simply output any user’s tweets into your WordPress page, template or sidebar. You can customise the username, number of tweets, and style of output.

Tweetable

Tweetable is intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can automatically tweet links to your blog posts as they are published. It can display your latest tweet in your sidebar and add a tweetmeme widget after your posts. You can even use it to share a Twitter account among a blog’s author’s if you wish.

Topsy Retweet Button

Provides a Twitter retweet button for your posts that shows all tweets, enables retweeting, and adds tweets as comments.

Twitter Friendly Links

Your very own TinyURL within your own domain. If you do promote your blog posts in Twitter, then you must make your links look cool.

Tweet Blender

Provides several Twitter widgets: show your own tweets, show tweets relevant to post’s tags, show tweets for Twitter lists, show tweets for hashtags and more.

The Best Solutions Of WordPress Database and Files Backup

cosmos — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:20:39 +0000

If you are a WordPress user, then you definitely know the importance of keeping backup copies of our files and database because there is always a risk of losing your data. How? your site might get hack (WordPress security level or server security level). What’s worst? You could lose all the files and databases. There are a lot of ways to strengthen your WordPress blog’s security but we still think one of the best way is to backup regularly so that you can re-install your files or content and roll backed to your post in no time if the site is compromised.

Here, we have chosen some of the plugins and services which can be helpful in terms of backing up your WordPress files and databases. Full list after jump.

WordPress Plugins

These plugins are used to take a back up of your critical data, files, tables and save them to your archives or any of the online storages for free or for a nominal price. Schedule the storage automatically and manage your entire database with these.

WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup plugin creates a backup of your core database tables and also other tables in the database and gives you an option of saving your back up data either to your server or download to your computer or save get you backup file e-mailed to you.

Bei Fen – Backup plugin

Bei Fen backup plugin gives you the choice of taking a backup of either your complete WordPress installation or only the files or only your database and the backups can be restored with a single click.

WP Time Machine

This plugin creates an archive of your files and uploads and data and provides a connection to any of the free online storages like Dropbox, or Amazons AWS S3 and also to an FTP. You could exclude your cache directories or some of your MySQL tables which don’t start with your table prefix.

WordPress Backup

WordPress Backup plugin is used to zip your back up your images, current theme directory and your plugin directory.

WP S3 Backup

With WP S3 Backups take a backup of the parts automatically and install them to Amazon S3, a service to safeguard your important files at a comparatively lesser price.

WordPress DB Manager

A complete plugin to optimize, repair, backup, restore, and delete the backup database and also to run your queries is offered by WP-DB Manager. Also manages the automatic scheduling of the back-up and manages your whole database.

WordPress EZ Backup

An administrator plugin WordPress EZ Backup create backup archives of your entire site, archives of any MySQL database chosen by you. You can view the Live log file of your backup procedure. Has an interactive Help & Auto Settings of your web server configuration.

DBC Backup plugin

DBC Backup plugin schedules daily database backups with the wp cron system where your backup file is protected by a small hash key and are transferred to an export directory, .ht access and an imdex.html file. You can compress your backup as Gzip or Bzip2.

BackWPup

Other than taking a backup of your WordPress Blog database and files, BackWPup plugin optimizes checks & repairs the database, stores the backup either to Folder, FTP Server, Amazon S3, RackSpaceClous and sends a log or backup via e-mail.

Online Storages

Taking a backup of your data means storing it in a secure place which should also retrieves your data at a much faster rate. These online storage options helps you keep a check on your data where you can share, upload and edit your files.

Dropbox

Sync your files or your WordPress data of any size online automatically and also when new changes and files are detected and store them on Dropbox’s secure servers. Share and control the access of your files with other people. Get a storage space of 2GB for free and up to 100 GB for premium usage.

IDrive

IDrive offers you the facilities of Automatic and Continuous Backup, True Archiving, Versioning, Mapped Drive Backup and more with an online backup space of 2GB for free in IDrive Basic Package and a space of 150 – 500 GB for premium users and a 50GB pack for multiple users for Business under the IDrive Pro package.

Humyo

Humyo offers a free online storage space of 5GB for media files and 5GB for non-media files where you can access these via web only, but once you upgrade your account to Premium one, you get 100 GB storage along with automatic backup, sharing, uploading & downloading files, access via web, phone, PC, extra secure SSL encryption at a price of $69.99 per year.

Binfire

Binfire offers File hosting, Collaboration and Project Management site in its free version with 10GB storage space, file uploads of 200 MB, Private & Project web folder, File locking, Member permissions, Whiteboards, Status reports, Intuitive tasks & Milestones for projects and more.

