PhotoPressPro: WordPress Theme for Pro Photographers

PhotoPressPro is a niche WordPress theme that is designed for professional photographers. PhotoPressPro is designed to help photographers share their best photos with the world on their own WordPress blogs without too much fuss.

PhotoPressPro is a 1024x wide theme that allows you to share even your largest photos right on your blog. The design is very simple and highly customizable. You can customize everything! Fonts, colors, background and bio images, and all aspects of presentation can all be customized from the back-end without you having to do too much work.

PhotoPressPro theme comes with inline comment capability and an innovative feature called “Snap Shot” which allows you to create themes for different occasions. Overall, PhotoPressPro is an excellent theme for professional photographers. It’s easy to use and highly customizable. If you have a bunch of cool photos in hand already, you are going to have a lot of fun with PhotoPressPro.

Movie Automator Blog Automation

I am personally not a big fan of blog automation. If you are a serious blogger, you want to minimize blog automation as much as possible. Your personality and your tone can’t be automated on your blog. So if you are a true pro blogger and don’t want to turn your readers off, you want to make sure that you take time to communicate with your readers through your very own words.

But there are exceptions to this rule. What if you wanted to create a movie blog to review the latest Hollywood movies? If you go through the list one by one and blog about them, you are going to spend a lot of time getting movie information down. It’s not only not productive, but it sets you back hours with your work.

That’s why I love solutions such as MovieAutomater. It’s true that MovieAutomater is a hardcore automation service for WordPress. But it does save you time as it imports all the information you need to create a huge movie portal. You are going to spend less time worrying about where to grab the information and more blogging about your favorite movies.

Here is what you get with MovieAutomater:

• Import more than 1 million movies from imdb
• Blog Posting Schedule
• Import Movie Poster
• Import Movie Plot
• Import Director Name
• Import Release Data
• Import Run Time
• Import Country
• Import Genre
• Import Tagline
• Import Trivia
• Import Goofs

Importing movies to your WordPress blog can’t be much easier. If you have bought a theme like VideoFlick and are not sure how to build up your blog fast, you should definitely consider MovieAutomator. You can import thousands of movies into your blog within seconds and spend most of your time writing content instead of doing the dirty work.

Create Your Real Estate Website with Bel Air

Are you a real estate professional? Don’t have a professionally designed website? The folks behind WP-Realtor.com have a solution for you. Bel Air theme is a premium WordPress theme that is designed for real estate professionals. You can put your website real fast with Bel Air. Better yet, multiple users can post properties (which is what you want to see in a dynamic real estate site).

Here is what you get with Bel Air:

• Easy Listings Management: you can easily add and manage your listings with Bel Air.
• Design: with Bel Air, you get a professionally designed theme for the fraction of the price.
• Color Schemes: you get 5 themes to choose from, so you can choose the theme that suits your taste.
• Bio: every professional real estate agent needs a professional bio. You can add your picture and introduce yourself to your visitors right on the top of your home page.
• Featured Properties: you got a property that you want to tout on your site? Use the featured section (see above image).
• Property Search Options: you can search through listings by price, location, and type. You can bet that your visitors will need the search feature.
• Payment Calculator: my favorite feature. It shows your visitors how much their monthly payments will be based on the information they input.
• Ad Management: with ad management, you can take on sponsors or just promote your top properties.

Bel Air is more than just a premium theme. It also comes with useful tools (e.g. Calculator, Search) that allow your visitors to get the best experience possible on your real estate WordPress website. It is well-designed and highly flexible. If you are in the real estate business and looking to put your site up as fast as possible, you should check out Bel Air.

Create a Celebrity Site with Celebrity Gossip WordPress Theme

Building a profitable WordPress site is all about being at the right place, in the right niche, and at the right time. There is one niche that allows you to be at the right time all the time. The celebrity niche is very hot, and it continues to be hot regardless of the economy, terrorism, earthquakes, or even giant astroids hitting the earth. If you are into the celebrity market, and you know how to spin your words in a way that makes your blog unique, you are going to have the opportunity to make a lot of money from advertising and sponsorships. That’s just a fact.

