August 3rd in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . 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. 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 Yahoo! Answers.
With that in mind, here are 35 awesome WordPress clone themes:
1. Accumulo: Accumulo for WordPress gives you the closest look and feel to AllTop. It’s a RSS feed aggregator theme that lets you enter your favorite feeds and categorize them as you wish.
2. Nominate: if you want to clone Digg or a site such as Sphinn, Nominate is a solid WordPress theme to take advantage of. You won’t be needing Pligg to start your own social voting site thanks to this theme.
3. Answers: Answers theme essentially aims to bring you the same functionality as Yahoo! Answers and other similar sites. Pretty unique theme.
4. OneNews: another way to clone the legendary AllTop portal on WordPress with OneNews. Very easy to customize too. Just add your feeds, and you are ready to go.
5. WordPress Wiki: not an exact clone of Wikipedia, but WP Wiki does let you start a Wiki website quickly. It’s pretty flexible and easy to customize.
6. iBlogPro: iBlog Pro lets you duplicate the look and feel of Apple blog on your website. It has a ton of customization options too.
7. 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.
8. PopURLs Clone: clone the good old PopURLs aggregator on your WordPress blog with PopURLs Clone for WordPress.
9. Facebook WordPress Theme: FWT lets you clone Facebook’s blog on your WordPress site. (more…)
6 Comments April 28th in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi . Just in case you missed it, Facebook has introduced a few new tools for webmasters to take advantage of to help spread the word about their sites. If you are a WordPress owner, you want to take advantage of some of these tools to solidify your community and get people to interact with Facebook on your blog. Facebook Like Button is a cool new tool that lets your visitors give your blog posts a “like” vote. Of course, the more “like” votes you receive, the better off your website will be.
The process of adding a Like Button to your WordPress blog could not be any easier. Knowing some coding would definitely help, but you certainly do not have to know anything about programming to implement this feature. Facebook gives you the ability to pick your options and grab the code you need to install on your website with a couple of clicks.
The problem with using this interface is that you will have to change the URL code to make it dynamic for your website. In essence, you want to change the code below and add a PHP function to automatically pass your post URL to this code:
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0 Comments May 23rd in Free Themes by Wordpress Jedi . 
Facebook is one of the hottest properties on the Internet these days. Millions of people use it to communicate with their friends and colleagues and connect with others online. But what if you are not in love with Facebook but want to clone its design on your WordPress blog? That’s exactly what you can do with Crybook theme. It’s an amazingly identical clone of Facebook that lets you start your very own blog with the look and feel of Facebook. Furthermore, it’s so flexible you can go beyond what’s offered on Facebook to make your blog look unique to your visitors.
CryBaby also allows you to change the color and look and feel of the website fast. You can choose your favorite color by taking advantage of the color picker feature at the top right side of your theme. You get 5 colors to choose from. The logo can be easily changed as well. The theme also supports threaded comments and has an integrated feed counter to help you keep track of your subscribers easily.
The custom admin panel is easy to use as well, and you can also manage your AdSense and analytics codes easily on this theme. Overall, if you are looking for a free, SEO-friendly theme that looks awfully close to Facebook, you ought to give CryBaby a try. It’s the cheapest way to clone Facebook!
0 Comments February 17th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . 
It feels like yesterday when Facebook was launched. But it has quickly become one of the biggest social communities around the world with millions of people using it on a daily basis. If you have your own WordPress blog, you should not ignore Facebook. Thankfully, there are lots of Facebook plug-ins that you can use to integrate Facebook into your blog:
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2 Comments January 10th in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . 
If you are a heavy Facebook user, you have probably heard of FaceBook Connect. It’s an amazing way of bringing the power of Facebook to your blog. Think about it. People being able to comment on your blog with Facebook tracking your latest Facebook visitors. And talk about your visitor’s network. Facebook connect can explode your traffic by leveraging Facebook’s power.
Now, if you are an aspiring developer, you can use the sample code provided by Facebook to implement FB Connect on your WordPress blog. But thankfully, the good guys at Socialable have developed a Facebook WP plug-in that makes things so easy for WordPress users. The plug-in is very easy to use. But you need to watch the video provided by the developers to set up the Facebook side of things. In essence, you need to create an application per blog and use the application and secret keys per application to activate the plug-in.
Once you activate the plug-in, you are going to see the latest visitor from Facebook, and your visitors get to comment on your blog without having to log in. This is a very innovative feature and something that you need to jump on before everyone else does.
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