In case you haven’t noticed, StudioPress has released a new theme framework to make it easier for people to come up with new themes by using the framework as a starting point. In fact, there are many other developers who have developed frameworks to make it easier for designers to come up with new Wordpress themes fast. Mocha Theme by StudioPress is a theme based on Genesis platform that lets you build your clean, professional looking Wordpress portal fast.

Genesis Framework is a clean, fast way to get started with your own theme fast. If you are a designer and know how to code like a pro, then Genesis Framework can be a time saving investment for you. But if you know nothing about programming, you can use a theme such as Mocha to start your own portal fast. The theme is not only clean, but it’s search engine friendly as well. So you can start getting free traffic from search engines as you add your content.

There is a lot to like about Mocha. It’s not only clean and light-weight, but it’s image friendly as well. The theme comes with dynamic menus, so you won’t have to worry about having too many categories on your blog. If you have seen Genesis Framework, you can see its signature all over this theme. It just goes on to show the potential this framework has.

All in all, if you are looking for a clean theme that gets the job done and enables you to customize it further without having to worry about too many bells and whistles, Mocha theme is good one to consider. It’s compatible with the latest version of Wordpress too. Has everything you need to start your portal fast.

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 30 awesome Wordpress clone themes:

1. OneNews: clone the legendary AllTop portal on Wordpress with OneNews. Very easy to customize too. Just add your feeds, and you are ready to go.

2. WhiteHouse Pro: so you want your site to have a similar look and feel to the White House’s website? Then WhiteHouse Pro is for you. It comes with an optional BBpress addon as well.

3. PopURLs Clone: clone the good old PopURLs aggregator on your Wordpress blog with PopURLs Clone for Wordpress.

4. Facebook Wordpress Theme: FWT lets you clone Facebook’s blog on your Wordpress site.

5. CryBook Theme: Crybook is a very cool clone of Facebook. Get your Facebook Wordpress site up fast!

6. Facebook Lover: Facebook Lover is the mother of all Facebook clones. Looks awfully close to the real thing.

7. Smells Life Facebook: SLF is another fantastic Facebook Wordpress clone. If you are in love with Facebook, you should try this.

8. Celebrity Gossip: create a celebrity website with the look and feel of Kineda with Celebrity Gossip.

9. New Yorker 2 Theme: clone NY Times on your Wordpress blog with New Yorker 2.

10. The Beeb Theme: The Beeb Theme is one cool BBC clone for Wordpress. Highly flexible too.

11.The Gazzette: a CNN clone that lets you create your own news site fast.

12. WNN: as the name suggests, WNN allows you to clone CNN on your Wordpress website.

13. CrunchTech: clone TechCrunch with Wordpress via CrunchTech. It looks awfully close to the real thing!

14. Fresh Tweet Theme: clone Twitter on Wordpress with Fresh Tweet Theme.

15. Prolouge: Prolouge is another cool Twitter clone theme for Wordpress. Easy to install and works right out of the box. Not as close to Twitter’s design as the previous theme but still very good.

16. TumbleLog: TumbleLog is a Tumblr clone that lets you get a fairly similar design to Tumblr on your Wordpress blog.

17. Digg-like Theme: duplicate the look and feel of Digg.com on your Wordpress website. This is a free theme as well.

18. Google Chrome: if you are in love with Chrome, you are going to love this theme. Chrome lets you clone Google Chrome on your blog. As simple as that.

19. iBlog: iBlog lets you duplicate the look and feel of Apple blog on your website.

20. Retro Mac Os: get the old Mac OS’ look and feel on your Wordpress blog with Retro Mac OS theme.

21. Wiggle: an awfully well-done Google clone Wordpress theme. Just make sure people don’t mistake your site for the real thing!

22. Woogle: another cool theme that lets you clone Google on your Wordpress blog. It’s lightweight and fun to play with.

23. MSNLog: may be you are interested in Google but love MSN more. MSNLog lets you clone MSN Messenger on your Wordpress site.

24. ThemedVista: I am not a big fan of Vista, but if you are, you can duplicate its look and feel on your blog with ThemedVista.