Backup Services

The Backup services take a backup of your blog, and store them securely and restore them in case of a crash and provide you with many other services like upgrading your versions, giving you the authority of controlling your data, migrating to a new server and more.

blogVault

blogVault creates a backup of your blog which includes the full posts, comments, images, plugins, themes and style sheets by copying them into its secure and robust servers which lets you restore the contents any time easily.

Backupify

Backupify is a service to backup your archives, cloud accounts, SaaS data, WordPress data and social media files on a daily basis to the Amazon S3 cloud with great security and a data duplication policy. You could not only backup your data but also control your data independently.

Backup Buddy

Backup Buddy schedules and backs up your data to Amazon S3 server or an e-mail or an FTP / FTPS account, Restore your WordPress site with your themes, widgets, plugins etc., on the same server or migrate it to a new server with a new name and domain like Sandbox or Playground site. Upgrade your newer versions of the plugin in WP Dashboard

Online backup for WordPress

Backup Technology specializes in online backup and disaster recovery and provides on-demand backup through an enterprise level backup service where the data is highly encrypted and compressed and stored in a secure data centre. Provides you an online backup of 50 MB for free with the facilities of locked and email backups.

VaultPress

VaultPress safeguards everything from our plugins, themes, comments, post-revisions with WordPress multi-cloud backups. Updates your blog with hot – fixes and protects them with zero-day vulnerabilities.

myEASYBackup

myEASYbackup plugin performs a backup by creating a single file called dataset which compresses the data in a .zip file format and saves them outside WordPress installation directory. You could download, upload and delete your data sets.

10+ Fresh and Free WordPress Themes

cosmos — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:20:25 +0000

One of the main reasons WordPress enjoys such an unrivaled and ever-growing popularity is the constant stream of feature-rich and diverse themes that are released every day. Of course, it is the premium themes that are currently getting, as you would expect, the better reviews and deserved attention. Having said that, you should not under-estimate the quality of the the free themes that have been recently released, as this post aims to shows you.

As well as the always popular portfolio, magazine and general blogging styled themes, we have also listed a couple of bare bone themes, near the bottom of the post, which will be very useful for developers.

News

News, from DevPress.com, is an extremely powerful and feature rich theme designed for content-heavy websites.
News Home & Downloads →
View the Demo →

Dione

Dione is a videos showcase theme that utilizes the Custom post type feature available with WP 3.0. There are video guides available showing illustrating how to add videos to the showcase and also how to create a standard blog section.
Dione Home & Downloads →
View the Demo →

whitePress

whitePress Home & Downloads →
View the Demo →

Vanadiumitic

Vanadiumitic comes with a featured content section, dropdown menu, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail re-sizer, popular posts, featured posts, featured video and a lot more! This magazine type blog theme is great for personal blogs, tech blogs, design blogs and other related blog niches.
Vanadiumitic Home & Downloads →
Demo →

Typominima

Typominima, a free typography based, gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme fit for the writer inside you.
If you’re looking for a free theme to help you put the content in spotlight, without worrying about it being suffocated by advertising space and unnecessary design blign, than Typominima is the perfect free WordPress theme.
Typominima →
View the Demo →

Modernist

Modernist has been designed with a focus on optimal typography in order to better showcase your content: text, images and video. This fast loading theme supports widgets, is SEO optimized, has clean and documented code and also includes some cool CSS3 enhancements.
Modernist Home & Downloads →
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Bronte

Bronte is a 2 column minimalistic and elegant theme. Here are some of its features: jQuery slider, Custom menu, tabbed content , Twitter feeds, Featured thumbnails, widgetized sidebar and footer, Theme option page, Banner ads, Adsense, etc.
Bronte Home & Downloads →
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Blogum

Blogum is a simple, grid based blog WordPress theme, designed in a modern & minimalist style. The theme has a heavy focus on your content and very clean feel. Theme supports all WordPress 3.0 features and gives you extra flexibility.
Blogum Home & Downloads →
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Reptile WordPress Theme Framework

Reptile is similar to middleware and sits between your skin (theme) and WordPress. While your theme can interact directly with WordPress, Reptile includes helper functions to make many of these tasks easier. Komodo is the default skin included with Reptile and is built using the 960.gs CSS framework.
Reptile WordPress Theme Framework Home & Downloads →

Reference

With visitor conversion in mind, this theme features additional widget areas in all the important locations, including a top banner, a menu widget area (perfect for text links ads), three top boxes (perfect for latest news or lead generation forms), as well as 4 bottom area widget boxes (perfect for blogrolls or an “About” paragraph).
Reference Home & Downloads →