Creating a celebrity blog/site may seem daunting to most folks, but WordPress is your friend here. You can either choose a free theme and build your blog on that or you can do the smart thing and invest a small amount of money to make your site look professional and advertiser friendly. If you prefer the latter solution, Celebrity Gossip is a must checkout.

Celebrity Gossip theme comes in three styles: Warm, Dark, and Light (see a demo here). You can further customize the theme to fit your style, but these three styles should get you started in no time. The theme comes with an automatic image resizer, which means thumbnails will be created for you on the fly. What I like about this theme is the fact that it comes advertisement ready and with the PSD files. You can make changes as you wish to make your site more friendly to sponsors.

Celebrity Gossip is compatible with IE, FireFox, Flock, and Chrome, which is a big plus. It’s also social media friendly and ready for SEO. Overall, the programmers have done a good job of duplicating “Kineda.” The theme is not expensive (at $39), and the fact that it’s tested with WP 2.7 should give you piece of mind on your investment. If you are into celebrities, now you can no excuse not owning your own celebrity blog.

Automate Social Bookmarking with Bookmarking Demon

So you spend a lot of time writing content on your WordPress blog. You work hard to get noticed, but you only get a couple of visitors after all your work. That’s not encouraging, is it? Nobody said managing a blog is going to be easy. WordPress does not guarantee you traffic nor does it help you write better content. It can only help you manage your content better. You still have to do your content promotion.

If you have read my WordPress SEO posts, you are probably getting more traffic. But you shouldn’t ignore the social media. Sites such as Delicious, Mixx, and Magnolia can drive you lots of traffic. You should take time to get familiar with these sites and network with other members in those communities. But if you are really short on time, then you may want to drive Bookmarking Demon. Social bookmarking not only helps you get more traffic, but speeds up the process of search engines indexing your pages and gets you more backlinks as well.

Bookmarking Demon is an automated social bookmarking tool that helps you submit your pages to social bookmarking websites fast. You can create multiple accounts on social bookmarking sites and use them to vote for your stories.You can also add your own Pligg or miscellaneous social bookmarking sites and add them to your software.

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How To Become a WordPress Freelancer

If you haven’t been paying attention, the U.S. economy is in the dumps. Companies are expected to cut even more jobs. If you are in a stable job, you probably belong to a exclusive group of folks who have survived the job cuts in the past few weeks and months. A lot of companies are hurting and if you lose your job, there is a good chance that you are not going to find a job that easily. But if you have WordPress skills, you should definitely consider starting your own freelance business. You can spend months looking for a job and not find one or just start building business and earn money in the process.

How To Become a Rockstar Freelancer teaches you exactly what you need to know to build a super freelance business fast. The authors own a very popular blog on the very same topic. In this book, you are going to learn how to:

• Take the first steps: you want to quit your job or you have just lost your job. It doesn’t matter. You are going to learn exactly how you need to prepare yourself for a career in freelancing.
• Brand yourself or your business: how to create a brand that lasts a life time. You’ll learn the pitfalls in your way towards creating a killer brand
• Interact with clients: you want to provide real value to your customers? Not sure how to brief them or how to approach your leads? You can gain valuable insights here.
• Run your business: whether it’s writing the proposal, getting the right fee, or hiring folks to do a job for you, you are going to learn them all in this book.

If you are planning to start earning money from your skills, the time is now. Even if you are working, you should prepare yourself for the worst. There are not many stables jobs in these tough times, so don’t expose yourself to the risk of unemployment.

Download your copy here.

MarketPlace WordPress Theme

MarketPlace is a new classified WordPress theme that allows you to create your own market place on WordPress. It is very similar to ClassiPress but it comes with its own features. MarketPlace allows you to create your very own classified website fast. You can define a set of categories for your classified site and add your listings under them. Your price, listing date, and views are shown on your site.

You also get to upload your images easily to your listing website (very similar to ClassiPress). You also have your Google Adsense spot to monetize your site. Of course, you can charge folks for putting their listings up. That’s really up to you.

MarketPlace is a simple WordPress theme for classified sites. If you are interested in running your very own marketplace, you should definitely give MarketPlace a try (and ClassiPress too).

Download your copy here.