25. GameMaker: clone GameSpot right on your Wordpress blog for free with GameMaker!

26. Shared Pro Theme: duplicates the look and feel of Wordpress.org blog on your Wordpress website.

27. WP Dashboard: WP Dashboard is another Wordpress clone theme for anyone who’s in love with their Wordpress dashboard.

28. CMS Proton: duplicate the look and feel of Liverpool FC’s website on your Wordpress blog with CMS Proton.

29. EWPN: clone ESPN on your Wordpress blog with EWPN. It’s a free theme.

30. Journal: Journal is a wonderful theme to create your own political Wordpress blog fast. Very flexible and SEO friendly too! Lets you clone top news sites fast.

Your turn: did I miss anything? Feel free to let me know your favorite clone theme for Wordpress.

There are plenty of people who are making a living out of sharing their travel experiences with the world. Not everyone gets to travel for a living. In fact, a lot of people may not be a fan of traveling all the time. But if you are passionate about traveling and don’t mind sharing your experiences with others, there is no reason you shouldn’t have your own travel blog or portal. Thanks to Postcard for Wordpress you won’t have too much trouble setting that up.

This theme has quite a look and feel to it. It looks like a postcard and is very image friendly, allowing you to share photos from your trips with your visitors in a very attractive fashion. The theme is designed to handle images very well, but it also lets you geo-tag your posts and display your latest travel locations on a map.

Just like other WooThemes themes, the theme comes with a flexible back-end that makes it easy to customize the look and feel of your website without you having to write a single line of code. The theme comes with custom widgets to make it easy to add all kinds of features to your blog.

You can literally customize everything from the back-end, including your featured section on your front-page. The same can be said about the navigation links and photo galleries on your blog.

If you are looking to build a customizable website to cover your travel all around the world without having to mess with any code, Postcard is worth a look.

Every corporation and organization that wants to reach out to more people and realize its potential is going online these days. In fact, if you are part of an organization that does not have an online presence these days, you are missing the boat. The same concept applies to religious organizations as well. Whether you want to build a presence for your church or want to get people familiar with other religions, building a website is a good way to go. Grace theme for Wordpress could come in handy here. It’s an attractive theme designed for those who want to build an online presence for a religious organization such as a church. It’s affordable, customizable, and quite professional-looking.

Grace is designed mainly for churches, but you can modify it easily to make it work for whatever religion you want to promote through your website. It comes with three color themes to give you options. The theme is also video and image friendly, so you can add pictures and videos of your events to your website fast.

What I like about this theme is the fact that it’s very easy to customize and comes with auto-expiring posts that make life a whole lot easier, especially if you plan to add a lot of events to your website. The back-end is quite powerful and lets you customize the look and feel of your blog without having to write a line of code.

Grace theme is optimized for search engines as well. So as long as you work on your content and add incoming links, there is no reason you can’t get ranked well on search engines. All in all, if you are looking for a decent church Wordpress theme, Grace theme is worth a tr.

If you have been following this blog for a while, you have probably realized that I am a big fan of premium themes that are easily customizable. There is of course a reason for that. When I buy premium themes, I don’t buy them just because of their looks and all the eye candy features they come with. Don’t forget that many other people buy the premium theme that you can buy for $50-$300. So you want to make sure you put the effort forward to customize the look and feel of your theme to make it unique to your blog only. A theme that is easily customizable makes life pretty easy. Speaking of easy-to-customize themes, you should not look past Canvas theme. It’s a super theme by WooThemes that is designed to give you everything you need to change its look and feel and give your blog/site a unique look.

Canvas theme is pretty light-weight and clean. But don’t let the looks deceive you. This theme packs a punch. It comes with tons of options that you can customize to build the site that you like. The theme allows you to upload your own background and header images from the back-end, so no especial coding is needed. You can also change the width of your blog easily as well.

The theme also allows you to choose from 6 different layouts available. So whether you want a 2 column theme or a 3 column design, you can make the changes in the back-end. What’s exciting about this theme is the addition of hooks. Now you can create child themes based on Canvas without changing the parent theme (similar capability to Thesis).

Overall, Canvas is a super theme that not only gives you a head start if you want to design your own theme, but it also makes it possible to go live with a site fast. The addition of hooks is a big plus. You’ll have access to WooThemes widgets as well. Great way to give your website a makeover.

There are plenty of cool Wordpress membership websites that you can join to get high quality premium themes for your blogs. Premium themes are useful not only for beginners but for professional designers who want to get a head-start with their theme design and modify an existing theme to create unique flavor of it. Templatic is one of the best Wordpress theme clubs around. While it may not have the most premium themes on the market, it arguably has the best looking themes. Best of all, a lot of its themes work great for businesses and startups.