Autobahn

Autobahn is a WordPress theme built entirely in HTML5. It’s suitable for anyone looking for an elegant, readable theme and for developers looking to build their own HTML5 theme from a flexible starting point.
Autobahn Home & Downloads →

Suburbia

Suburbia is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based magazine theme designed in a modern and minimalist style. This theme is also suitable for blogs and misc. projects. Suburbia supports all WordPress 3.0 features and gives you an extra flexibility in every single step you make.
Portfolio Press Home & Downloads →
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Portfolio Press

Portfolio Press Home & Downloads →
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Portfolio Press is a new feature rich HTML5 portfolio theme. It uses custom post types for portfolio pages, takes advantage of the new menu navigation, and includes a ton of cool features. Have a look at this short video for an overview:

Portfolium

Portfolium is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based portfolio theme designed in a modern & minimalist style. It is ideal for designers, artists, photographers, and other creative specialists who require a professional portfolio theme.
Portfolium Home & Downloads →
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Aqualine

Aqualine is a unique and minimalist WordPress theme, that you can easily make customization to suit your needs. It is packed with an extensive options page – easily customize your theme without touching any code: Pick your own color accent, choose a thumbnail with excerpts layout, or display your full posts, amongst many other built in options.
Aqualine Home & Downloads →
View the Demo →

30+ Resources For WordPress Ecommerce

cosmos — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:21:42 +0000

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems for blogs, portfolios, and other types of sites, but with the right plugins and/or themes it can also be used for e-commerce. While WordPress is not specifically intended to be used for e-commerce sites, the quality of available plugins and themes has increased in recent years. In this post we’ll feature more than 30 resources and tutorials to help you get started with e-commerce for WordPress.

WordPress E-Commerce Plugins:

WP e-Commerce Pluign (free with premium upgrades available)

Shopp ($55)

WordPress E-Commerce Themes:

ShopperPress ($79)

Crafty Cart (free)

Viroshop ($37)

WPA Storefront ($32)

The Furniture Store ($47)

The Jewelry Shop ($47)

The Clothes Shop ($42)

AppCloud ($35)

Kelontong ($35)

Store ($65)

WP Store ($65)

e-Commerce ($65)

Kidz Store ($65)

eShop ($65)

wpShop ($37)

eGoods ($32)

Ecommerce Theme ($79.95)

How To Get category ID using category name

cosmos — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:39:37 +0000

When coding a WordPress site, you often need to get a category ID. If you ever wanted to be able to get a category ID from the category name, then just read this recipe, I’m pretty sure you will like it.

As usual, let’s start by pasting the function in your functions.php file:

function get_category_id($cat_name){
	$term = get_term_by('name', $cat_name, 'category');
	return $term->term_id;
}

Once you saved the file, just call the function with your category name as a parameter. Example:

$category_ID = get_category_id('WordPress Tutorials');

10 Free And Fresh WordPress Themes

cosmos — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:07:25 +0000

WordPress has become one of the top choices for content management systems among website owners. This has happened for several reasons, but one is the readily available collection of themes that can transform the appearance and functionality of a site. There are all kinds of themes out there, but some of my favorites are the ones that take a minimalistic approach so the content can do the talking. If you’ve been on the lookout for some nice minimal WordPress themes, then you’re in luck. Here are 10 free ones that you should find useful.

Un.complicated

The Standard

Lifestreaming White

Clear

The Daily Grind

Blue Bubble

Minimal Press

Foliogrid

Clean Home

Vostok

20 Useful WordPress Ecommerce Themes

cosmos — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:00:47 +0000

WordPress is a great platform for setting up an online store, and there is a wide range of themes available to help sellers reach target customers. This post presents 20 of the best ecommerce themes, including both free and premium examples, covering storefront templates aimed at a variety of niche markets.

1. Store

The Store template is a great ecommerce WordPress theme, with a really good-looking and functional interface; it’s easy-to install and maintain with accessible backend administration. The theme’s creators are available for pre-sales questions and customer support.

2. Ecommerce Theme

This is a very popular theme enabling users to set up and manage effective ecommerce stores. The theme is search engine optimised and customisable so can be adapted to suit any home-based business niche.

3. AppCloud

AppCloud is a beautifully clean and professional looking theme, with a two-column layout, integrated slideshow and the choice of horizontal or vertical orientation for images and apps. The theme’s ecommerce features include featured, top-selling and categorised product lists.

4. eShop

This theme offers extreme ease of use for both sellers and customers, simple to configure with an intuitive and crisply designed interface. The template has powerful features and can be tweaked to suit any product.

5. WP Store

Sellers can establish an online store from scratch with this theme, showcasing products and with easy payments, shipping and stock management.

