Feed your WordPress Demons!
Thesis is one of the most popular Wordpress themes around. It has everything you need in a theme to create a super blog fast. It’s highly flexible and SEO friendly. And best of all, it comes with a load of options in the backend that you can use to customize your blog and optimize it as you wish.
Thesis 1.5 is the latest update to this theme. The backend has been reorganized to help you get more done without getting confused with all the options available to you. A few more SEO options have been added to help you manage your link juice and other factors more effectively.
As you can see in the above diagram, you can now handle canonical URLs and even no-index your archive pages right from your backend. The navigational menu has been changed well to help you re-order pages and change the text to what you wish. The re-ordering features is a drag and drop feature.
You can also change the font and change the look and feel more easily on Thesis 1.5. Whether you want to change the font of a section of your blog or just add a teaser, you can do it all in the back-end.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out Thesis is a unique theme. It’s designed to help you focus more on your content and less on coding. And best of all, you’ll keep getting free SEO traffic with Thesis.
Pricing
Here is what I like about thesis. These guys are not trying to short-change you by offering you multiple packages without giving you the option to upgrade. You can always get a single license for $87. If you like what you see and are ready to upgrade to a developer license, you only pay an extra $77. Or you can just buy the developer edition from the get go for $164. What I like about the developer edition is the fact that it allows you to deploy Thesis on your clients’ sites for only $40 per site. That’s great news if you are a Wordpress consultant. And if you don’t feel like linking back to Thesis’ homepage, you can remove the footer link as long as you get the developer license.
Overall, Thesis 1.5 is a killer Wordpress theme that is designed for bloggers who are looking to get more out of their blogs. It’s easy to use, well-designed, and SEO friendly. If you have the budget for only one premium blogging theme, Thesis is one to consider.
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Being an artist is truly a privilege. Not all of us get to create a form of art and express ourselves through it. Artists get to do that for a living. But a lot of artists don’t manage to get the attention they deserve. To be fair, a lot of them don’t promote their work properly. One way to do that is by setting up a website to promote art work. After all, if people can’t find you online or see your work, they are not going to know about your talent. If you are a photographer and are looking for a way to set up your very own website and let others know about your work, you can do so easily with Photo Graphic. Photo Graphic is an innovative Wordpress theme designed specifically for photographers from all walks of life. It’s search engine friendly and highly flexible, which means you won’t have to take too much time away from taking those awesome pictures.
Demonstration by Jason Schuller
Photo Graphic is very attractive and flexible at the same time. You can change a whole lot of things in the back-end. You can also customize your sidebar with two custom widgets. And you got to appreciate the dynamic menu that makes it easy to have multiple categories with ease.
What I like about the new themes by Press 75 is the fact that adding thumbnails and new images is a piece of cake. Each post provides you with the opportunity to upload your photos and customize your photos without having to deal with custom fields. And since you will be uploading a whole lot of images for your photography site, the image management system that you get with this theme is going to save you a whole lot of time.
I also like the fact that you can change the header and logo easily on this theme. If you are a photographer who has no idea what HTML is all about or how to replace the original logo that you get with this theme, don’t fret. You can easily do it from the back-end. The developer behind this theme has made it easy for anyone who’s planning to use this theme to create and customize a photography website fast, without having to be a code master. If you are looking to set up your very own website and promote your art work, you should strongly consider Photo Graphic.
I have been writing this blog for a while now, and while I have tried to cover a whole lot of Wordpress topics, I have not posted on how to get started with Wordpress and go from beginning to advanced fast. There is just too much to learn and no matter how advanced you are, chances are there are more things you need to learn about Wordpress. That’s why I have decided to create this list to discuss tools and resources you can refer to take your Wordpress game to the next level.
Wordpress for Beginners
Theme & Plugin Development
Advanced: Programming and API
Wordpress Blogging
Wordpress as a Business
Wordpress Hosting
Wordpress Themes
Social Media
Tools
There you have it. Whether you are a complete beginner or fairly advanced with WP, you can still get a lot of value from the above resources. The good thing about being a Wordpress user is that you will have to be on your toes all the time and never stop learning. It’s all fun though.
Your turn: please feel free to share your favorite Wordpress tool/guide here.
You’ve got to love what Wordpress is all about. Not only is it a killer CMS but it also lets you create sophisticated websites fast. And you can even try to clone what others have done in the past. Whether you want to clone Facebook or just want to have the look and feel of Digg on your site, you can do it all with Wordpress clone themes. And most of these themes are cheap or free, so you won’t have to spend too much money duplicating the look and feel of a site such as Digg.
With that in mind, here are 29 awesome Wordpress clone themes:
1. OneNews: clone the legendary AllTop portal on Wordpress with OneNews. Very easy to customize too.
2. PopURLs Clone: clone the good old PopURLs aggregator on your Wordpress blog with PopURLs Clone for Wordpress.
3. Facebook Wordpress Theme: FWT lets you clone Facebook’s blog on your Wordpress site.
4. CryBook Theme: Crybook is a very cool clone of Facebook. Get your Facebook Wordpress site up fast!
5. Facebook Lover: Facebook Lover is the mother of all Facebook clones. Looks awfully close to the real thing.
6. Smells Life Facebook: SLF is another fantastic Facebook Wordpress clone. If you are in love with Facebook, you should try this.
7. Celebrity Gossip: create a celebrity website with the look and feel of Kineda with Celebrity Gossip.
8. New Yorker 2 Theme: clone NY Times on your Wordpress blog with New Yorker 2.
Real Estate is a tough business. It make look easy from the outside, but once you get involved in the business, you are going to face a whole lot of challenges. For you to be successful as a real estate agent, you need to let folks know about your services. If people don’t know about you or your business, you are not going to have a whole lot of success. One way to do that is by creating a killer website around your business. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could direct people to your website to find out more about you and what you offer. Let’s not forget the power of Google in bringing a whole lot of free leads to your website on a daily basis.
Open House is a premium real estate theme for Wordpress that makes it a piece of cake to set up a killer real estate website fast. Whether you want ot create a simple business website to display your contact information or show all your available listings, you can do it easily with Open House. Open House is highly customizable and comes integrated with Google Maps to help you make a better impression on your visitors. Open House is also social media ready, enabling your visitors to spread the word around about your website on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.
Open House is an international theme. Not only you can add your international listings to the site, you can also change the currency in the back-end. In addition, you can easily add and modify listings on the site with the custom script provided with your theme. This theme doesn’t require you to play with the custom fields, which makes it more convenient to update your site and add new content to it.
What I like about Open House is the fact that it allows you to create your own listing gallery fast. You can use the theme to cover multiple agents as well. That means if you are a real estate broker, you can use Open House to manage your business more effectively. You also get all the PSD files you need to customize your real estate website fast.
All in all, if you are looking for a premium theme that lets you take your real estate business to the next level without you having to break the bank and pay thousands of dollars for a custom site design, you should consider Open House. It’s affordable, powerful, and highly customizable.
P.S. don’t forget to check the other top real estate Wordpress themes for more options.