What we like about Templatic themes is the fact that they are very flexible and easy to customize. The back-end functions are some of the best we have seen. Best of all, new themes are added on a consistent basis, and they are getting better. With that in mind, here are [X] theme worth a try:

Job Board Theme: Job Board theme enables you to create your own job board using Wordpress fast. You can host it on your sub-domain or just link it up with your existing blog.

iPhone App Theme: it’s a very attractive and easy to customize theme for anyone who has developed an iPhone application.

Kidz Store: it’s a clean, highly customizable theme for anyone who wants to start an online shop fast. Has a ton of features to help you manage you store more effectively.

Classifieds: one of the best classified themes for Wordpress that enables you to create your own killer listing website with WP.

eShop: another clean and easy to customize e-store theme for Wordpress. It lets you create your own e-commerce shop fast. It’s ad ready and supports affiliate marketing as well.

Destination: if you are planning to build a portal for your city specifically or start a travel portal, Destination is a very attractive theme to consider.

Gourmet: a very powerful theme for restaurant business owners that saves them money and makes it easy to take an offline business online.

Mr. & Mrs.: quite a unique theme that is designed for those who are getting married and want to build a portal covering their marriage for the present and the future. Pretty clean and very image friendly.

Snippet: a versatile theme that can be used for review portals, photography blogs, and even affiliate marketing websites.

eProduct: a very clean and flexible theme for business owners and those who have developed digital products of their own. Gives you all the space you need to feature the advantages of your product as well as any testimonials you may have.

What’s your favorite Templatic theme?

TV Elements has been one of the best video blogging themes for a long time now. The theme which was designed by Press 75 a while ago had everything you need to get started in the world of video blogging. TV Elements 3 is the third iteration of this theme and comes with many improvements and a brand new design to enable you to build a more quality video blog with Wordpress. The theme has been modernized and comes with more customization features, so you can focus more on creating high quality videos and less on worrying about how to change things around on your video blog.

TV Elements 3 is designed to work with the latest edition of Wordpress. Unlike the previous version, you can now add as many featured videos on your home page. You can also display 12 video channels on your homepage, so this theme can be essentially be used for a web show or multi-author video blog. What I like about this theme is the fact that you can customize it and add new things to it without having to worry about changing the code. Whether you want to change your logo or customize what’s being displayed on your homepage, you can get it done from the back-end.

You can customize all aspects of your theme from the back-end. That includes your navigation, your content carousel, and your footer text. Twitter can be easily added to this theme as well. Just add your Twitter ID.

You can also add your Google Analytics code right in your back-end without having to deal directly with your code. As far as your channels are concerned, you can enable and disable them easily from the back-end as well.

All in all, if you are looking for an attractive video blogging theme that is flexible and easy to customize, TV Elements 3 is yet another good option to consider.

There is nothing you can’t do with Wordpress these days. It’s one of the most powerful and popular content management systems on the market. That’s the main reason while small businesses and bloggers are continuing to adopt the platform. Wordpress not only makes creating a blog easy, it also can be used to create job boards, classified websites, e-commerce stores, clones sites, and even forums. You heard it right. You can use your Wordpress install to start your very own forum without relying on other scripts such as vBulletin or PHPBB.

gForums is a pretty unique Wordpress theme that turns your blog into a fully-fledged forum. And you won’t need to rely on other software packages to get up and runing with gForums. Whether you want to add a forum to your existing blog or just start a new forum on a brand new domain, gForums has you covered. It sits on the top of your Wordpress install and give you the tool to manage your users and let your visitors engage in discussions on your website.

The theme comes with member pages, image slide-show, and report buttons to let you manage your board more effectively. The theme is also pretty light-weight, so it doesn’t put too much pressure on your web server. As you gain members, you may have to increase your resources, but it all depends on how popular your forum gets. Security is always going to be an issue with forum software, but since you are using Wordpress to power up your forum, you have plenty of security plugins that you can take advantage of to protect your forum.

