September 1st in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . | Comments: 0 Many of you have already seen how Digg and Reddit.com work. These sites aggregate stories from around the web and let their visitors vote stories up and down. That makes it easier for their visitors to find stories that are worth reading, with the help of the community behind those sites. Adding a similar functionality to your own website wouldn’t hurt your cause. At the very least, you can help your visitors make their thoughts known about each and every post on your blog. If you spend enough of your time to make sure your posts are of high quality, you shouldn’t be too worried about the votes you get on your posts.
Vote It Up is a cool WordPress plugin that adds a 2 way voting system to WordPress. Your visitors can vote stories up and down. It provides you with the opportunity to modify its skins to change the look and feel of the buttons on your website.
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September 1st in Themes for Businesses, Themes for Real Estate Pros by Wordpress Jedi . | Comments: 15 Every real estate agent needs a website to promote her business and give customers and prospects a way to communicate with her. If you are a real estate agent and looking to build your website fast, look no further than real estate themes for WordPress. Real estate themes help you build your website fast and start promoting your business more effectively without breaking the bank.
Thanks to the talented community of WordPress developers, you have many options to choose from for your real estate WordPress website. Here are 40 top paid and free real estate themes available on the market to get you started:
1. Agent Press: AgentPress a very flexible real estate theme for WordPress that lets you choose a blog or enhanced layout for your home page. Property search feature is very useful as well.
2. Estate: Estate is an advanced real estate theme based on WooFramework that takes full advantage of the latest WordPress features to offer a dynamic experience to your visitors. Has multiple styles and comes integrated with Google Maps.
3. Real Estate Premium: Real Estate Premium Theme is a powerful, professional looking real estate theme for WordPress that can be used for small or large operations. Supports multiple agents and can be used to create a premium real estate listing website. Comes integrated with Google maps as well.
4. deCondo: deCondo is a clean but powerful WordPress theme for real estate professionals that has everything you need to take your listings online. It has a cool property search functionality and comes with maps and galleries to help you promote your properties more effectively.
5. Home Owner: Home Owner is a wonderful premium real estate theme for WordPress. Comes integrated with Google Maps. It helps you build a professional quality real estate website and impress your peers.
6. Main Street theme: Main Street theme is based on a very dynamic real estate theme that lets you start and customize your real estate website easily. It comes with Google Maps integrated as well.
7. ElegantEstate: ElegantEstate is a pretty affordable and sleek premium WordPress theme for real estate websites. It gives your visitors the chance to search through your listings and gather a bit of information before contacting your business.
8. Broker theme: Broker is designed for brokers and real estate agents. It’s social media ready, very dynamic, and comes with a ton of features such as calculator, Google Maps integration, and search.
9. RealtorPress: RealtorPress has plenty of color schemes and comes integrated with Google Maps. It’s very image friendly too. Lets your visitors search through your home listings fast.
10. Bel Air (WP-Realtor): WP Realtor another amazing real estate theme that enables you to manage your real estate listings fast. you also get a cool loan calculator as well. It’s clean and easy to customize.
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August 29th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . | Comments: 0 Foursquare is one of the most exciting local social networks around. It makes it so easy for small businesses to reach out to their community and for people to explore their cities more effectively. Regardless of what you think of Foursquare, there is no question geo-location services are here to stay. So why not take advantage? This community has its advantages for business, but you don’t have to be more than just a user to start sharing your experiences with your friends and the world through your website.
If you are looking to integrate Foursquare into your website one way or another, these Foursquare plugins can make your life a whole lot easier:
FourSquare Integration: enables you to integrate Foursquare into your WordPress blog (inside your posts or in your side-bar). It’s customizable too.
My Foursquare: display your Foursquare badges and mayorships on your WordPress with this awesome plugin. You probably need to be a bit active in Foursquare to take full advantage of this.
gPress: a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you add geo-layers to your website. Can be integrated with Foursquare and BuddyPress. (more…)
August 28th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . | Comments: 0 You do not have to be a great writer a start a blog. In some cases, you may not even have to write at all on your blog. That’s what photo and video blogs are all about. As long as you can get your hands on some decent photos or videos, there is no reason you can’t have success with these types of blogs. In order to start a photo blog, you are going to need a theme that is image friendly. Having a decent look and feel would not be bad either. Photoland is an attractive WordPress theme that lets you share your favorite photos and art with the world in a professional manner.
Photoland has a very simple, yet attractive design. Let’s not forget that this is a theme for photoblogs. So your photos are going to be key here. Photoland’s back-end gives you the chance to customize your theme without touching your code. Photoland is designed in a way that puts the main focus on your photos instead of other less significant things on your site.
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August 26th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . | Comments: 0 Yahoo! Answers and LinkedIn Q&As are great places to find what people are asking about and get answers to your own questions. Those sites cover almost everything under the sun, but you can always create your very own niche answers website with WordPress. Think about it. If your blog’s focus is on a narrow market, adding a Q&A section to your website can help your visitors share their questions and get answers that they wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else. Thanks to Instant Q&A Theme, you can turn your WordPress website into a Q&A website and start gathering those questions without a major up-front investment.
Instant Q&A is a turnkey questions and answers solution that offers 3 color schemes and gives your visitors the chance to post their questions and search through existing ones on your website. This theme is ad ready too, giving you the opportunity to start monetizing your website from the get go. It’s not one of those cheap clone themes and does have a lot of power under its hood.
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August 25th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . | Comments: 3 So you want to create a job board using WordPress? It’s not as hard as it may sound. Job WordPress themes are not exactly plentiful, but there are few of them around that help you create your Job WordPress website fast. Why would you want to create a job board using WordPress? If you own a WordPress blog, you’ll have the experience to set up your job board fast. Best of all, these job boards will be easy to work with and SEO friendly as well.
There aren’t many job WordPress themes around, but the few that are around are easy to use and customizable. You can always install them on your root domain or in a sub-directory on your blog. Here are 5 powerful job board WordPress themes that can help you save time and get your job board online fast:
Job Roller: a powerful job listing theme for WordPress that takes full advantage of custom types, jQuery, and AJAX to bring your visitors the most dynamic experience possible.
Job Board Theme: a flexible job board theme for WordPress that comes with 7 color schemes and tons of customization features in the back-end. Paypal is integrated into the theme as well, making it easier to start a paid job board with WordPress.
Tapp Jobs: a super job board theme for WordPress by Press 75 that is clean, SEO-friendly, and social-media ready. You can easily customize it and put your brand and stamp on it. (more…)
August 24th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . | Comments: 0 News blogs are much different from opinion or personal blogs. Depending on your niche, you may have to cover various topics on your blog, which means you are going to need a WordPress theme that is very well organized and presents your information in an attractive fashion. Tribune for WordPress is a clean theme that lets you start your news blog fast. It’s designed to handle all types of content, so you’ll have an easy time integrating your videos and photos into your website.
Tribune has an easy-to-customize slider that you can use to display your top stories. You can define which category you want to use for your slider. Custom menus are nice to have too. The video widget comes handy if you want to add more videos to your news site. Multiple layouts offered with this theme are a plus.
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