6. Auction Theme

This premium WordPress theme offers users the chance to create an online auction or reverse auction website. Whether its cars or bikes, books or antiques, once the easy-to-use theme is setup traders can auction any kind of property online.

7. Market Theme

Market Theme transforms any WordPress into a fully operational online store. In its default setup the theme has the look and feel of a regular blog, but there are many options to customise the design including the choice of a grid-view shop front to showcase products.

8. Kidz Store

This bright and friendly theme is a great way to present products aimed at children and, more importantly, their parents. The colourful and functional shop front is supported with backend administration and all the necessary ecommerce features.

9. StorePress

This premium theme allows sellers to transform WordPress blogs into accessible online stores with a sleek and professional aesthetic. The design has widget-ready pages, PayPal integration and a solid range of ecommerce tools.

10. eGoods

eGoods is aimed at traders who sell downloadable products and receive payment via PayPal. The theme options include a choice of light or dark colour scheme, both very visually appealing, and customisable layout for images and text. The design includes featured products, bestsellers, recent releases, reduced items and gift vouchers.

11. Vanilla Cart

Vanilla Cart is an attractively minimal and crisply designed shopping theme with thoroughly customisable template. The simple yet beautiful design, with a light colour scheme and the emphasis on product shots, allows the stock to speak for itself.

12. Color Cart

This theme is based on Vanilla Cart, with the added twist of a colour wheel in the options. A choice of eight hues allows users to bring a splash of colour to ecommerce stores, carefully selecting just the right combination to suit their niche market.

13. Cherry Cart

This theme is absolutely minimalist, pared down to a single column with no side bar or blog category. Built around the concept of ‘embracing simplicity and constraint’, Cherry Cart is a remarkably inviting platform in which to showcase products.

14. Classified Ads Theme

This brilliant theme allows users to turn their blogs into classified ads websites. Users manage the site and in return charge to display ads on the site. The design is PayPal integrated, features an admin panel and is fully customisable to suit any classified ads market.

15. folioShop

The folioShop is aimed at sellers who want an attractive and intuitive interface in which to showcase products to be shipped out or downloaded by customers. The theme features an installation wizard, visual help guide and all layered PSD files.

16. ClassiPress

ClassiPress is a professional theme for turning WordPress blogs into classified ads sites. The latest version of the theme features unlimited custom fields and forms, ad packages, blog option, directory-style homepage, email alerts, featured ads carousel, transaction logging and Twitter feed.

17. wpShop

This premium theme presents a great looking ecommerce store in a choice of light or dark colour schemes. The package includes all layered PSD files, installation wizard, help guide and is available in English and German languages.

18. Simple Cart

Simple Cart is a simple and great looking theme for sellers to present products in a gridded shop front, with a friendly wood effect background. The colour scheme can be switched and users may install their own images into the fully customisable design.

19. Tobashop

Tobashop is integrated with another WordPress ecommerce theme, eShop, to make use of the powerful plugins in order to create an online store with a highly professional feel.

20. enVirashop

This theme requires no plugins and offers users all the tools needed to establish an ecommerce niche. The theme is fully customizable so sellers can tailor the perfect online storefront to cater to their target market.

50+ High Quality WordPress Themes

cosmos — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:06:51 +0000

It can be pretty tough call to decide whether to invest in a premium WordPress theme or simply stick with a free one. This could be caused by a common perception we are shared – premium and paid stuff are always better than the free ones. Well, not always, at least that’s what we think.

we beg to differ, and in today’s post we want to show you some really nice WordPress theme that is going to cost you nothing, not even the time to search. All you need to do is scroll. We promise it’s going to be awesome.

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20+ Free Premium WordPress Themes

10+ Useful Twitter WordPress Plugins

The Best Solutions Of WordPress Database and Files Backup

WordPress Plugins

Online Storages

Backup Services

10+ Fresh and Free WordPress Themes

30+ Resources For WordPress Ecommerce

WordPress E-Commerce Plugins:

WordPress E-Commerce Themes:

How To Get category ID using category name

10 Free And Fresh WordPress Themes

20 Useful WordPress Ecommerce Themes

50+ High Quality WordPress Themes

Corporate Life

Furvious

Profile

Dimaggio

Tarantino

Stone Room

Wp Blue Print

Zexee

Personalised

Stunning Press

Berita

Shopping Press

Marangal

Ice Breaker

Appcloud

MiniCard

Neutica

Manifest

Mayumi

Vivee

Inuit Types

Smartblue

Thrilling Theme

Satoshi

Workoholic

Fullscreen

Modularity

Highdef

Gamezine

Rockstar

Early Morning

Byty

Gumball Special