The theme is pretty affordable and comes with the PSD files you need to customize the look and feel of your forum. The theme is capable of handling media files such as YouTube videos. Your visitors can help you manage your forum by reporting those who engage in inappropriate discussions. In gForums, you have a clean, powerful theme that turns your Wordpress blog into a forum. Can’t get easier than that.

iPhone development is one of the hottest niches around these days. If you know how to develop iPhone apps and have a great idea for an app, there is no reason you can’t build a successful business around your app. In fact, many people have quit their day jobs to focus solely on iPhone development. With iPad, you are going to have even more opportunities to make money in this business.

Developing an iPhone app is only part of the equation. Once you are done with your app, you are going to have to spend time promoting it. You certainly want to create a mini-site for your app. After all, if you want others to take your business seriously, you need to approach these things in a professional matter. Thanks to the power of Wordpress, you can easily set up your mini-website and go live fast. You are just going to need the right theme.

With that in mind, here are 6 cool iPhone wordpress themes that can help developers take their business off the ground:

iPhone App Theme: the best theme around for iPhone app developers. Doesn’t need you to touch the code. Comes ready to go out of the box and can be customized easily as well.

Featured Pitch: works for most startups and small businesses. It’s designed to help you sell your products or service. Comes with video integrated and 9 cool color schemes.

Vibrant CMS: it’s a clean and easy to customize theme for iPhone app developers or any other product developer for that matter. Comes  with 20 color schemes as well.

eProduct: whether you are a software developer or just have a product you want to create a mini portal one, eProduct is a theme that can make your life much easier.

ProductFolio: a pretty flexible and easy to use theme for any product developer. Comes with 7 color themes and lets you promote your app easily on the home-page. It’s dynamic too.

Starting your own online shop is one of the best ways to start making money online. Depending on what you are selling, you can earn a lot of money online with your own e-commerce business. And thanks to the power of Wordpress platform, you don’t have to be a genius geeks to build your online shop. All you have to do is install Wordpress and get your hands on a decent ecommerce WP theme. Thankfully, there are enough good, affordable E-commerce Wordpress themes out there to help you get started.

Here are 13 E-commerce themes for Wordpress to help you build your online shop fast:

Kidz Store: Kidz Store is a powerful e-commerce theme for Wordpress that enables you to start an e-store with Wordpress fast. It’s an auto install theme that makes your job easy. Has tons of features to help you manage your online shop more effectively through Wordpress.

eShop e-commerce theme: a sophisticated, clean theme for anyone who is planning to sell products online. You can manage your store easily from the back-end. Comes integrated with payment services.

Store E-commerce Theme: a very simple to use and flexible theme by Templatic that lets you add your products and start selling them online fast. It supports coupons, multiple shipping methods, and more. The powerful back-end makes managing things much easier. If you want to build your online shop with Wordpress, this theme can come in handy.

Ecommerce Theme: one of the best Wordpress Ecommerce themes around. It’s SEO friendly and allows you to add your own photos and set up your shop fast.

StorePress: a very flexible theme that lets you add your items easily and start making money online with e-commerce Wordpress site. Very affordable too.

Market Theme: another simple shopping theme for Wordpress. Set up Wordpress, add this theme, add your items, and you are set to go. Very simple to deploy.

Classified Theme: not your average e-commerce theme. It’s designed to let you create your listing website where people can submit their items (like craigslist). You can also easily modify it to build your own online shop with Wordpress.

Color Cart: one of my favorite e-commerce Wordpress themes, Color Cart enables you to turn your blog into an e-commerce site instantly. It’s lightweight, well-designed, and easy to customize.

auctionTheme: auctionTheme lets you create your auction Wordpress site and of course you can customize it to set up your shop as well. Either way, a great way to start building up your business.

folioShop: a very attractive theme that enables you to start selling your art work online without having to do too much work. It’s easy to deploy and dynamic.

Classipress: another cool listing theme for Wordpress that lets you not only sell your own items but also ask others for a fee to sell their goods as well.

wpShop: wpShop is a colorful and flexible Wordpress theme to set up your own ecommerce shop. You can easily add images to your online shop and start selling fast.

eGoods: comes with three different color themes and lets you set up shop online fast. The home page lets you feature your top products. And you can also promote your recently released products and bargains.

There you have it. If you are planning to create your online store with Wordpress, you can’t go wrong with the above themes.

Your turn: did I miss anything? Please feel free to add your favorite marketplace themes below.

P.S. Don’t forget to check top eBay plugins to further enhance your shop.