8 Best Job Board Themes for WordPress

Want to create a job board using WordPress? It’s not as hard as it may sound. Job themes for WordPress are not exactly plentiful, but there are few of them around that help you create your job site  fast. Why would you want to create a job board using WordPress? If you own a blog, a job board could take it to the next level and solidify your community. WordPress does make managing these types of sites easy, which helps. Besides, adding a job board to your website could bring you more traffic.

There aren’t many premium job themes around, but there are some that are easy to use and customizable. You can always install them at your root domain or in a sub-directory on your blog. Here are 8 powerful job board themes that help you save time getting your job site online fast:

9 to 5: a quite flexible WordPress job theme. It has 8 color schemes and is Ajaxified. It has a separate blog section and can be localized.

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.

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.

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…)

FaultPress: Bug Tracking Theme for WordPress

Those of you who have taken time to develop and market your very own products know too well about the necessity of having your customers involved in helping you find and solve the issues in your product. Having a bug tracking / ticketing system is a must to give your customers the chance to bring their concerns to your attention. FaultPress is a powerful theme that transforms your website into a bug tracking system in a flash.

Your visitors can add their tickets to your system easily. You can then assign tickets to certain members in your team. You can also keep your members updated on the status of the ticket. This theme does have a decent messaging system that facilitates collaboration among your team members and better engagement in your community. (more…)

6 Best WordPress iPad Plugins

iPad is one of the most exciting tablets around these days. Apple has managed to claim the majority of the market-share in the slate business. The fact that millions of people own an iPad should be good news for webmasters. iPad has a larger screen and offers a much better web experience than iPhone. Still, you want to take advantage of iPad-specific plugins to make your website and business more ready for your iPad visitors. These 6 iPad plugins for WordPress can help:

Onswipe: a powerful platform that makes your website as tablet friendly as possible. It makes going through your content easier on tablets such as iPad.

Mobile Theme Switcher: it allows you to show a different theme to your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad visitors than your desktop visitors.

WiPad: an iPad friendly theme for WordPress that makes it much more convenient for your iPad visitors to go through your content. Both viewing modes are supported.

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Start a Modern-Looking Site with Tesla for WordPress

When it comes to choosing a WordPress theme for your website, you should not necessarily look for more bells and whistles. There are plenty of minimalist and clean themes available that would give your website a much better chance to gain some traction with your first time visitors. Tesla for WordPress is one of those themes. Tesla is a business theme for WordPress that is very clean and easy to customize. The first thing that stands out the first time you check this theme out is its clean design. Tesla does look very professional, which is what you want to see in any decent premium theme.

For starters, you can change the pattern on your pages by picking from one of the 11 patterns available in this theme. The home page is pretty flexible and should be more than enough to help you promote your work. It does have 2 slide show layouts with 11 effects. Tesla for WordPress comes with 6 custom widgets (including recent tweets, recent posts with images, popular posts with thumbnails, Flickr, contact, navigation). The theme does support video too.

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5 Ways To Use WordPress To Manage Information

WordPress is one of the most flexible content management systems around. It makes managing all kinds of information much easier. You don’t have to spend a fortune to pick up themes that can help you get the job done in a more professional manner. Here are just 5 ways you can use WordPress to manage information:

Build a content aggregator: themes such as Accumulo and OneNews let you aggregate content from all kinds of sources (as long as we are talking RSS here). They can be used to start an AllTop clone or a similar type of website with WordPress.

Start a Wiki: knowledge management themes such as KnowPress let you start Wiki or content bank websites. These types of websites can be very popular depending on how hard you work on them. (more…)

6 Cool Creative ThemeForest WordPress Themes

ThemeForest is one of the best places to pick up premium themes for your WordPress website. It has plenty of affordable and professional looking themes that you can use as a starting place to develop a killer website. If you are looking for creative WordPress themes, ThemeForest has plenty of choices available for you. You could spend hours going through all the themes available in this marketplace. These 6 creative themes stand out for their quality of design and ease-of-use:

London Creative+: a super attractive theme that you can use to promote your creative business. It’s super image friendly and very dynamic. It takes full advantage of jQuery and looks very sophisticated.

Gateway Studio: great solution if you are planning to bring your creative studio online. It can be used for a personal or professional photoblog too.

The PaperCore: a flexible creative theme that has 7 templates, 4 themes, 2 jQuery sliders, and 4 dynamic sidebars to give you maximum flexibility when it comes to modifying the look and feel of your website.

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50 Best Ways To Use WordPress

We have all heard this before: “you can do everything with WordPress.” That’s actually true. WordPress is a powerful open source content management system that can handle any type of website, as long as you have the right theme. Best of all, in most cases, you won’t have to break the bank to get the job done.

If you are interested in adopting WordPress, here are 50 things you can do it right-away:

1. Create an Online Store

Starting an online store with WordPress couldn’t get any easier these days. There are plenty of WordPress themes that let you start your online store and don’t cost you much. There are some plugins that let you do that too.

2. Start a Job Board

A job board can add a whole new dimension to your blog. It can not only help employers reach out to your community, it also provides unique value to your readers. The times are tough and any help you can provide your reader can only solidify your community. These job board themes let you start a job board with WordPress quickly.

3. Start a Forum

Lots of people use phpBB and vBulletin to start their forums. Did you know that you can do that with WordPress too? gForums is a good theme to do just that (our review).

4. Develop a Classified Website

Sites such as Craigslist are very popular and quite useful for people who are looking for things they may not be able to find in stores. Of course, there is a whole lot more to Craigslist. Nevertheless, with these classified themes, you can start your own free or paid classified listing website fast.

5. Go Micro-blogging

Everybody has seen Twitter and sites similar to that. It’s nice to be involved in those communities but sometimes you want to have your very own micro-blog. Thanks to micro-blogging themes such as this one you can get the job done quickly.

6. Go for a Celebrity Website

Celebrity blogging is not for everyone. It can be very lucrative if you know what you are doing though. Thanks to WordPress celebrity themes, you can start your own celebrity portal using WP platform.

7. Clone Everything with WordPress

That’s right. Facebook, Digg, Twitter, and CNN can all be cloned using WordPress. These WP clone themes should get you started.

8. Take your Restaurant Business Online

If you own an offline food business, there is no reason you should not start a website for your business to connect with your customers. These WordPress restaurant themes let you do just that.

9. Start an Online Presence For Your Retail Business

Those of you who own an offline retail business and want to reach out to more prospects online can use these retail themes to get started in a flash.

10. Become a Pro Blogger

Those of you who are passionate about blogging and want to go full-time with your blogging efforts are going to love using WordPress. These pro-blogging themes should give you a head-start with your efforts. (more…)